What are qualified dividends vs ordinary dividends? Here, we examine which is which, how each one is taxed and what it means ...

Dividends earned in an IRA can be a valuable source of growth, but how they’re taxed depends on the type of account you hold. Dividends in a traditional IRA are taxed as regular income when you ...

Money is fungible — it doesn’t matter whether you receive it as income or capital appreciation. A company’s value shouldn’t ...

Dividend stocks offer both passive income and potential capital growth. Regular, special, and variable are the three types of dividends. Dividend yield helps compare income potential across ...

I recently dug into the pros and cons of dividend reinvestment. Readers of the article sent me questions about other dividend-related topics. Here are some of the most common questions I got: ...