Investing in dividend-paying stocks, especially those with high yields, can sometimes cause investors to focus too much on current income at the expense of total return. Total return is one of the most important concepts in finance, and it involves more than just the dividends a company pays out. Let’s take a closer [...]
As 10,000 Baby Boomers per day reach retirement age, the question of how Americans will be able to afford a comfortable lifestyle is among the most important of our age. Over the past several decades, plenty of academic studies have been done looking at several approaches to funding retirement via different investing approaches. Let's [...]
Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) are an appealing way for income investors to benefit from rental properties without any of the liquidity or landlord hassles that come with actually owning physical properties. Many REITs are generally far less volatile than the rest of the stock market as well, making certain REITs a reasonable way to [...]
Food stocks can often make excellent long-term dividend growth investments, thanks to the highly defensive nature of their businesses. After all, everyone has to eat no matter what the economy or interest rates are doing. This is why many well-known food blue chips are among the list of dividend aristocrats and dividend kings, which have track records [...]
Regulated utilities can be an excellent high-yield source of income in retirement. However, thanks to eight years of record low interest rates many of the best high dividend stocks (including utilities) are trading at unappealing valuations that can make for a higher degree of risk than many investors realize. Let's take a look at [...]
Real estate investment trusts (REITs) are some of the most popular high dividend stocks for income investors. Iron Mountain (IRM) is one such business and offers a dividend yield in excess of 6% today. The company has steadily lifted its dividend for over five consecutive years and offers mid-single-digit dividend growth potential going forward, [...]
Regulated utilities are some of the best high dividend stocks that low risk income investors look to in order to meet their high-yield needs. That's understandable since the business model for these government sanctioned monopolies is highly stable, allowing for consistent cash flow with which to pay generous and highly secure dividends. However, [...]
International dividend-paying companies can be a great way to gain diversification and potentially benefit from economic growth in faster-growing emerging economies. Unfortunately, like with U.S. dividend stocks, the governments of the world will want their cut in terms of taxes. And just as with U.S. dividend tax law, the fine details of how much [...]
Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) are a popular option for income investors looking to stocks for their high-yield needs. That’s partly because REITs are generally not only a good source for finding generous and steadily-growing dividends, but many of them also offer low volatility, making them ideal for low risk investors. While REITs [...]
Long time Simply Safe Dividend readers will know that we're big fans of Dividend Reinvestment Plans (DRIPs). That's because anything that helps automate investing and keeps you focused on the long-term is great for helping you maximize the compounding power of successful dividend growth investing. However, there is an even better option out [...]
Cisco (CSCO) announced quarterly earnings results after the market closed on Wednesday, May 17, causing its stock price to drop by approximately 8% in after-hours trading. If Cisco's current stock price holds, shares will have a dividend yield near 3.7% when the market opens. That's much higher than the broader market's dividend yield, which [...]
Certain large pharmaceutical companies have proven to be excellent high-yield dividend growth stocks. However, due to the cyclical nature of the business, high R&D costs, and various regulatory risks, pharma can also be a very challenging industry in which to invest. Let’s take a look at Teva Pharmaceuticals, one of the highest-yielding big [...]
Regulated utilities have long been a staple of dividend portfolios, and a handful of them are included in our list of the best high dividend stocks for good reason. Their highly stable business models generally make for attractive and safe current yields, with slow but steadily-growing payouts. Best of all, utilities generally have [...]
Master Limited Partnerships (MLPs) have become one of the most popular types of high-yield dividend stocks in this age of record low interest rates and falling stock yields. That’s especially true now that the worst oil crash in over 50 years has left so many MLPs trading at discounted prices. However, like with [...]
Telus (TU) is one of the telecom companies on our list of the best high dividend stocks with safe, growing payouts. Telecommunication companies have long been a favorite of high-yield income investors thanks to their utility-like recurring cash flows, which typically allow for generous and secure dividends. While blue chips AT&T (T) and [...]