If starting from scratch with investing, I’d build a stock portfolio for passive income by targeting dividend stocks both inside and outside the FTSE 100 index Diversification across several positions is wise. But to begin, I’d aim to spread my money between around four companies. Trading well and growing ...
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When it comes to passive income, there are very few stocks more popular with investors than Legal & General (LSE:LGEN) and Phoenix Group (LSE:PHNX). These insurers offer some of the strongest dividends on the FTSE 100 — 8.12% and 10.62% respectively — and this is supported by the strong cash flows the ...
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Every month, we ask our freelance writers to share their top ideas for dividend stocks with you — here’s what they said for June! [Just beginning your investing journey? Check out our guide on how to start investing in the UK.] IG Group What it does: IG Group is a global fintech company providing online ...
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With FTSE stocks heating up, I’m on the hunt for value as I look to bolster my portfolio this month. Share prices are on the rise. Yet given the UK’s subpar performance over the last few years, many businesses still look great value for money. I reckon these two top-quality value stocks could be savvy ...
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Dividend shares can be a useful source of passive income. Owning them can help me earn money in the form of dividends. Successful, large FTSE 100 companies with proven business models can often generate more cash than they need to run their business. Such cash flows can fund dividends, in some cases, ...
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The idea of passive income is what first attracted me to investing. But what put me off was the impression that I needed a lot of money. It felt like there was no point in starting unless I had at least £10,000. Now I realise the absurdity of that thought process. I could have started at any time with ...
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With £10 per day, I could buy a couple of takeaway coffees, or a Tesco meal deal or two. Alternatively, I could look to build a second income stream to enjoy in my golden years. Let me break down how buying dividend-paying UK stocks could help me achieve this if I had £10 to spare everyday starting from ...
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I’ve been perusing the FTSE 100 and FTSE 250, and with a share price of 252.2p, Legal & General (LSE: LGEN) stands out to me. Both indexes have rallied this year, however, it seems like the asset management stalwart has missed out on these gains. Year to date, it has risen just 1.5%. But I don’t view ...
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From an income perspective, the appeal of Legal & General (LSE: LGEN) is clear. With its 8.1% dividend yield, the FTSE 100 income share is a passive income machine providing money regularly for legions of investors. But while the dividend side of the equation looks good, the share price has performed ...
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Hopes of falling interest rates have lifted the FTSE 100 in recent weeks. Yet Legal & General Group (LSE:LGEN) shares have failed to ignite despite the boost that rate cuts would give to its operations. Created with TradingView At 246.9p per share, the financial services giant has actually fallen in ...
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My portfolio has about a dozen core dividend stocks that regularly pay me passive income. Naturally, some will have higher yields than others. Right now, these two FTSE 100 stocks are carrying the highest. British American Tobacco: 9.7% The highest-yielding stock in my income portfolio right now is British ...
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The FTSE 100 has posted a brilliant performance in 2024 so far. But I don’t target shares from the UK-leading index just for rising share prices. I also love the passive income opportunities it provides. Footsie stocks offer some of the bulkiest yields out there. Its average yield is 3.9%. That comfortably ...
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Legal & General Group‘s (LSE:LGEN) rock-bottom share price has attracted renewed interest from bargain hunters in recent sessions. Created with TradingView In the seven days to Friday (17 May), the FTSE 100 life insurer was the eighth most popular stock to buy among Hargreaves Lansdown customers. Among ...
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I’ve been building up my position in Legal & General (LSE: LGEN) shares for a couple of years now. But with the forward dividend yield currently at a juicy 8.46%, I’d like to bag a load more for my ISA. It would be nice to get to a position where the FTSE 100 stock is paying me the equivalent of £200 ...
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The FTSE 100 has recently reached a record high. This might seem like good news all around, but it can actually make it harder for income investors to find high-yielding shares. With inflation heading lower in the UK, dividend shares are becoming more attractive than alternative investments such as UK ...
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Legal & General Group (LSE:LGEN) is one of the most popular FTSE 100 stocks to buy, largely thanks to its mammoth 8% dividend yield. While passive income might be the main attraction, it’s worth considering where the Legal & General share price could go next. The stock’s up 2% since January, although ...
