Image source: Getty Images Finding high-quality stocks that generate passive income became increasingly important to me after I turned 50. This is because such shares can provide significant dividend streams with little effort on my part (hence the ‘passive’ label). I intend to use these to continue to reduce my working commitments as I age. Of course, such income can be drawn on earlier in life, to make it much more comfortable. One stock I have held for several years for its passive income flows is Rio Tinto (LSE: RIO). This has averaged an annual dividend yield of 7.34% over…
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Image source: Getty Images There aren’t many penny shares offering a dividend yield above 5%, but Michelmersh Brick (LSE:MBH) is one of them. The AIM-listed brickmaker’s share price is down 11% year to date and 43% since April 2021. However, the selling might have gone too far, at least according to the four City analysts following the stock. They have an average share price target of 136p — some 54% above the current 88p. What’s more, all four rate the stock as a Strong Buy. Challenging backdrop Michelmersh is a premium brick and building products manufacturer, operating throughout the UK…
Let’s be honest — 2025 hasn’t been the most exciting year for Tesco (LSE: TSCO) shares. The stock’s only up around 23% this year, which hardly sets the market alight. But zoom out to a three-year view and it’s a different story altogether. Including dividends, Tesco’s delivered a total return of roughly 140% since 2022. That means a £5,000 investment back then would now be worth around £12,000. A £7,000 return in just three years is a decent chunk of passive income by anyone’s standards. But is the performance above average when compared to other similar shares? Let’s take a…
Image source: Getty Images I love hunting the London stock market’s AIM index for up-and-coming FTSE shares. It’s often where the most exciting growth stories begin — and sometimes where unfairly punished stocks can be found at bargain prices. One company that’s caught my attention lately is Warpaint London (LSE: W7L), a cosmetics retailer that’s fallen sharply this year but still looks impressively profitable. Now trading just over £2, £500 would net me around 226 of the shares. But would that be a good idea? Let’s have a look. Betting on beauty Warpaint sells branded cosmetics under the lead names…
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Image source: Getty Images ITV (LSE: ITV) lost a bit of its shine earlier this year when its dividend yield fell below 6%. But as the share price has slipped almost 13% in the past six months, the yield has slowly climbed back above 7%. That could present an opportunity for investors to scoop up some shares while cheap and aim to boost their dividend income. Screenshot from dividenddata.co.uk But how many shares would be needed? Well, for the past three years, ITV’s paid out a full-year dividend of 5p per share. It hasn’t yet declared its final dividend for…
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A subscriber to our YouTube channel asks, “Assuming we retire at the age of 60 and live up to 85 years. I have been investing in the NIFTY 50 Index since age 30. Can I not hold NIFTY 50 even in retirement for a consistent passive income through SWP? Seasoned investors in the USA do that with the S&P 500. And there is no such analysis available for NIFTY 50. Might be worth making a video about this”.The first consideration is, “How much equity should I hold after retirement?” As many of our retirement planning illustrations with the freefincal robo…
Image source: Getty Images Back in April, Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) was one of the companies caught up in the fallout from US trade and tariff policy shifting unexpectedly. Since then, however, Nvidia has more than recovered. It now sells for 93% higher than it did in the first week of April. So, someone who invested £1k in it back then would today be sitting on a holding worth £1,930. That is excluding the impact of a shifting pound-dollar exchange rate. Looking to the future It also excludes dividends. Nvidia stock yields 0.02%. So a £1,000 investment now would earn around…
Image source: Getty Images Ultimate Products (LSE: ULTP) isn’t a household name, but most UK households probably own something it makes. From Salter scales to Beldray irons, the penny stock company designs and distributes branded household goods for major UK retailers. Despite that unglamorous profile, this small-cap manufacturer might just be one of the most promising opportunities around. The numbers are genuinely eye-catching. Return on equity (ROE) currently sits near 15%, which puts it in the same league as some high-growth FTSE 100 stocks. Even more impressively, the dividend yield is over 10% – a level rarely seen outside the…