What Real Estate Investors Get Wrong About REITs
Summary I believe that REITs (VNQ are fundamentally better investments than private real estate because they offer higher returns with lower risk and require far less effort. This is not…
Revenge Of The Dividend Stocks
Summary Welcome back to my weekly investing-themed variety show! Every week, I seek to understand and explain market trends, especially those relevant to my fellow dividend investors, with the help…
Dividend Growth Investing Is Breaking
Summary Dividend growth investors tend to think long term, and for years, multinational dividend growth stocks like PepsiCo (PEP and Procter & Gamble (PG felt like buy, throw away the…
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 Federal Reserve Just Gave Dividend Investors A Huge Christmas Gift
The Federal Reserve just cut interest rates by another 25 basis points, which was widely expected by the market. However, despite rate cuts typically being a tailwind for equity and…
Is 2024 Prime Time for Value Stocks?
The tremendous returns for the S&P 500 (SPY enjoyed in 2023 are likely a thing of the past as we turn the calendar over to 2024. Instead the average investor…
Do Dividend ETFs Produce Better Total Return Compared To SPY?
Summary Many arguments have been had related to the advantages, or disadvantages, of dividend-focused investing. For some, it is a matter of focusing on dividends for current income needs. For…
SPYD: I Never Knew A 4.65% Yield Could Come At Such A High Price
As far as I can tell, in all the years I have written almost exclusively about ETFs here on Seeking Alpha, I have never had the opportunity to review SPDR…
There Is No Melt-Up In Dividend Stocks, Yet
Summary Do you know the only thing that gives me pleasure? It’s to see my dividends coming in. – John D. Rockefeller. Dividend stocks, once a stalwart of steady performance…
The Benefits And Risks Of Investing In Dividend-Paying Stocks
Summary Forget diamonds; dividends are forever. Not a popular opinion, but I believe we can forget gold and silver investments too. Recently, and over the years, I’ve been asked about…