Back in January, we took a deep look into three groups of Dividend Aristocrat stocks to show which ones had increased their payouts most significantly over the past five years. Now it is time for a fo...
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14 dividend stocks that rose 100% or more in 5 years as the payouts doubled
In basketball, a double-double is a combination of at least 10 or more of the following in a game: points scored, rebounds, assists, blocked shots or steals. For dividend stocks, you might find a scre...
Cleveland-Cliffs Stock Falls After Earnings Beat Estimates. Here’s Why.
Steel maker Cleveland-Cliffs had a tough finish to the year as prices for its products fell. Still, quarterly results came in better than expected, but investors Tuesday weren’t giving the company muc...
These 15 Dividend Aristocrat stocks have been the best income builders
The S&P Dividend Aristocrats deserve more coverage. Those are companies that have raised their dividend payouts consistently over the years — they’re dividend royalty, as it were. As a group, they...
Macy’s Warns Consumers Will Be Pressured in 2023. Retail Shares Are Slipping.
Macy’s stock fell on Friday after the department store said fourth-quarter sales would come in at the low to middle end of its guidance, and warned that consumers will be pressured in 2023. Macy’s (t...
Nucor, CVS, and 11 More Companies That Raised Their Stock Dividends This Week
Eli Lilly Amgen Nucor and Franklin Resources were among the many companies that declared dividend increases this week. Eli Lilly (ticker: LLY) declared a quarterly payout of $1.13 a share, an increase...
Here Are the 12 Best Performing Tech Stocks
Text size Activision Blizzard is one of a handful of tech stocks down less than 15% from their latest peak. Rich Polk/Getty Images for Activision It’s been a brutal year for stocks in general, but tec...
Why This Top Mid-Cap Manager Still Likes Tech Stocks
Alger Mid Cap Focus fund manager Amy Zhang. Photograph by Clark Hodgin Text size Mid-cap companies are usually defined as having a market capitalization of $2 billion to $10 billion, but Amy Zhang pre...
Looking for $100,000 Salary? See How Much the Biggest U.S. Companies Pay Workers
By John Stensholt and Nate Rattner May 31, 2022 7:00 am ET Wages for the median workers at the majority of big American companies are higher than they were before the pandemic, with the tight job mark...
Dow falls more than 400 points, Nasdaq finishes 2.2% lower as Treasury yields keep surging
Dow industrials and the S&P 500 index book their biggest one-day declines since March on Monday, with energy, tech and other growth names bearing the brunt, as Treasury yields soared and investors...
Cleveland-Cliffs Stock Will Benefit From Russia’s Ukraine War. Here’s Why.
Text size Cleveland-Cliffs could benefit from a shortage of steel. Sean Gallup/Getty Images Cleveland-Cliffs stock is JPMorgan’s top pick in the steel sector, the investment bank said Thursday, as Rus...
Google’s $5.4 billion deal for Mandiant could have ‘a major ripple impact’ within cybersecurity
Alphabet Inc. plans to acquire Mandiant Inc. for roughly $5.4 billion in a deal that could unleash a long-awaited consolidation across the cybersecurity industry. The Google parent company announced T...
It’s Getting Harder to Trade Russian Stocks. What to Know.
Russia’s largest companies, once worth billions of dollars, are now nearly-worthless penny stocks. It may look like an attractive opportunity, but for the most part investors can’t even chance buying ...
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...
Warren Buffett Lieutenant Ted Weschler Makes a Big Score on Dillard’s
Text size Ted Weschler, portfolio manager for Berkshire Hathaway. Photograph by Daniel Acker/Bloomberg Ted Weschler, an investment lieutenant for Warren Buffett, sold out of a hugely successful invest...
Market Volatility Is Creating Opportunities for Stocks. What to Buy Now
The 2022 market was always going to be a tug of war between earnings and interest rates. Corporate profit growth fueled by the reopening has come up against contracting valuations and expectations of ...
U.S. Steel’s Earnings Fell Short. That Isn’t the Real Problem.
Text size The price of steel coils is dropping. Ina Fassbender/AFP via Getty Images United States Steel stock is doing nothing after a bad earnings miss. Investors just don’t appear to care about prof...
These are the stocks Wall Street analysts heavily favor for 2022 and also expect to rise the most
As the coronavirus pandemic has stretched out, investors have continued to pour money into stocks, in part because the alternatives have been dismal. Why bother with 10-year U.S. Treasury bonds that y...
These 12 ‘Dividend Aristocrat’ stocks have been the best income compounders over 5 years
Stock-market investors typically want to anticipate industry events or companies’ successes so they can make as much money as possible. But as a new year begins, a look back can be useful, especially ...
This stock strategy is attracting lots of money. Here are its top 10 picks.
Following a year in which a rapid rise in interest rates caused stock and bond prices to tumble, investors are focusing on quality. One way to do this is to look at free cash flow — and doing so might...