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REITs are getting hit hard, and many dividend investors are asking the same question: should I sell, or is this a chance to buy? I sat down with dividend expert  ⁨@DownDogsandDividends⁩  who writes for Mauldin Economics and her own Substack, to talk about what she calls a big test for REIT investors and what I’ve been calling the REITpocalypse. Kelly shares whether she’s still buying REITs during...

👉 Seeking Alpha's Quant Growth & Income — special price of $449/yr: ⁠⁠DISCOUNT LINK ⁠⁠ Should you sell your REITs when the S&P 500 keeps winning? I'm 48, about a decade from needing my portfolio to pay the bills, and my two REITs, Agree Realty (ADC) and VICI Properties (VICI), have badly trailed VOO. In this video, I show the real numbers, explain why REIT prices fall when the 10-...

👉 Seeking Alpha's Quant Growth & Income — special price of $449/yr: ⁠DISCOUNT LINK ⁠ Sponsored by Seeking Alpha. Opinions are mine. Some companies hand shareholders extra shares every year instead of raising the cash dividend, and it looks like free money. It isn't. In this video, I break down what a stock dividend actually is, why your broker records it as a stock split, and why sell...

👉 Seeking Alpha's Quant Growth & Income — special price of $449/yr: DISCOUNT LINK Sponsored by Seeking Alpha. Opinions are mine. Pool Corp (POOL) is down 44% from its high, and Hershey (HSY) is near a 52-week low — and both raised their dividends while the stock fell. POOL yields 2.76%, and HSY yields 3.06%. In this video, I walk through Simply Safe Dividends on both: dividend safety, val...

Shaun | @ParlayBros is back on the channel three years later, and he's stopped adding to the high-dividend payers that built his income — including Altria, still his largest position- and he's doing something most dividend investors would never do on purpose: he's selling his high-yield dividend stocks and moving that money into low-yield ETFs and compounders. He calls it his bonsai tr...

I tested 69 covered call and options-income ETFs against the assets they're built on — every fund from its own inception date through August 7, 2026, total return with all distributions reinvested. Only 4 beat their benchmark, and every one of those four had a flat or falling underlying, used leverage, or wasn't actually a covered call fund. Not one beat its benchmark by writing calls on a...

I used the Simply Safe Dividends stock screener to find dividend stocks with yields of 4% or higher, safe dividends, low valuations, and strong returns on capital. Five companies made the cut: Watsco (WSO), Paychex (PAYX), Amdocs (DOX), PepsiCo (PEP), and T. Rowe Price (TROW). For each one, I explain in plain English why the stock is down, what the business actually does, and what I would want to...

This is our full investment portfolio reveal — every single stock and fund my wife and I own, worth about $730,000 and growing toward our goal of a $1 million portfolio. I walk through all 24 holdings one by one, share what's new with each one, and show you how we're now earning almost $11,000 a year in dividends. Whether you've followed the channel for years or just stumbled in today, you'll get...

Dividend investing explained for beginners, fast. If a $100 stock pays a $5 dividend, do you have $105 — or $95 plus $5 in cash? Meb Faber's survey found only about 1 in 4 everyday investors get it right. I cover why dividends aren't free money, why a high dividend yield is often a warning sign (GE, Kraft Heinz, AT&T, Intel, Walgreens all cut theirs), and the one rule that matters most...

Lisa J-Stocks |  ⁨@LisaJStocks⁩  bought VTI for over three years straight — then she stopped. In this interview, she explains why she shifted to growth, the two stocks she's buying now (SPMO and SMH), and the simple mindset trick that keeps her investing no matter what: treat it like a bill you have to pay. We hear about her top holding, FXAIX, the monthly dividend stocks she still owns (and h...

So I kept hearing about this ETF called OVL — it's beaten the S&P 500 since 2019, and now it pays you over 10% a year in monthly checks. Sounded like a cheat code, so I popped the hood. In this one, I break down what's actually inside OVL (spoiler: it's basically VOO), how it uses options to juice that yield, where that 10% monthly payout really comes from, why the fee is 26x highe...

Caesars Entertainment just sold for $17.6 billion — and if you own VICI Properties, you need to hear this. Russ sits down with Travis from Dividend Collection Agency, a retired Navy vet and TipRanks Top 1% analyst, to break down what the Caesars sale actually means for VICI shareholders, whether dividends are overhyped, which covered call ETFs are worth owning, and whether AI is the next airline i...

