Dividends are a return of cash flow. Companies have a long list of items that use cash flow, most of which come before dividends. If you don't understand a company's balance sheet, you could end up ...

Many investors focus on how much a company pays in dividends. Most companies report their dividends on a cash-flow statement or in a separate accounting summary in their regular disclosures to ...

A dividend is a distribution of a portion of a company's profits to shareholders as a reward for their investments. When a company issues a dividend to its shareholders, the dividend can be paid ...

Dividend stocks are closing the earnings growth gap with tech stocks, a reason for investors seeking safety in a volatile market to favor income opportunities.

When it comes to dividend stocks, it’s often the best policy to just buy them and forget about them. It’s amazing how successful a set-it-and-forget-it strategy can be, especially if your broker ...

Brown-Forman (NYSE: BF-B) has been making whiskey and paying rising dividends for generations. The Louisville-based spirits company, best known for Jack Daniel’s Tennessee Whiskey, just filed its Q3 ...

One of the last things an income investor wants to experience is a dividend cut. That's particularly true if you are trying to live off the cash your portfolio generates, perhaps as a supplement to ...