In the investment business, we’re very good at talking about when to buy. We can wax poetic... Read More

In the investment business, we’re very good at talking about when to buy. We can wax poetic about the single-digit piece-to-earnings (P/E) ratio and the deep-discount to book value or the... Read More

Business school professors often speak of the “efficient-market hypothesis,” which... Read More

Business school professors often speak of the “efficient-market hypothesis,” which posits that stock prices reflect all available public information and therefore are never overvalued or... Read More

Income investing has an unfair stigma attached to it. The conventional wisdom says invest in dividend payers — also known as “widow and orphan” stocks — if you’re just trying to stash your money somewhere. If you actually want to earn a decent return, then… Read More

New income investors sometimes make the mistake of looking no further than a stock’s current... Read More

New income investors sometimes make the mistake of looking no further than a stock’s current dividend yield. After all, a stock such as biotech firm PDL BioPharma (NASDAQ: PDL) looks mighty... Read More

Did you know the United States withholds a portion of dividends paid to many foreign investors? ... Read More

Did you know the United States withholds a portion of dividends paid to many foreign investors? This amount comes right off the top, before the payment even hits an investor’s account. Even... Read More

I counted twice, just to be sure… $41,161.63. That’s the amount in “daily paychecks” — more commonly known as dividends — I received from my investment portfolio in 2010. That total comes to $112.77 for each day of the year. Cash. Read More

It’s one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world. I added the shares to my High-Yield Investing portfolio in January 2009. Over the following two years, I received $2.54 a share in dividends thanks to a 5% yield. Meanwhile, the price rose steadily for a… Read More

Would you be interested in a simple investment strategy that allows you to capture more dividends? Savvy income investors can use a neat little trick that does just that. It’s not hard, but it will require a little research. The rewards can be great — you can easily earn yields… Read More

It was in an e-mail I received from one of my Daily Paycheck subscribers the other day. I thought it was a great suggestion. “Would you please consider displaying yield in the portfolios as both ‘current yield‘ and ‘… Read More

Last week, I mentioned the S&P Dividend Aristocrats list as one of my favorite starting points for researching income stocks. To make this list, companies must have increased dividends for at least 25 consecutive years. It is mostly U.S. companies that make up the… Read More