| BlackRock, JPMorgan, Goldman Sachs, and Fidelity are reportedly accumulating a scarce blockchain asset - one that gets burned with every transaction on what analysts are calling America's new financial grid.
The Nasdaq has received SEC approval to move stocks onto blockchain rails, and BlackRock CEO Larry Fink dedicated his entire 2026 annual letter to this infrastructure shift. Blockchain analyst Andy Howard is calling this asset 'Digital Oil' - and says institutional buyers are already positioned.  |
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| | Hedge funds are rotating out of AI hype and into the hardware layer powering it. New research identifies three profitable U.S. infrastructure companies leading this shift.
One just posted 76% year-over-year data-center growth. Another holds a $12 billion backlog from global hyperscalers. A third is generating 59%+ gross margins on next-gen chips.  |
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| Ex-Dividend Stocks for Monday, July 20th |
| | Company | Share Price | Amount / Period | Yield | Previous Amount | Payout Ratio | Payable Date | | CAT Caterpillar | $881.26 | $1.63
quarterly | 0.76% | $1.51 | 30.1% | 8/19/26
| | CL Colgate-Palmolive | $92.84 | $0.53
quarterly | 2.37% | $0.53 | 82.5% | 8/14/26
| | DOC Healthpeak Properties | $22.52 | $0.10
monthly | 5.65% | $0.10 | 381.3% | 7/31/26
| | GGG Graco | $74.61 | $0.30
quarterly | 1.58% | $0.30 | 38.4% | 8/5/26
| | OC Owens Corning | $144.04 | $0.79
quarterly | 2.47% | $0.79 | -47.8% | 8/6/26
| | PNC The PNC Financial Services Group | $252.88 | $2.00
quarterly | 3.13% | $1.70 | 39.5% | 8/5/26
| | ZTS Zoetis | $76.44 | $0.53
quarterly | 2.66% | $0.53 | 35.2% | 9/1/26
| | Please note you must purchase shares of these companies by the market close today to receive the next dividend payment. |
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Ex-Dividend Stocks for Tuesday, July 21st |
| | Company | Share Price | Amount / Period | Yield | Previous Amount | Payout Ratio | Payable Date | | CARR Carrier Global | $68.71 | $0.24
quarterly | 1.40% | $0.24 | 63.2% | 8/10/26
| | CMRE Costamare | $14.74 | $0.13
quarterly | 3.56% | $0.12 | 17.2% | 8/6/26
| | DAC Danaos | $125.74 | $0.90
quarterly | 2.87% | $0.90 | 12.7% | 7/30/26
| | DELL Dell Technologies | $397.18 | $0.63
quarterly | 0.62% | $0.63 | 20.0% | 7/31/26
| | Please note you must purchase shares of these companies by the market close tomorrow to receive the next dividend payment. |
OpenAI and Anthropic are moving closer to the public markets - and that shift could pull serious capital into AI infrastructure, chips, cloud, and data centers.
A fresh report breaks down 9 public AI stocks positioned to benefit before, during, and after this IPO wave - including a chip name tied to U.S. AI manufacturing, a cloud play with improving momentum, and a data analytics company with enterprise upside.  |
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Ex-Dividend Stocks for Wednesday, July 22nd |
| | Company | Share Price | Amount / Period | Yield | Previous Amount | Payout Ratio | Payable Date | | APA APA | $35.22 | $0.25
quarterly | 2.54% | $0.25 | 23.3% | 8/21/26
| | LEVI Levi Strauss & Co. | $24.36 | $0.16
quarterly | 2.63% | $0.14 | 34.6% | 8/5/26
| | LOW Lowe's Companies | $208.57 | $1.25
quarterly | 2.33% | $1.20 | 40.6% | 8/5/26
| | Please note you must purchase shares of these companies by the market close tomorrow to receive the next dividend payment. |
New Dividend Declarations for Friday, July 17th |
| | Company | Share Price | Amount / Period | Yield | Previous Amount | Payout Ratio | Payable Date | | CSW CSW Industrials | $279.11 | $0.30
quarterly | 0.43% | $0.30 | 18.0% | 8/14/26
| | QCOM Qualcomm | $171.78 | $0.92
quarterly | 2.14% | $0.92 | 40.0% | 9/24/26
| | SOLS Solstice Advanced Mat | $58.38 | $0.08
quarterly | 0.51% | $0.08 | 33.7% | 9/10/26
| | TRV Travelers Companies | $369.50 | $1.25
quarterly | 1.35% | $1.25 | 14.9% | 9/30/26
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| Dividend Stock IdeasThis is a list of companies that meet common criteria that investors use to evaluate dividend stocks. This list contains companies that have dividend yields greater than 3%, payout ratios of less than 75% (or less than 100% for REITs), five-year average annual dividend growth of at least 1.5% and a minimum market cap of $1 billion. |
| | Company | Dividend Yield | Annual Payout | Payout Ratio | Annual Dividend Growth | P/E Ratio | Market Cap | | TBCG TBC Bank Group PLC | 5.45% | GBX 1,067.01 | 41.39% | 5.29% | 1.84 | £2.61K | | FSK FS KKR Capital Corp. | 15.12% | $1.68 | N/A | 1.81% | N/A | $3.11K | | BGEO Lion Finance Group PLC | 4.54% | GEL 1,622.58 | 31.57% | 4.90% | 2.20 | GEL487.93K | | EFC Ellington Financial Inc. | 11.39% | $1.56 | 93.98% | 4.36% | 8.15 | $1.72K | | WPP WPP plc | 5.47% | GBX 31.90 | N/A | 4.75% | N/A | £3.05K | | PRGO Perrigo Company plc | 10.39% | $1.16 | N/A | 5.21% | N/A | $1.54K |
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