Verizon Communications Inc.
New York symbol VZ, provides telephone services in 28 U.S. states. Through 55%-owned Verizon Wireless, a joint venture with UK-based Vodafone, it also provides wireless service in all 50 states.
While inflation remains very low, conditions for an eventual uptick may well be building. Those factors include today’s very low interest rates, massive government spending and borrowing to inject money into the economy, growing import barriers, and the higher cost of doing business in a pandemic....
AT&T and Verizon have now launched their ultrafast 5G wireless networks. That will spur demand, revenue, dividends—and enhance their already-strong outlooks.
Meantime, COVID-19 will continue to hurt them as well as help them: while pandemic lockdowns made it harder to sign up new customers, remote working has lifted demand for home Internet and streaming.
AT&T INC....
Meantime, COVID-19 will continue to hurt them as well as help them: while pandemic lockdowns made it harder to sign up new customers, remote working has lifted demand for home Internet and streaming.
AT&T INC....
A: The iShares Core MSCI Global Quality Dividend Index ETF, $20.19, symbol XDG on Toronto (Units outstanding: 7.1 million; Market cap: $143.3 million; www.blackrock.com/ca) aims to track the MSCI World High Dividend Yield Index.
The focus of the iShares Core MSCI Global Quality Dividend Index ETF is on large-capitalization, well-established stocks from the U.S....
The focus of the iShares Core MSCI Global Quality Dividend Index ETF is on large-capitalization, well-established stocks from the U.S....
A: The Vanguard Value ETF, $106.79, symbol VTV on New York (Units outstanding: 475.3 million; Market cap: $51.1 billion; www.vanguard.com) focuses on large-cap value stocks, using the following ratios to identify value: book value to price, forward earnings (estimates) to price, historic earnings to price, dividend to price, and sales to price....
BROADRIDGE FINANCIAL SOLUTIONS INC. $134 is a buy. The company (New York symbol BR; High-Growth Payer Portfolio, Finance sector; Shares outstanding: 114.8 million; Market cap: $15.4 billion; Dividend yield: 1.6%; Dividend Sustainability Rating: Above Average; www.broadridge.com) last raised its quarterly dividend with the October 2019 payment....
Central banks are keeping interest rates down in order to counter the negative effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. (The Supplement on page 69 offers you more info on how high deficits and low interest rates in the wake of the coronavirus will affect governments going forward.)
Utilities as a sector will benefit from the lower rates....
Utilities as a sector will benefit from the lower rates....
Introduction
Successful Investors always give dividend stocks the respect they deserve and most view them as the foundation of a sound and profitable investment portfolio.
But finding the right dividend payers can be challenging for new investors as well as experienced ones....
Below, we continue our look at industries and sectors that tend to reward investors in bear markets. That includes utilities, communications services, and healthcare ETFs. While those funds are generally less exposed to the ups and downs of the economic cycle, they also tend to do reasonably well in upward-trending markets....
All of the major Canadian and U.S. stock markets are down in the wake of the spread of the COVID-19 virus. But we think the worst is over for many stocks, and one way to profit, while at the same time cutting risk, is to invest in ETFs.
The best of these offer a diversified group of stocks while charging you low management fees....
The best of these offer a diversified group of stocks while charging you low management fees....
VERIZON COMMUNICATIONS INC. $50 remains a buy. The company (New York symbol VZ; Income-Growth Dividend Portfolio, Utilities sector, Shares o/s: 4.1 billion; Market cap: $205.0 billion; Dividend yield: 4.9%; Dividend Sustainability Rating: Highest; www.verizon.com) raised the dividend for its investors by 2.1% with the November 2019 payment....