UPS (United Parcel Service) Stock News

In this video, Motley Fool contributor Jason Hall explains why he owns dividend stocks United Parcel Service (UPS 1.41%), Meritage Homes (MTH 1.25%), and EPR Properties (EPR 1.28%), and thinks they're worth buying today and holding for at least the next 10 years and beyond.

Shares of United Parcel Service (UPS 1.41%) got caught up in a big story during the coronavirus pandemic period. When Wall Street realized, yet again, that trees don't grow to the sky, UPS, as it is more commonly known, saw its stock price crater.

When you think of United Postal Service (UPS 1.41%), you might think of brown trucks, brown packages, or the old advertising slogan, "What can Brown do for you?"

United Parcel Service (UPS 1.41%), which usually just goes by UPS, has a huge dividend yield of 7.9%. Many investors are likely attracted to it as a dividend stock, but that's a risky call.

Dividends are a wonderful thing, because healthy and growing dividend-paying stocks will tend to keep paying their shareholders regularly, no matter what the overall economy is doing. Better still, they'll generally increase their payouts over time -- often annually.

It's been a good year for the stock market as a whole, with the S&P 500 rising by 14% year to date (as of Sept. 22) and hitting new highs along the way.

You don't often find United Parcel Service (UPS 0.04%), Conagra Brands (CAG 0.44%), and LyondellBasell Industries (LYB 1.07%) in the same opening sentence. It's a first for me, for sure.

United Parcel Service (UPS -0.10%) stock is undoubtedly one of the most intriguing investment propositions on the market today. It's a blue-chip stock trading on less than 13 times the Wall Street analyst consensus earnings estimate for 2025,  and sporting a whopping 7.7% dividend yield.