ThinkstockDividend payments by S&P 500 companies reached an all-time high last year, totaling some $330.8 billion, according to FactSet. As of this March, 418 of the 500 companies in the index paid…
ThinkstockSouthern Company (NYSE: SO) announced Friday that it is partnering with Turner Renewable Energy to buy New Mexico’s largest solar facility from First Solar (NASDAQ: FSLR). Terms of the deal were not…
ThinkstockWith both the S&P 500 and the Dow Jones Industrial Average hitting new all-time highs this week, investors have to wonder how they should be positioning themselves for the rest of the…
These are the top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations seen on Monday, May 5, 2014. They include ARIAD Pharmaceuticals, Chipotle Mexican Grill, Disney, FireEye, L-3 Communications and SINA.
ThinkstockThe number of companies paying dividends in the S&P 500 is at a 15-year high. According to FactSet, just over 80 companies in the index do not pay dividends. Paying dividends has…
ThinkstockFirst Solar Inc. (NASDAQ: FSLR) said today that it has sold its Campo Verde solar energy project to a subsidiary of Southern Company (NYSE: SO) and Turner Renewable Energy. The sale price…
ThinkstockAfter reporting pretty much awful results this morning, Exelon Corp. (NYSE: EXC) let investors know that it would also cut its quarterly dividend by a whopping 41%, from $0.525 to $0.31. The…
U.S. equity markets opened mixed this morning following a depressing report on U.S. GDP growth, which turned out to be negative (more coverage here). Even a good jobs report from ADP couldn’t…
U.S. equity markets opened slightly lower this morning following not-much in the way of new data and a wait-and-see attitude until tomorrow’s meeting announcement from the FOMC, which began a two-day meeting…
ThinkstockAccording to a new survey by the World Resources Institute (WRI), the number of coal-fired power plants is set to grow by 1,200 new facilities and add 1.4 million megawatts of generation…
thinkstockThe utility sector has suffered the wrath of selling. As these are all high-dividend stocks and as many long-term investors had substantial capital gains, the investment community has been selling these handily…
U.S. equity markets opened mixed this morning as investors appear to be cautious as tomorrow’s elections get closer. Coupled with possible changes in the U.S., China will replace its leadership at its…
U.S. equity markets opened higher this morning following the report on U.S. non-farm payrolls and the U.S. unemployment rate. Payrolls rose by 171,000, better than expected, and the unemployment rate came in…
Analyst calls often have many hidden gems in them, and sometimes the most interesting thing to take from these calls is what was not said. Credit Suisse came out this Tuesday with…
By now you know that we have started to become cautious on some of the top dividend stocks. It is not that we think anything is wrong at the companies, and it…
