On a recent episode of The Real Eisman Playbook, Bernstein Research senior energy analyst Bob Brackett made a claim that should change how income investors look at the oil majors. “Don’t compare…
The Vanguard Dividend Appreciation Index Fund ETF Shares (NYSEARCA:VIG) is having a quieter year than its big-cap dividend-growth reputation suggests, with shares around $229 and a 5% year-to-date gain trailing the broader…
The Vanguard S&P 500 Value Index Fund ETF Shares (NYSEARCA:VOOV) distributes income four times a year from the dividend-paying half of the S&P 500, and at roughly $223 a share it has…
A retired couple with $700,000 in a taxable brokerage account could potentially generate close to $19,000 a year in combined dividend income and tax savings by using a direct-indexing strategy. Part of…
Replacing a real paycheck with dividends is the cleanest version of financial independence. The income target here is $65,000 per year, roughly the US median individual wage, and the question is whether…
The value-over-growth rotation that strategists had been calling for since the start of the year is finally showing up in fund returns. Through mid-May, large-cap value indexes are running ahead of several…
Bernstein analyst Bob Brackett has a reframe for income investors who keep dismissing energy stocks because the headline yield looks thin against the 10-year Treasury. On a recent episode of The Real…
A retiree holding $200,000 of Vanguard High Dividend Yield ETF (NYSEARCA:VYM) collects roughly $4,800 in annual income at the fund's current distribution yield, with no rebalancing required and no concentration risk to…
At $160.49, ExxonMobil (NYSE:XOM | XOM Price Prediction) is a buy and at $196.12, Chevron (NYSE:CVX) is a hold. The two integrated majors have both ripped higher in 2026 on stronger production,…
ExxonMobil (NYSE: XOM | XOM Price Prediction) and Chevron (NYSE: CVX) both reported Q1 2026 earnings on May 1, 2026, and the earnings reports arrived in the middle of a volatile oil…
A 58-year-old engineer in Palo Alto, married filing jointly, earns $750,000 a year, has already stuffed $4 million into 401(k)s and IRAs, and parks another $1.2 million in a brokerage account that…
If you bought YieldMax XOM Option Income Strategy ETF (NYSEARCA:XOMO) a year ago for the headline yield, you collected a steady stream of weekly checks while Exxon Mobil (NYSE:XOM | XOM Price Prediction) shares…
First, there was the TACO trade (Trump Always Chickens Out) amid rising tariff fears in the months and quarters that followed Liberation Day. These days, there’s growing chatter about the so-called NACHO…
Bloomberg’s Stuart Livingstone-Wallace delivered a line worth pausing on this week. Responding to a question about whether a U.S. naval posture was choking off Iranian crude flows, he told viewers: “We’ve had…
An ETF has done something unusual for a leveraged commodity fund. It has actually rewarded holders. ProShares Ultra Bloomberg Crude Oil (NYSEARCA:UCO) is up 130% year to date, the kind of move…
