The S&P 500 is down roughly 3% year-to-date while the Procure Space ETF (NYSEARCA:UFO) is up nearly 28% over the same stretch. That gap tells you exactly what UFO is: a high-octane sector bet…
Vanguard FTSE Developed Markets ETF (NYSEARCA:VEA) holds nearly 3,900 stocks across Europe, Japan, Canada, and Australia, charges just 3 basis points in fees, and currently yields close to 2.9%. The real question is whether…
America’s electrical grid is being asked to power something it was never designed for: the AI revolution. Data centers, EV charging networks, and industrial reshoring are colliding with decades of underinvestment in grid infrastructure,…
Capital Southwest (NASDAQ:CSWC) pays a 10.6% dividend yield, and that number tends to stop income investors in their tracks. A yield that high on a business development company demands scrutiny, not celebration. The question…
Income investors hunting for AI infrastructure exposure often land on Pacer Data & Infrastructure Real Estate ETF (NYSEARCA:SRVR). The fund packages data centers, cell towers, and related digital infrastructure REITs into a single, low-cost…
Throughout 2025, the Vanguard S&P 500 ETF (NYSE: VOO) has performed well over the past 12 months at +29%, but Q1 2026 has been a struggle: at the time of this writing, it is…
The iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond ETF (NYSEARCA:TLT) pays a 4.8% dividend yield backed by the full faith and credit of the U.S. government. That is about as creditworthy an income source as exists…
The biotech industry has been a robust roller-coaster over the last half decade. The State Street SPDR S&P Biotech ETF (NYSE: XBI), which tracks the biotech portion of the S&P 500, started in January…
Monthly income checks from a portfolio of NVIDIA, Apple, Microsoft, and Alphabet sound appealing until you realize those same stocks have compounded at extraordinary rates for a decade. The investor’s dilemma is real: collect…
Memory chips, GPU accelerators, and AI cloud infrastructure are posting some of the most explosive earnings numbers in semiconductor history, yet the ETF built around them has barely moved this year. That disconnect is…
Active management in large-cap growth has a credibility problem. Most active funds charge more, trade more, and deliver less than the index over time. Fidelity Fundamental Large Cap Growth ETF (NYSEARCA:FFLG) is trying to…
Stripping the Magnificent 7 from the S&P 500 sounds like a contrarian bet, but it has quietly outperformed the full index so far in 2026. The question for income-focused investors is whether the dividend…
The S&P 500 is down 7% year-to-date. VPU is up 7% over the same stretch. That divergence is exactly what utilities are supposed to do. What VPU Is Actually Designed to Do Vanguard Utilities…
The SPDR Dow Jones REIT ETF (NYSEARCA:RWR) offers a 3.4% dividend yield backed by more than 100 publicly traded REITs, but the real question is whether that income holds up across rate cycles. How…
A leader in mutual funds and credited for launching the Exchange Traded Fund (ETF) platform, John Bogle’s Vanguard Group has grown from its mid-70s retail market focused launch to become the second largest US…
YieldMax TSM Option Income Strategy ETF (NYSE:TSMY) pays income every week, and that cadence draws investors seeking steady cash flow tied to one of the world’s most consequential chipmakers. The mechanics behind those payments…
Vanguard S&P 500 Growth Index Fund ETF Shares (NYSEARCA:VOOG) offers a yield of just 0.46%, a byproduct of owning growth companies rather than a reason to own the fund, and investors evaluating that income…
The decisive, lethal, and comparatively brief strategic military strikes executed by President Trump and Secretary of War Hegseth have once again elevated the profile of US military supremacy. Thanks to the successes of Operation…
Prospect Capital Corporation (NASDAQ:PSEC) pays a 21.7% annualized yield by sending shareholders $0.045 per share every month. That number attracts income investors the way a bright light attracts moths, but the history of this…
Fidelity Total Bond ETF (NYSEARCA:FBND) pays income every single month, holds roughly $25 billion in assets, and carries an expense ratio of just 0.36%. For income-oriented investors, that combination is hard to ignore. The…
