Preferred stocks generally come with a "guaranteed" dividend amount, but it's important to realize that if the company falls on tough financial times, even preferred dividends can be suspended.

One of the Vanguard High Dividend Yield ETF's primary advantages is that while it maintains a roughly 14% allocation to tech ...

If a company’s annual DPS remains constant while its share price declines, its yield increases. However, this only applies to new investors. Once a stock is purchased, the investor's yield is ...

The first major lesson is that dividend stocks tend to be relatively poor long-term compounders, though of course there are some exceptions. The reason for this is that stocks that pay dividends, ...

The market-at-large is expensive by historical metrics. So let's look past the pricey, low-yielding ETFs in favor of cheap dividend stocks. That's right, good ol' value investing bargains. With high ...