I bought stock in Kimberly Clark (KMB) this week as a new Income investment at a 3.2% dividend yield. Kimberly Clark is a global consumer products company with many recognizable brands used by a quarter of the world’s population in the paper products space. Some of their top brands include Huggies, Klenex, Cottonelle, Kotex, Depend…
A High-Yield REIT for Retirement Income Portfolios
A Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT) is a type of investment structure that allows investors to add exposure to real estate in their portfolio. REITs receive preferential tax treatment at the company level, where virtually all taxation is passed on to the investors, if they pay out at least 90% of net income as dividends. …
Two Ways to Invest in the Changing Shopping Trends
It’s pretty clear that more and more shopping is being done online these days to the point that retailers who were behind the curve or still brick-and-mortar focused are under a lot of pressure, leading to store closings and even a wave of bankruptcies. I recently made two new investments that I believe are positively…
New “Income” Stock Investments
The move higher in bond yields since the election has slowly been creating some new opportunities in stocks that pay higher dividend yields. These types of stocks tend to be owned for the dividend income so they are usually more affected in the short-term by changes in the bond market (changes in relative yields) than…