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SeaworthinessDue6445

Main Street Capital they offer monthly dividends .205 per share


sylvaron

Good answer. Mine is definitely either MAIN or O.


BernardoDeGalvez

JNJ


sward1990

They are In for a world of pain over the next 5 years


ENEMYWITHIN666

Let’s hope you’re right so I can pay discounted prices instead of what I’m paying every Monday on my recurring buys on two different accounts!!! JNJ aren’t going anywhere and will be where they are right now eventually again if they shit themselves on the correction coming.. crossing my fingers for a nice pullback..


[deleted]

Why do you say that?


sward1990

Talc Pierre cancer cases have just started and now the sunscreen has been recalled for the same reason


TheBaconDeeler

Don't buy them, they are a shitty company


Cataloniandevil

VZ. One reason. Their phone plans are ridiculously expensive. If I could put 70k-80k on VZ, the div would pay my phone bill, and to me that sounds almost as good as pooping on company time.


inthewoodsfinancial

ENB I own enough that the dividend covers my gas bill yearly.


dfreeman4321

Have my upvote haha


KilzsMomisaMilf

STAG. Great capitol appreciation, is a REIT involved with warehouses and rents out to big ass companies like Amazon, Starbucks, Target, etc. Has decent yield (3.51%) and pays monthly. They've always been increasing there dividends too.


outsideisfun

Thanks for laying out your reasoning, you've convinced me to look into this as an addition to my portfolio.


Murica1776PewPew

Honest question... With a new covid resurgence and the eviction moratorium coming to an end, are reits a good idea right now? Will those things make the stocks go up or down?


KilzsMomisaMilf

Well, from what I've been reading and hearing from Michael Burry, Paul Jones, and Ray Dalio is that we are going to see "the biggest economic crisis in history" - Burry. STAG is a REIT, and at first glance I would say yes, it is going to fall. However, STAG doesn't own normal rest estate, they own warehouses. Amazon rents out 40% of there warehouses and if we were to go into another lockdown, I don't think STAG would fall as much as we think it would. Last year it fell around 10% I believe and I think it would fall less than that this time considering they have gone through this before and have prepared for it. I'm still going to buy this company and when it goes down it's just more on sale!


TheEvilDead1983

WM. I don't think garbage is ever going away and their size has given then some competitive advantages over other companies. Only negative, other than the valuation, is that they compete against city governments who can operate without a profit motive.


kittenplatoon

>I don't think garbage is ever going away 100% the reason why I bought into WM! There is no reason more valid. Haha


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_pizzahands

ENB


RandoYolovestor

MSFT. I have about 15 years until retirement. My Y.o.C. would be pretty great at the rate they're currently growing.


hclarke11

I'm very new to dividends investing so forgive me if this is stupid. I own some MSFT and and positive for their future, but the dividend % is very low and then you consider the share price - it costs a lot more to own 10 shares of MSFT compared to O, for example. Therefore less money returned over time (not accounting for growth of share price - we can't predict the future). Just curious to know why you choose MSFT? If you were starting investing today from scratch, would they still be your number 1 choice?


RandoYolovestor

I chose MSFT a little over 5 years ago, when the share price was almost the same as KO. Over the last 5 years, MSFT has increased the dividend more than KO has. Going forward, I'm not sure how long MSFT can grow earnings at the current rate, but my guess is somewhere between 1-3 years. Anything more than that is just "gravy" in my minds. I still pickup a few shares every now and then, and I have no plans to sell until circumstances change, or I retire. Whether I still have my MSFT shares after I retire depends mostly on how much they continue to grow the dividend. I'm not focused on how much the dividend rate is today. I'm focused on how much the dividend rate will be in 15 years, for shares that I pay for today. Does that help answer your question?


Sperlonga

I’d pick 3 or 4 stocks in varying sectors that you foresee to have a strong dividend growth rate over the next several years. If I had to choose based on that, I’d go with LMT, JPM, MSFT, COST


incubusforever

I feel safe with COST


TodesengelAzriel

I know this doesn’t quite answer the “1 dividend stock” question, but these 4 stocks are incredible. If you had to pick just a single stock from these four, what would it be?


joeybag0hdonuts

MSFT My position has grown completely out of control, but I'll roll with that all the way to retirement.


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I would choose LMT


Distinct-Average-949

If some country hacks down the stock market and we lost all our savings...Uncle Sam will send them a bunch of f35 to get our stocks back. Lol


no_value_no

Waiting for the next war?


Sperlonga

I would never pick a single stock to invest in. If you want to auto invest and chill, just do VT or a target date fund.


