Pipeline Stock Dividends Are Rising as Oil Prices Surge. Here’s How to Play It.

Sanctions on Russia are upending global energy markets, pushing up crude oil above $100 a barrel and sending U.S. gasoline prices to an average $4.30 a gallon, up nearly 50% in the last year. It has a...

Coca-Cola dividends are expected to grow. Should you take advantage of the stock?

The Coca-Cola Company (NYSE:KO) is a household name. For investors, Coca-Cola is a safe stock to hold given strong fundamentals and high dividend yield. The company traded for $59.85 a share at the ti...

Dollar General, Occidental Petroleum, Guess and more

A customer enters a Dollar General Corp. store in Colona, Illinois, U.S., on Wednesday, Sept. 10, 2014. Daniel Acker | Bloomberg | Getty Images Check out the companies making headlines in midday tradi...

Dollar General, Accenture, Warby Parker and others

Check out the companies making headlines before the bell: Dollar General (DG) – Dollar General rallied 5% in the premarket after the discount retailer forecast better-than-expected full-year sales. Do...

25 Stocks With High Relative Dividend Yields

. The stream of income offered by dividends provides some comfort in volatile market conditions. Treasury yields have begun to rise from the all-time lows seen throughout 2020. As of March 14, 2022, t...

GE Shows Why Stock Buybacks Aren’t Always as Good as Dividends

Text size GE’s net debt now amounts to 2.5 times Ebitda, compared with an average of 2 times for industrial companies in the S&P 500. Loic Venance/AFP via Getty Images News that General Elec...

8 Companies That Raised Their Stock Dividends This Week

Text size Colgate-Palmolive raised its stock dividend this week. Rene Van Den Berg/Dreamstime.com Colgate-Palmolive , Dick’s Sporting Goods , and Applied Materials were among the large U.S. companies ...

Capital Gains and Dividend Tax Rates for 2021-2022

Investors with taxable accounts—as opposed to tax-favored retirement accounts such as individual retirement accounts or 401(k)s—are often eligible for lower tax rates and other benefits. When an inves...

12 dividend stocks paying at least 3.5% that are well-suited for high inflation

Investors may have turned for a moment from Russia’s aggression in Ukraine to energy and supply shortages in the U.S. that are producing high inflation. With purchasing power crumbling, patient invest...

6 Dividend Growth Stocks That Beat Commodities for Fighting Inflation

Text size Verizon Communications has a towering yield of 4.8%. David Paul Morris/Bloomberg Is there such a thing as a meme metal? Humble nickel, used mainly to make stainless steel more workable, rece...

Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Has $5 Billion Stake in Occidental Petroleum

Text size Warren Buffett, CEO of Berkshire Hathaway. Johannes Eisele/AFP/Getty Images Berkshire Hathaway owns a 9.8% stake in Occidental Petroleum worth $5.1 billion after furious buying activity in s...

Opinion: These 10 dividend-paying stocks show why cash isn’t trash in a brutal market

The best shareholders love dividend stocks —and anyone concerned about the current global financial market turmoil should consider them. Dividend stocks give shareholders regular cash payouts year aft...

Tesla, Sweetgreen, Gap and more

Take a look at some of the biggest movers in the premarket: Tesla (TSLA) — Shares fell 1.2% in premarket trading after CEO Elon Musk challenged the United Auto Workers union to try and organize his co...

These BDC Stocks Offer High Yields in a Low-Rate World

BDCs are a public play on private credit. They raise capital from investors and lend to small and midsize businesses. Illustration by Benedetto Cristofani Text size In a low interest-rate world, the p...

Verizon Has Plans for Faster Growth. Stock Buybacks Are Coming Closer.

Text size Hans Vestberg, Verizon’s CEO. David Paul Morris/Bloomberg Verizon Communications could be poised to deliver faster growth in profits and revenue, making possible continued dividend inc...

Best Buy, BJ’s, Snowflake and more

Take a look at some of the biggest movers in the premarket: Best Buy — Shares of the retailer climbed 5% in premarket trading after the company announced it was raising its quarterly dividend by 26%. ...

