The article discusses mutual funds that specialize in dividend-paying stocks. Although many such funds performed poorly during 2008, they still offer benefits to investors. Dividends receive favorable federal tax treatment, and share of firms that hike their dividends regularly offer a measure of ...
Understanding Stocks that Don't Pay a Dividend There are only two ways to make money in the stock market. There are companies that pay regular dividends to their shareholders, essentially rewarding their owners with a share of the company's profits. There are stocks that increase in price, gi...
If you’ve been reading my columns on Contrarian Outlook for a while, you know about the “Dividend Magnet.” It’s the tendency for a company’s share price to track its dividend growth. You can see this in action with ConAgra’s payout (in purple above), which has gained 32% in ...
The following stocks are truly bank stocks, with a core customer base of consumers and businesses rather than a reliance on sophisticated investment arms. They are all big in scale, with more than $50 billion in market value, but also reliable dividend providers with payouts of 3% or ...
Screen by dividend yield, industry, All-Star Ranking and more. Monthly Dividend Directory - The web's top monthly dividend paying stock list. Ranked by our proprietary All-Star Ranking. Preferred Stocks - Preferred Stocks are a great way to build a solid dividend income stream, with high ...
Forward dividend yield: 7.8% Related: The 5 Best Stock Market Games to Play LTC Properties Inc. (LTC) LTC is a large, well-established REIT with a market cap that exceeds $1.5 billion. LTC operates in the health care segment of the commercial real estate industry. Specifically, it owns...
As a company's stock price shifts, the dividend yield adjusts accordingly, reflecting the changes in this ratio. Below, we look at the top 10 dividend stocks listed on either the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) or Nasdaq as measured byforward dividend yield, excluding companies with payout ...
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Short-term interest rates are still high enough for you to get a yield of more than 4% on a savings account. But stocks with attractive dividend yields might also be appropriate for you, depending on your investment goals. Investors holding shares of companies t...
Dividend yield: 8.7% Rogers Communications Inc. (RCI) Rogers Communications is one of the three largest national wireless carriers in Canada. The company is attempting a CA$20 billion ($14.7 billion) merger with Shaw Communications Inc. (SJR), but the deal has faced pushback from Canada's...