Costco Just Raised Its Dividend. It’s One More Reason to Own the Stock.

Text size Costco raised its dividend again. Joe Raedle/Getty Images Costco Wholesale just raised its dividend–and it’s just one more reason to own its stock. After Wednesday’s close, Costco (ticker: C...

Twitter, Goldman Sachs, UnitedHealth and others

Check out the companies making headlines before the bell: Twitter (TWTR) – Twitter surged 8.2% in premarket trading after Tesla (TSLA) CEO Elon Musk – currently Twitter’s largest shareholder – o...

Delta, JPMorgan, BlackRock and more

Check out the companies making headlines before the bell: Delta Air Lines (DAL) – Delta rallied 6.6% in the premarket after reporting a smaller-than-expected quarterly loss and predicting a current-qu...

Procter & Gamble hikes dividend by 5%

Procter & Gamble Co. PG, -0.30% said late Tuesday its board approved a 5% dividend hike for its 66th straight year of dividend increases. The consumer products maker said it will pay a quarterly d...

Why Apple’s Stock Buybacks and Its Dividend Could Get a Big Boost

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Four Discounted Funds Paying Up To 9.8% Dividends

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AT&T Cut Its Dividend With the Spinoff. Why It’s Still Generous.

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How the AT&T Spinoff Has Complicated Trading in Its Stock

Text size Photograph by Mike Mozart Trading in AT&T stock on Monday may confuse some investors, because the base share price has been adjusted to reflect the closing on Friday of the merger of AT&...

Stock Surge Validates AT&T’s Move to Spin, not Split, Stake in Warner Bros.

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Constellation Brands and Murphy Oil Raised Their Dividends This Week

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These 6 ‘Dividend Aristocrats’ Have a Strong Pipeline for Cash. That’s a Plus.

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2 Surging “All-American” Dividends To Play The Onshoring Trend

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These income strategies can help protect your stock investments from inflation and a recession

There is always uncertainty in the stock market, but the deflationary cycle that helped feed tremendous gains over the past several decades has ended. Two related strategies can give you downside prot...

Exxon Flags Huge Profit Jump as Lawmakers Target Dividends

(Bloomberg) — Exxon Mobil Corp. signaled its highest profit since 2008 as Russia’s war in Ukraine upended global commodity markets. Most Read from Bloomberg Exxon’s announcement that first-quart...

Qualcomm CEO says company is focusing on dividends to bring shareholders value

Qualcomm is currently focusing on using dividends to bring shareholders value rather than buying back its stock, chief executive Cristiano Amon told CNBC’s Jim Cramer on Monday. “We had in...

DGHI to Pay Bitcoin Dividends – Trustnodes

Digihost Technology (DGHI), one of the first stock traded bitcoin miner, has announced plans to issue dividends to its shareholders. “Digihost has adopted a new dividend policy pursuant to which the C...

3 Energy Companies That Should Buy Back Stock: Analyst

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Tesla Proposes a Dividend (Not Really). TJX and PNC Announce Payout Hikes (for Real).

Tesla’s proposed ‘dividend’ was really a proposed stock split. Here, a Tesla manufacturing plant near Gruenheide, Germany. Sean Gallup/Getty Images Text size Tesla was among the hand...

Upgrade Your Retirement Portfolio With These 3 Monthly Dividends

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Missed the Dip in Stocks? Where to Find Yields of 3% to 6%.

I sneezed, and missed the buying opportunity in stocks. The S&P 500 was down 13% at one point this year. It ended the first quarter with a loss of just 4.6%, including dividends. But all of the ba...

These 3 Energy Companies Should Buy Back Stock, Analyst Says

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These 10 S&P 500 Stocks Have Solid Dividends, Not Just Big Buybacks

Last week’s Income Investing column focused on shareholder yield, which combines dividends with stock buybacks, by sector. This week, Barron’s decided to drill down and look at the shareholder yields ...

BioNTech, Five Below, Lululemon and others

Check out the companies making headlines before the bell: BioNTech (BNTX) – The drug maker’s shares jumped 5.9% in the premarket after reporting significantly better-than-expected revenue and pr...

Tesla wants to split its stock so it can pay a stock dividend; shares gain

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Dividend Stocks Don’t Yield Ballast for Your Portfolio. That’s Why You Need Bonds.

Text size Krittiraj Adchasai/Dreamstime.com While a growing number of investors are seizing on dividend stocks to build income streams, financial experts warn that stocks that pay high dividends can’t...

These 3 Value Stocks Keep Hitting Higher Highs

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A Blue Chip Name is About to Offer a 6% Yield

To be perfectly honest, few traders are revved up about AT&T  (T) – Get AT&T Inc. Report stock, and for good reason. The company’s stock has been a perennial dog, amid ill-advised ...

Darden Restaurants (DRI) Q3 2022 earnings miss estimates

An Olive Garden restaurant in Times Square in New York. Richard Levine | Corbis | Getty Images Darden Restaurants on Thursday reported quarterly earnings and revenue that missed analysts’ expect...

[VIDEO] Unicorn Hunters TV Show launch centralized asset-backed token Unicoin paying dividends

Moe Vela is a former adviser to Joe Biden and star of the investment show Unicorn Hunters. He is also launching a new crypto project called Unicoin. The token will work alongside the TV show creating ...

3 Funds That Could Let You Live On Dividends Alone

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Dollar General, Williams-Sonoma, and 3 More Stocks Whose Dividends Are Going Up

Text size Dollar General raised its quarterly dividend by 31%. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Dollar General , Williams-Sonoma , and Equity Residential were among the U.S. companies that said this week ...

How To Beat Fear And Bank 7%+ Dividends From Blue Chip Stocks

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