When the stock market hits a rough patch, it can pay to hide out in dividend stocks. Those cash payouts to shareholders are akin to a vaccine or an underground war bunker. They may not shield you from all of the financial pain of a market in free fall due to soaring inf...
more than a dozen of them are members of the illustrious Dividend Aristocrats – companies in the Standard & Poor’s 500-stock index that have hiked their payouts every year for at least 25 consecutive years.
Norfolk Southern(NSC, $195.74) is successor to the curve's original owner, the Pennsylvania Railroad, and has been a splendid long-term investment. As of October 2019, the company had declared a stock dividend for 149 consecutive quarters. 20 Dividend Stocks to Fund 20 Years of Retirement Spo...
Another notable feature for investors is Microsoft's dividend. At about 1%, it's a small yield, but the annual payments have been growing. And for investors who stay in the stock for a while, growth makes the yield more meaningful. Cash flow per share was more than three times the divid...
Dividend yield:5.4% Analysts' average rating:1.84 AbbVie(ABBV, $86.65), the first health care stock on our list, should be very familiar to long-term dividend investors. That's because the pharmaceutical company is aDividend Aristocrat, by virtue of having raised its dividend for 48 co...
We recently utilizedTipRanks’ stock screenerto pinpoint the most compelling dividend opportunities right now. These are dividend stocks that boast wide support from the Street, and sizeable upside potential to boot. All the stocks on this list share a “Strong Buy” analyst consensus b...
Dividend yield:3.9% Spun off from Johnson & Johnson in 2023,Kenvue's(KVUE, $20.75) brands include Band-Aid, Tylenol, Neutrogena and more. Theconsumer staples stocktrades at just 17 times expected 2025 profits, "mispriced for the portfolio they have," says T. Rowe Price ...
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BMO Capital analyst Daniel Boyd has an Outperform rating (equivalent of Buy) on CVX stock. He admires the company's strong Permian Basin presence and sustained 5%-plus dividend growth. Goldman Sachs analyst Neil Mehta added Chevron to the firm's 2019 Americas Conviction List after t...
Dividend yield:N/A Percent of portfolio:0.41% Date first acquired:Q1 2019 Performance since Feb. 19:-5.9% Amazon.com(AMZN, $2,043.00) is one of Berkshire Hathaway's splashiest new stock picks of the past year or so. The holding company disclosed its 483,300-share positio...