There are many dividend stocks on the market. Some will eventually cut or suspend their payouts due to company-specific, economic, or broader market issues. Those aren’t the kind of dividend stocks that investors will want to own. Instead, income-seekers should try to find corporations with excellent underlying businesses that are likely to maintain their dividend […]
It’s no surprise that most investors look at the S&P 500 when trying to assess how the stock market has performed over a certain period of time. This index of the 500 largest and most profitable U.S. companies has many popular exchange-traded funds (ETFs) that track its performance. The S&P 500 has produced a 235% […]
Those who put $10,000 in the initial public offering (IPO) of coffee company Starbucks (NASDAQ: SBUX) more than 30 years ago are millionaires today. In short, this has been an absolutely magnificent Nasdaq growth stock. However, this magnificent growth stock is now down more than 40% from its all-time high in 2021, which is one […]
Down between 19% and 28% from their all-time highs, dividend growth stocks Unilever (NYSE: UL), The Hershey Company (NYSE: HSY), and Lamb Weston (NYSE: LW) currently trade near once-in-a-decade valuations. These magnificent stocks have five-year betas well below 1, making these discounted prices even more alluring for investors. Betas measure a company’s share price volatility […]
If you are a dividend investor, you probably care a great deal about dividend yields. That’s basically the big attraction when it comes to AGNC Investment (NASDAQ: AGNC) and its huge 15% yield. When comparing that to the relatively modest 3.7% yield on offer from Rexford Industrial (NYSE: REXR), you might be tempted to pass […]
To be fair, it doesn’t take a lot to offer a higher yield than the 1.3% investors are collecting today from the S&P 500 index. And yet investors looking for down-and-out stocks with high yields will still like what Realty Income (NYSE: O), Franklin Resources (NYSE: BEN), and Hormel Foods (NYSE: HRL) have to offer. […]
Investors should realize that some of the best-performing stocks historically can come from all different industries. O’Reilly Automotive (NASDAQ: ORLY) proves this. In the past decade, this boring retail stock has soared 581%. That gain is well ahead of the 224% total return of the S&P 500 index. But more recently, it’s been a story […]
If all you consider is yield, then Energy Transfer (NYSE: ET) and its roughly 8% distribution yield will handily beat out Enterprise Products Partners (NYSE: EPD) and its 7.3% yield. But there’s so much more to an investment than just yield, and in this situation, most income investors will probably feel much better owning the […]
The broader stock market is near all-time highs, but that doesn’t mean all stocks are. Remember, the stock market is a market of stocks, not a single entity. Despite the index’s success, the S&P 500 is littered with stocks nowhere close to their highs. That’s a potential buying opportunity for long-term investors who can identify […]
The Magnificent Seven stocks are listed alphabetically below. Beside each is the median price target among Wall Street analysts, along with the implied upside from the current share price. Alphabet: $195 per share (15% upside) Amazon: $220 per share (18% upside) Apple: $200 per share (10% upside) Meta Platforms: $525 per share (11% upside) Microsoft: […]
Agree Realty (NYSE: ADC) has become a magnificent dividend stock over the past decade. The real estate investment trust (REIT) has grown its dividend at a 5.6% compound annual rate during that period. It also switched from making quarterly dividend payments to a monthly schedule, increasing its attractiveness to those seeking a recurring income stream. […]
SoFi Technologies (NASDAQ: SOFI) — the online bank that went public in 2021 — has moved past its origins as a lending cooperative and its status as a hyped-up initial public offering (IPO) stock. It’s been demonstrating profitable growth at scale and has huge long-term opportunities. So why is its stock down 30% this year? […]