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CAN YOU EARN A $40,000+ “SALARY” WITH MONTHLY DIVIDEND STOCKS?

Brett Owens, Chief Investment Strategist
Updated: April 26, 2024

Monthly dividend stocks baby. Most income investors don’t even realize they
exist!

Out of the few thousand stocks that trade publicly, only a few dozen pay monthly
dividends. These hidden gems tend to have market caps in the hundreds of
millions rather than billions.

Their relative obscurity is perfect for us. We’ll take them over their blue-chip
quarterly cousins.

Quarterly dividends are pay days we prefer not to wait for. Plus, the payouts
typically disappoint.

Let’s consider the distributions from a $500,000 portfolio split evenly among a
group of five mega-cap dividend payers. These are uber-popular, widely held blue
chips that you’ll see near the top of most major large-cap funds.… Read more


FORGET TREASURIES: THESE 7%+ DIVIDENDS ARE MUCH SAFER

Michael Foster, Investment Strategist
Updated: April 25, 2024

Don’t believe anyone who tells you there’s such a thing as a safe investment.
Truth is, every asset—from Treasuries to houses to dividend stocks—involves
risk.

The “safest” investment, according to the Financial Industry Regulatory
Authority (FINRA), is a short-term US Treasury bill. You lend the government
$100, say, and you’ll get $105.17 back in a year. Not bad.

But there are some caveats:

 1. Short-term Treasury rates fluctuate, and the Federal Reserve has said
    they’ll try to get them lower later this year.
 2. In a truly apocalyptic disaster, you might find that the Federal Reserve
    doesn’t pay your money back. In fact, you might find that money itself is
    worthless.

… Read more


PERFECT PULLBACK PLAY WITH A SAFE 8.4% PAYOUT

Brett Owens, Chief Investment Strategist
Updated: April 24, 2024

Some are fast. Some are slow.
Some are high. Some are low.
None of them is like another.
Don’t ask us why, go ask your mother.

– Dr. Seuss

Here at Contrarian Outlook, we prefer slow—as in slow-moving share prices. And
high—as in high yields.

As to why, well, I need to address why other (less sophisticated) investing
websites have bad information regarding a very good fund. So bad, in fact, that
vanilla investors are scared to buy this perfectly safe 8.4% dividend!

Before I send you to ask your mother, I’ll explain why our website is right and
other websites are wrong.… Read more


THIS 10.4% DIVIDEND TICKS OUR 2 “MUST-HAVE” BOXES

Brett Owens, Chief Investment Strategist
Updated: April 23, 2024

As folks who are always on the hunt for high-yield investments, we love 8%+
paying closed-end funds (CEFs).

CEFs, of course, are renowned for those high payouts—and the vast majority pay
monthly. No “regular” stocks offer such a potent payout combo.

Best part is, many CEFs are on sale now: Of the 422 tracked by the CEF Connect
screener, 372 currently trade at discounts to net asset value (NAV, or the value
of their underlying assets).

That’s a great place to start our search for top-notch CEFs because a discount
to NAV is basically free money: it lets us pick up, say, red-hot tech stocks
like Texas Instruments (TXN), Amazon.com… Read more


THESE TAX-FREE FUNDS ARE THE BIGGEST DIVIDEND SECRET GOING

Michael Foster, Investment Strategist
Updated: April 22, 2024

I have to admit, every year it gets harder and harder to do my taxes.

The process isn’t any more difficult—or at least if it is, my accountant isn’t
saying! No, my problem is the money I end up owing.

Having to write a check to Uncle Sam for more than I earned in my first three
years of working is hard to do. Which is why I’m always looking for ways to cut
my taxes.

And really, the best way for me (and most likely you, too) is through a “boring”
sounding investment called a municipal bond. There are three reasons why:

 1. Municipal bond, or “muni,” returns can amount to more than 9% per year for
    those in high tax brackets.

… Read more


UTILITIES AREN’T BORING WITH YIELDS UP TO 11%

Brett Owens, Chief Investment Strategist
Updated: April 19, 2024

Vanilla investors are freaking out that Jerome Powell & Co. won’t cut rates
right away.