Sweetgreen (SG) Q4 2021 earnings

A Sweetgreen banner on the NYSE, November 18, 2021. Source: NYSE Sweetgreen on Thursday reported widening losses but strong sales growth for its fourth quarter in its first report since its initial pu...

Best Buy, Kroger, Burlington and more

An employee brings a television to a customer’s car at a Best Buy store in Orlando, Florida. Paul Hennessy | SOPA Images | LightRocket | Getty Images Check out the companies making headlines in ...

Best Buy(BBY) Q4 2022 earnings

Best Buy on Thursday fell short of Wall Street’s fourth-quarter sales expectations, as it ran low on some popular holiday items and reduced store hours because of omicron-related staffing shorta...

Six Dividend Stocks For Sleeping Well At Night During Turbulent Times

Through bull markets and bear markets since 1900, stocks have provided historical returns of about 10% a year, far better than other asset classes like bonds, commodities, and bank savings accounts. L...

Salesforce, Ford, Nordstrom and more

Take a look at some of the biggest movers in the premarket: Nordstrom — The retail stock spiked 30.5% in premarket trading after the company posted better-than-expected fourth-quarter results. Nordstr...

How To Protect Your Wealth, Grab 7%+ Dividends, In This Pullback

Money Protecting concept. Saving symbol – Close-up Of A Human Hand Protecting Pink Piggy Bank getty With the swift stock-market decline we’ve seen since the start of 2022, and now, you can be fo...

Domino’s Pizza (DPZ) Q4 2021 earnings miss, CEO Ritch Allison to retire

An employee carries an order for a customer at a Domino’s Pizza restaurant in Detroit. Sean Proctor | Bloomberg | Getty Images Domino’s Pizza on Tuesday announced a C-suite shake-up and qu...

12 Dirt-Cheap Dividends Yielding Up To 25%

Clipping Coupons getty The S&P 500 is about as pricey as it ever gets. It’s also in freefall as I write. This is good news for anyone looking for a future bargain. The plunge, however, is really b...

Buffett: Berkshire Hathaway Finds ‘Little That Excites Us’ in the Stock Market

Berkshire Hathaway finds “little that excites us” in the stock market, CEO Warren Buffett said in his annual shareholder letter released Saturday morning. “That’s largely because of a truism: Long-ter...

Look to the Energy Patch for a Dividend Bonanza. Devon Energy and Pioneer Natural Resources Look Good.

What was already going to be a challenging year for investors was further disrupted by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. But in a market that has been lacking in certainty, income investors may want to ta...

Berkshire Hathaway BRK earnings Q4 2021

Berkshire Hathaway Chairman and CEO Warren Buffett. Andrew Harnik | AP Berkshire Hathaway’s operating profits surged in the fourth quarter and for the full year as the conglomerate’s busin...

Dell stock drops as earnings miss offsets new dividend

Dell Technologies Inc. shares dropped in the extended session Thursday after the computer maker’s earnings fell short of Wall Street expectations while the company’s board initiated a dividend. Dell  ...

Beyond Meat (BYND) Q4 2021 earnings miss estimates, stock tumbles

Packages of Beyond Meat Inc.’s plant based meat products, Beyond Burger and Beyond Sausage, are displayed at a supermarket on November 19, 2020 in Katwijk, Netherlands Yuriko Nakao | Getty Image...

Live Nation, SeaWorld, Gannett and others

Check out the companies making headlines before the bell: Live Nation (LYV) – The live event producer’s shares jumped 5.4% in a down market after reporting better-than-expected quarterly revenue...

Here Are the 10 Highest-Yielding S&P 500 Stocks

High dividend yields are a nice offset to inflation, now running at more than 7%, the highest rate in four decades. Barron’s screened the S&P 500 for the 10 highest-yielding stocks based on data f...

3 Big-Name Dividends Set To Get Slashed

Hundred Dollar Bill Being Cut With a Scissor getty With the market melting down, dividend stocks have built-in cushions. Unlike profitless tech shares, which rarely pay, our dividend payers’ yields go...