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These dividend stocks can produce a lot of income.

Investing in dividend stocks can be a dependable way to supplement your income. Many companies pay out consistent dividends that have shown resilience over time.

Several offer very lucrative dividend income. For example, investing $2,500 across the following basket of high-yielding dividend stocks could produce almost $200 of income each year. 

Dividend Stock

Investment

Current Yield

Annual Dividend Income

Energy Transfer (ET 0.26%)

$833.33

7.59%

$63.25

Healthpeak Properties (DOC 2.29%)

$833.33

6.52%

$54.33

Starwood Property Trust (STWD 0.30%)

$833.33

9.63%

$80.25

Total

$2,500.00

7.91%

$197.83

Data source: Google Finance and author's calculations. Dividend yields as of Sept. 24, 2025.

While there's no guarantee that a dividend won't get cut, let's take a closer look at what makes these dividend stocks stand out as reliable options for income-focused investors.

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Energy Transfer
Energy Transfer operates a diversified portfolio of midstream energy assets, including pipelines, processing plants, storage terminals, and export facilities. These assets enable oil, gas, and other commodities to reach end users efficiently and reliably. Approximately 90% of the company's earnings come from stable, fee-based sources such as long-term contracts and government-regulated rate structures. This financial model enables the master limited partnership (MLP), which issues a Schedule K-1 Federal tax form to investors each year, to generate dependable cash flow in support of its high-yield distribution.

The company reported generating nearly $4.3 billion in cash flow during the first half of this year. It distributed around $2.3 billion to investors, allowing it to retain $2 billion to support its ongoing expansion and financial flexibility. This conservative approach supports its growth and ability to continue distributing income to investors.

Energy Transfer plans to invest about $5 billion in growth capital projects this year. Most are expected to come online and start contributing to cash flow in 2026 and 2027. The company recently approved several new projects that will become operational through 2029. These projects will boost its earnings and reinforce Energy Transfer's confidence in achieving its target of raising its high-yield payout by 3% to 5% annually.

Healthpeak Properties
Healthpeak Properties is a real estate investment trust (REIT) with a diversified portfolio leased to high-quality companies in the healthcare sector. The company's holdings include outpatient medical facilities (50% of income), laboratories (36%), and senior housing properties (10%). These assets generate steady, rising rental income via long-term leases with annual rent escalators. This consistent income stream allows Healthpeak to pay a regular monthly dividend.

The healthcare REIT pays out about 75% of its adjusted funds from operations (FFO) in dividends, retaining the rest to maintain its financial flexibility and invest in new income-generating healthcare properties. Healthpeak also has a strong balance sheet to support its future growth and financial stability.

Healthpeak recently used its financial flexibility to invest $148 million in new outpatient medical development projects in Atlanta. The growth from new investments, along with rental increases, positions the REIT to continue growing its adjusted FFO per share, which should enable it to raise its dividend. Heathpeak has recently resumed modest payout growth, increasing its dividend by 2% after years of stable payments aimed at reducing its payout ratio.

Starwood Property Trust
Starwood Property Trust is another REIT, but with a distinct business model. It's a mortgage REIT that manages an increasingly diversified portfolio designed to deliver reliable income to investors.

More than half of Starwood's assets (56%) are commercial loans backed by office, multifamily, industrial, and other properties. The company also has residential lending (10%), infrastructure lending (11%), and other assets. In addition, it has a growing portfolio of owned real estate (13%). The real estate-backed loans provide the REIT with interest income, while its equity investments generate rental income.

The REIT recently boosted its equity portfolio by acquiring Fundamental Income Properties for $2.2 billion. This diversified property portfolio delivers stable, reliable, and growing cash flow through embedded rental increases. Starwood's continued diversification enables it to deliver consistent dividends to investors, despite the cyclical ups and downs of the commercial real estate industry.

A great income basket
Investing in a diversified basket of dividend stocks can help ensure you have a more dependable stream of passive income and reduce the impact should any one company cut its dividend. The combination of Energy Transfer, Healthpeak Properties, and Starwood Property Trust should deliver durable income in the years ahead. That makes them ideal dividend stocks to buy for passive income.

Matt DiLallo has positions in Energy Transfer and Starwood Property Trust. The Motley Fool has positions in and recommends Starwood Property Trust. The Motley Fool recommends Healthpeak Properties. The Motley Fool has a disclosure policy.

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NuScale Power is working toward the sale of its first SMR, and if you know what that acronym means, this stock could be worth buying.

NuScale Power (SMR 0.80%) is not for the faint of heart, since it is a money-losing start-up. But it has an interesting and fairly well-developed technology in the nuclear power space. If you believe in nuclear power and the promise of small modular reactors, it could be a good, though aggressive, investment option for you.