Who cares if we’re buying safe yields up to 11.0% like the three we’re about to
highlight. This trio is positioned to benefit from an upcoming bull run in
utility stocks:

> “To be sure, long rates might hover around these levels for a bit. But the
> Fed’s rate hikes will eventually add up, and the much-talked-about recession
> will arrive. That will result in lower interest rates, both on the ‘short’ end
> (controlled by the Fed) and the ‘long’ (determined by the 10-year Treasury
> rate). As rates fall, the prices of bonds and ‘bond proxies,’ like utilities,
> will pop.”

… Read more


THIS “APOCALYPTIC” NEWS IS OUR SHOT AT CHEAP 7%+ DIVIDENDS

Michael Foster, Investment Strategist
Updated: April 18, 2024

It’s starting again—the media has its hooks into a new story to scare investors,
in yet another effort to gain attention.

The upshot is that we’ve now got a very nice opportunity to pick up a special
kind of closed-end fund (CEF) that yields 7%+ and does something unusual to
limit downside.

This setup reminds me just a bit of 2022, when buying fear gave contrarians
bargains, and historically high dividend yields, too.

The Media-Driven “Crisis” That Doesn’t Exist

Let’s start to trace out our opportunity here by first talking about the media,
which I probably don’t have to tell you is more interested in getting an
emotional reaction (mainly fear and worry) out of its audience more than
anything else these days.… Read more


PROTECTING OUR RETIREMENT PORTFOLIOS DURING TIMES OF WAR

Brett Owens, Chief Investment Strategist
Updated: April 17, 2024

I wish I didn’t have to write this column ever, let alone every couple of years.
But this is ground we have to cover, like it or not: dividend stocks during war.

We invest in dividend stocks. There are wars and conflicts that affect our
money. That’s reality.

Let’s start with last Saturday, while my daughter was in the middle of their
monthly Girl Scouts meeting. I gulped at the headline on my phone: Drones
heading towards Israel. Ugh.

So, on the drive to pick up my daughter, I flipped on the news in the Dadmobile.
My sweety jumped into the car.… Read more


IF THIS 1 THING CHANGES, THIS 6.5% DIVIDEND WILL BE A RAGING BUY

Brett Owens, Chief Investment Strategist
Updated: April 16, 2024

I’m this close to sending out a buy call on a stock that—if I do—I know would
light up the phone lines (and customer-service inbox!) at our New York office.

There’s a good reason why: Imagine being along for this drop.

New “Watch-List” Addition Sheds Two-Thirds of Its Value


(Heck, given that this stock was till recently a staple of many dividend
portfolios, maybe you don’t have to imagine.)

That’s the peak-to-trough dive on 3M Co. (MMM) in the last six years. To put it
in perspective, it came as the broader S&P 500 gained 79%.

I know that buying—or even considering—a stock with a chart like this gives many
folks heart palpitations.… Read more


THESE 9% DIVIDENDS ARE USUALLY “MILLIONAIRES ONLY.” NO MORE.

Michael Foster, Investment Strategist
Updated: April 15, 2024

It’s Tax Day—the perfect time to talk about one of our favorite income plays:
municipal bonds.

Don’t listen to anyone who tells you “munis” are boring. They’re anything but:
It’s easy to grab 5%+ yields from them. And because munis’ income is tax-free
for most Americans, that 5% is worth more—in some cases a lot more—to us.

They’re stable, too. Consider how much better you’d have slept at night if you
held munis during the 2022 nightmare, when they held up much better than stocks:

2022 Put Muni Bonds’ “Crash Resistance” on Display


Truth is, yearly declines of any sort are unusual for munis, which tend to
deliver 5% to 6% annual total returns in the long run—and that’s before their
tax benefits, which are, quite frankly, game-changing.… Read more


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