Verizon Communications Stock News

The "RIG" portfolio aims for 50% income from defensive sectors and includes 83 stocks across 11+ sectors, focusing on investment-grade stocks. Defensive sectors include consumer staples, healthcare, utilities, and communication/telecom, with top-yield stocks like British American Tobacco and Pfizer. Groups 2 and 3 include defensive financials, bonds, ETFs, and preferred shares, contributing to ...

The S&P 500 (^GSPC 1.00%) has been on fire for the last two years, racking up a gain of nearly 51%, which it hadn't done since the dot-com era. Along the way, however, its valuation has gotten stretched, which means its dividend yield has fallen, with the exchange-traded funds that track the index now paying a yield of just 1.2%.

When it comes to stocks that can offer both income and upside, two of the world's largest telecom companies are interesting places to look. Verizon Communications NYSE: VZ and AT&T NYSE: T both have substantial dividend yields of over 5%.

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Many dividend stocks lost their luster in 2022 and 2023 as rising interest rates drove jittery investors toward safer CDs, Treasury bills, and other fixed-income investments. However, many of those high-yielding dividend stocks stabilized in 2024 as the Federal Reserve finally implemented three interest rate cuts.

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I have been slowly buying shares of Verizon (VZ 1.15%) over the past few years. The big draw for me is the telecom giant's big-time dividend.