Dividend

Despite General Electric Company (NYSE: GE)'s stock losing 15 percent of its value since the start of 2018 and more than 50 percent over the past year, Barclays isn't ready to recommend buying the stock. The Analyst Barclays' Julian Mitchell initiated coverage of General Electric...

As a whole, the stock market remains very strong although many individual stocks have fallen under pressure as of late. Absent any geopolitical tension and other external factors, investors can reasonably assume that many individual stocks will go higher, many will go lower but the market as a...

There is often an intersection of the quality factor and dividend stocks, a theme that can be tapped with exchange-traded funds such as the FlexShares Quality Dividend Index Fund (NYSE: QDF). Quality And Dividends In QDF QDF tracks the Northern Trust Quality Dividend Index, which goes beyond cap-...

Over the years, many dividend investors have been conditioned to believe that, at the sector level, utilities are a dividend mecca while technology is a dividend wasteland. While once accurate, that is an interesting view of the indexing landscape when considering technology accounts for 21.6...

You knew it was coming. Even if the company didn't indicate it on its conference call, after Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) announced a $30 billion increase in its buyback program and an eight percent increase in its dividend, there was no doubt the company would head back to the debt market. The...

Companies that pay out dividends have traditionally been seen as stable and established. But the global economic downturn has turned a lot of that old-school thought on its head, while volatile markets can seemingly create success stories or train wrecks overnight. The firms with the highest...

Monday’s Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) earnings announcement wasn’t enough to keep investors from taking profits. In pre-market trading Tuesday, the stock was down about six percent, but well off its lows of more than eight percent lower in Monday’s aftermarket. Here are some of the highlights from the...

Small cap companies that pay a significant dividend are few and far between. These companies have an ex date (the date by which you need to own the company to receive the dividend) in November, an annual dividend yield greater than 5.5 percent and a market capitalization between 200 and 600...

Here's something to mull over: Research by Russell Investments found that stocks that were the least volatile and the least risky performed the best over time. In other words, low-risk equities returned the highest rewards to investors. According to two studies by Russell Investments, the first...

What happened to the good old days when stocks were priced in fractions, brokers had a telephone handset on each ear, and tech companies were growth stocks? All of that, including the latter, has changed—at least to some extent. Technology stocks are supposed to be a trader’s dream. If you’re...

The recent sell off in the equity market created some attractive buy levels in some of the high yielding dividend stocks. We ran a screen that looked at larger cap. companies yielding at least five percent that are heavily traded. We also looked for charts that had seem a recent sell off but...