First Capital, Inc. (NASDAQ:FCAP) will increase its dividend on the 26th of September to $0.31, which is 6.9% higher than last year’s payment from the same period of $0.29. This makes the dividend yield about the same as the industry average at 3.0%. This technology could replace computers: discover the 20 stocks are working to make quantum computing a reality. We aren’t too impressed by dividend yields unless they can be sustained over time. Having distributed dividends for at least 10 years, First Capital has a long history of paying out a part of its earnings to shareholders. Past distributions…
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The board of First Capital, Inc. (NASDAQ:FCAP) has announced that it will be increasing its dividend by 6.9% on the 26th of September to $0.31, up from last year’s comparable payment of $0.29. This makes the dividend yield about the same as the industry average at 3.0%. AI is about to change healthcare. These 20 stocks are working on everything from early diagnostics to drug discovery. The best part – they are all under $10bn in marketcap – there is still time to get in early. First Capital’s Dividend Forecasted To Be Well Covered By Earnings We like a dividend…
Image source: Getty Images Lloyds‘(LSE: LLOY) shares continued their seemingly endless climb this week, bringing their total year-to-date gains to an astonishing 54%. Only a handful of FTSE 100 stocks are doing better, including Fresnillo, Babcock, Airtel Africa and the ever-popular Rolls-Royce. Among the banks, Lloyds is leading the pack. NatWest and Barclays are up around 40%, while Standard Chartered has risen 37% and HSBC 24%. That’s quite the turnaround for a bank that not so long ago was widely seen as a serial underperformer. Created on TradingView.com A speeding train? RBC Capital Markets recently likened European banks to a…
Tesco (LSE: TSCO) shares are up over 90% in the past five years, with the vast majority of those gains coming in just the past two. After post-Covid inflation began tapering off in 2023, the UK’s largest supermarket chain has gone from strength to strength. An investor who sank £5,000 into the stock in August 2020 would be sitting on a £2,500 gain from capital appreciation alone. Reinvesting dividends along the way, that figure climbs to around £11,200 in total value – a tasty £6,200 profit. By comparison, the FTSE 100 has only managed a 54% rise in the same…
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Image source: Getty Images We all know the importance of saving and investing for later life. But once you’ve built your nest egg — possibly through a combination of growth and dividend shares — what’s the best way to put this to work to generate a solid retirement income? There’s no right and wrong answer to this. Some people like the security of a guaranteed income that annuity products provide. Other people like to draw down a set percentage of their portfolio each year. My preferred option, which I plan to use myself when I retire, is to invest my…
Image source: Getty Images The Greggs (LSE: GRG) share price has gone cold. Until recently, investors couldn’t get enough of it, but now they appear to have lost their appetite. Shares in the FTSE 250 bakery chain have plunged almost 50% in a year, a dramatic reversal after a sizzling run. And I’ll say it, I’m not surprised. The stock was generating so much heat that I began to wonder how long the cult of Greggs could last. Britons stopped sneering at it’s cut-price steak bakes and sausage rolls some years ago, and embraced Greggs as a national treasure instead. The vegan sausage roll…
Planting trees should reduce the amount of CO₂ in the atmosphere right? Well, its not so easy as that. Trees also provide shade and prevent sunlight from reaching the ground that could reflect it back into space, cooling the plant, known as the albedo effect. That means sometimes it makes more sense to cut the trees down and expose the more reflective ground than allow a forest to grow up, according to a study published in Nature, Bloomberg reports. Tree-planting schemes have been widely promoted as low-cost, nature-based solutions to global warming. The new research suggests that the climate benefits of forests need…
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Image source: Getty Images When it comes to dividends not all FTSE 100 shares are the same. For example, Polar Capital Technology Trust doesn’t pay one. Instead, it prefers to use the surplus cash that it generates to buy shares in other companies in the hope of achieving capital growth. Another, Alliance Witan (coincidentally, also an investment trust), has a long history of increasing its payments to shareholders. Earlier this year, it announced its 58th consecutive annual rise. But an impressive track record like this doesn’t necessarily mean its dividend is generous. In fact, based on amounts paid over the…