April 24, 2024 | Daily JAM, Dividend Income, T |
Today, April 24, before the market open, AT&T reported first quarter earnings that beat the Wall Street consensus. The good news came from strong growth in its mobility and consumer wireline connectivity businesses, which make up about 80% of the company’s total revenues. AT&T (T) added 349K postpaid phone subscribers in the quarter, above a consensus estimate of 303,539, according to Bloomberg. Prepaid churn was 2.77% compared to 2.73% in the year-ago quarter. Remember that if you own AT&T, you own it for the dividend, currently 6.73%, and the possibility that the company will increase its payout.
April 4, 2024 | Daily JAM, Dividend Income, VZ |
Bookkeeping. I added Verizon (VZ) as Pick #8 for my New World for Dividend Investing Special Report (You can find it in the Special Report section of this site along with all the content on this market and its trends for Dividend Income investors. But I’m reposting it as a stand alone pick so no one misses it. Dividend Pick #8: Verizon (VZ) The question for Verizon–and for dividend investors–is remarkably similar to the question for AT&T (T): Can a management that has run up a huge debt load find the discipline to use the company’s immense cash flows to pay down debt?
April 2, 2024 | Daily JAM, Dividend Income, VZ |
Bookkeeping. I added AT&T (T) as Pick #7 for my New World for Dividend Investing Special Report (You can find it in the Special Report section of this site along with all the content on this market and its trends for Dividend Income investors. But I’m reposting it as a stand alone pick so no one misses it.
March 19, 2024 | Daily JAM, Dividend Income, EQNR, Jubak Picks, Mid Term, Special Reports, Top 50 Stocks, V |
Let’s say you’re a dividend income investor. You need cash income in retirement. Or you want your portfolio to generate cash now so you can invest in new opportunities. Or you just want the extra safety and lower risk that owning a stock with a substantial dividend can bring. Whatever your reasons–and I can think of a lot more–this is a particularly challenging financial market for dividend income investors.But I do think there are strategies dividend income investors can successfully pursue even in this challenging market. In the rest of this Special Report I’m going to explain the three ways I think you should be thinking about dividend income investing in this market. And then I’m going to give you 10 dividend stocks that I think are especially well-suited to producing income (and price appreciation, which is always nice even if you’re an income investor) in this market environment. First pick just posted–Pfizer
May 18, 2021 | Daily JAM, Stock Alerts |
Owners of AT&T (T) have been willing to overlook the company’s lack of growth, its “amusing” strategic plan, and its wandering goals because, hey, the shares paid 6.45%. That’s a dividend to make up for a multitude of corporate sins when the 10-year Treasury is yielding just 1.65%. But today owners discovered that as part of its deal to spin off and combine its Warner media assets with Discovery into a new company WarnerMedia/Discovry (AT&T shareholders will own 7%) AT&T will “reset” its dividend to 40% of free cash flow.
April 20, 2021 | Daily JAM, DIS, Morning Briefing |
This won’t help an already nervous market one bit. Today, April 20, after the close Netflix (NFLX) reported first-quarter subscriber growth way below projections. The stock was down 1.21% in after-hours trading as of 4:30 p.m. New York time.
October 18, 2020 | Daily JAM |
...earnings season to move into full swing. Monday brings earnings reports from IBM (IBM), from PetsMed Express (PETS) in the red-hot pet sector, and Logitech International (LOGI), a key player in the computer peripherals market. Tuesday includes consumer powerhouse...
July 8, 2019 | Daily JAM, Special Reports |
There's a consensus on Wall Street that the roll out of 5G wireless technology will be a hugely disruptive event. 5G is the successor to 4G (well, like, Duh) Â the current standard for network technology introduced commercially in 2009. 5GÂ could end up being 100 times...
March 13, 2019 | Daily JAM, Stock Alerts, T |
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February 26, 2019 | Daily JAM, Stock Alerts, T |
The U.S. Appeals Court in Washington ruled today that AT&T's (T) $85 billion takeover of Time Warner (now known as WarnerMedia) could go ahead. The court said in a 35-page opinion that the Justice Department had failed to establish that a lower-court judge had...
July 25, 2018 | Daily JAM, Stock Alerts, T |
Today's 4.51% drop in shares of AT&T (T) on a relatively mild revenue disappointment announced after the market close yesterday has considerably de-risked the stock. At the current 3:30 p.m. New York price of $30.25 the stock pays a dividend yield of 6.61%. Yes,...
June 13, 2018 | Daily JAM, LGF/A, Stock Alerts |
Yesterday after the close of trading Judge Richard Leon gave the go-ahead to AT&T's (T) acquisition of Time Warner, the owner of HBO and other content. The ruling is a green light to other vertical mergers in the media sector. The judge rejected the government's...