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My Top 6 Dividend Stocks for 2026 (Buy Now, Don’t Wait)

Let’s get our 2026 dividend shopping finished ahead of time, shall we?

Come January, we’ll have plenty of company from vanilla investors, rushing to “figure out the new year.” Trends. Predictions. Buy this!

But there’s no reason to wait. We already know some of the key dimensions of 2026. Interest rates, for one, are on their way down. Fed Chair Jay Powell has delivered two rate cuts to end the year, with more to follow.

Whether or not Powell personally delivers them doesn’t matter to us. Powell is on his way out. But the Fed show will go on, with a ringmaster ready to roll.… Read more

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5 Yields Up to 16% That Could Raise Their Payouts by New Year’s

Wall Street left these 8.5% to 16.6% yields for dead. But their next dividend raises may show that these patients have a pulse—and send these prices higher before year-end.

Even better, three of these companies are quarterly dividend hikers. These are companies that have a track record of at least a few years of improving their payouts not once a year, but once a quarter.

What are the red flags to look for when these companies make their next announcements?

Hess Midstream LP (HESM)
Distribution Yield: 8.5%
2024 Increase: 10.9% (across four hikes)
Projected Q4 Distribution Announcement: Late October

Hess Midstream LP (HESM) is a master limited partnership (MLP) that owns, operates and develops a number of midstream energy assets, primarily located in the Williston Basin area of North Dakota.… Read more

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4 Massive Monthly Dividends I’m Looking at Right Now

Worried about the trade war and your retirement portfolio? Then I have two words for you: monthly dividends.

Today we’ll fawn over four monthly payers that yield up to 17.4% annually. That’s no typo. Hop in my favorite income vehicle and we’ll motor over this market carnage together.

The current market environment is nearly perfect for contrarians like us. How is that possible with tariff policy still, ahem, unfolding? Well the market is still full of fear and the weak hands have washed out.

If Everyone Wants to Panic-Sell to Us, We Should Let Them!

If you’re worried that the fear is justified because we are heading for a recession, let’s consider defensive stocks.… Read more

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7 Wild REIT Yields (up to 15%!) for 2025

Need more dividend yield in 2025? Consider real estate investment trusts (REITs), which were literally mandated to be dividend-paying machines. Income is the point—by law.

Select REITs even yield 10% or more. What a payout! We’ll discuss seven of them—and their prospects for 2025—in a moment.

Now we can’t just blindly pick any ol’ a REIT. The real estate sector—using the Real Estate Select Sector SPDR (XLRE) as a proxy—only pays 3% right now.

But the average yield among this REIT 7-pack is 12.4%. That’s 4x what the sector pays!

That level of income would easily allow us to retire on dividends alone.… Read more

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“Risky” Dividend Trio Dishing Up to 12.6%, Now Safe Thanks to Fed?

In case you haven’t heard, the Federal Reserve is about to cut interest rates. That is big news for this trio of dividend payers, dishing between 11.1% to 12.6% per year.

These stocks survived the high-rate cycle. Are they about to thrive as the Fed eases?

Yeah, probably—so long as the Fed doesn’t also put them out of business in the process! Let me explain…

Mortgage REITs (mREITs): High Risk, Even Higher Dividends

Mortgage real estate investment trusts, colloquially known as mREITs, are a real estate niche

When we think about REITs, we typically picture equity REITs. They own (and sometimes operate) physical real estate like apartments, strip malls, hospitals, ski resorts.… Read more

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