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Any Serious Dividend Investor Knows This Answer

If you are a serious dividend investor, then you know the answer to this question:

How much dividend income are you going to make in 2026?

In other words, what are your projected dividends next year?

If you don’t know, then you’re not as dedicated to dividends as you thought. Disappointing, but fixable with Income Calendar.

And please, don’t tell me I’m being hard on you. If that’s the way you feel, then this is the tough love that you need. Your wakeup call for 2026.

It’s time to treat your dividend investing like a business. Because it is.… Read more

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From BDCs to CEFs, Here’s How We’re Getting 8%+ Dividends in 2026

If you’re reading this, I probably don’t have to tell you that the stock market beats most (all?) other ways of building wealth.

It’s not even close!

Over time, the S&P 500 has generated around a 10% annualized return. But of course, that line does not go straight up and to the right. There have been long periods when stocks have moved sideways, and occasional years (I’m looking at you, 2022), when they’ve taken a header.

At those times, in particular, we’re all keenly aware of the S&P 500’s lame dividend yield (around 1% as I write this). It means that those who hold, say, an index fund and need cash face the soul-crushing prospect of selling at a low (or maybe even a loss).… Read more

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Three High-Yielders Up to 10.8%, 36 Dividend Checks a Year

Own a portfolio stocked with S&P 500 stocks? Or maybe an S&P 500 index fund?

It’s okay if you do. We won’t judge (well, maybe a little bit!). But answer me one question (without checking your brokerage account).

How much in dividends will you collect in November?

If you’re like most people, you don’t know. And if you do, you have a much better handle on your quarterly paying holdings than most (or maybe you’re using our AI-powered dividend tracker, Income Calendar!).

It’s understandable if you can’t come up with this number off the top of your head. Let’s drop a fictional $100K into five major Dow Jones Industrial Average stocks—Coca-Cola (KO), Procter & Gamble (PG), UnitedHealth (UNH), International Business Machines (IBM) and Boeing (BA)—and see what Income Calendar comes back with.… Read more

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The AI Economy’s Quiet Winners Yield Up to 11.7%

The manic market just dumped business development companies (BDCs), again. These three dividend stocks paying up to 11.7% are poised to bounce back when sanity returns.

BDCs, which lend money to small businesses, are on the “outs” with the Wall Street suits after multiple soft jobs reports. The spreadsheet jockeys fret about an unemployment-induced economic slowdown and miss the real story: small businesses are making more money than ever thanks to AI.

Here is what’s actually happening in the Main Street economy:

  • Employers—especially nimble small business owners—are implementing AI to streamline and even run their operations.
  • With AI tools, fewer humans are needed.

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Powell Will Cut and Rates Will Rise!? How It Can Happen (and a 5.7% Payer That Will Profit)

Here’s something most people forget about interest rates: The Fed does not call all the shots here.

This means that, in the coming months, we may see a setup where the Fed’s rate—the “overnight” rate at which financial institutions lend to each other—and the 10-year Treasury rate (pacesetter for business and consumer loans) part company.

Today we’re going to dig into a “stealth” 5.7%-paying stock that’s a perfect contrarian play on this situation. This one pays us every month, too.

Fed Cuts … and Rates Soar!?

I say that this “rate split” is possible because, well, it’s already happened in the last few months.… Read more

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Rising Small Biz Mojo Will Power This 8.8% Payout Higher

Ignore the vanilla mainstream media. Small business mojo is gaining steam. Main Street getting its groove back will directly benefit these two (7.2% and 8.8%) dividends.

The NFIB Small Business Optimism Index washed out in April alongside the stock market. Despair hit desperation levels not seen since December 2012. But the malaise has quickly given way to positivity.

Small biz sentiment has increased for two straight months and counting. Why the turnaround? Two letters: AI.

Shanell Camp, owner of Shaded by Shanell (an up-and-coming beauty brand) explained her excitement to me about ChatGPT, her “go to” resource for brainstorming, marketing help and more.… 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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60 Dividend Payouts Per Year with This 5-Click Group, Yields Up to 8.6%

Let’s talk about monthly dividend payers today because, well, why waste our valuable time with stocks that only pay quarterly?

I selected five for our review. We’re talking sixty dividend payments per year from this group. The most generous stock dishes an elite 8.6% annually. (The “laggard” yields a respectable 6.5%.)

Why don’t more companies pay monthly? The answer is predictable and disappointing.

Wall Street runs on a quarterly system. US-listed companies are required by the SEC to provide quarterly financial updates. So, most management teams pay their dividends quarterly as part of this process.

Hence, we salute the suits in shining armor who make the extra effort to pay us every single month.… Read more

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Can You Earn a $40,000+ “Salary” With Monthly Dividend Stocks?

Monthly dividend stocks baby. Most income investors don’t even realize they exist!

Out of the few thousand stocks that trade publicly, only a few dozen pay monthly dividends. These hidden gems tend to have market caps in the hundreds of millions rather than billions.

Their relative obscurity is perfect for us. We’ll take them over their blue-chip quarterly cousins.

Quarterly dividends are pay days we prefer not to wait for. Plus, the payouts typically disappoint.

Let’s consider the distributions from a $500,000 portfolio split evenly among a group of five mega-cap dividend payers. These are uber-popular, widely held blue chips that you’ll see near the top of most major large-cap funds.… Read more

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My Ranking of the Best 6%+ Yielding Income Investments

Let me start today’s article with an admission: Closed-end funds (CEFs) are my passion—but not only for their 8%+ dividends (often paid monthly).

The main reason I’ve been investing in these terrific high-yield vehicles for years is, in fact, very personal: Over a decade ago, CEFs’ high yields gave me enough passive income to quit my job.

I was a professor at the time, and I decided to quit to live on my income. As I started preaching the gospel of CEFs, more people heard the call, and my CEF Insider advisory, launched back in the spring of 2017, was born.… Read more

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