A 5% Treasury yield raises the bar for every dividend stock in a retirement portfolio, but four large-cap payers in real estate, telecom, tobacco, and healthcare are generating the cash flow to…
The IRS collects thousands of dollars a year from dividend investors who never stopped to ask which account their income stocks actually live in. Six high-yield names reveal exactly how much that…
Rising rates have boomers flocking to Treasuries, but five battle-tested dividend payers with 50-plus years of consecutive increases may offer something bonds simply cannot deliver.
Three stocks all yield above 5% and all carry decades of unbroken dividend payments, but each one asks you to accept a completely different kind of risk before that income hits your…
Philip Morris and Altria both just raised their dividends, but the gap between them runs far deeper than yield percentages and payout sizes. Which tobacco giant actually deserves a spot in a…
The 5-year U.S. Treasury yield stands at 5.04%. Arguably, U.S. sovereign debt is the safest investment in the world. A bit of doubt has crept in as U.S. debt topped $40 trillion.…
Most investors settle for the S&P 500's average 1.3% yield without realizing a handful of index giants quietly pay four times that amount, and a few of them have raised their dividends…
A fat dividend yield can signal a screaming buy or a slow-motion disaster, and the difference hides in coverage math most investors never check. Six well-known names are flashing the exact warning…
Where you park a high-yield dividend stock can quietly cost you thousands in taxes every single year, and REITs and MLPs carry the steepest penalty of all for investors sitting in the…
Tobacco companies spend almost nothing on new equipment yet generate billions in cash, and a handful of US-listed names funnel that surplus straight into shareholder pockets through yields that most sectors cannot…
Two Dividend Kings with 50-plus years of consecutive raises have reported earnings, and one of them is funding its payout in a way that should raise eyebrows. The question is whether that…
Altria and British American Tobacco both flood retirement accounts with cash, but the tobacco giant pulling ahead on growth, valuation, and smokeless momentum is not the one with 60 consecutive dividend raises.
Where you hold a high-yield dividend stock matters almost as much as which one you pick, and for ordinary-income payers like BDCs and REITs, the wrong account quietly erodes a portion of…
Roth IRAs let dividends compound tax-free forever, which makes them the ideal wrapper for names that spit out ordinary-income distributions taxed at your marginal rate outside the account. The four below yield…
Altria keeps raising its dividend even as Americans smoke fewer cigarettes every year, and the math behind that trick depends entirely on one metric that is starting to wobble.
Chris Lange 
