From Cabot Top Ten Trader
The overall action from the major indexes and leading stocks remains about as good as you could hope for considering we’re two months off a major bottom—we’re nudging up our Market Monitor another notch (to 8) in this issue to the...
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More than 80% of the S&P pays a dividend these days. Here are the 10 highest-paying dividend stocks in the index, plus several more quality high yielders.
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Things look bleak on Wall Street right now. But the market will eventually rebound. When it does, these 12 popular large-cap stocks will lead the charge.
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The 10 highest paying dividend stocks in the Dow Jones Industrial all yield more than 3%. But which of them would I buy today?
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The highest paying dividend stocks in the S&P 500 share certain commonalities. Here's a closer look at the 10 highest yielders.
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Coca-Cola stock has been dragging of late. But there's a lot to like about this dividend stalwart, with plenty of opportunity for future growth.
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The stock market’s pullback resumed yesterday, but this still looks like a normal retreat following a breakneck four-month rally. One warning light is decreasing breadth, which suggests that when the rally gets going again, it could be driven by a smaller group of stocks.
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The highest paying dividend stocks are the best place to find regular income and lead a relatively secure life. Fortunately, we know where to find them.
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High-yielding dividend stocks have been some of the best performing stocks on the market this year, leading to some out-of-whack valuations. Is a bubble forming, or is this the new normal for the top dividend payers?
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As Close to Free Money as You Can Find
Using Buy-Writes to Generate Income
Double the Yield on Dividend Stocks!
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"Nothing in life is free!" Many of us learned that expression at an early age, and I strongly agree with it. If anyone promises me free I..
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If you had invested exclusively in the S&P 500 ETF (SPY) last year, you would have finished the year down 0.81%. But if you had applied the very basic options strategy called a Buy-Write, you would have easily beaten those results.
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Would you lend a friend $100 if he promised to pay you back $99 within a year?
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Last month was a lousy month for most yield-focused investments, including both fixed-income securities like bonds and high-yield instruments like MLPs and REITs. The ostensible reason was the Fed’s suggestion that it might start “tapering” off its asset purchases and allow interest rates rise...
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“It seems inevitable that taxes on qualified stock dividends will increase in 2013. The only question is by how much. In the absence of new legislation to the contrary, the top federal rate on qualified dividends will jump from 15% currently to 43.4% income...
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Over the past year, I’ve had many great conversations with our Dick Davis Digest contributors, as part of our Contributor Interview Series for Investment of the Week. In today’s Dividend Edition, I thought I’d collect some of the best income investing advice these shared...
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Dividend-paying stocks have been growing in popularity for years now, as legions of retirees are forced to look beyond low-yielding government bonds to maintain their income. So in this latest installment in our Dick Davis Digest contributor interview series, I talked to Dividend Editor...
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When asked by AOL Finance if he thinks it's time to switch from bonds to stocks, Cabot's Timothy Lutts replied that he recommends stocks over bonds, but advises investors to wait until the stock market gets through its current volatility. "Wait 30 days, then...
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“E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. (DD – yield 3.80%)—DuPont, the large chemical company, has long frequented the ranks of high-dividend stocks. Its current yield [is almost] 4% per year ($1.64 annual dividend per share). The company’s earnings are very sensitive to health...
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