Owen Baptiste writes StockVane's dividend and income coverage — payout safety, aristocrat-style compounders, and building a portfolio that pays you to hold it. He manages his own dividend portfolio and writes from that experience, not from a model. His articles are analysis and opinion, not personalized advice — see StockVane's Editorial Standards and Disclaimer.
3M trades at 29.5 times trailing earnings against a five-year average of 12.5. The reason is the denominator: EPS fell from $10.18 in 2022 to $5.63 over the last four quarters. We check whether the…
Duke Energy has raised its quarterly dividend two cents every year, even in 2022 when EPS fell 36%. Capital spending has outrun operating cash flow in four of five years, so who pays for the…
In 2015 Kinder Morgan paid $4.22B in dividends on $1.42B of free cash flow. In 2025 it paid $2.60B on $2.89B. The dividend has caught up, but cover fell from 1.75x in 2021 to 1.11x…
Friday, September 18 turned over $791 billion, nearly double a normal day. Bloom Energy traded 25% of its own value and Sandisk 12%, while Nvidia and Apple barely registered on that measure. Here is what…
Blackstone paid $3.30 a share in 2022, then $1.56 in 2023. Its dividend follows earnings, with a lag. We set the payment history against diluted EPS, test the 2.7% verifiable yield, and name the November…
Bristol-Myers pays a 3.98% yield, but Eliquis and Opdivo made 54 cents of every named-product dollar last quarter. We test how much of that risk the price already discounts, and which quarterly number would start…
CME paid a special dividend every December from 2019 to 2024, up to $5.80 a share, yet the stock’s 4.08% yield hides how much depends on a board decision. Here is what the payment records…
AT&T cut its dividend by 47% in 2022. Since then the $1.11 payout has been covered 2.4 times by free cash flow and takes 37% of trailing EPS. Why that looks durable, why 2025 earnings…
Union Pacific trades at 22.6 times earnings versus a 17.7 five-year average, the 86th percentile of its own range. Flat sales for three years, then one 12% quarter: is that enough to justify the premium,…
Nebius has 16.7% of its float sold short, the highest of 300 stocks, down from 24.1% in July. Carvana, Union Pacific and Canadian Natural are crowded in a different way, with exits that take a…