NOBL News and Press, ProShares S&P 500 Dividend Aristocrats ETF From 05/11/19

Once again, the markets are near their all-time high barring some hiccups due to trade tensions this past week. It's already the longest bull market in history. However, it's widely believed that bull markets simply don't die of old age. Generally, bull markets end when there are some underl...

When 3M ( MMM ) released poor earnings and lowered forward guidance on April 25th, the stock responded with a 13% single-day decline, its largest drop since the Black Monday stock market crash in October 1987. The former Minnesota Manufacturing & Mining Company has paid increasing dividend...

I spent some time looking for a catchy title. Something like "a bad year in a bad trade." Over long time intervals, the average stock that does not pay a dividend has lagged the broader market with much higher variability. In a down year for stocks in 2018, non-dividend payers did far worse st...

When AT&T ( T ) had its earnings release and investor update in late April, the first phrase on the investor presentation was "de-lever through strong free cash flow, non-core asset sales". The telecom, media, and technology giant posted an impressive $5.9B of free cash flow on the quarter...

We know that the Dividend Aristocrats outperform in down markets. In the six most recent down years for the S&P 500 (1990, 2000-2002, 2008, and 2018), the Dividend Aristocrat Index has outperformed the broad market in each year. If we had a longer dataset for this sub-index, this naturally...

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