FDL News and Press, First Trust Morningstar From 09/23/20

First Trust Morningstar Dividend Leaders Index ETF (FDL) declares $0.2993/share quarterly dividend, -18.9% decrease from prior dividend of $0.3689.Forward yield 4.65%Payable Sept. 30; for shareholders of record Sept. 25; ex-div Sept. 24.See FDL Dividend Scorecard, Yield Chart, & Dividend ...

Dividends can be a significant component of total return. - Christine Benz Earlier in this quarter, I had highlighted to members of The Lead-Lag Report, the market's growing interest in the dividend-growth cohort of stocks. Themes such as this will continue to gain currency as the market l...

By Columbia Threadneedle Investment Team U.S. companies are cutting or suspending dividends at a rate not seen since the global financial crisis. But investors should remain focused on the longer term performance. Dividends have historically been an important component of equity total ...

In mid-January, I posted an article that covered the 18 most popular dividend ETFs and it was one of my most popular articles in my time here on Seeking Alpha. In the comments section, some users mentioned the performance of the top ETFs being lower yield, higher growth ETFs, so naturally it...

The inspiration for this article came from Seeking Alpha founder David Jackson in the comments section of an article. There was a discussion going on about the index methodologies of popular dividend ETFs and a focus on which ETFs screened for future dividend growth rather than being more ...

Introduction I screened over 700 funds that had high ratings by Market Edge (Long), Morningstar (5), FactSet (A), Ned Davis (>=4), XTF (>=9) and Mutual Fund Observer (Rating = 5) and met other criteria such as being at least five years old and having greater than $100M in assets. I sum...

By Jeff Weniger It's not often that you come across a chart that rivals levels last seen on the day the stock market bottomed out during the global financial crisis-ancient history now. March 6, 2009, witnessed the S&P 500 touch an intraday generational low of 666 (it is 2,900 now). ...

July 2019 was a down month for dividend payers in the U.S. stock market. Compared to the previous month , it appears mixed mainly because June is typically among the slowest months of the year for firms declaring dividends. But it pales in comparison to what was recorded a year earlier, in Ju...

By Daniel Shvartsman The first half of 2019 saw a lot of green in the markets, as broader indices recovered from the brief bear market in the second half of 2018 and returned to new heights. Despite that, the wall of worry continued to grow, even if the specific concerns changed. Instead...

Investment Thesis Vanguard Dividend Appreciation ETF ( VIG ), as one of Vanguard's low-cost, passively-managed funds, provides a strong, steady dividend yield and outpaces the yield of similar funds. In this ETF review, we will take a look at VIG's fundamentals, determine if it is an appro...