Contrarian Outlook

Utility dividends haven’t been this generous in years. Thank you, stock market selloff!These yield machines have been expensive for a while. Today, utility stocks are finally cheap—and...

I love dividend stocks that analysts hate. For two reasons:By definition, they can’t be downgraded. In weak moments, they are candidates to be upgraded. And since vanilla investors, for whatever...

A recession is on the way—and stocks are … rallying? It makes zero sense on the surface, but there is good reason for the bounce we’ve seen this week. And we’re going to play...

This dividend stock yields 10.4%. But really it boasts an annual “hidden yield” of 18.4% when we consider buybacks.Eighteen-point four percent per year. Wait, what?!A Hidden Yield Formula...

We have plenty of cheap dividend stocks to buy today. But which ones are really bargains—and which are cheap for a reason?The P/E ratio won’t tip us off. We’re heading into a...

Members of my CEF Insider service and I always look for big dividends we can collect for the long haul. I’m talking 8%+ payouts here, many of which come our way monthly. (This is possible with...

The 2022 mess has helped protect our dividends from the many messes beyond America’s borders, like the collapsing UK economy, continued COVID-19 shutdowns in China and, of course, Russia...

Generally, recessions are bullish for bonds. Which makes this 3.8% bond yield a “best recession bet.”Why are we talking bonds in a year where they have all been crushed? Well, that’s...

One thing we always demand in a stock is a megatrend-powered dividend that grows. And there aren’t many megatrends bigger than the soaring need for (and tight supply of) food.I’ll share...

“Why are they interviewing this guy? He doesn’t know… anything.”I paused the Netflix (NASDAQ:NFLX) pseudo-documentary and searched for a quick, thoughtful response to my wife....

I hate to hear about investors using “rules” like the 60/40 portfolio (where you devote 60% of your holdings to stocks and the rest to bonds) to invest their hard-earned cash.The problem...

I recently joined Market Wrap to chat with Moe Ansari about the market. The time to dump stocks, I told Moe, was early in the year. Or late 2021. Before the mainstream media even whispered the words...

Bear markets are great for calculated contrarian investors like us. We have many dividend growers in the bargain bin.I mean, it’s rarely this stuffed. We have lots to sort through today....

For some folks, it’s almost a reflex to buy gold when inflation hits or volatility ramps up. In times like those, they simply flock to the yellow metal—no questions asked.But buying gold...

Plenty of folks are starting to look toward the new year, and I’m getting a lot of questions about my outlook for high-yield closed-end funds (CEFs) for the rest of 2022 and into 2023.Of course,...

Don’t be drawn in by this spiking 2-year Treasury yield. Even at just north of 4%, we’re still not retiring off of it!Think about it for a second: for a ho-hum 4.2%, you’re locking...