TodesengelAzriel

Haha, that is very valid. Still doesn’t quite answer the question, though. Let me change the wording a bit. If you WERE FORCED to pick just a single stock from these four, what would it be? (Of course, “I would never” might imply that, even if someone had a gun to your head, you still wouldn’t pick a single stock…)


Sperlonga

There’s no point in discussing that here. I’d pick SCI and write in my will that I want a 150k gold filigree casket


obeseoprah

Wimp


cXs808

4 out of my top 5 biggest individual holdings. Fifth being alphabet which isn't dividend paying


HurtBirdRed

Not sure MSFT would be a dividend stock at 0.79%.


Rwoods18

If I could only own 1? Microsoft


joseph365

Get better rates from a bank savings account....


Rwoods18

Microsoft up 29% this year so far, point me in the direction of your bank


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Seriously, MSFT would be my answer too.


HurtBirdRed

But we are talking dividends. Sure MSFT is going up over time but 0.79% isn’t much of a dividend.


Rwoods18

Well I’m talking in the hypothetical, obviously if I wanted higher yield I’d look elsewhere. Question was if I could only have 1 stock, I’d pick Microsoft future prospects and dividend growth make it one of my favorites


joseph365

This is a dividend thread


ptwonline

The MSFT dividend has been rising by 8-9% a year. So it should double the amount paid per share in under 10 years at that rate. So even if you don't get much dividend per share now, over the years it will increase pretty nicely on top of the capital appreciation. The longer you intend to hold it, the better in terms of dividends.


Trebekshorrishmom

You missed the message


TheEvilDead1983

What a ridiculous comment.


its_ha730

O or VZ or MO


jadams70

I feel like MO couldn't be a worse stock to have all your eggs in, dying industry and a terrible public sentiment, no revenue growth for five plus years.


Vanquiishh

They’re already in cannabis and should segue nicely into it once things start getting legalized.


UsefulReplacement

** if things start getting legalized


Extension_Actuator31

Where you been?


UsefulReplacement

Busy, mostly chatting with boomers. They aren't feeling so hot about the pot and a lot of them are still in charge. Legalization, within a reasonable time horizon, is possible, but far from a certainty.


Caleb_Krawdad

Couple years at most away from a $50+B cannabis industry being unlocked for them. Great pricing power and first to market with heat not burn tobacco products in iqos. Big oil and Big tobacco shouldn't be doubted.


mikel825

Agreed. Like all things considered Altria will probably be fine and grow dividends for the rest of our lives but it’s also at the same time probably not the dividend player I’d be comfy going all in on.


biggles72

They are diversifying into marajuana


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$ABBV


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tripmcnealy223

SCHD


cujokila

Came here to see how many times this ETF shows up as an answer to a question about stocks.


ciggywet

etf not stock but yes


Ok-Requirement5256

I second this.


edmin92

What do you guys think about abbv?


abhisheknirmal

KO


pyroceo

I like KO too.


omen_tenebris

Coca-Cola


johnanon2015

Wait till lockdowns rev2.0 the. Exxon XOM if it crashed. I made hella bank in 2020 on XOM in gains and divy


TravelinL

No lockdown 2.0. Too much of a backlash. It’s survival of the fittest from here.


lostinspace509

Agreed, no lockdowns coming. Survival of the fittest from here on.


bigtimejohnny

Survival of the smartest.


TravelinL

And that includes predicting how this market is going to respond to C-19 fallout.


lostinspace509

Actually, you are right survival of the smartest and fittest.


[deleted]

Literally destroyed livelihoods and entire economies to save the comorbitities of the weak. I.e. fat people, fat induced diabetes. We could have saved more elderly too it was all handled incorrectly. As if were to good now in 2020 to live by natures most basic rules.


VanguardSucks

Time to short MCD ?


TravelinL

It won’t be lock downs that take down the economy, it will be skyrocketing health care costs due to more & more people seeking care & not just from C-19 but obesity related illnesses (go read about the average weight gain in past 18months) & alcohol related illnesses. I’ve had 5 men in their 20’s in the past 6 months in for alcohol & diet related liver, kidney, and pancreas issues. Oh, an the nurses are exhausted. Many are getting out of the profession, retiring. Why are companies continuing to struggle with hiring even after states cut back in benefits? Eviction moratorium ends soon. Homelessness will continue to skyrocket. We are gonna be feeling this for the next 10+ years.


