Block's (NYSE: SQ) fourth-quarter 2022 earnings were a mixed bag. On the one hand, revenue of $4.65 billion and gross profit of $1.66 billion beat Wall Street estimates. Probably the best reason to love Block is its two budding ecosystems. Read More...
The Wall Street Journal
How Dividend Investors Can Pick the Right Companies
Investors have been gravitating toward dividend-paying stocks and the mutual funds and exchange-traded funds that buy them. Over the past three years, many of them have resumed dividend payments—but some haven’t, and according to the latest Global Dividend Index from Janus Henderson, overall dividend growth is expected to slow to 2.3% in 2023. Now, even as the economy continues to emerge from the worst of the pandemic disruptions, persistent inflation and higher interest rates are stressing companies’ balance sheets, which can discourage dividend payments.
