This piece first appeared on InvestorPlace as part of its Best Stocks for 2016 contest. There are several excellent picks this year, and the competition promises to be fierce! If you’ve read my work for any length of time, you know I’m not a major risk taker. In my experience, slow and steady wins the...Read More

It’s been about a week and a half since Teekay (TK) slashed its dividend to the bone and the stock price imploded (see “After the Teekay Dividend Cut…Now What?“). In the aftermath, I recommended holding on to the shares. At the lows for the day, TK was trading at 80% of tangible book value and...Read More

Wow. $TK just dropped a bomb with the dividend cut. Stock down ~60%. Underlying MLPs “pulled a $KMI” by opting to self finance. — Charles Sizemore (@CharlesSizemore) Dec. 17 at 09:35 AM To really illustrate how bad it is in MLP land, $TK cut its dividend by 90% and still has a relatively high yield...Read More

I contributed a couple tips to Jimmy Atkinson’s article 101 Dividend Investing Tips from Experts: The key to getting started is getting started. If you have modest funds, that’s OK. Brokerage commissions are cheap enough these days that you can start with as little as a couple hundred dollars without the commissions eating too deeply...Read More

Note to Alphabet (GOOGL)… or Google… or whatever you choose to call yourself these days: It’s time grow up, wear your big-boy pants, and start paying a dividend. You’re a $500 billion company, for crying out loud, and your biggest rivals — Apple and Microsoft — are among the most generous dividend payers and dividend raisers in...Read More