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This Gimmicky Dividend Strategy Will Cost You Money (Do This Instead)
These days, everyone is looking for safety—and that’s got some folks pondering some pretty, er, unusual strategies that seem secure but are in fact anything but. One such strategy is known as dividend capture, which sounds like a way to bag a company’s quarterly cash dividend without taking the risk of owning the shares. I don’t like the name because […]
3 Quality Dividend Stocks With No Russia Exposure
Investors looking to manage risk would do well to consider these strong dividend stocks Periods of geopolitical turmoil can take their toll on stocks. Investors, in general, shy away from uncertainty, and geopolitical risk is one of the major ways that investors can face uncertainty. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is the latest round of geopolitical […]
Dogs Of The Dow For 2020: Dividend Bargains, Or Yield Traps?
The New Year is here, which means it’s once again time to revisit a contrarian (and income) investing tradition: The “Dogs of the Dow.” This simple yet famous dividend strategy involves buying the 10 highest yielders in the 30-component Dow Jones Industrial Average at the beginning of each year. It’s an income play, sure, but […]
9 Tantalizing Dividend Stocks For 2020
With Wall Street zigging, you may want to zag Even though I’ve discussed several dividend stocks to buy over the years, I’m not much for passive income. Don’t get me wrong: like any other rational person, I’ll take a payout any day. But when it comes to dividend stocks, they’re not my most favorite investment […]
10 Smart Dividend Stocks For The Rest Of The Year
If you’re looking to scale back on aggressive exposure and beef up safety-minded holdings, start here The market has managed to back itself away from imminent danger, bouncing back from a relatively serious stumble from a couple of weeks ago. It’s too soon to say stocks will be able to remain out of trouble, though. […]
Top 7 Service Sector Stocks That Will Pay You To Own Them
Service-sector dividend stocks offer diverse options and passive income to overcome pensive markets Editor’s note: This story was previously published in March 2019. It has since been updated and republished. Despite common economic challenges, services stocks present a viable opportunity. The most obvious tailwind is that American society mostly transitioned to a service-based economy. According […]
