Yield Hounds Will Love These 3 ETFs
Are you a yield hound? It’s becoming more challenging to find quality investments with high yields. In the past year, 5-year U.S. Treasury note yield has dropped by one percentage point to 3.85%. At…
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3 Mergers We’d Love to See Going Into 2025
Betting on M&A deals that are likely to happen in the future is challenging. However, we know that Tapestry (NYSE:TPR | TPR Price Prediction) won’t soon buy Capri Holdings (NYSE:CPRI). On Oct. 24, U.S.…
Use Options to Generate $1,000 in 30 Days From These 3 S&P 500 Stocks
There are many reasons investors use options. One of them is to generate consistent monthly income. In March, SmartAsset Advisors published an article discussing 7 Options Income Strategies to Consider. “A key to getting…
3 Stocks to Buy From the Schwab U.S. Dividend Equity ETF
24/7 Wall Street contributor Chris MacDonald recently discussed dividend stocks for income-focused investors. Rather than waste a lot of time searching for the perfect dividend stock, MacDonald cut to the chase, suggesting the (NYSEMKT:SCHD)…
Wall Street Is Down on These 3 Stocks
It’s time to take a contrarian angle on the stock market. Investors generally like to follow stocks upgraded by one or more analysts in the near term. Contrarians, on the other hand, might buy…
3 Dividends With More than 5% Yields to Buy in November
Are you familiar with the term “shareholder yield?” Imagine you’re at a party where the dividend investors chat in the living room while the buyback people are busy discussing share repurchases outside on the…
3 Money Tips to Retire In 20 Years
According to a 2024 MassMutual survey, the average American worker retires at 62, up from 57 in 1991. Given that the average life expectancy of Americans in 2024 is 79.25, which is nearly four…
3 Stock Split Stocks To Buy This Fall
According to StockAnalysis.com, there have been 418 stock splits on U.S. exchanges in 2024 through NV5 Global’s (NASDAQ:NVEE) 4-for-1 split on Oct. 11. With 2.5 months left in the year, it’s possible but unlikely…
NVDL or TSL: Should Investors Buy Single-Stock ETFs?
The history of single-stock ETFs dates back to 2018 and their introduction into the European markets. Single-stock ETFs first appeared in the United States in July 2022 when AXS Investments launched eight products, including…
The 3 Best ETF Launches So Far in 2024
According to VettaFi’s ETF Trends, 543 ETFs were launched in 2023, 63 more than the previous record of 480 in 2021. Of those launches, approximately three-quarters are actively managed ETFs. “It was only a…
3 Ways Small-Cap Active ETFs Are the Best
The Wall Street Journal published an article on Oct. 7 discussing why the investment industry loves active ETFs, but most investors probably shouldn’t. The ETF industry has grown considerably over the years. In the…
I’m 46 years old and my 401(k) finally hit $1 million – why did it take so long?
You graduated college and entered the working world at 21, setting an aggressive FIRE (Financial Independence, Retire Early) goal to have $1 million in your 401(k) within a decade. Instead, you hit your target…
Buy This Down and Out S&P 500 Dividend Stock
The S&P 500 has performed admirably in 2024, up nearly 22%. With a little less than three months left in the year, it has a decent shot of matching 2023’s 24.2% return and only the…
5 Dividend Stocks to Buy to Create a Laddered Yield Portfolio
The current S&P 500 dividend yield is 1.24%. The highest it’s ever been at the end of a calendar year from 1933 through 2023 was 8.11% in 1941. The highest since 2000 was 3.23%…
3 Top-Notch Utility Stocks to Buy in October
Many utilities stocks have taken off in 2024 due to the increased demand for electricity to power AI data centers. This thirst cannot seem quenched, so that’s great news if you own or are…
3 Dividend Stocks Up 50% This Year And Are Still Dividends to Buy in October
As interest rates increased considerably in the past few years, dividend stocks lost some of their cachet with income investors. Now that they’re coming back down, investor interest has picked right up. The top…
3 Reasons Retirement’s ‘Magic Number’ Isn’t What It’s Cracked Up to Be
If you roam financial websites enough, you’ll frequently see “Magic Number” articles published with a scary headline suggesting you need millions for a happy and fulfilling retirement. However, like many things sold rather than…
Get These 3 Big Financial Decisions Right and You’ll Be Much Happier at Retirement
Financial adviser and author David Bach first coined the phrase “The Latter Factor” in his 1999 book Smart Women Finish Rich. He believed cutting spending on things you don’t need, such as expensive latte…
The States Where Mortgage Rates Are the Highest Today
Jerome Powell and the Federal Reserve did as expected on Sept. 18, cutting the benchmark interest rate by 50 basis points to 4.75% to 5%. This is a sign that inflation has mostly been…
Here are 3 Reasons You Have to Make a Will Before You Die
A will is a legal document that lays out your wishes upon death. Wills are commonly considered financial in nature because they detail how you want your assets distributed and appoint one or more…