Tuesday, March 4, 2025
When I spoke a few weeks ago at the Las Vegas MoneyShow, I was bombarded with questions about single-stock, covered-call ETFs, especially the ones from YieldMax. These ETFs sport massive dividend yields, and the YieldMax success at gathering assets is spawning competition from other ETF sponsors. YieldMax has several dozen single-stock ETFs. Kurv ETFs currently […]
The 10 highest yield dividend stocks going ex-div this week. These are some of the top dividend stocks for this week.
Last week, I made a couple of investment presentations at the MoneyShow in Las Vegas. During and after my presentations, I was peppered with questions about the new breed of ultra-high-yield, covered-call ETFs, especially about funds managed by YieldMax. YieldMax pioneered covered call ETFs with single stocks as the underlying assets. These ETFs have caught […]
The SEC approved spot bitcoin ETFs just over a year ago, in January 2024. Eleven new Bitcoin ETFs received approval at that time. Over the course of 2024, fund sponsors launched ETFs that make short options trades to generate income, with Bitcoin ETFs or futures as the underlying assets. Investors and traders have long used […]
When Rithm Capital (RITM) announced its 2024 fourth-quarter results, the CEO, Michael Nierenberg, hinted at changing the company’s capital structure, dropping its REIT status. Let’s look at RITM as a REIT and what a change might mean. In 2022, the company, then called New Residential, acquired its management contract from Fortress Investment Group to become […]
The two fund sponsors of single-stock covered call ETFs have six funds each that “cover” the same popular stocks. Single-stock covered call ETFs provide investment exposure to popular stocks like Amazon and Nvidia, with the added benefit of attractive dividend yields from selling call options. YieldMax offers this type of ETF on several dozen popular […]
Recently, Oaktree Specialty Lending Corp. (OCSL), a business development company (BDC), cut its quarterly dividend by 27%. Usually, a large dividend reduction indicates that you should sell the stock if you own it. In the case of OCSL, however, it’s the opposite. The changes made by the company will make OCSL a better high-yield investment […]
This is the third installment in my series comparing single stock covered call exchange-traded funds (ETFs) from two fund sponsors. Single-stock covered call ETFs provide investment exposure to popular stocks like Amazon and Nvidia, with the added benefit of attractive dividend yields from selling call options. YieldMax offers this type of ETF on several dozen […]
About a year ago, the SEC authorized the first Bitcoin ETFs. The early ETFs tracked the value of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies such as Ether. Another approach was to form ETFs that invest in companies involved in the cryptocurrency universe. The newest iteration of crypto ETFs are funds (now two of them) that use covered […]
Investors have watched stocks like Amazon and Nvidia soar but have been left wondering if there will ever be a way to get any dividends from them. Both stocks have taken off yet Nvidia yields a measly 0.03% (you read that right, 3/10ths of 1%) while Amazon pays no dividend at all. Enter single-stock covered […]
