The Best Dividend Stocks to Buy With $2,000 Right Now

Dividend stocks can be an excellent way for investors to earn income from their investment portfolios. Companies that consistently pay tend to have sound business models and strong fundamentals.

The Motley Fool • 18 hours ago

Build Your +8% Income Tree: The 3-Step Plan For Monthly Cash Flow

Build the stable Income Tree with fixed income (8.5% yield) as the base. Decorate the portfolio with high-yielding opportunistic buys. Diversify with 42+ holdings, so one failure is barely noticeable.

Seeking Alpha • a day ago

Forget JEPI: These 5 Stocks Deliver Better Returns and Rock-Solid Distributions

JEPI has become a popular income investment since its 2020 launch, delivering an 8.21% yield through a

24/7 Wall Street • Dec 12, 2025

The Best Dividend Stocks to Buy and Hold Forever

Industry-leading Verizon isn't a growth stock by any means. But it offers a product no consumer is going to give up.

The Motley Fool • Dec 12, 2025

Two Classes Of Mortgage REITs

Agency mortgage REITs duel to the dividend cut. There are 7 facing off. The top 3 are much better than the other 4. Valuations are important and awful. Deal with it.

Seeking Alpha • Dec 11, 2025

3 Top Dividend Stocks to Buy in December

AbbVie is a Dividend King that has proven its resilience. Ares Capital offers an ultra-high yield, with solid near-term and long-term growth prospects.

The Motley Fool • Dec 9, 2025

Ares Capital Corporation (ARCC) Is a Trending Stock: Facts to Know Before Betting on It

Ares Capital (ARCC) has been one of the stocks most watched by Zacks.com users lately. So, it is worth exploring what lies ahead for the stock.

Zacks Investment Research • Dec 8, 2025

My Biggest Contrarian Bet: The BDC Hidden Income Gift

The market seems to question the true fair value of BDC portfolios. There is a fear that the BDCs will start to report elevated non-accruals, which would make their life more difficult (as they have already a lower interest rate problem at hand). For durable and high-yield income investors this has created a truly enticing and timely opportunity, which simply has to be explored given the direction of overall asset yields.

Seeking Alpha • Dec 8, 2025

5 Relatively Secure And Cheap Dividend Stocks, Yields Up To 8% (December 2025)

This article is part of our monthly series where we highlight five large-cap, relatively safe, dividend-paying companies offering significant discounts to their historical norms. We go over our filtering process to select just five conservative DGI stocks from more than 7,500 companies that are traded on U.S. exchanges, including OTC networks. In addition to the primary list that yields 3.6%, we present two other groups of five DGI stocks each, from moderate to high yields of up to 8%.

Seeking Alpha • Dec 6, 2025

68 Graham Value All-Star (GVAS) November Dividend Dogs Show 27 'Safer' And 17 Ideal Buys

Top ten large-cap value 'GASV dogs' offer projected average net gains of 46.31% by November 2026, with yields from 8.09% to 11.74%. Seventeen of twenty-seven 'safer' lowest-priced GASV stocks are currently buyable, meeting strict dividend and price criteria for fair value. Analyst targets suggest the five lowest-priced, highest-yield GASV stocks could deliver 6.86% higher gains than the top ten as a group.

Seeking Alpha • Dec 2, 2025