Dividend Stocks

When it comes to income investing, we prefer dividend stocks that have demonstrated long histories of being able to raise their dividends throughout all kinds of economic conditions. There are many ways to find stocks with great dividend longevity, but one of the easier ways is to simply start with the Dividend Aristocrats. This is
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In general, investors look for capital gains from high-growth stocks. Dividend stocks, meanwhile, often don’t provide significant upside. However, investors who prefer regular cash flows tend to go overweight on dividend stocks. Of course, there are exceptions among dividend plays, from the perspective of healthy capital gains as well as dividend gains. My focus in
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Dividends are an important factor for many investors. The quarterly and annual payouts to shareholders can have a big impact on a portfolio’s growth over time. Dividend stocks can also serve as an income stream to people in retirement. For this reason, many investors seek out stocks that have high dividend yields. Even some of
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International Business Machines (NYSE:IBM) is like a once-massive European soccer team relegated to a lower division. Source: Laborant / Shutterstock.com Stop comparing it to cloud leaders like Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT), Alphabet (NASDAQ:GOOG) or even Oracle (NASDAQ:ORCL). At the top of the new league tables sit outsourcers like Accenture (NYSE:ACN), Infosys (NYSE:INFY), Cognizant Technology Solutions (NASDAQ:CTSH) and Wipro
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As you certainly recall, at the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic, governments resorted to shutting down the world, which caused an economic strain like none before. Consequently, they instructed their central banks to maintain loose monetary conditions in order to offset the economic devastation. AT&T (NYSE:T) stock, for example, fell around 30% from January levels
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Down more than 13% so far in 2021, AT&T (NYSE:T) stock is having a disappointing year. And it’s soon to lose its revered status as a dividend aristocrat. Source: Roman Tiraspolsky / Shutterstock.com Investors reacted poorly to the company’s plan to unload its WarnerMedia assets to Discovery (NASDAQ:DISCA) for $43 billion. The deal was announced
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Inflation has been surging, including a 6.8% increase in November compared to the prior year. This was the largest year-over-year increase in nearly four decades. The Federal Reserve’s response could boost some dividend stocks. In order to help keep inflation from spiraling out of control, the Fed announced that tapering of asset purchases would likely
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AT&T (NYSE:T) stock may not have bottomed out recently at $22.17 on Dec. 15. This is despite the company’s proposed dividend cut next year. The issues with the upcoming spin-off/merger are making things highly uncertain. As a result, T stock has been struggling in the past three months. It is still down $3.41 to $24.19
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Within equities as an asset class, there can be a broad classification of growth and income investors. Growth investors seek to find opportunities in high growth business ideas. In general, a portfolio of growth stocks would have a high-beta. Further, there are dividend investors who look for stable businesses with robust cash flows. Income investors
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