Dividend-paying stocks are the Volvo of equities — boring but powerful
Crazy People is a 1990 American comedy starring Dudley Moore and Daryl Hannah. Moore plays advertising executive Emory Leeson, who experiences a nervous breakdown. This causes him to design a…
Dividends By The Numbers In August 2023
Summary August 2023’s dividend metadata continues to provide evidence of what might best be described as a slow motion recovery from the U.S. stock market’s 2022 earnings recession. In the…
Four Future Dividend Aristocrats
When it comes to dividend stocks, they come in all shapes and sizes: My favorite type are dividend growth stocks, as they can fit into any one of the other…
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…
The highest-yielding stocks on the TSX, plus risk data
The table below ranks all S&P/TSX Composite Index ( companies by indicated dividend yield, according to Bloomberg data. Yield-paying index stocks where no credit rating is available from either Standard…
How Many S&P 500 Companies Pay Dividends?
How many companies are in the S&P 500 (Index: SPX ? How many of them pay dividends? What factors affect whether companies pay dividends or not? The answers to all…
Stocks With the Highest Dividend Yields in the S&P 500
Telecoms and regional banks dominate the list of stocks with the highest dividend yields in the benchmark index. Experienced equity income investors know that blindly buying stocks with the highest…
Avoid This Common Dividend Investor Mistake
Introduction During my eight years of writing about stock investing it has been commonplace for me to run across investors, usually dividend investors, who make the mistake of assuming dividends…
Don’t buy stocks for their dividend yields, this chart suggests
The highest-yielding dividend stocks have been sharp laggards on the year, with their yields failing to compensate for the underperformance It hasn’t been a good year to be an investor…
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…