A sixth straight quarter of topping estimates came with a raised full-year adjusted EPS outlook of $2.07 to $2.13, even as North American volumes in meats, sauces and refreshment beverages kept sales falling. Emerging markets organic sales are the one piece of the turnaround clearly working.
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3 Beaten-Down Food Stocks With High Dividend Yields. Which Payouts Are Safe?
Yields north of 6% look tempting while grocery giants bleed sales and write down brands. One of these three payouts was already slashed in half, so which dividend can income investors actually…
Are Your Dividends Safe? 4 Companies Whose Debt Is Competing With the Payout
When a heavily indebted company has to refinance at higher rates, every extra dollar of interest comes out of the same cash pool that funds the dividend. Bondholders have a legal claim…
UPS’s $5.4 Billion Dividend Bill Exceeded Its Free Cash Flow. Is the Payout at Risk?
Four stocks are paying out billions in dividends that their cash flows can barely support, and the gap between what investors expect and what the business can actually deliver keeps widening. Before…
Hormel Yields 5.5% After a 40% Stock Decline. Is Its Dividend Safe?
Hormel has raised its dividend for 60 straight years, but shrinking raises, a stock that lost nearly 40% of its value, and a payout that once outpaced free cash flow put the…
Icahn Enterprises and 5 Other High-Yield Stocks With Dividend Safety Concerns
A 38% yield sounds like a jackpot until you see what is actually funding it. Six popular income stocks are flashing warning signs that most dividend investors overlook until a cut hits…
Kraft Heinz’s EPS Is Negative $2.87. Its Dividend Coverage Tells Another Story
Kraft Heinz is posting billions in losses while still writing dividend checks, and the reason comes down to a number most investors never bother to check.
Are Your Dividends Safe? 4 Yields That Are High for the Wrong Reason
Some of the fattest dividend yields on the market right now come from stocks that have already cut their payouts once, and three more may be quietly building toward the same moment.…
Kraft Heinz vs. General Mills: Which Dividend Can Avoid Campbell’s Fate?
Campbell's just slashed a dividend it had protected for over two decades, and now income investors are scrutinizing every high-yield name left standing in the grocery aisle. Kraft Heinz and General Mills…
Campbell’s Just Cut Its Dividend. What Income Investors Should Do Now
Campbell's just slashed its dividend for the first time in over two decades, and income investors now face a decision that hinges on whether the smaller payout signals a genuine reset or…
General Mills Yields Nearly 7%. Is Its Dividend Safer Than Kraft Heinz or Smucker?
Three packaged food giants all flash ultra-high yields right now, but a big number on a dividend screener can hide very different stories about leverage, frozen payouts, and falling share prices. One…
Conagra Has Already Cut Its Dividend. Can Kraft Heinz Avoid the Same Fate?
Two packaged-food giants both bleed red ink on paper, both offer yields that would make most retirees salivate, yet one has already slashed its payout while the other keeps insisting it won't.…
These 5 Grocery Aisle Giants Are Splitting Into Dividend Winners and Losers
Five household grocery names faced the same brutal pressures, but their dividends went in three different directions. The balance sheet details behind each decision reveal which income payouts are built to last…
These 5 Dividend Stocks Look Like Income Bargains. The Math Says Otherwise
A yield above 6% looks like a retirement lifeline until the math behind it starts to crack. Five familiar dividend names are flashing the kind of payout warnings that show up quietly…
Two Food Giants Yield Over 7%. Only One Has the Cash to Back It Up
General Mills and Kraft Heinz both hand income investors a yield above 7%, but the cash sitting behind those payouts tells two very different stories about which quarterly check is actually safe.
Two Mortgage REITs Yield More Than 16%. Their Share Prices Tell Another Story
Five popular income stocks are flashing warning signs that most yield-chasing investors overlook until after the dividend cut. Here is what the coverage ratios, leverage levels, and share price histories actually reveal…