| Without a will, your state's intestacy laws decide how your assets are divided — a rigid formula that ignores unmarried partners, unequal financial needs among heirs, and charities you supported. Outdated beneficiary forms on retirement accounts can send assets to ex-spouses or estranged relatives, regardless of what your will says.
Probate without a will can take months or years, freeze your assets, and become part of the public court record. A fiduciary financial advisor can walk you through beneficiary designations, trust structures, and tax strategy before it's too late.  |
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| | Jeff Brown and Marc Chaikin - two investors who spotted Nvidia a decade ago - are now pointing to Elon Musk's latest AI patent as the catalyst behind their next major call.
They say a market pattern with a 100% historical track record is converging with this new breakthrough by end of month. The last time conditions aligned like this, investors had the chance to turn $10,000 into as much as $350,000 in roughly 12 months.
Brown and Chaikin have released the full details for investors who want to get ahead of it.  |
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| Ex-Dividend Stocks for Tuesday, August 11th |
| | Company | Share Price | Amount / Period | Yield | Previous Amount | Payout Ratio | Payable Date | | AA Alcoa | $50.18 | $0.10
quarterly | 0.89% | $0.10 | 8.2% | 8/27/26
| | AWK American Water Works | $135.29 | $0.90
quarterly | 2.59% | $0.90 | 62.0% | 9/1/26
| | CAKE Cheesecake Factory | $107.05 | $0.30
quarterly | 1.20% | $0.30 | 32.5% | 8/25/26
| | CNXN PC Connection | $84.14 | $0.20
quarterly | 0.96% | $0.20 | 21.2% | 8/28/26
| | DINO HF Sinclair | $81.46 | $0.53
quarterly | 2.34% | $0.50 | 19.1% | 9/2/26
| | DLB Dolby Laboratories | $61.70 | $0.36
quarterly | 2.79% | $0.36 | 61.3% | 8/19/26
| | F Ford Motor | $13.99 | $0.15
quarterly | 4.01% | $0.15 | -32.1% | 9/1/26
| | FBK FB Financial | $60.88 | $0.21
quarterly | 1.44% | $0.21 | 22.5% | 8/25/26
| | HBT HBT Financial | $36.35 | $0.25
quarterly | 2.89% | $0.23 | 39.5% | 8/18/26
| | HTGC Hercules Capital | $17.26 | $0.40
quarterly | 9.85% | $0.07 | 79.6% | 8/18/26
| | INGM Ingram Micro | $28.38 | $0.09
quarterly | 1.22% | $0.08 | 18.6% | 8/25/26
| | KMT Kennametal | $33.11 | $0.20
quarterly | 2.35% | $0.20 | 18.2% | 8/25/26
| | NOMD Nomad Foods | $11.99 | $0.17
quarterly | 5.47% | $0.17 | 66.0% | 8/27/26
| | RYAN Ryan Specialty | $42.78 | $0.13
quarterly | 1.18% | $0.13 | 72.2% | 8/25/26
| | SCCO Southern Copper | $199.38 | $1.10
quarterly | 2.55% | $1.00 | 58.5% | 8/27/26
| | TEX Terex | $67.77 | $0.17
quarterly | 1.00% | $0.17 | 34.7% | 9/18/26
| | V Visa | $362.32 | $0.67
quarterly | 0.73% | $0.67 | 22.8% | 9/1/26
| | WLFC Willis Lease Finance | $61.05 | $0.13
quarterly | 0.73% | $0.13 | 13.3% | 8/21/26
| | WTRG Essential Utilities | $40.06 | $0.36
quarterly | 3.55% | $0.34 | 69.9% | 9/1/26
| | Please note you must purchase shares of these companies by the market close today to receive the next dividend payment. |
A researcher who has advised Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase, BlackRock, and Fidelity flew to Starbase after spotting a detail buried inside SpaceX's S-1 filing.
Rob Spivey, Managing Director at Altimetry, says the discovery could reshape how investors view the AI economy, and he's naming the one stock positioned to benefit, not Tesla or SpaceX.
