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This Completely Off-the-Radar Company Yielding 11.5% Might Be the Safest High-Octane Dividend Stock to Own in 2025

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Dividend stocks reign supreme Companies that pay a regular dividend to their shareholders are almost always profitable on a recurring basis, as well as time-tested. But what's most important to investors is that dividend stocks have crushed non-payers in the return column over the last half-century.

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My 3 Favorite Ultra-High-Yield Dividend Stocks to Buy in November

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With a yield so juicy, Ares doesn't have to generate much share price appreciation to deliver nice total returns. Delivering great total returns is something Ares Capital has consistently done, by the way. Since its IPO in 2004, Ares' cumulative total returns have been more than 60% higher than the S&P 500 's.

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1 Ultra-High-Yield Dividend Stock You'll Want to Have on Your Radar as Rate Cuts Loom

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There are many types of businesses that could benefit from reductions in interest rates. In particular, I've been looking closely at business development companies ( BDCs ). What are business development companies? HTGC Total Return Level data by YCharts. BDCs are pretty interesting.

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These Ultra-High-Yield Dividend Stocks Are Bargain Buys Right Now

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Ares Capital Ares Capital (NASDAQ: ARCC) ranks as the largest publicly traded business development company (BDC). It provides financing to middle-market businesses with a special focus on the upper end of this market. As a BDC, Ares Capital must return at least 90% of its income to shareholders in the form of dividends.

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3 High-Yield Dividend Stocks to Buy Now for a Lifetime of Passive Income

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During the 50-year period between 1973 and 2023, dividend-paying stocks in the benchmark S&P 500 index generated a 9.17% average annual return. The average annual return produced by non-dividend payers in the same index was just 4.27% over the same time frame, according to Ned Davis Research and Hartford Funds. dividend yield.

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3 Ultra-High-Yield Dividend Stocks I'm Buying for Decades of Passive Income

The Motley Fool

As a business development company (BDC) , Ares must return at least 90% of its income to shareholders in the form of dividends for its profits to be exempt from taxes. The company has a lot of income to return with its dividend yield topping 9.2%. The company should be able to keep increasing FCF.

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3 Dividend Stocks to Buy With $5,000 and Hold Forever

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Just as the name suggests, these are companies that own revenue-bearing properties ranging from office buildings to hotels to apartments to warehouses. Most of any rent-driven profits produced by these organizations are passed along to a REIT's shareholders. Even by REIT standards, however, Realty Income is notable.

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