Dividend Stocks With Income And Revenue Growth

There has been a lot of uncertainty in the markets lately. Many analyst are out there broadly pushing dividend stocks as the safest place to put your money. While it is true that dividend payers as a whole are a solid place to park your cash for cash flow and long term investment we have […]

How to Pick Dividend Stocks with a Time Machine

If you’re like me, you spend a fair amount of time thinking about the stocks that got away. Those times in the market when you wish you had the foresight to buy into a sector or even into a specific stock. The times when all the economic data and analysis was right there in front […]

After a Strong Increase, Cisco Shares May Still be A Buy

Cisco is the leader in its core market of switches and routers for network connectivity but has also made significant progress to expand its product offers into other categories. The company’s other business lines include data center, enterprise wireless and security. In the past, these were primarily ancillary offerings that were basically add-ons to the […]

Best of Breed Dividend Investing

Sometimes, it seems there are more methods to pick stocks than there are stocks themselves. Investors have to decide whether to focus on top-down or bottom-up analysis then must continuously monitor the economy and events internal and external to the companies in their portfolio. Investing in Best of Breed companies makes the whole process a […]

Mattel (MAT) Maintains High Yield

Mattel announced today that the company will pay its third straight quarterly dividend of $0.31 per share. The dividend will be payable on September 21st with an ex-dividend date of August 27th. This maintains the 3.5% dividend yield on the stock MAT. Investors must own the stock at the close of trading the day before […]

Earnings News and China Provide Points of Interest this Week

Last week was fairly depressing — until Friday, of course. On Friday, everyone suddenly decided they were feeling pretty good about things and stocks rallied. A lot. Good news in the form of financial earnings helped out, as well as speculation about China. And it also helped that US economic wasn’t horrible. US economic data […]

4 High Yield Dividend Stocks Going Ex-Dividend July 16-20

In terms of ex-dividend dates, next week isn’t very busy — at least not with high yield dividend stocks. There are some options, though. They are fairly solid, and they have somewhat mediocre dividend yields when compared with some of the exciting stocks that went ex-dividend earlier this week. However, the following for dividend stocks […]

3 REITs Maintaining High Yields

Three different real estate investment trusts announced new dividend payouts. Each company has maintained a very high yield through recent years. Lets examine the dividend history and prospective growth of each REIT. Hospitality Properties Trust (HPT) Hospitality Properties announce a dividend of $0.45 per share that will be payable on August 22nd with an ex-dividend […]