The bull market that has been charging for the past year has seen a surge in volatility recently. The Chinese startup DeepSeek released its latest AI model, R1, and shook up the tech world with claims that the new AI consumes just a fraction of the computing power as existing big-name AIs and has been much cheaper to develop – but gives comparable results.

AGNC Investment (NASDAQ: AGNC) has maintained its monster dividend (14.5% current yield) for 58 months in a row. The mortgage-focused real estate investment trust (REIT) believes that streak will continue.

Fact checked by Peter Gratton Some aristocrats actually like sharing the wealth. In fact, dividend aristocrats share more and more every year. A dividend aristocrat is an S&P 500 company that has increased its dividend annually for at least 25 years,

The annualized dividend paid by AbbVie is $6.56/share, currently paid in quarterly installments, and its most recent dividend ex-date was on 01/15/2025

Brookfield Renewable continues to offer investors the best of both worlds. It pays a high-yielding dividend it intends to grow by 5% to 9% per year over the long term. The company can easily support that growth rate, given its expectations that it can grow its FFO per share by more than 10% annually for the foreseeable future.