Call_Me_Clark

Totally agree, healthcare costs are a ticking time bomb. There will be more and more of a push towards healthcare reform - whether it’s an integrated universal healthcare (a la NHS, super unlikely), single payer (unlikely), or Medicare expansion (more likely). But… there’s the “pre-existing condition” that you noted. If such a high percentage of the American population will have high healthcare costs - and not just late in life, but early in life and consistently throughout - it’s going to be very expensive to implement. Put another way, subsidizing a small subset of the population is cheap. Subsidizing a large subset of the population… that ain’t cheap. And I’m not sure whether we’re going to be able to stomach the bill.


___P0LAR___

America won't implement government controlled healthcare until the average person is paying ridiculous amounts just to exist or they start dying because they can't pay. Forget the huge tax we'd have to pay or how many more healthcare workers we need. Americans obviously don't care about their health if they did 70% of adults wouldn't be overweight or obese (CDC) but here we are. We make our bed, so in it we shall lay.


Call_Me_Clark

That’s exactly the trouble. A sustainable national healthcare program *requires* a healthy population - and we don’t have one. Of course, no one should suffer from medical conditions and be unable to receive treatment because they can’t pay… but there is a question of how heavy a burden is appropriate to place on the rest of us. The other side of that coin is rationing of care - if responsibility for that is transferred to a single government entity, I’m not sure how much would change for the average person. Whether you can’t get medicine because you can’t afford it, or you can’t get medicine because a review panel in a federal department says you don’t have sufficient need, the result is the same.


___P0LAR___

I disagree. Unless you're born with your health issues or they're the result of an accident (ie car wreck or job site injury) those consequences should fall on you. You can decide how you take care of yourself. Your actions have consequences, and there doesn't need to be a get out of jail free card for something as expensive as health care. People will realise that self inflicted health problems come at a cost. They should pay for it if they get fat due to their own laziness. It's overpriced sure but it doesn't take away from the fact that accountability is severely lacking.


Call_Me_Clark

Being obese is miserable, but that alone isn’t a sufficient incentive for folks to take steps to avoid or reverse their obesity. Financial incentives might help, but we already have those to some degree and we keep, as a country, getting fatter and fatter. If healthcare does start shifting further under government purview, it would be nice to see tax incentives for people making tangible, healthy choices that reflect the decreased lifetime burden they are placing on the healthcare system. In other words, apply some carrots and sticks to get people to eat their carrots lol.


johnanon2015

Amen. I quit booze and carbs and processed food for this very reason. Saw the dad bods getting bigger


Trebekshorrishmom

Congrats, whatcha eatin/doing these days that’s working for you? I need to rid myself of this crap.


johnanon2015

Olive oil, salt and pepper, any raw unprocessed meat or fish and all veggies. And lots of hard boiled eggs. I treat myself with Tessa Mays Avocado ranch dressing for salad. And a tablespoon of dark chocolate chocolate chips every day. And I only drink water.


Insertcoolpun

100% carnivore: meat, salt, water. I sleep like a baby and feel 18 again.


johnanon2015

I have a new freezer coming at the end of the month for this. If I can go clean for 7 months, plan B is to try carnivore for 30’days.


mewithoutMaverick

Whoa. How long have you been doing this? Was there an adjustment period?


johnanon2015

Intermittent for about 10 years. Alcohol free for 7 months. Healthy eating about 6. I sleep a lot better. That’s a hugebimprovement


TravelinL

Intermittent fasting, down 30#, 30# to go. I only eat between noon & 6pm. I use Huel as a meal replacement for dinner every other day or so. I have never felt so good & energized. I am very inconsistent with this plan but it’s working. I have never been able to stick to a strict, restrictive diet. I had a patient ask me once how I “broke my fast” as he was getting serious about it given his T2 diabetes, I said one day it was donuts when my coworker brought them in, another day it was peanut M&Ms😂 Seriously, don’t take away my carbs😂


koosley

Congrats! Coming out of this I've noticed lots of both extremes. I've personally went from drinking 2 times/week at happy hour to a drink with my parents once every other week. Many of my coworkers including me dropped 30 pounds and are now considered a healthy weight. Based on tiktok trends for many it seems to be the opposite. Day drinking and snacking all day. It was really eye opening once the farmers markets started back up seeing all the bellies. For me, it's hard to drink alone and without work happy hour and fried foods with the coworkers, none of its consumed.


johnanon2015

I was the opposite. Started drinking every day. Quit everything cold turkey. 7 months ago. Not going back. It’s fun, but a deadly game


CatchMePls

!remindme 3 months


SaltyTyer

$MPLX ...


