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

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

A couple of weeks ago, I told you about the enormous number of high-yielding stocks abroad. I think the amount of international dividend-payers out there is one of the market‘s biggest secrets. I told you that only 17 profitable U.S. Read More

It wasn’t long ago that investors had to choose between hot IPOs or stocks that paid dividends. The good news is that there have been a slew of dividend-paying IPOs in the past year, making it possible to obtain, from the same investment, high yields and the nice returns that… Read More

If you’ve followed my past articles, then you already know that I invest exclusively in the world’s greatest businesses — the kind that dominate their markets and typically go out of their way to reward their shareholders via dividends and share buybacks. In fact, as you’ll see… Read More

I first uncovered this asset class years ago, when I started my High-Yield Investing advisory in 2004. In October of that year, I added one of these securities to my portfolio at $41.33. I sold it for $64.51 about two years later. Along with… Read More

In the late 1990s, I was on the Board of Trustees for a nonprofit educational organization. The board’s primary responsibility was to oversee the investment of the organization’s trust funds, worth roughly $5 million. One of the trust funds was used to grant college scholarships. So it… Read More

If you think the main impediment to solid long-term investment returns is lousy stock picking, then think again. Yes, there are many factors that can hinder investment returns — missing out on fast-growing IPOs, having an advisor who steers you wrong, high fund expenses or taxes, an uncertain… Read More