The Motley Fool

MARCH 28, 2024

These are businesses consumers are going to visit regardless of how well or poorly the U.S. economy and stock market are performing. What should really excite investors are Realty Income's efforts to diversify its CRE portfolio beyond traditional retail assets.

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Instead, Ares Capital is one of the stocks owned by New England Asset Management (NEAM). Ares Capital ranks as the largest publicly traded business development company (BDC). It provides financing to middle-market businesses that banks sometimes shun. What is there not to like?

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The Motley Fool

JUNE 23, 2024

AT&T AT&T cut its dividend in 2022 to compensate for the spin-off of its unpredictable media assets. The company hasn't raised the payout since slashing it a couple of years ago, and at recent prices, the telecom stock offers a 6.1% At its beaten-down price, the stock offers an eye-popping 6.1% dividend yield.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 19, 2024

Now that it's purely a telecommunications business, investors can expect predictable cash flows supporting its quarterly dividend. AT&T froze its dividend in place after lowering it in 2022 to adjust for the sale of its media assets. At recent prices, the stock offers a 5.1% As one of just three U.S.

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The Motley Fool

APRIL 5, 2024

The Motley Fool's in-house research team finds that while these investors allocate about 31% of their investable assets to ordinary listed stocks, they allocate an average of 27% of their portfolios to private equity investments. Another 4% of this money is put to work in the private credit market. like the overall stock market.

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The Motley Fool

APRIL 28, 2024

The VanEck BDC Income ETF holds nothing but business development companies , or BDCs for short. These are organizations that trade just like conventional stocks. Their business, however, is providing capital to up-and-coming companies that usually aren't publicly traded. A word of warning here.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Baby bonds are issued by the same types of companies that issue traditional bonds, including utility companies, investment banks, telecom companies and other types of corporate issuers. In other words, they're not backed by any underlying assets or collateral.

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The Motley Fool

APRIL 1, 2025

Ares is a business development company (BDC). The company isn't just a run-of-the-mill BDC, though. Ares also boasts the highest base dividend per share and net asset value per share growth among large publicly traded BDCs over the past 10 years. Pfizer The stock market remains highly volatile as April begins.

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 24, 2025

Though there is no shortage of pathways to grow your wealth in the stock market, few strategies have proved more fruitful over long periods than buying and holding high-quality dividend stocks. Companies that pay a dividend to their shareholders on a regular basis are: Where to invest $1,000 right now?

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 5, 2025

For well over a century, the stock market has been making patient investors richer. While gold, real estate, and bonds, have all nominally increased investors' principal over time, stocks offer the highest average annual return of all asset classes spanning the last century. dividend yield is perfectly safe.

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