Regular session
$200.88
+3.05%open $194.94
A 3% intraday gain to $200.88 adds roughly $9 billion of market value to a $313 billion defensive name that rarely moves this much in a single session. The $200 handle is the level to watch from here.
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PM Coverage
10:15am ET
Investing
5 Dividend Stocks With Fortress-Like Coverage and Room for Things to Go Wrong
A fat dividend yield means nothing if the cash runs dry before the check clears. These five companies show wildly different margins of safety, and one of them barely cleared the bar…
12:45pm ET
Investing
5 High-Yield Dividend Stocks to Buy for October Income with Cash Flow to Spare
From a pharma giant rebuilding after a blockbuster patent loss to a pipeline partnership targeting double-digit distribution raises through 2027, these five stocks span wildly different industries yet share one thing: cash…
8:15am ET
Investing
MO Looks Cheap Until You See the Numbers: Negative Equity, Crumbling Margins, and a Dividend About to Break
Altria's 6.6% yield and 60 consecutive raises look bulletproof until you dig into what sits beneath them: a shrinking core business, a failed smoke-free pivot, and a balance sheet with liabilities that…
8:45am ET
Investing
5 High-Yield Dividends With Ex-Dates Days Away: Buy Before the Window Closes
Four dividend stocks from Philip Morris to JPMorgan Chase have ex-dates landing within days, and missing the cutoff means the payout goes to the seller. The clock is already running.
3:15pm ET
Investing
BTI vs. PM: Which Tobacco Dividend Will Actually Survive the Industry’s Decline?
Both BTI and PM fund generous dividends from a shrinking cigarette business, but one company's smoke-free pivot has already changed what its payout is built on, and that gap matters far more…
10:20am ET
Investing
PM vs. MO: The Smoke-Free Dividend Winner in This Tobacco Showdown
Philip Morris and Altria both just raised their dividends, but the gap between them runs far deeper than yield percentages and payout sizes. Which tobacco giant actually deserves a spot in a…
9:28am ET
Investing
High-Yield Dividend Stocks Throw Off Serious Income. Where You Hold Them Matters
Where you park a high-yield dividend stock can quietly cost you thousands in taxes every single year, and REITs and MLPs carry the steepest penalty of all for investors sitting in the…
8:47am ET
Investing
4 Tobacco Stocks Turning Huge Cash Flow Into High-Yield Dividends
Tobacco companies spend almost nothing on new equipment yet generate billions in cash, and a handful of US-listed names funnel that surplus straight into shareholder pockets through yields that most sectors cannot…
12:44pm ET
Investing
Chamath Palihapitiya: Anthropic Employee’s “Human Extinction” AI Warning Risks $2.3 Trillion IPO
Anthropic’s path to what would rank as one of the largest technology IPOs ever collided this week with a very old problem: what a company can and cannot say about its own…
11:05am ET
Personal Finance
No ETFs Required: How a 64-Year-Old Built a $5,700 Monthly Paycheck From Five Dividend Stocks
Most retirees assume hitting a $68,400 annual income floor demands either a massive nest egg or risky high-yield instruments, but five ordinary dividend stocks across five sectors challenge both assumptions in ways…
4:48pm ET
Investing
This 5.3% Monthly Payer Only Buys Stocks That Raised Dividends 10 Straight Years, It’s Up 18.5% in 2026
High-yield ETFs built purely on yield rankings carry a hidden flaw that only shows up when it's too late, and one fund uses a decade-long dividend track record as a filter before…
11:27am ET
Investing
Universal Corp (UVV) Stock Is Falling Today: What’s Behind the Drop, and Are Other Tobacco Stocks Plummeting Today?
Universal Corp just cratered to a fresh 52-week low while rival tobacco stocks barely flinched, raising an urgent question about whether this leaf tobacco supplier is facing a problem all its own.
9:00am ET
Investing
5 High-Yielding Dividend Stocks for Retirees to Buy and Hold Forever
Not every fat dividend yield is worth chasing into retirement, and the difference between a durable income stream and a yield trap often hides in details most investors skip past entirely.
9:32am ET
Investing
Should You Buy Altria for Its 5.8% Dividend Yield Ahead of July 30 Earnings?
Altria stock has surged over 30% this year and still hands investors a yield that dwarfs most of its large-cap peers, but the July 30 earnings report introduces a variable that could…
10:15am ET
Personal Finance
What A $300,000 Portfolio Can Realistically Pay You Each Month
Three hundred thousand dollars sits in an awkward zone for income investors. It is too large to ignore and too small to coast on. With the 10-year Treasury recently around 4.4% and…
