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Today, Investment U’s Income Expert, Marc Lichtenfeld, takes a look at New Residential Investment Corp’s dividend safety.
New Residential Investment Corp. (NYSE: NRZ) used to be a favorite with dividend investors. As of December, it paid a whopping 12.4% yield and its short track record of paying dividends was solid. It had raised the dividend five times since 2013.
Then, the pandemic occurred. Shares of the mortgage real estate investment trust (REIT) fell from a high of $17.66 to a low of $2.91. Today, it trades around $8, less than half of where it was in February.
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Etsy beat investor expectations on both top and bottom lines in its third quarter earnings report, released after hours on Wednesday. Although the company posted higher Q3 profit thanks to a boost in online shopping, expects a possible deceleration, particularly on its revenue. Yahoo Finance’s Emily McCormick breaks down the company’s earnings report on The Final Round. …read more […]

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Pinterest released its third quarter earnings report after hours on Wednesday, beating on its top line and bottom lines. The company saw its monthly active users rise 37% and its revenue grow 58% year over year driven with a recovery in advertiser demand. Yahoo Finance’s Myles Udland breaks down the company’s earnings report on The Final Round. …read more […]

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Yahoo Finance’s Emily McCormick and Kristin Myers discuss Boeing’s quarterly earnings as the company warns of layoffs. …read more […]

The S&P 500 and the Dow slumped on Wednesday to their lowest levels since late September, as coronavirus cases climbed globally and investors also worried about the possiblity of a contested U.S. presidential election next week. A spiraling pandemic and the failure to approve new fiscal stimulus before the Nov. 3 election put the blue-chip Dow on track to close at its lowest since early August. …read more […]

It is not uncommon to see companies perform well in the years after insiders buy shares. The flip side of that is that… …read more […]

When you buy a stock there is always a possibility that it could drop 100%. But on the bright side, if you buy shares… …read more […]

In a brief order, the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals said it would not rehear arguments over whether the San Diego, California-based company had engaged in anticompetitive patent-licensing practices to keep a monopoly on the market for modem chips that connect smart phones to wireless data networks. On Aug. 11, a three-judge panel of the 9th Circuit said the FTC failed to establish that Qualcomm’s practices had an anticompetitive effect on the cellular chip market. The FTC had asked the entire court to rehear arguments and reconsider the panel decision. …read more […]

Tao Value recently released its Q3 2020 Investor Letter, a copy of which you can download here. The fund posted a return of 7.08% for the quarter, underperforming its benchmark, the MSCI All Country World Index (ACWI) which returned 8.41% in the same quarter. You should check out Tao Value’s top 5 stock picks for […] …read more […]

U.S. jeweler Tiffany & Co has agreed with LVMH to slightly lower the price of its acquisition by the French luxury goods group, in a move that could end a legal dispute between the two, two sources familiar with the matter said on Wednesday. The new terms would mean a discount of $425 million for LVMH, led by billionaire businessman Bernard Arnault, or less than 3% of the initial deal price. One of the sources said the new deal would require approval from Tiffany shareholders, which Tiffany expects should be straightforward. …read more […]

(Bloomberg) — Lucy Peng has been dubbed Alibaba Group Holding Ltd.’s most influential woman.The co-founder of the e-commerce giant rarely speaks in public and is little known outside of China, but over the past two decades she’s played a key role guiding Jack Ma’s empire. Peng, 47, helped set up Alibaba’s human-resources department, was Ant Group Co.’s chief executive officer and is now executive chairwoman of Lazada Group SA, the Southeast Asian e-commerce platform.The former finance teacher is also emerging as one of the wealthiest people within the wildly successful Alibaba ecosystem and one of the richest women on the …read more […]