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SCHD has been the best ETF for income investors over the past decade providing both competitive dividend yields and strong price appreciation. The question is, can that excellent performance continue? Investors need to understand exactly how SCHD chooses and maintains its holdings, as...

Jane's retirement accounts generated a total of $1,331.63 of dividend income for February 2022 vs. $1,187.01 of dividend income for February 2021. Jane's Traditional IRA had a balance of $430.5K as of February 28, 2022, vs. $365.4K on February 28, 2021. The estimated annualized divide...

Micron is one of the cheapest semiconductor stocks around today. Despite the company's inexpensive valuation, Micron is growing earnings at a robust pace. Additionally, Micron is adept at surpassing analysts' EPS and revenue estimates. Micron should outpace expectations in its...

A weekly summary of dividend activity for Dividend Champions, Contenders, and Challengers. Companies which changed their dividends. Companies with upcoming ex-dividend dates. Companies with upcoming pay dates. For further details see: Dividend Champion, Contender, An...

Intel continues to push the U.S. government for subsidies to produce semi. chips in the U.S. The company plans to ramp up capex this decade with or without major subsidies, but top competitor TSMC still plans to far outspend Intel. Intel is unlikely to provide IDM 2.0 services to ...

SCHD's index both rebalances and reconstitutes its holdings the second Friday in March. SCHD has been adjusting to the recent reconstitution. It added 14 stocks. We look at EOG resources which was the largest new holding and at the sectors represented by the rest of the much smaller s...

Periods of extreme outperformance in a sector have typically been followed by underperformance, and tech has dominated in recent years. The tech sector will likely underperform the wider market - and large caps within the tech sector will likely do worse than smaller caps - over the r...

VOO represents the large-cap market contained in the S&P 500 Index; QQQ is the NASDAQ 100 index heavy in tech investments. QQQ has outperformed over the past decade as the current tech giants rose to dominate, but VOO did better in the decade following the 2000-2003 crash. Bot...

On January 28th, I published a Perfect Portfolio (backbone) for Turbulent Times. Only a few weeks later the world got shocked by how events unfolded in Ukraine. The situation in Ukraine is horrible and I hope they find a solution soon to stop all the violence and suffering! The fi...

The war in Ukraine has overshadowed any other market development in February. I have kept my portfolio intact and made a couple of purchases while divesting one small position. The combination of soaring inflation and geopolitical uncertainty has rattled markets but despite some d...