Posts by Fly High Investing

The last two weeks the stock market has been throwing investors a curveball. Headlines scream volatility, red numbers flash across screens, and fear spreads. But as dividend investors, we must remind ourselves: We’re not just buying tickers on a screen. We’re investing in businesses. If you owned a franchise, say a McDonald’s or a Dunkin’,…

At Fly High Investing, our primary focus is on building and maintaining portfolios that generate consistent and reliable income. For investors prioritizing income over capital appreciation, portfolio rotation is a crucial strategy that ensures earnings remain robust and dividends sustainable over time.   Portfolio rotation involves reassessing and reallocating holdings within a portfolio to better…

While we touched upon Regulated Investment Companies and Qualified vs Unqualified dividends in a previous article, we thought it would be beneficial to dive deeper…   When it comes to maximizing the income from your investments, understanding the nuances of dividends—especially how they’re taxed—can make a huge difference. Dividends, whether qualified or unqualified, serve as…

At Fly High Investing, we focus on a comprehensive view of earnings ratios to evaluate the sustainability and potential of dividend-paying stocks. You might be interested to find that we also use the price-to-earnings (P/E) ratio as a metric to determine whether a stock might be over or undersold, however it is not the core…

It isn’t as easy as it sounds. If you are not familiar how it works, you buy a stock right before the ex-dividend date to capture the dividend, then sell it right after. Sounds like a quick win, right? But here’s the kicker: stock prices tend to drop by the dividend amount on the ex-dividend…