The past decade has been great to gold investors… At $1,640 an ounce, gold is trading roughly 460% higher than its spot price just 10 years ago. The incredible run makes gold the best-performing… Read More

When it comes to picking telecom stocks, are investors nuts? I ask this because they have been clearly bullish on U.S. telecom Verizon (NYSE: VZ), which offers a 5% yield yet only 4% year-over-year revenue… Read More

Whenever you find a stock with a 15% dividend yield, remember the adage: “It’s too good to be true.” This kind of ultra-high yield invariably means that most investors anticipate a major cut in the… Read More

In the value investing Hall of Fame, financial expert Mario Gabelli should earn top honors. Gabelli leads GAMCO, a $36 billion global investment firm that has generated 16% annual returns for investors since the firm’s inception in 1977. Gabelli uses a bottom-up, value-driven approach to identify stocks… Read More

It’s the oldest continual holding within my portfolios for my premium High-Yield Investing advisory. I added the stock back in September 2005… nearly seven years ago. During this time, I’ve earned $17.71 per unit in dividends. Meanwhile, the share price has more than doubled. As of now,… Read More

Let’s get the bad news out of the way. Dividend-paying stocks have risen just 2.3% in value on average since 2001, according to Wells Fargo. But if you add in the value of the dividend payments, then you’re looking at a healthier 26% return. That’s about 6% higher than the… Read More

Last week, coffee icon Starbucks (Nasdaq: SBUX) announced it would begin selling its own single-serve, at-home coffee maker. The device runs hot water through small, disposable containers of flavored coffee grounds to produce one cup of the drink, after which the container is discarded. If this rings… Read More

Warren Buffett is undoubtedly one of the most prolific investors in stock market history… and for good reason. During the first decade of the new millennium (2000-2010), Buffet’s Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK-A) returned a blistering 76%. By comparison, the… Read More

In the few months since I’ve launched my $100,000 Real-Money Portfolio, the market has continued to surge upward. The gains have been especially pronounced for some of the riskiest and most of unloved stocks of 2011 that have partially been the beneficiary of recent short-covering. That’s… Read More