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 latest…
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 three…
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…
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…
Dividend Stocks: The Surprising Truth
The bigger the better, right? It’s the American way. It’s easy to become enamored with large-cap tech stocks. Of course, every investor wants the best possible returns for their portfolio.…
Spring 2023 Animated Snapshot Of The Future For S&P 500 Dividends
After the Silicon Valley Bank run (OTC:SIVBQ in the first quarter of 2023, dividend futures quickly collapsed. That collapse can best be seen in the CME Group’s quarterly dividend index futures for the S&P…
Dividend Futures Recovering Somewhat After Silicon Valley Bank Run
Summary On 10 March 2023, federal bank regulators shut Silicon Valley Bank (OTC:SIVBQ). Their action followed a run on its deposits. The failure of Silicon Valley Bank represents the second…