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Cisco (CSCO) Drops 8% – Buying Opportunity for Dividend Investors or Value Trap?
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 sits near 2%. Cisco's dividend yield looks even more appealing for income investors after considering the company's impressive three-year annual dividend growth rate of 15%, which includes the double-digit dividend raise management announced earlier this year. However, many large technology companies face serious challenges that could erode their businesses over time. One example is International Business Machines (IBM), a company Warren Buffett poured more [...]
Teva Pharmaceuticals (TEVA): How Safe is the High Dividend Yield?
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 pharma stocks available today, to see whether its recent challenges (and plunging share price) make it a possible opportunity for our Conservative Retirees dividend portfolio or a classic value trap to be avoided. Business Overview Founded in 1901 in Petach Tivka, Israel, Teva Pharmaceuticals is the world’s largest maker of generic pharmaceuticals. In fact, it currently sells 1,800 drugs in over 80 countries around the [...]
NextEra Energy (NEE): A Fast-Growing, High-Yielding Utility Stock
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 very low stock price volatility, making them ideal core holdings for low risk income portfolios and investors living off dividends in retirement. However, there are a few fast-growing utilities that manage to provide most of the benefits of this industry, along with impressive payout growth and long-term total returns. Such is the case with NextEra Energy (NEE), which has proven to be one [...]
A Guide to Investing in Master Limited Partnerships (MLPs)
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 most high-yield stock classes, MLPs have their own unique challenges when it comes to successfully investing for the long-term. Let’s take a look at what makes MLPs different than regular dividends stocks and what things investors need to focus on in order to navigate these challenging and potentially treacherous waters. Differences Between MLPs and Common Dividend Stocks Like shares of common stocks in [...]