Jason Hall is a contributing Motley Fool stock market analyst with more than a decade of experience writing about dividend stocks and long-term investing. He has been with the company since 2012 and ...

Forward dividend yield is an estimated annual yield calculated by taking the most recent regular dividend payment for a stock, applied across the regular dividend payment for a year, and dividing it ...

More often than not, investors look to the stock market for investment gains from price appreciation. If a stock pays a dividend, that's great ... but chances are, that dividend will be a small ...

Dividend-paying stocks are a great way to generate passive income and can be considered a safe bet in the current uncertain market situation.

If a company’s annual DPS remains constant while its share price declines, its yield increases. However, this only applies to new investors. Once a stock is purchased, the investor's yield is ...