All three are well-run companies, with growing payouts and price gains to match. But not all three are equally strong buys now. Let’s rattle through them in reverse order, from worst to first, and see which are most ripe (sorry, I couldn’t resist!) for buying. Food-Stock Pick No....
And no, we’re not going to play whack-a-mole trying to pick winning sectors. That’s what first-level investors do, and it’s why theyalwaysunderperform. Instead, we’re only going to apply three simple rules to set ourselves up for further gains—and healthy dividends—in the months ...
The stock market has had a good run since 2009. So good, in fact, that a growing chorus of seers fears that U.S. stocks will deliver little appreciation in coming years. Goldman Sachs strategist David Kostin, one of those pessimists, figures that over the next decade Standard & Poor’s ...
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Pretend you are Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla Motors (TSLA), a growth company that pays no dividends. Do you think Elon is going to start paying a dividend with its profits instead of plowing money back into research & development for new models with longer battery lives? Of course not!
Great Companies Grow Dividends You expect your employer to give you a raise periodically. Why wouldn’t you expect the same from your investments? We have all heard of compound interest (interest on interest), butcompound dividends(dividends on growing dividends) is even more powerful. ...
Since Broadcom and Visa are growing their sales and operating income at impressive rates, they can afford to pass along a portion of profits to investors through dividends. Over the last five years, Broadcom has increased its dividend by 81.5%, and Visa has nearly doubled its pa...
Janus Henderson’s growing popularity comes as its AUMs have been able to outperform many of its industry’s relevant benchmarks with the company seeing net inflows of nearly half a billion dollars during Q3. Offering a 3.45% annual dividend yield, earnings estimates are nicely up for Janus ...
Dividends are typically lower in biotech, software, emerging technologies, and other faster-growing sectors. Although there’s nothing wrong with using part of your portfolio to play defense, especially during tough economic times, defensive sectors aren’t always the best places to be when the ...
A highdividend yield, however, may not always be a good sign, since the company is returning so much of its profits to investors (rather than growing the company.) The dividend yield, in conjunction with total return, can be a top factor as dividends are often counted on to improve the...