The full briefing and stock name are free, with no credit card required.  |
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Ex-Dividend Stocks for Wednesday, August 12th |
| | Company | Share Price | Amount / Period | Yield | Previous Amount | Payout Ratio | Payable Date | | AB AllianceBernstein | $37.13 | $0.82
quarterly | 8.76% | $0.83 | 98.2% | 8/27/26
| | AER Aercap | $151.84 | $0.40
quarterly | 1.08% | $0.40 | 7.9% | 9/3/26
| | BRO Brown & Brown | $71.37 | $0.17
quarterly | 1.01% | $0.17 | 20.8% | 8/19/26
| | BTU Peabody Energy | $23.80 | $0.08
quarterly | 1.43% | $0.08 | -20.0% | 9/3/26
| | CLBK Columbia Financial | $10.84 | $0.05
quarterly | 1.83% | - | - | 8/26/26
| | CLX Clorox | $105.24 | $1.25
quarterly | 5.23% | $1.24 | 102.9% | 8/28/26
| | DMC Fresh Del Monte Produce | $30.75 | $0.30
quarterly | 3.90% | - | 169.0% | 9/4/26
| | FTAI FTAI Aviation | $216.24 | $0.50 | - | - | 34.8% | 8/24/26
| | HOMB Home BancShares | $30.81 | $0.23
quarterly | 3.03% | $0.21 | 38.0% | 9/2/26
| | KVUE Kenvue | $19.22 | $0.21
quarterly | 4.25% | $0.21 | 95.4% | 8/26/26
| | NTB Bank of N.T. Butterfield & Son | $62.35 | $0.50
quarterly | 3.30% | $0.50 | 35.1% | 8/26/26
| | PCAR PACCAR | $133.11 | $0.35
quarterly | 1.13% | $0.35 | 29.4% | 9/2/26
| | ST Sensata Technologies | $46.74 | $0.12
quarterly | 1.04% | $0.12 | 80.0% | 8/26/26
| | TGT Target | $149.50 | $1.16
quarterly | 3.50% | $1.14 | 60.2% | 9/1/26
| | URI United Rentals | $1,162.37 | $1.97
quarterly | 0.76% | $1.97 | 18.9% | 8/26/26
| | WELL Welltower | $237.37 | $0.85
quarterly | 1.37% | $0.74 | 135.8% | 8/20/26
| | WINA Winmark | $368.12 | $1.02
quarterly | 1.08% | $1.02 | 37.0% | 9/1/26
| | WT WisdomTree | $21.24 | $0.03
quarterly | 0.62% | $0.03 | 23.1% | 8/26/26
| | Please note you must purchase shares of these companies by the market close tomorrow to receive the next dividend payment. |
Police in eastern Congo once found twelve gold bars and $800,000 hidden under a car seat. A Swiss research group later uncovered a bigger gap: 435 tonnes of gold, more than a tonne a day, leaving Africa with no export record anywhere on Earth.
Ghana banned foreign gold traders and raided a house 48 hours later, arresting ten Chinese nationals. Meanwhile China has logged twenty straight months of official gold buying, with outside estimates suggesting the real total is nearly five times what Beijing reports.  |
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Ex-Dividend Stocks for Thursday, August 13th |
| | Company | Share Price | Amount / Period | Yield | Previous Amount | Payout Ratio | Payable Date | | DRS Leonardo DRS | $44.80 | $0.09
quarterly | 0.79% | $0.09 | 30.3% | 8/27/26
| | ETR Entergy | $107.26 | $0.64
quarterly | 2.37% | $0.64 | 65.6% | 9/1/26
| | EXE Expand Energy | $92.84 | $0.58
quarterly | 2.60% | $0.58 | 19.9% | 9/3/26
| | FANG Diamondback Energy | $188.04 | $1.10
quarterly | 2.21% | $1.10 | 85.8% | 8/20/26
| | FIX Comfort Systems USA | $1,693.68 | $0.90
quarterly | 0.20% | $0.80 | 7.9% | 8/24/26
| | IR Ingersoll Rand | $87.06 | $0.02
quarterly | 0.09% | $0.02 | 3.3% | 9/3/26
| | OSK Oshkosh | $155.44 | $0.57
quarterly | 1.50% | $0.57 | 26.1% | 8/27/26
| | OWL Blue Owl Capital | $11.87 | $0.23
quarterly | 9.06% | $0.23 | 766.7% | 8/27/26
| | POOL Pool | $206.31 | $1.30
quarterly | 2.69% | $1.30 | 47.8% | 8/27/26
| | SFD Smithfield Foods | $25.40 | $0.31
quarterly | 4.70% | $0.31 | 48.8% | 8/27/26
| | TJX TJX Companies | $161.21 | $0.48
quarterly | 1.17% | $0.48 | 37.3% | 9/3/26
| | TTEK Tetra Tech | $35.44 | $0.07
quarterly | 0.85% | $0.07 | 17.5% | 8/27/26
| | VALE Vale | $14.69 | $0.31
special | - | - | 134.7% | 9/10/26
| | VMC Vulcan Materials | $284.59 | $0.52
quarterly | 0.70% | $0.52 | 24.6% | 9/2/26
| | VNOM Viper Energy | $40.82 | $0.29
special | 2.66% | - | 1,169.2% | 8/20/26
| | WAL Western Alliance Bancorporation | $81.31 | $0.42
quarterly | 2.09% | $0.42 | 18.9% | 8/27/26
| | ZION Zions Bancorporation, N.A. | $70.32 | $0.48
quarterly | 2.76% | $0.45 | 22.9% | 8/20/26
| | Please note you must purchase shares of these companies by the market close tomorrow to receive the next dividend payment. |
| 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 | 5.19% | GBX 1,067.01 | 41.39% | 5.29% | 1.91 | £2.72K | | FSK FS KKR Capital Corp. | 13.51% | $1.68 | N/A | 1.81% | N/A | $3.43K | | BGEO Lion Finance Group PLC | 4.18% | GEL 1,622.58 | 31.57% | 4.90% | 2.41 | GEL5.36K | | EFC Ellington Financial Inc. | 11.87% | $1.56 | 95.12% | 4.36% | 8.29 | $1.71K | | CIG Comp En De Mn Cemig ADS | 10.54% | $0.22 | 47.83% | 29.20% | 11.08 | $6.02K |
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