UPS (United Parcel Service) Stock News

The trend is your friend is a well-known Wall Street catchphrase that often has proven to be correct.

There's perhaps no event more anticipated by investors than the quarterly unveiling of what Berkshire Hathaway's (BRK.A 1.53%) (BRK.B 1.31%) mastermind CEO Warren Buffett has been up to on the investing front.

At its current share price, United Parcel Service's (UPS 0.85%) dividend offers investors a huge 6.4% yield. That payout is backed by 16 straight annual dividend increases, so given that the S&P 500 (^GSPC 0.70%) index is only offering a measly 1.3% yield, income-seeking investors should be doing a deep dive on UPS today.

Reward matters in investing, but so does risk. It's not hard to see the potential reward for investors in high-yield stocks like Ford (F 0.42%) and UPS (UPS 0.85%).

Two investing adages might seem to contradict each other. Many investors have long followed the maxim to "buy low and sell high.

I analyze 50 Bloomberg 'Companies to Watch' for 2025, focusing on the 35 that pay dividends and applying the yield-based dogcatcher strategy. 15 of these dividend payers are 'safer' stocks, with free cash flow yields exceeding dividend yields—five are IDEAL candidates for watch-to-buy. Top ten dividend dogs offer estimated average net gains of 21.33% for the coming year, but investors should be...

Amazon and FedEx have entered a package delivery deal, with FedEx becoming "one of several third-party partners to deliver packages" to Amazon customers.

Amazon.com Inc (NASDAQ:AMZN) announced that it has entered into a multi-year agreement with FedEx Corp (NYSE:FDX, ETR:FDX) to handle the delivery of large and bulky residential packages across the United States. The partnership marks a renewal of relations between the two companies after FedEx ended its contract with Amazon in 2019.