The company has paid dividends for more than 50 years while rewarding shareholders with 44 consecutive dividend increases, making it a member of the exclusive dividend aristocrats...
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December 8 - Dividend Stocks, News, Stock Analysis - Comments
Real Estate Investment Trusts, or REITs, are a great way for long-term income investors to gain exposure to real estate (1) without the hassle that comes with actually owning...
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December 5 - Dividend Stocks, News, Stock Analysis - Comments
Master Limited Partnerships, or MLPs have been an increasingly popular stock sector in recent years thanks to their preferential tax treatment that results in a business model...
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November 29 - Dividend Stocks, News, Stock Analysis - Comments
Of course, the only thing better than a company that has grown its dividend 25 or more consecutive years is a dividend king, like The Coca-Cola Co (NYSE:KO), which has one of ...
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November 24 - Dividend Stocks, News, Stock Analysis - Comments
While it’s true that this sector has its own risk factors that investors need to be aware of, certain midstream MLPs (those that operate gathering, processing, storage, and...
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November 24 - Dividend Stocks, News, Stock Analysis - Comments
Few investors will ever forget the terror of the financial crisis of 2008-2009, when the global financial system was on the verge of complete collapse and many people were convinced...
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November 22 - Dividend Stocks, News, Stock Analysis - Comments
In this article, I track and analyze changes in Bill Gates’ portfolio of dividend stocks.
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November 18 - Dividend Stocks, News, Stock Analysis - Comments
For example, according to BlackRock, Inc.
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November 17 - Dividend Stocks, ETF Trading, News, Stock Analysis - Comments
Over the coming decades, the aging of the U.S.
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November 15 - Dividend Stocks, News, Stock Analysis - Comments
CVS Health Corp (NYSE:CVS) is a possible example. The company’s stock has declined 25% year-to-date, setting up an interesting investment case.
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November 9 - Dividend Stocks, News, Stock Analysis - Comments
Given their sky-high yields, this is understandable.
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November 6 - Dividend Stocks, News - Comments
Since the depths of the financial crisis, plenty of big banks such as Bank of America Corp (NYSE:BAC), Citigroup Inc (NYSE:C), and JPMorgan Chase & Co.
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November 4 - Dividend Stocks, News, Stock Analysis - Comments
Since its founding in sleepy Beaverton, Oregon, in 1964, Nike Inc (NYSE:NKE) has grown into the world’s most dominant sports apparel supplier, and 18th most valuable brand in...
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November 2 - Dividend Stocks, News, Stock Analysis - Comments
Citigroup Inc (NYSE:C) more than tripled its quarterly dividend earlier this year, but few people can forget the terror of the 2008-2009 financial crisis.
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October 28 - Dividend Stocks, News, Stock Analysis - Comments
AT&T believes it is buying “the world’s best premium content” and now has the largest film and TV studio in the world.
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October 27 - Dividend Stocks, News, Stock Analysis - Comments
Since its founding in Seattle in 1985, Starbucks Corporation (NASDAQ:SBUX) has grown into the world’s largest coffee empire and the 67th most valuable brand on earth.
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October 25 - Dividend Stocks, News, Stock Analysis - Comments
Telecom companies have long been a favorite among income investors thanks to their utility-like business models, which make for steady cash flow and allow for generous, secure...
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October 21 - Dividend Stocks, News, Stock Analysis - Comments
With the current oil crisis dragging on far longer than initially anticipated, many big oil dividend stocks such as BP PLC (ADR) (NYSE:BP), Chevron Corporation (NYSE:CVX), and...
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October 20 - Dividend Stocks, News, Stock Analysis - Comments
A great way of building long-term wealth is to ride secular mega-trends.
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October 18 - Dividend Stocks, News, Stock Analysis - Comments
Now management has announced that it will spin off its troubled ManorCare skilled nursing facilities, or SNFs, into a separate REIT, which will greatly change the nature of HCP...
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October 15 - Dividend Stocks, News, Stock Analysis - Comments
With interest rates at their lowest point in history, once safe income-producing assets such as 10- and 30-year Treasury bonds have seen their yields plunge to pitiful rates that...
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October 14 - Dividend Stocks, News - Comments
Pfizer was incorporated in 1942 and today is a global biopharmaceutical company with operations all across the globe.
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October 12 - Dividend Stocks, News, Stock Analysis - Comments
Exxon Mobil Corporation (NYSE:XOM) is the ultimate blue chip stock in the oil patch, but even it hasn’t been spared the carnage of what’s being called the worst oil crash ...
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October 11 - Dividend Stocks, News, Stock Analysis - Comments
Qualcomm is a leader in the development and commercialization of digital communication technologies called CDMA (Code Division Multiple Access) and OFDMA (Orthogonal Frequency...
