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Preferred stock and baby bond owners saw 2019 usher in huge gains in share prices as well as a break from a painful 2018, which brought broad and steep losses. Gains of 2-4% were not unusual during the first week of trading in 2019 for preferred stock holders. In contrast, 2018 saw the average $25/share preferred stock fall by a…

Because many income investors – especially novices and part-time investors – focus their search for potential equities in the U.S. financial markets, many Canadian dividend stocks remain overlooked, despite their high dividend yields and long histories of annual dividend hikes. Across most global financial markets, many stocks have closed 2018 with some kind of a sell-off trend and a substantial share…

The Royal Bank of Canada (NYSE:RY) continues to reward investors with steady annual dividend hikes and currently offers a 4.2% dividend yield. The bank’s current streak of annual dividend hikes stands at eight consecutive years. In the past seven of those eight years, the company delivered two dividend hikes per year. In addition to that current streak of consecutive annual hikes,…

After a significant dividend cut in 2016, the BHP Group – dually listed as two legal entities on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under BHP and BBL tickers – resumed dividend hikes and both companies currently offers shareholders dividend yields of more than 5%. Both companies have enhanced their respective dividend payouts every year for more than a decade starting…

Many investors use various key dividend definitions – such as dividends per share (DPS) – without a second thought about any deeper implications. Even novice investors will know that dividends per share is the amount of dividend an equity distributes per each individual common share of stock. Dividends are a method that companies use to distribute a portion of their…