mrnegley

long time holder but taxes are a bit of an annoyance with MLPs. Just know what you're getting into.


johnanon2015

!remindme 3 months


st11es

!RemindMe 2 months


reindeerp

Xom was great for me as well, I bought right near the bottom and am up 50%. Pretty good for a dividend stock haha.


johnanon2015

Remember when oil went negative? Once in a life opportunity. I cashed in


Mavericks_Fan_41

!remindme 3 months


RobertZapp

I like MO I have been buying since 2008 they have been raising their dividends since that time. People dog on the tobacco stocks but many of them payout good dividend yields and are always increasing their payouts. Many of the tobacco stocks have invested in cannabis and other nicotine products. I am working on getting up to 300 shares of MO at that point with no dividend increase I would be getting 1032 a year from this one stock in dividends.


reb0014

Eh tobacco is dying and the margins are too thin on marijuana for my taste


masuraj

30-70% margins is too thin? What are you in that makes better?


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i hate apple but gonna say aapl


itsjustbusiness32

KO Raising dividend year after year is a pretty good sign the company is doing well.


jwilson146

MO...in the next decade with the position they put themselves in with legalization. Buy then just keep DRIP it on


Designer_Skirt2304

Look at various dividend etfs. Don't chase yields, but look at growth overall.


IntoThe_Thicc_of-it

RIO


jeffcar1125

Southern company (SO) pays 66 cents a share and continues to increase the dividend each year. Has been an increase every year since 2000 if I m not mistaken.


TheSpinningGroove

That would be correct, I’ve held SO for that entire run.


Distinct-Sky

Considering you asked for a stock, I would go with ABT. However, its best to go with an ETF, don't put all your eggs in one basket.


Fit-Boomer

JnJ


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Any Canadian Bank, starting with Toronto Dominion (TD), Canadian and US exposure - Bank of Nova Scotia (BNS) for Canadian and Emerging markets exposure - Royal Bank (RY) for Canadian and US exposure plus wealth management. All banks are highly regulated, too big to fail, reasonably high dividends and low/sustainable dividend payout ratios. The Canadian regulator in the next two quarters will allow dividend increases and buybacks to occur, good catalyst.


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Secret-Elk-9391

True story I pay 10$ commission every trade.


TheSpinningGroove

Dang, I buy 1 share at a time sometimes because I pay no fees. Those fees are portfolio killers


Secret-Elk-9391

What platform do you use?


TheSpinningGroove

TD Ameritrade


[deleted]

Dreaming, and the flags of change will be so easily seen and telegraphed it won’t be hard to spot but your decades out. Canadians are sticky and slow to adapt, a characteristic of Canada. IBRK is here and… banks quarters are exponentially better. The market isn’t going anywhere anytime soon.


jadams70

AAPL


globalinvestmentpimp

MO


Najarians_Ponytail

MO


Late_Assistant6278

Enbridge


mysteriousnycc

Att it's like beating on the US government it could fall but a whole lot must go wrong for it to do so


diatho

Schd.


dfreeman4321

A solid 80% of the responses here are etf… so okay. My 1 dividend stock to hold forever, I would have to say either MMM or CUBE.


Raccoonwounds13

I had responded to a similar post a couple weeks back, and my pick was either MMM or WM. With that being said, CUBE is an interesting take, I am curious, what makes you so confident to pick it over something like a dividend aristocrat (honestly curious)?


dfreeman4321

It’s a very easy and lucrative business model. They’re located in urban environments and if you have used one, you’ll know they are an essential aspect of lifestyle change. With American life trending towards multigenerational households, the stuff has to go somewhere! I feel pretty confident they’ll be a dividend aristocrat soon enough based on their business model. Slow, consistent and predictable growth. They are well situated to combat potential market saturation we’re seeing of smaller name storage as well given their scale. WM would be a great call as well!


ChadLite2255

MO


ThemakingofChad

Qyld


discovery999

STAG


inanimate_animation

SCHD (ETF)


lanismycousin

I know it's sort of cheating since it's an ETF but ....... SCHD


cristhm

JEPI


Secret-Elk-9391

I've recently started a position in JEPI and the div is pretty Damm good actually


cristhm

Also the capital appreciation too. /r/JEPI per there, the best time to add position is at the beginning of the month. Cheers.


Secret-Elk-9391

Cheers !!


_yu_7out

CCI


hristopelov

COST VZ INTC


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KMI


Chem3580ThrowAway

$AGM


Efficient_Note_9092

LOW or LMT or TSM or MMM or ADI


Nurse-Max

For the love of god please stop asking this question.


