Global corporate dividends hit record $1.66 trillion in 2023
Summary Corporate dividends globally hit an all-time high of $1.66 trillion in 2023, with record payouts by banks making up half of the growth, a report showed on Wednesday. On…
Jerome Powell Just Gave Dividend Investors A Huge Gift
Warren Buffett of Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.A (BRK.B once said that: good for us actually – we’re a net buyer of stocks over time. Just like being a net buyer of…
Can Dividend Investing Rise From the Dead?
The once-blockbuster strategy of picking big payers has been battered by growth-focused tech titans Amid a confusion of artificial-intelligence narratives, “quant” analyses, and sustainable funds, the oldest and simplest stock-picking…
Top-Performing U.S. Dividend Stocks of January 2024
Verizon and MDC Holdings are among the month’s high-yielding winners. Dividend-paying stocks that combine healthy balance sheets with hefty yields can provide investors with steady incomes, cushion against market downturns,…
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…
Embracing Dividend Opportunities In 2024
Summary A Conversation with Jeff Schulze, John Baldi and Tatiana Eades Yields rose stiffly in 2023, driven by the Federal Reserve’s rate-hike regime, but with expectations increasing for a pause…
All Dividend Companies Have One Big Problem In Common
Summary Dividend investing is a strategy adopted by many investors and has proven to be successful throughout history: obtaining both capital gains and dividends manages to reconcile both long-term and…
Dividends by the Numbers in October 2023
At first glance, October 2023’s data for dividend changes looks like an improvement from September 2023. Month-over-month, the number of declared dividend increases rose and the number of dividend decreases…
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…