3 High-Yielding Dividend Stocks For 2025

2025-01-03 07:30:00 ET

Summary

• The New Year could pose challenges as markets absorb the Fed’s latest interest rate cuts and the sell-off in global equities. However, higher-yielding investments can offer income and hedging opportunities.
• The S&P 500's Shiller price-to-earnings (P/E) Ratio, among other historic indicators, underscores fears of a potential bear market.
• Income-generating stocks can help offset potential losses and continued risks of market volatility, inflation, and prolonged high interest rates.
• My five dividend recommendations from December 6, 2024, GTY, BTI, VICI, NLCP, and POR are up an average of 3.3% with an average forward yield of 6.7%.
• SA Quant has identified three new “Strong Buy” dividend stocks with an average forward yield of 6%, offering strong dividend growth and safety characteristics, excellent financials, and great factor grades.

Is a Bear Market Coming in 2025?

With the new year comes fresh uncertainty. Investors pulled $26.5B from actively managed equities funds for the week ending on December 25, according to data group EPFR . Bond markets saw inflows of $2.1B and money market funds reported inflows of $28.7B as global markets digested the Federal Reserve’s latest 0.25% interest rate cut....

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