14 Stocks That Paid Special Dividends in 2025
A special dividend is a one-time cash payout that typically follows a significant cash windfall, such as the sale of part of a company or an exceptionally strong financial year.…
Are You Falling For These 3 BDC Dividend Myths?
Summary It is not a secret that the situation for BDCs does not look great. The odds for experiencing system-wide dividend cuts are very high. As the primary return source…
Stocks with sustainable dividends that could be takeover targets
What are we looking for? Sustainable dividends from stocks that have the added benefit of takeover appeal. The screen This week’s announcement that Canadian copper miner Teck Resources Ltd. (TECK-B-T…
10 Undervalued Dividend Growth Stocks: August 2025
Summary In this monthly series, I present my top ten list of Undervalued Dividend Growth Stocks. My watchlist of dividend growth stocks is Dividend Radar, a weekly, automatically generated spreadsheet…
Keep Calm And Keep Buying These Dividends
Staying the course as a dividend investor can be very challenging at times, and thus far, 2025 has illustrated this as well as any year in recent memory. Over the…
The cult of dividend investing faces a crisis of faith
Ever since interest rates began rising from near-zero three years ago, dividend-paying stocks have fallen short. What for decades was viewed by legions of investors as a sure thing has…
The Outlook for S&P 500 Dividends in June 2025
The outlook for the S&P 500‘s ( dividends in upcoming quarters is little changed since our previous snapshot of the future for the index’ cash payouts a month ago. The…
Nothing beautiful about a 50% tax on Canadian dividends
Trump’s tax bill could override Canada–US treaty and target CPP, trusts, and corporate dividends Canadian investors could face a US withholding tax on dividends as high as 50 percent by…
The Most Profitable Dividend Strategy Is the Simplest
It’s one of the most successful investing strategies, but you can easily do better. Dozens of funds and hundreds of billions of dollars of conservative investors’ savings have been deployed…
S&P 500 Vs. SCHD: Why Dividends Matter More Than You Think
It won’t come as a surprise to most of you that on the growth-value investment spectrum, my investment strategy leans heavily towards value and puts a large emphasis on dividends.…