Why The Meme Stock Craze Is Bad News For Dividend Stocks
Summary Meme stocks are once again surging, with AMC Entertainment (AMC and GameStop (GME posting huge gains in recent days. This surge is largely due to the return of a…
Dividend Payouts Are Latest Sign of Big Tech’s Financial Muscle
After years of chasing growth at all costs, tech firms are taking a page from the playbook of old-school value businesses — paying a dividend. Throwing off more cash than…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…