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 ...

VYM is one of five large-cap value ETFs to have at least $1B in assets and five consecutive years of dividend growth. In fact, VYM, DGRO, VIG, VTV, and SCHD are on 10+ year dividend growth streaks, ...

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 ...