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A Stocks and Shares ISA can be a good way to build long-term wealth. That may come in the form of share prices moving upwards. But dividends can also be a source of income along the way. In fact, owning an ISA stuffed full of dividend shares can be a lucrative source of passive income. If I had a £20K ...
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I think it’s smart to target investments that generate a passive income. As billionaire investor Warren Buffett once said: “If you don’t find a way to make money while you sleep, you will work until you die.” If I had £5,000 stashed away, here are the steps I’d take to start making powerful passive income. ...
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Passive income is what a lot of investors are looking for right now and it’s easy to see why. When generating this powerful form of income, investors typically have a lot more financial flexibility. The good news is that today, literally anyone can generate passive income by investing in dividend stocks. ...
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This week has been (in part) characterised by a return of wild share price swings in classic meme stocks. Moves of 100% in a day have been noted on stocks such as GameStop. So some might be confused when I flag up that the Legal & General (LSE:LGEN) share price looks very interesting to me. Up 1% in ...
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Receiving passive income makes me happy. Getting money for doing nothing lets me buy more shares, hopefully increasing the level of dividends I receive the next time a payout’s due. To be honest, I have no idea whether Nordic companies pay generous dividends. But in March, the United Nations declared ...
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As my retirement edges closer, I’m building a portfolio of FTSE 100 dividend shares to pay me a passive income when I stop working. I’m trying to strike a balance between stocks that give me a super-high yield today, and those with lower yields but higher share price growth prospects. However, if I was ...
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Some dividend stocks are made differently to others… or is it simply a case of having shareholder-focused management? Find out the reasons that four of our free-site writers are keen on the following income shares: British American Tobacco What it does: BAT is one of the world’s largest tobacco companies. ...
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Like many UK financial firms since the 2016 Brexit decision, Legal & General’s (LSE: LGEN) share price has struggled. This bearishness was compounded in March/April last year by fears of a new global financial crisis. These were caused by the failures of Silicon Valley Bank and later Credit Suisse. Both ...
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The average UK adult has about £11,000 in savings. Well, that was in January, according to Finance Monthly. I reckon that could make a great start to building long-term passive income. I won’t speculate on rare metals, buy peanut futures, or pick any of the weird and wonderful ideas out there. No, there’s ...
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The UK stock market has burst into life lately, but there are still dividend shares around that look like decent value. For example, with its share price near 249p, Legal & General (LSE: LGEN) has a forward-looking dividend yield for 2025 of around 9%. That compares to the aggregated yield of the FTSE ...
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Retiring early might not be for all of us – but for a lot of people, it is a longstanding dream. One approach would be building up savings in a vehicle like a Stocks and Shares ISA or SIPP, then investing in blue-chip shares. But there can be some challenges with this, including finding the right shares ...
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Earning a second income does not need to mean working more hours. In fact, what I see as a fairly simple way to earn a second income is using a Stocks and Shares ISA to buy dividend shares. Of course, sometimes it can work better than others. Dividends are never guaranteed. That is why I would spread ...
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I invest in dividend shares because they give me a healthy second income. I use this cash to buy more stocks, compounding any gains. When I come to retire, the same high-yielding shares should give me some additional income to supplement my pension. Ground zero If I started my investing journey again, ...
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The internet is full of weird and wonderful ideas to make passive income. I recently read about a man with a particularly impressive beard who rents it out for advertising purposes. Yes, some companies actually look for individuals with distinctive facial hair to promote their products! Unfortunately, ...
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In late 2019, stock markets were riding high and the S&P 500 index kept setting new highs until mid-February 2020. Then Covid-19 swept the world, sending share prices plunging. By 20 March 2020, US and UK markets had crashed by 35%, on growing fears of a global pandemic. Happily, the world bounced back ...
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There seems to be no stopping the FTSE 100 as demand for value stocks heats up. At 8,354 points, the UK’s premier share index is up 8% since the start of 2024. It’s also printed several new record highs in this time. Investor concerns over Britain’s economic prospects and political landscape have dented ...
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If I had £11,185 in savings, and could supplement it with a modest monthly investment, I’d seek to generate long-term passive income by buying FTSE 100 stocks. The figure I’ve mentioned hasn’t been plucked out of the air. According to Finder, it’s the average amount that a UK adult has in cash savings. ...
