Dividend

While last week’s lower than expected inflation print was good to see, we’re still not out of the woods when it comes to inflation and Fed interest rate hikes.

Today, with stocks taking a breather from last week’s rally, we want to make sure we don’t lose focus on the importance of having inflation-beating investments in our portfolios.

Today I want to bring our focus back to Business Development Companies, also known as BDCs for short. Because BDCs are regulated investment companies (RICs), they must distribute over 90% of their profits to shareholders. In addition, that RIC status means they don’t pay corporate income tax on profits before distributing them.

That makes BDCs a great way for individual investors to get paid healthy dividends as early investors.

The pick I have for you today blasted past every projection in its last earnings report, is in the process of steady growth that shows no signs of slowing down, and is paying out an inflation-beating 10% dividend as of this writing.

And best of all, you can grab it for around $24 a share right now.

To get the ticker, click here.

Last week, stocks broke a three-week losing streak, with the S&P 500 closing the week at 4067.36. Frankly, I’m happy for last week’s rally, but it came after significant volatility that rocked everyone’s portfolios through the summer. Case in point, June saw the market (as represented by the S&P 500) drop as much as 12.94% […]

Up until last week’s Jackson Hole Economic Symposium, it was pretty clear that the majority of investors had convinced themselves that the FED was going to start scaling back the increases in its interest rate policy. And then, in less than 10 minutes, Jerome Powell, the Chair of the Federal Reserve, set the record straight. […]

Here’s a bit of “investing trivia” that will grab your attention: If you look at the 50 biggest winners of the last decade, 39 of them started out as small- to mid-cap stock plays.

And quite a few of them were also low-priced (as in cheap) stocks – stocks trading at $10 a share, $5 a share … or even less.

One of my all-time favorite examples of a cheap-stock winner is a company called LendingTree Inc. (NasdaqGS:TREE) – the fintech leader that’s pretty much a household name these days. We’re talking about a company that recently sported a $3 billion market value and a stock price up around $220 a share.

Impressive stuff, right?

But there was also a time when LendingTree had a minuscule market value of $60 million – and a stock that was languishing down around $5.50 a share.

From that point to today, we’re talking about a total return of about 3,800%.

That’s a gain anyone – and I mean anyone – would be thrilled to pull down.

String a few of those 20X and 30X windfalls together … and that’s how you get rich.

The issue, of course, is that this cheap-stock-climb-to-the-peak-of-Mt.-Everest takes time to play out. And stocks, like mountain climbers, periodically stop to “rest” – meaning you’re not making any progress.

What if there was a way to get “paid” for owning that low-priced stock – so that you’re getting a steady, predictable stream of cash at every point along the journey?

That scenario not only sounds great – it’s actually doable.

Indeed, that’s the “ultimate cheap stock” – one with a super-low price, a hefty long-term upside … and an income stream attached.

That’s exactly what we have for you here today: A stock with 10-bagger potential – courtesy of the sizzling housing market – and one that will pay you to own it.

And it trades for less than 10 bucks a share…

To celebrate your financial freedom this Fourthwsq of July I’ve got five dividend paying stocks you can retire on.

You’ll know they’re great recommendations if you read my last two Total Wealth articles.

In the first article of this three-part series I showed you how to look through a few simple, easily found metrics to determine if a company’s dividend is safe, and by how much.

But you won’t have to do any calculations today, I’ll give you the safety-stretch numbers.

In the second article in this series I told you how trillions of dollars of buybacks are going to be converted to dividends in the future. Because the public’s outraged at companies manipulating their stock prices higher to compensate executives while workers’ wages stagnate. Because politicians are going on the warpath over the same issues and how the last tax cut juiced up buybacks by another trillion dollars. And because dividend payments are good for shareholders and the economy.

Here in the third and final installment in the series are five dividend paying stocks you can retire on.

Investors looking for good dividend yielding stocks don’t typically expect much price appreciation.

That’s going to change, probably sooner than anyone expects.

Here’s why dividend paying stocks have been playing second fiddle to growth stocks, what really drives growth, and how one all-important manipulative “growth factor” is poised to be flipped over to the benefit of dividend paying companies and their stockholders…

If you’ve been searching for yield in the bond market you know there’s not much out there to be had.

Good thing there’s another market where you can find good yielding investments. I’m talking about the stock market.

Hundreds of listed companies pay dividends to their stockholders.

It’s not hard to find lots of big dividend paying stocks in the market, including some really fat yields that look too good to be true.

That’s because some of them are, too good to be true, that is, which means probably too good to last.

Here’s how to tell if a dividend yield is realistic and repeatable.