Dividend stocks are often categorized in superficial ways, primarily lumping together all higher yielding stocks as "high yield" and lower yielding stocks as "dividend growth." There are many nuances.

It's time to shop for bargains in the U.S. stock market If you want to shop for bargains in the U.S. stock market now that many names are on sale, who better to turn to for guidance than a value ...

A value stock is one in which its price doesn’t necessarily reflect its fundamental worth. Basically, value stock investors seek bargains. By investing in a value stock, you are assuming an eventual ...

Preferred stocks provide fixed-income like dividends but lack long-term value growth. They are riskier than bonds as they are subordinate in asset claims during bankruptcy. Preferred stocks can be ...

Understand the market-maker spread as the price gap between buying and selling offers by market makers, and how it compensates for market-making risks.

Oh, the irony. I was just sitting down to write about another well-known cola company stock (take a guess which one), when I saw a note from one of my Seeking Alpha editors: "how about writing about ...