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Habitual Fool readers may gather that my interest in passive income sometimes borders on the obsessive. (In my defence, I am over 55, so retirement is on the horizon at some point.) My favourite form of unearned income doesn’t come from, say, savings interest, bond coupons or buy-to-let income. Like ...
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One way of getting a stream of enduring passive income is via stock dividends. Behind every stock is a business, and some are better at supporting dividends than others. My preference is for enterprises with defensive characteristics rather than cyclical outfits. So I’m not too keen on companies that ...
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I sold my Lloyds (LSE: LLOY) stock recently because it trades too much like a ‘penny share’ for my liking. Strictly speaking, it is not one as its market capitalisation is too big. But at just 52p a share, every penny it moves is nearly 2% of the stock’s value! Additionally, several FTSE 100 stocks look ...
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UK shares have been rising sharply in recent weeks, supported by Stocks and Shares ISA investors making an early start on their new £20k annual allowance. Susannah Streeter, head of money and markets at Hargreaves Lansdown, notes that “investors have been wasting no time at the start of the tax year, ...
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A Stocks and Shares ISA is a brilliant way to generate passive income, because it’s all free of tax. I’m only into the first month of the new financial year, and haven’t started investing up to my £20,000 limit yet. So I’m sifting through the FTSE 100, looking for stocks that should generate the highest ...
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A Stocks and Shares ISA can be a handy way to tuck investments away for the long term, hoping for the sort of price gains once seen at Tesla or NVIDIA. But an ISA can also be an income machine, thanks to the potential for dividends. If I wanted to target a weekly passive income of £190 on average, thanks ...
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As an income investor, I like dividend stocks. The idea of generating income from doing very little appeals to me. That’s why I recently purchased shares in Legal & General (LSE:LGEN). For the year ended 31 December 2023 (FY23), the company declared a dividend of 20.34p a share. This means it’s currently ...
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A couple of weeks ago, I decided to buy shares in Legal & General (LSE:LGEN). With a yield in excess of 8%, it’s good for passive income. But there’s little point buying a stock for its generous dividend if its share price is going to tank. High yields are only sustainable if a company’s profitable, ...
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The FTSE 100‘s home to a variety of popular passive income stocks. It’s jam-packed with businesses that have multiple revenue streams, market leading positions, and strong balance sheets. These qualities in turn give them the ability to pay a decent and typically growing dividend. But the outlook for ...
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A FTSE 100 household name with a dividend yield of over 8% and a history of raising its dividend almost every year for the past decade? That certainly grabs my attention as an investor. The share in question is Legal & General (LSE: LGEN). The track record looks good – but what might happen in future ...
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The old stock market saying instructs us to sell in May and go away. While I’m not a huge believer in this, there are a couple of UK shares that I’d offload from my portfolio if I were having a spring clean. In general, I look to concentrate on the best investment opportunities I can find. And sometimes ...
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Last year, I went on a share buying spree, snapping up FTSE 100 dividend stocks I hoped would pay me a high and rising passive income over time. I decided it was a good time to buy them, as interest rates looked like they had peaked, and (I hoped) would start falling in 2024. Two top dividend shares ...
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Passive income — earning money without working for it – has an obvious appeal. But some passive income ideas seem like a waste of time to me. I do not believe I will earn income from them, they are not passive – or both. One approach I do like though, is to invest in shares I reckon can pay me dividends ...
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The UK financial services sector certainly has some juicy dividend yields right now. Insurer Aviva (LSE: AV) yields 7.2%, for example. That attracts me and I would happily buy Aviva shares for my portfolio if I had spare cash to invest. But even better than the Aviva dividend yield is that offered by ...
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A big part of my investment aim is to ensure I have a passive income stream for when I retire. I do wish I was retiring tomorrow, but I’m not quite there yet. However, I do feel the retirement age some mornings. Let’s say I was, and had to put all my money into just three stocks. I’d choose National ...
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There are plenty of ways people try and earn passive income. They could start a business or enter the property game. But by investing in blue-chip companies with proven business models, I hope to build passive income streams through dividends. I find it one of the simplest methods. Companies pay dividends ...
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