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While the current economic downturn and crashing oil prices devastated many energy equities, a few of the large-cap energy stocks with long streaks of dividend boosts might have the potential to deliver significant total returns over an extended time horizon. Despite the availability of data and complex analytical models, many investors will find it difficult to cope with the level…

Income investors seeking equities to buy right now should consider one of more than two-dozen large-cap stocks going ex-dividend next week. Several characteristics make large-cap stocks desirable as core portfolio building blocks. Generally stocks of older and established companies, these equities typically offer a high degree of operational and financial transparency. This transparency allows investors easy access to information for…

While many prominent equities have delivered significant losses amid one of the largest market selloffs in nearly a century, few large-cap stocks have managed to preserve some of their previous gains and still offer total returns of more than 25% over the trailing 12-month period. Some investors believe that the most battered stocks during the current market pullback are best…

The new companies that joined the Dividend Aristocrats rank in 2020 might be in danger of losing their newly gained designation if they are unable to maintain dividend boosts, or if they are forced to cut distributions as a result of the current economic slowdown. After the most recent quarterly rebalancing, in January 2020, seven companies were added to the…

Income investors seeking equities to buy right now should consider one of more than two-dozen large-cap stocks going ex-dividend next week. Several characteristics make large-cap stocks desirable as core portfolio building blocks. Generally stocks of older and established companies, these equities typically offer a high degree of operational and financial transparency. This transparency allows investors easy access to information for…