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…
Are AT&T and Verizon’s Dividends Safe? What the Math Says.
Just when you thought it couldn’t get any worse for AT&T and Verizon Communications, shares of the two telecom titans have been hammered in recent days after The Wall Street…
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…
Delta Air Lines: Reinstated Dividend Supports Continued Growth
Summary Delta Air Lines (NYSE:DAL now sells at 8.86 FWD GAAP P/Es and is up 53.32% over the last year leading its peers along with United. I entered a position…
Dividend Investing: Why It Is Dumb Logic
Summary Investors seem to love dividends, especially readers on Seeking Alpha. But here is the thing: If a stock pays a dividend or not, it doesn’t tell you anything about…