With 10-year Treasuries near 4.62%, VYM's $94.6 billion portfolio faces a real test from risk-free yields, and two familiar names inside the fund are quietly raising red flags about future income growth.
AbbVie and Baxter both flashed the same bullish technical signal this month, but one golden cross signals genuine momentum while the other masks a fundamentally broken business. Knowing which is which could…
Johnson & Johnson (NYSE:JNJ | JNJ Price Prediction) is the easiest healthcare name to evaluate on the board heading into its July 15 earnings release, and the setup leaves little to debate.…
JNJ and AbbVie both beat revenue expectations in Q1 2026, yet their strategies could not look more different, and which playbook actually wins depends entirely on what kind of investor you are.
The battle between JPMorgan’s two flagship covered-call income ETFs comes down to a simple trade-off: JPMorgan Equity Premium Income ETF (NYSEARCA:JEPI) offers the smoother ride, while JPMorgan Nasdaq Equity Premium Income ETF…
Dividend Aristocrats, the S&P 500 companies that have raised payouts for 25 or more consecutive years, remain the bedrock of income portfolios heading into the second half of 2026. Three of them…
Dividend funds pulled in $24.1 billion in the first quarter of 2026, their strongest opening quarter in four years, and a lot of that cash went looking for a boring place to…
Schwab U.S. Dividend Equity ETF (NYSEARCA:SCHD) pays a quarterly distribution from roughly 100 quality-screened U.S. dividend stocks. The fund holds $71.6 billion in assets at an expense ratio of just 0.06%, and…
The average Social Security retirement check reached $2,081 per month as of April 2026, according to the Social Security Administration’s monthly statistical data. That figure carries the 2.8% cost-of-living adjustment that took…
Dividend investors entering July 2026 have a rare setup: Three of the market’s most reliable income stocks all delivered beat-and-raise first-quarter reports, all hiked their payouts in the past 12 months and…
The iShares MSCI USA Momentum Factor ETF (NYSEARCA:MTUM) has run hard this year, climbing 30% year to date and 38% over the past 12 months to roughly $326. Headline numbers, though, mask…
What does retirement look like for someone who genuinely has no desire to leave home? No snowbird condo in Florida. No Viking river cruises. No RV parked outside Yellowstone. Just Chicago. The…
Big pharma is hunting again, and patent cliffs are forcing buyers to overpay or miss out. Three mid-cap biotechs have quietly positioned themselves as prime acquisition targets, but only one offers the…
I hit the buy button on AbbVie (NYSE:ABBV | ABBV Price Prediction) again last week, and I will hit it again the next time June’s macro noise hands me a discount. While…
Alex Sirois Most retirees shop for dividend portfolios the same way people shop for cars: they focus on what they get today. A portfolio yielding $90,000 a year feels like the retirement equivalent of…
