Tag: dividends
These Three High Yield Stocks Get Bullish Analyst Ratings During The Bear Market
The pandemic-triggered stock market selloff has been incredibly tough on income investors, and the dividend-paying stocks they like to own. In the current market, investors have been drawn to big-name companies whose business was uninterrupted by the crisis. This group pays small or no dividends. Several factors have kept dividend-paying stocks down, but that means […]
Dividend Coverage Ratio Explained: Avoid Painful Dividend Cuts
If you’re reading this, it’s because you want 2 things: Reliable income. To make your money grow. One of the best ways to achieve both of those is by following my favorite investing strategy: Dividend growth investing. If you don’t know what this is, it consists of building a portfolio of high-quality stocks. These stocks […]
These Three Popular Dividend Stocks Might Have A Place In Your Portfolio
The COVID-19 crisis-driven stock market crash has investors taking a different approach to stock selection. The economic shutdown has all of us taking a different look at different stocks, compared to what investors were most interested in before the market dived. Three Questions You Need to Ask First Here are some factors concerning individual stocks […]
3 “Mystery” Dividend Growers You Can’t Ignore Anymore
Bull market, bear market, it doesn’t matter: Underappreciated, under-covered companies always manage to make a splash. That’s how my Hidden Yields service delivers portfolio doublers every five or six years. The market has clusters of dividend growth stocks that are too boring for the financial media or most analyst firms to lavish with coverage, and that don’t […]
3 Monthly Dividend ETFs For Reliable Income
These monthly dividend-payers offer steady income and some compelling buying opportunities after sharp drops The Federal Reserve took interest rates to near zero and Treasury yields are tumbling, putting added emphasis on steady streams of income, including monthly dividend ETFs. As their name implies, exchange-traded funds with monthly dividends deliver distributions each month, whereas many […]
These Reliable Monthly Dividend Payers Have Never Been Cheaper
A trio of reliable monthly dividend payers has been swept up in the pandemic panic. They could be the dirt-cheap buys that have dividend investors kicking themselves this time next year for not “backing up the truck” and buying every monthly paying share in sight. These closed-end funds (CEFs) as a whole are far smaller […]
Pick Up These Three High-Yield Stocks While They’re Still On Sale
The spread of Coronavirus across the globe has led to a decimation of stock prices in the travel and vacation related stocks. With stock prices down so far, it is tempting to possibly pick up shares of an airline, cruise ship, or hotel stock. I caution against jumping in now and have an alternative idea. […]
Income Investors: How To Play The Pullback For 7% Dividends (And Gains)
What are we income-seekers to do after this latest pullback? Buy more? Sit on the sidelines? It’s the question everyone’s asking. And while no one can predict the future, the past gives us some solid hints at what might be ahead, and the moves that make the most sense for our income portfolios (including a […]
Buy At These Highs? No Thanks – 4 Cheap Dividends Instead
If you’re an income investor like me, these stock market all-time highs are pure misery. Fortunately, I have a fix, which I’ll explain in a moment. High stock prices mean low yields for new money, which unfortunately minimizes dividend potential. Plus, buying overpriced stocks limits upside potential, too. Why reach for a 2% yield when you could lose that in […]
The Short Guide To Dividend Investing With Coronavirus Spreading
China-centered Coronavirous outbreak has caused volatility and havoc in the financial and commodity markets. Last Friday’s 600 point drop in the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) pushed the weekly decline to 733 points. This decline was the worst drop for the U.S. stock market since August 2019, when recession fears gripped investors. At this time, […]
