Dividend Stocks
A New Year’s Resolution For Solid, Stress-Free Returns
Is one of your resolutions to figure out how to be more successful and less frustrated with your investment results? Prior to the final two months of the year, the stock market was volatile and frustrating. If you weren’t correctly invested at the end of October, you missed out on most of the year’s gains […]
This Lame Stock Advice Could Cost You 8% Dividends (And Millions In Gains)
When I see people touting the 60/40 portfolio, I kind of feel like Haley Joel Osment’s character in the Sixth Sense. But instead of seeing dead people, I see dead ideas. You likely know what I’m talking about: a portfolio that seeks to automatically balance risk by holding 60% in stocks and 40% in bonds. It […]
Did You Miss The Rally? 5 Still-Cheap Dividends Up To 12.3%
Mr. and Ms. Market are manic. Always have been, always will be. My fellow contrarian, they reminded us of this fact yet again. Fortunately we were zigging while the broader crowd was zagging. The herd’s “FOMO panic” last week pushed many of our stocks higher. Vanilla investors covered their ill-timed short positions and scrambled to buy bargains. Like the dividend […]
How We’re Locking In 10%+ “Forever” Yields Now
Today, more than 18 months after the press started ringing the recession alarm, they’re still at it! And we contrarian income seekers are still happy to take the other side of that argument. After all, this overdone fear mongering has handed us an opportunity to “lock in” bigger dividend yields than we’ve been able to grab in years. Our […]
Surviving And Thriving In An Ugly Stock Market
After a wonderful 2021 for stock investors, the last two years have been rough, to say the least. The next sustained bull market seems to remain in the unknown future. So let’s look at a couple of market strategies that have worked and will do so no matter how the stock market goes… It is […]
Drugs ‘n Diapers: 5 Dividends Up To 5.9%
Worried that the Federal Reserve is driving our economy off a cliff? I’ve got two words for you: Drugs ‘n diapers. Actually, I forgot one. Dividends. These companies are about as recession-resistant as they come. Let’s start with drugs because, well, it’s always a bull market on prescription spend in America: While some of us are popping pills, others are […]
The Steadiest Dividend Stocks Paying Up To 11%
Worried about a pullback? I don’t blame you. Today we’ll discuss five of the steadiest dividend stocks on the planet. And let’s not confuse stability with penny pinching—these cash cows yield up to 11%! How do we capture payouts without wild price swings? Two words: low beta. Beta measures how much (or how little) a […]
Why Stocks Will Crush All-Time Highs (And The 8%+ Dividends To Buy)
Don’t listen to the bubble worrywarts: even with the 2023 bounce, stocks are well off their late 2021 peak. In other words, they’re still cheap! Stock Rebound Still Has Room to Run We can get in even cheaper through discounted closed-end funds. Consider two leading equity CEFs, the Liberty All-Star Growth Fund (ASG) and the Eaton Vance Tax-Managed Diversified […]
How To Earn 5%-7% Yields … From Tech?
Our contrarian investing playbook is simple, but not easy. We buy stocks that others are neglecting. At least currently! This means we secure prices when they are low and dividends when they are high. Big tech stocks have been bid to the moon recently. But not all Nasdaq plays are expensive. The rally has been narrow, and […]
Insiders Are Eating Up These 7%+ Yields. Should We?
We contrarians like to follow the insiders. Those “in the know” who buy and sell their own stocks based on value. These “smart money” types fade sentiment. Insiders tend to buy low and sell high. And, to be honest, we really don’t care when they sell. Maybe they were short of cash for a new […]
