Start Off 2024 With Even More Dividend Growth

Start Off 2024 With Even More Dividend Growth

As I start a new year, I work through strategies that will let me make more money as we go through the year. The first quarter brings dividend increase announcements, and they put my focus on dividend growth investing. Every day, news crosses my desk highlighting the power of dividend growth. Investing in growing dividends […]

Trade of the Week: RILY

Trade of the Week: RILY

Last week, in my 48-Hour Income service, we sold a cash-secured put on financial services company, B Riley Financial (RILY).  In 48-Hour Income, the goal of the service is to generate 1% to 3% returns per week by selling 2-day puts in certain stocks. RILY put premiums have remained elevated in recent weeks as the […]

This Growing Dividend ETF Will Make You Rich

This Growing Dividend ETF Will Make You Rich

For dividend investors, an excellent yield combined with regular dividend increases is the holy grail of wealth building. Dividend growth produces share price appreciation, so an income investment that grows dividends will almost certainly produce tremendous compounding annual total returns. Today, I want to show you my favorite ETF that does just that. In January […]

Time to Buy This Mining Giant

Time to Buy This Mining Giant

The mining sector’s largest company by market capitalization is BHP Group Ltd. (BHP). And, unlike its peers, this mining giant is growing by sticking to its proverbial knitting. BHP is using its healthy balance sheet both to buy smaller miners and to build organically, but the company has kept to well-traveled paths. This year’s $6 […]

POWR Stock of the Week Under $10: Amplify Energy (AMPY)

POWR Stock of the Week Under $10: Amplify Energy (AMPY)

The term goldilocks has begun to make the rounds in economic circles early this year, as unemployment remains low, interest rate cuts appear to be on the horizon, and companies are gearing up for a soft economic landing. And, as we move away from recession fears, it appears that oil could be bottoming out as […]

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This Top BioTech Just Went on a Buying Spree

What can you do if you’re a biopharmaceutical company whose top-selling drug is seeing rapidly declining sales? You go on a buying spree—or at least, that’s what this top biotech is doing. Here’s why the results for shareholders are set to be fantastic. More than a third of AbbVie’s (ABBV) 2022 revenue came from Humira, […]

Where to Find Dividend Growth in 2024

Where to Find Dividend Growth in 2024

For dividend growth-focused investors, the 2020 coronavirus pandemic-triggered shutdown threw a monkey wrench into dividend income expectations. In response to the shutdown, companies stopped increasing dividends, cut dividend rates, or suspended dividends entirely. Four years after the shutdown, it’s time to see how dividend policies have changed… And where the next big dividend growth opportunities […]

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Another Underappreciated Country for Great Value Stocks

Right after last week’s article was posted extolling the virtues of investing in one of the most geopolitically unstable regions in the world, I received the latest updates on global valuations. Turkey is still on the list of ultra-cheap stock markets. Turkey has a lot of risks, but with the market indexes trading with a […]

 Trade of the Week: SAVE

 Trade of the Week: SAVE

Last week in my 48-Hour Income service, we decided to avoid a trade in Spirit Airlines (SAVE). In 48-Hour Income, the goal of the service is to generate 1% to 3% returns per week by selling 2-day puts in certain stocks. SAVE had really impressive put premiums that we were tempted to collect by selling […]