The top analyst upgrades, downgrades and other research calls from Thursday include Apple, GE, Gilead, Humana, Oasis Petroleum, Sprint, Wynn, Yelp and Zynga.
24/7 Wall St. has chosen a list of companies that will operate fine in times of market turmoil and probably will operate well from financial standpoint even if economic turmoil were to…
These are 14 companies in the S&P 500 Index that have at least a 25 year history of dividend hikes and that seem likely to keep increasing their dividends in the coming…
Investors love when companies pay dividends. More specifically, they love companies that are raising their dividends year after year.
Should Clorox be issuing (or reissuing) very long-term stated growth and strategic plans?
Jon C. Ogg These are the top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations covered by 24/7 Wall St. on Tuesday, September 23, 2014.
Courtesy Procter & GambleFriday will bring two key earnings report from consumer products giants. In fact, one is a DJIA stock. Procter & Gamble Co. (NYSE: PG) is the DJIA stock in…
This past week was a rough one for the markets. Both the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) and the S&P 500 hit new all-time highs, only to sell off handily from the…
ThinkstockKimberly-Clark Corp. (NYSE: KMB) received almost no coverage for the dividend hike that was announced on Tuesday. For this consumer products giant to raise its dividend by almost 4% does not sound like…
Both Merrill Lynch and UBS have added stocks to Sell to their recent research reports. More and more, big Wall Street firms are trying to stay ahead of the curve, not behind.…
The UBS team thinks that investors that take "flight to safety" into U.S. treasury bonds and defensive, high dividend yield equities could get hurt bad later in the year. In a new…
Jon OggWith earnings season winding down and stocks challenging new all-time highs yet again, investors and traders are starting to position their assets for 2014. Each morning 24/7 Wall St. reviews dozens…
Investors have become all too familiar with the increasingly difficult task of scouring the investment universe for income-generating securities. Bond investors have been forced farther and farther out the yield curve or…
Jon OggEarnings season has started as Washington, D.C., seems to have figured a way out of its shenanigans again. Now investors really have to be wondering which stocks to buy and which…
ThinkstockHigh-yielding dividend stocks (such as utilities and telecom sector stocks) have significantly underperformed both the S&P 500 and high-dividend growth stocks over the past five months as interest rates have increased. Despite this underperformance, S&P…
