Get started with dividend investing. Here's what you need to know before buying your first dividend stocks, including how to pick the best ones.

Learn key ratios for evaluating dividend-paying stocks and how to calculate them, including payout, coverage, free cash flow to equity, and net debt to EBITDA.

Dividend-paying stocks that combine healthy balance sheets with hefty yields can provide investors with steady incomes, cushion against market downturns, and increase investments at a healthy clip. To ...

My watchlist aims to surface high-quality, attractively valued dividend stocks with the potential for double-digit returns ...

When you look at dividend ETFs with high yields, most of them end up being options ETFs or have other dealbreakers attached.

Aker BP offers a compelling dividend accumulation play, with a 9% yield and a 5% annual dividend growth target. Click to read my latest analysis of AKRBF stock.

SCHD charges a much lower expense ratio and pays a higher dividend yield than NOBL. SCHD has outperformed NOBL in terms of total returns over the past five and ten years, though both saw similar ...

Let’s move on to buybacks: Over the last decade, Aflac has taken 38% of its shares off the market, making all of the company’s per-share metrics (most importantly earnings per share) look better. And ...

The JPMorgan Equity Premium ETF generates an 8.19% yield through covered calls resulting in a 205.55% payout ratio and 11.94% distribution growth. The Global X SuperDividend ETF delivers the highest ...

Realty Income, a REIT, is an excellent choice for investors who are most concerned about dependable current income, as its dividend yield is 5.72%. Shares of NextEra Energy, the country's largest ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Brett uses “second-level thinking” to find dividend stocks to buy. New year, new dividends. And today we’ll review seven brand new ...