Four stocks quietly paying over 10% sound too good to be true, but the real question is which ones actually earn their payouts and which are one bad quarter away from a…
Three companies in pharmaceuticals, energy, and tobacco operate in entirely different worlds, and that separation is exactly the point for retirees who need their income to survive whatever the market throws at…
Wes Moss has raised his retirement happiness target. Moss said during the October 20 Ask An Advisor section of The Clark Howard Podcast that his updated research for The Retire Sooner Method…
Chevron (NYSE:CVX | CVX Price Prediction) reports third-quarter results on Oct. 30, and the stock is up 57.27% year to date. Analysts see a steep earnings rebound from a weak year-ago quarter.…
Trump claims the Iran war's oil surge is filling US coffers with hundreds of billions, and the export numbers from April tell a striking story. But what happened to those records by…
Generating nearly $100,000 a year in dividend income sounds impossible without a massive nest egg, but the capital you actually need swings wildly depending on where you invest and what risks you…
Treasury yields have turned dividend investing into a minefield, but five mega-caps have quietly raised their payouts through every rate spike, recession, and patent cliff of the past four decades. The question…
Turning a portfolio into a lifelong paycheck sounds straightforward until you see how dramatically the yield you chase changes what you actually keep. The gap between $935,000 and $3.2 million tells a…
One Chevron deal sent Hess Midstream units into a monthlong slide, but the reason the stock fell and the reason it may have fallen too far are two completely different stories.
Swapping a high-yield ETF for a dividend-growth fund sounds like a smart retirement move until you see what it does to a monthly paycheck built around a seven-figure portfolio.
With the 10-year Treasury now a genuine rival to dividend stocks, only a handful of large caps can still justify their yields on safety grounds alone. A telecom selloff suddenly made two…
Holding the wrong dividend stocks in a taxable account quietly hands thousands of dollars to the IRS every year, and one REIT on this list punches far above its weight when it…
When crude spiked past $110 and wiped a trillion dollars from tech valuations in a single session, the same geopolitical shock that lifted Exxon and Chevron near their 52-week highs also planted…
Six Dividend Aristocrats shoulder a big chunk of SCHD's 3.8% yield, but two of them are paying dividends that their earnings barely cover. Here is how close to the edge each one…
September's inflation report handed energy stocks a gift, but the same force lifting XLE is already working against the investors chasing it for protection.
