Contrarian Outlook

We contrarian dividend buyers love it when an insider loads up on their own (ideally washed out!) stock. Especially when that stock is:Throwing off its highest yield in years. Growing its payout at a...

Rarely do we get a buying opportunity in high-yielding closed-end funds (CEFs) like the one we have now. Thanks to the selloff, many CEFs trade at deep discounts and pay outsized yields upwards of 9%...

Vanilla investors are selling. Which means we income-focused contrarians are buying.Our goal, after all, is to retire on dividends. So why would we run from the biggest dividends that Mr. and Ms....

It’s nearly 2023, and we’re on the precipice of something that’s never happened in our lifetimes: a recession is coming—and when it does, it will surprise no one.Believe it or...

The Bank of England has recently aroused financial animal spirits with its on and off and on again buying of long-dated bonds. Which has this 8.8% payer—and more like it—ready to rally...

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...