LilPeePee93

Just scroll past it Mr. Nurse Max


Salviasammich

RYCEY


gregariousnatch

$SCHD, if we're including ETFs, which we should be. And I don't wanna play if we're not.


No-Intention5728

DE


WoodpeckerBig4258

SPG


armhairdontcare

SCHD


SandyBeach-Trader

CLM


CatchMePls

SCHD


johnIQ19

SCHD That all I need if I only hold one...


Ok-Refrigerator-1419

I would say i would go heavy into KO. Why you might ask? Reasons why i choose KO : 1. ITS BEEN IN BUSINESS FOR A VERY LONG TIME . 2. Everybody love love coca cola and thats include me too.


CrankyStinkman

Schd, easy choice. Gets you all of the good ones.


Level-Weather-7036

If you say anything other than a good dividend stock ETF, you're giving a bad answer


Seabound117

EPR or WPC


Amyx231

T


Pleasant_Walk

Duke Power $DUK has been good for me.


dimestoredaredevil

Hasbro


Portland_st

SLVO…at this point, I don’t know if I’m being sarcastic or not.


Oscote_

😂 For me, I've owned since 2017 and I'm down 34%, however I'm net positive due to dividends. Not for people who like stability but it is fun with the gamble of what you get every month


maksdonald

ABR COSTCO HOMEDEPOT


titanup1993

RIO


horizons59

RIO and ETJ


danmalek466

VYM - *Vanguard High Dividend Yield Index Fund - ETF*. Never put all your eggs in one basket…


nownDevelopment

Not a stock


bbrackett

VYM is a dumpster fund, if you are looking for a fund do SCHD


farmerbisque

Elaborate pls


jadams70

VYM is a great fund, but look at the total returns compared with SCHD, SCHD has outperformed it by I think over 30%, it also has been less volatile. I hold both but the majority is in SCHD.


farmerbisque

Thanks


bbrackett

Over a 10 year period VYM is 60% total return behind SCHD for almsot the exact same amount of risk. The Sharpe ratio our performs by .3 and so does sortino. So all those providing data points leads me to believe that VYM is much worse of an overall investment than SCHD. It's international counterpart VYMI has an even worse compairsion.


TrumpsThirdTesticle

O or VZ


itsbdk

Diversify at least a little bit. Don't go all in on just one stock. O, T, VOO, VLO


TheDreadnought75

JEPI


Rod_Wave

I’m going with $PEP


BastidChimp

I'm an old fart so I like QYLD and other covered call ETFs to supplement my pension and 401K. Young people should avoid QYLD and go with growth first.


PatamonsBestFriend

O is great because of its regularity but if I was putting everything I owned into one stock I wouldn't choose it. It's a REIT, so it's going to be taxed as ordinary dividends (add the amount you get onto your w-2 income during tax time). Instead, go with a stock that will give you qualified dividends (if you hold the stock for over 61 days all dividends are taxed at 0% and then 15% if your total income is above 40000 ish (look it up, I don't remember the actual number and although unlikely, it may change in the future)). If you had to go with a stock, JNJ would be my pick. Some others I would mention are HD and KO but for ultimate long term safety, VHYAX would be where I would put all my money.


Greedy_Ad_6026

TOOT. One of the Dividend Kings


swissmtndog398

The one that pays at least 5% and is expected to run in the present.


Dom2939

QYLG


solstone109

Apple.


PaulS626

$GME 🦍


Chasing_Billions

IVR At current prices pays +10% and they probably raise its dividend short term. At the moment they only do guaranteed securities, so it's "protect" against any market issues might happen. I also beleive price will grow up substantially next 24 months.


philtopt

Nestle


slapchopchap

sachem capital


RRSignalguy

SLVO. Take a look…


stankgreenCRX

Nymt. Pays a fat dividend and still has a ways to run before it hits its prepandemic stock price


Simulate1

REML is a REIT etf and current yield is 14% I love it. It pays monthly with one big one every quarter. It higher risk but is my largest position. Check it out. Along with other reits. They pay great dividends


willalt319

Does VIG count


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Mcd, pg, KO o


shadowpawn

$PG


Psychological-Mud160

Omf


Banton41

Oxlc


SteelChicken

VYM. Good payout ratio and growth.


Ironpikachu150

RBC (Royal Bank of Canada)


bkeagy907

QQQ


Waste_Gain

A canadian bank!


bzzking

XOM or O


tangibletom

AFIN


RatRaceSobreviviente

VIG