When volatility is dominating the stock market, there's nothing like holding a portfolio of stocks that deposit cash into your account every quarter. Many top consumer brands pay regular dividends from their earnings, and some of the best ones have increased their dividends every year for decades.

Returns for Starbucks ( NASDAQ: SBUX ) stock are completely flat over the last five years, as of this writing, but some investors believe better days are ahead. In one example, asset manager Polen Capital bought a stake in Starbucks during the first quarter of 2025, with management saying that it ...

Given the uncertainty created by the ongoing tariff conflict, investors have braced themselves for a slew of downgrades to full-year guidance from industrial companies. That makes the recent first-quarter results and guidance from Honeywell International ( NASDAQ: HON ) a bit more impressive, and ...

There is no single way to invest for income, and as such, there is no single exchange-traded fund ( ETF ) for income investors to buy. If you are trying to build a diverse income stream, in fact, you'll probably want to buy several ETFs.Here are three that work particularly well together, ...

Bitcoin is back. But is it all the way back?

Investing a large lump sum today into a diversified exchange-traded fund ( ETF ) and simply holding on to it can be a great way to grow your portfolio over the long term. Historically, stocks have risen in value, and the S&P 500 has averaged an annual return of around 10% per year.But can ...

All of Berkshire Hathaway's holdings have their bullish arguments, but three of them are particularly strong arguments right now.

The S&P 500 index ( SNPINDEX: ^GSPC ) has a tiny dividend of 1.3% or so. It would be very difficult to live off the income collected from an S&P 500 index fund. What if you could get four times that income? That's what is on offer from S&P 500 component Realty Income ( NYSE: O ) today, given its ...

Beginnings are important. That's true whether we're talking about books, movies, or marriages. And it applies to stocks, too. How the stock market begins a given year can be telling about how it will finish it.As of April 30, 2025, the S&P 500 ( SNPINDEX: ^GSPC ) was off to its eighth-worst start ...

Nearly every investor has heard the adage, "Sell in May and go away." The premise is that stock market returns are often lower between May and October than from November to April. Historically, there has been some support for this approach ( although not so much in recent years ) .I have a ...