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October 7 - Dividend Stocks, News, Stock Analysis - Comments
The company is also a dividend aristocrat, having raised its dividend for over 28 straight years.
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October 7 - Dividend Stocks, News, Stock Analysis - Comments
The company is an old school magazine business that has been a chameleon over the years, constantly evolving and growing into a $1.6 billion multimedia powerhouse with a lineup...
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October 7 - Dividend Stocks, News, Stock Analysis - Comments
In 2015, 205 million U.S. consumers shopped online. The growth of e-commerce is nothing new, and the number of online shoppers will continue to rise.
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October 6 - Dividend Stocks, News, Stock Analysis - Comments
Back in 1939, long before Steve Jobs, there were two guys in Palo Alto, Bill Hewlett and David Packard.
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October 6 - Dividend Stocks, News, Stock Analysis - Comments
Let’s take a look at why the Oracle of Omaha is so interested in Phillips 66, and more importantly, whether this dividend growth stock could deserve a spot in a conservative...
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October 6 - Dividend Stocks, Hedge Funds, News, Stock Analysis - Comments
As readers know, I consider myself to be a conservative dividend investor.
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October 6 - Dividend Stocks, News - Comments
The company has increased the dividend every year since reinitiating it in 2008, recorded nearly 23% annual dividend growth over the last five years, maintained a relatively...
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October 6 - Dividend Stocks, News - Comments
Investing in Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) can provide dividend investors with high yields, steadily growing payouts, nice diversification, and an attractive income stream...
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October 5 - Dividend Stocks, News - Comments
Railcars are a critical mode of transportation and move about 40% of U.S. freight as measured in ton-miles (the length freight travels).
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June 14 - Dividend Stocks, News, Stock Analysis - Comments
Buffett was one of 60 investment firms in Insider Monkey's database which were long Kraft Heinz on March 31.
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June 9 - Dividend Stocks, News, Stock Analysis - Comments
Since making its first quarterly dividend payment of 0.044 cents per share in 1987, Home Depot’s dividend has increased to 69 cents.
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June 8 - Dividend Stocks, News, Stock Analysis - Comments
Crown Castle International Corp (NYSE:CCI) only began paying dividends in 2014, but the company currently offers income investors a high dividend yield near 4% with 6-7% annual...
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June 3 - Dividend Stocks, News, Stock Analysis - Comments
The best monthly dividend stocks provide predictable, growing income.
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June 1 - Dividend Stocks, News, Stock Analysis - Comments
Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway outperformed the S&P 500 by 11.1% per year from 1965-2015, generating an overall gain of 1,598,284% compared to the market’s total return...
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May 18 - Dividend Stocks, News, Stock Analysis - Comments
The company scores well for Dividend Safety and Dividend Growth, has paid dividends every year since 1923, generates excellent free cash flow, and has a relatively high dividend...
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May 15 - Dividend Stocks, News, Stock Analysis - Comments
What exactly are financial ratios? For the purposes of this article, we define financial ratios as any number or calculation used by dividend investors to better understand an...
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May 5 - Dividend Stocks, News, Stock Analysis - Comments
Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway outperformed the S&P 500 by 11.1% per year from 1965-2015, generating an overall gain of 1,598,284% compared to the market’s total return...
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April 26 - Dividend Stocks, News, Stock Analysis - Comments
National-Oilwell Varco, Inc. (NYSE:NOV) surprised many dividend investors with its decision to slash its dividend by 90% on April 11.
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April 26 - Dividend Stocks, News, Stock Analysis - Comments
Falling crop prices have caused demand to drop sharply for Deere’s tractors and combines, but the best time to buy high quality dividend stocks is usually during periods of ...
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April 26 - Dividend Stocks, News, Stock Analysis - Comments
During the last three months of 2015, the number of funds long Omega Healthcare Investors (among those tracked by Insider Monkey) slid to nine from 14, while the total value of...
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April 19 - Dividend Stocks, News, Stock Analysis - Comments
The business essentially operates as a monopoly in its core computer and data center markets and has numerous competitive advantages that are virtually impossible to replicate...
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April 12 - Dividend Stocks, News, Stock Analysis, Tech - Comments
The company’s quarterly dividend payment has increased from 6 cents per share in 2011 to 26 cents most recently, including management’s 24% boost to the dividend in February...
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April 8 - Dividend Stocks, News, Stock Analysis - Comments
HB Fuller Co (NYSE:FUL) is a small cap dividend growth stock that few investors are familiar with.
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March 28 - Dividend Stocks, News, Stock Analysis - Comments
Fewer than 100 of the more than 10,000 publicly-traded companies have increased annual dividends for at least 26 consecutive years. National Retail Properties, Inc.
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March 22 - Dividend Stocks, News, Stock Analysis - Comments