Most dividend investors stick to the same handful of household names — but some of the best compounding businesses in the market are hiding in plain sight. In this video, I'm using a framework borrowed from investor Pulak Prasad — author of What I Learned About Investing from Darwin — to identify four under-the-radar dividend growers that have delivered above 20% Return on Capital Employed for...

Two years ago, I built my own twist on Joel Greenblatt's Magic Formula investing strategy. I called it the Dividend Magic Formula — I screened MagicFormulaInvesting.com for dividend-paying stocks, ranked them by 5-year Return on Capital Employed (ROCE), and bought the top 10. Did it beat the S&P 500 again in year two? In this video, I share the full results of my $1,000 hypothetical portfo...

I felt FOMO about missing the AI rally. Then I ran a 5-minute look-through analysis on my portfolio with AI and found $102,000 of Magnificent 7 stocks I didn't know I owned — hidden inside my 401(k) index funds. Here's the exact 3-step process you can use on your portfolio today. [ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Link to YouTube Video ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠] Follow Jonah on ⁠⁠Blossom⁠⁠ , ⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠ or ⁠⁠Faceboo...

I lost nearly $48,000 by being too "smart" with my investments — and every single one of these stocks beat the S&P 500 after I sold. In this video I walk through 10 real positions I sold from my own portfolio, the actual dollar cost of each mistake, and the lesson each one taught me. From panic-selling on headlines (Wells Fargo) to wheeling myself out of $20,000 in JPMorgan gains, th...

In this video, I sit down with investor Jonah Weingarten, who ditched traditional dividend growth investing for what he calls his "High Yield Fever Dream" — a high-income strategy built around covered call ETFs, a daily buying schedule, and a plan to eventually live off his distributions in retirement. Jonah breaks down his full system: which ETFs he buys bi-weekly (QQQI, SPYI, IYRI, MLP...

Covered call ETFs like JEPI, JEPQ, SPYI, QQQI, and the YieldMax single-stock funds (TSLY, NVDY) advertise huge yields — sometimes 12%, 30%, even 80%. But there's no free lunch with covered call income ETFs. In this video I walk through the new covered call ETF ratings from Simply Safe Dividends and break down what every dividend investor needs to understand before buying a high-yield ETF: how...

In 2021 , I told my viewers that GE's reverse stock split was risky — and I was wrong. In this video, I break down exactly why GE's split was different from the typical panic move you see from struggling companies, what I missed, and the two questions every investor should ask before reacting to any reverse split announcement. GE Aerospace is up over 200% since the split, and GE Vernova is...

What does 35 years of investing look like? In this conversation, I sit down with fellow YouTuber Adam Kahn to talk about his investing journey — from his first stocks to dividend income, options trading, and using AI to tell better financial stories. We dig into how he finds stocks, what makes him sell, and how he keeps emotions out of the equation. Plus, we end with a fun twist: what does stock i...

Our net worth dropped $53,000 in March 2026 — knocking us out of millionaire status. But here's why I'm not worried, and why a market downturn might actually be the best thing that can happen to a long-term investor. In this portfolio update, I break down exactly what happened, what I bought, what I sold, and what I'm watching closely. We cover our first private equity investment, why...

The market is selling off — and a few high-quality companies on my watchlist just got a lot more interesting. In this video, I walk through my personal watchlist, explain how I use the 10-year median P/E as a buy zone barometer, and share which stocks have caught my attention in this pullback. I also cover three companies I love but am still waiting on — and why patience matters just as much as pi...

BDCs like ARCC and MAIN offer 9–11% dividend yields — but there's one thing most investors don't understand before buying in. In this video, I break down exactly what a BDC is, why management trust is everything, and four specific red flags to watch every quarter that could signal it's time to sell. [ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Link to YouTube Video⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ] ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Dapper Dividends Recommend...

Russ was a guest on the My Retirement Trading YouTube channel with Michal Brownstein, and this is that conversation. We covered a wide range of topics from Russ' backstory, mistakes, stocks he's adding to, and tips on how to be a productive and indispensable employee. [ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Link to YouTube Video ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠] 📩 Subscribe to Michael's YouTube Channel ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Dapper Dividends Re...

Dividend Expert Kelly Green,  @DownDogsandDividends  returns to answer YOUR questions! Kelly writes for Mauldin Economics Dividend Digest and specializes in helping everyday investors build reliable income through dividends. In this video, we tackle real questions from the community — including which BDC (Business Development Company) she'd put ALL her money into if it couldn't be Main Str...