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.
The EIA sees oil sliding toward $79 a barrel by 2027, and income investors need to know whether Exxon's quarterly check survives the drop before crude gets there.
Oil prices crashed 14% last year, yet three energy giants kept raising their dividends anyway. The integrated business model behind that trick also explains why analysts see one of them as the…
A retiree living off a portfolio needs income that keeps coming. The First Trust Morningstar Dividend Leaders Index Fund (NYSEARCA:FDL) has paid distributions four times a year since 2006. FDL tracks Morningstar’s…
Chevron just posted one of its strongest runs in years, yet patient investors who held through every oil crash and geopolitical shock may be surprised by where they actually stand against the…
Retirees watching CD rates scrape bottom and Treasury coupons lock in for a decade have a third option hiding in plain sight inside the Dow Jones Industrial Average, and it requires owning…
Two of these five dividend stocks just took a beating in October, and that selloff quietly pushed their yields to levels that make the safer-looking names on the list look stingy by…
S&P 500 futures are basically flat before the open. The index’s futures sit near 7,817, up 0.1%, after a record-setting week. Oil is the main mover this morning. Brent crude is trading…
Exxon has handed investors a larger dividend check every year for 43 consecutive years, but sliding crude prices and a 61% quarterly free cash flow drop are now stress-testing the limits of…
