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With share price growth of more than 20% over the last 12 months, dividend yields of more than 4.4% and five years of rising dividends, these two real estate trusts show that investment opportunities exist outside the currently hot technology sector. In addition to the positive performance over the past year and the five years of growing dividend distributions, these…

Two mid-cap financial services companies that boosted their quarterly dividends by 12% and 3.6%, respectively, offer dividend yields in excess of 3% and have boosted their share prices by more than 10% in the past 12 months. Investors looking to add small-cap and mid-cap financial sector equities to their portfolios should take a closer look at these two companies. With…

One beverage giant just declared a 7% dividend hike and the other company’s offers a 5.7% annualized dividend yield boost. The Coca Cola Company and Pepsico, Inc. started their fight for world cola supremacy more than a century ago. While the lead in that competition has gone back-and-forth between the two beverage giants, the true winners have been investors looking…

Two consumer-focused companies rewarded investors with dividend hikes and share price growth to complement dividend payouts. The dividend hikes for the two companies have been compounding at rates exceeding 8.4% for five and 11 years, respectively. Additionally, one of the companies, Bob Evans Farms, Inc. (NASDAQ:BOBE) just declared an 11% special dividend, with the ex-dividend date of May 30. The…

So here we are heading into May tomorrow and we wanted to take a quick look at the May "events" that could be critical drivers of income portfolios during the month. Starting on Tuesday, May 2nd, we have the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting.  Of course these meetings are always important, but this year they will be of the…