Here are three reasons you might want to buy the stock like there's no tomorrow.

1. Nuclear power is having a renaissance moment
The core of the story around NuScale Power is really about the attractiveness of nuclear power in general. After the 2011 Fukushima nuclear meltdown, much of the world turned against nuclear power. That's kind of what happens after nuclear meltdowns, which remind people of just how powerful a technology, for good and bad, nuclear power can be.

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With the Fukushima event in the distant past, however, the world is again focused on the positives of nuclear power. The list includes zero carbon emissions, which is important since there are increasing concerns around global warming. But the clean energy factor is buttressed by the fact that nuclear power provides always-on power, also called baseload power. That makes it a perfect compliment to intermittent clean energy sources like solar and wind.

Before you look at NuScale Power's business, you need to believe in the nuclear power story. If you don't buy the idea that nuclear power could be a huge benefit to the world, you probably shouldn't own NuScale Power, which is basically attempting to advance nuclear power technology.

2. NuScale Power has interesting and well-developed tech
The tech that NuScale Power is working on is called an SMR, which stands for small modular reactor. Essentially, NuScale has taken current nuclear power tech and scaled it down. This changes the dynamics in an important way.

Right now, reactors are huge capital investment projects that are site built and massively time-consuming and expensive to erect. NuScale Power is looking to build smaller reactors that can be fabricated in a factory setting and then transported to where they eventually get used. Smaller may be much, much better in this case.

Smaller reactors will mean reactors can be placed closer to population centers. It will mean each reactor is less costly to build, a fact advanced even further by the use of assembly line production methods. And, as NuScale Power likes to highlight, it has "the first SMR to receive U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) design approval." In other words, it likely has an important head start on the competition.

If you are excited by nuclear power and believe SMRs are the future, NuScale Power could be a worthwhile investment option.

3. NuScale Power could have its first sale in 2026
Technology isn't enough to build a business -- NuScale Power also needs customers. This is new technology, so the first sale is the biggest one.

Right now, NuScale Power is working with RoPower, a Romanian utility, to assess the potential customer's plans to build a nuclear power plant using NuScale Power's SMRs. The intent is to link six units together to create a larger power plant, another benefit of the modular approach of SMRs. The final green light could come in 2026.

However, NuScale Power is already gearing up for additional sales. It has purchased parts that require long lead times to manufacture for not six, but 12 SMRs. This is probably a good call, since the first sale will be the hardest to nail down. But once it has a customer, it will likely be easier to get the second and third customers to sign on.

If you like nuclear and are excited by SMRs, then you need to keep a close eye on the RoPower deal. If it is inked, it could be a key turning point for NuScale Power's business, effectively turning SMRs from a good idea to a real business opportunity.

NuScale Power is a risky stock
There are good reasons to like the investment opportunity that NuScale Power offers. But there are a lot of moving parts, and there is a lot of uncertainty. You need to have strong convictions here and the fortitude to take on a risky investment. If you do, NuScale Power could be worth loading up on today, since tomorrow it could be busy building the new nuclear technology that increasingly powers the world.

Reuben Gregg Brewer has no position in any of the stocks mentioned. The Motley Fool recommends NuScale Power. The Motley Fool has a disclosure policy.

A great business is on sale, but the near-term environment may remain challenging.

After a multiyear run-up, Copart (CPRT -0.04%) shares have fallen from grace in 2025. The salvage-auction leader's stock is trading about 30% below its 52-week high as investors digest softer trends in the auto ecosystem and a reset in expectations. Copart's marketplace connects insurers, finance companies, fleets, and others with a global buyer base -- and it tends to thrive when total losses are plentiful and used-vehicle values are supportive.

But does the pullback create an attractive entry point for investors who have had to watch from the sidelines for years as the stock moved violently up and to the right? The business remains high quality, but near-term dynamics look murky. The decision isn't easy.

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Recent results show pressure and slower growth
Copart's latest earnings report (fiscal Q4 ended July 31) was solid on the surface: Revenue rose 5% year over year to about $1.13 billion, with gross profit up 12% and earnings per share up 24%. For the full year, revenue grew nearly 10% to $4.65 billion and earnings per share increased 14% to $1.59. Those are healthy figures for a mature leader.

Under the hood, though, momentum cooled versus earlier in the year. In the third quarter (ended April 30), revenue climbed 7.5%. The fourth quarter's 5% top-line growth, therefore, marked a deceleration. Service revenues -- the core of Copart's model -- still grew 7% in Q4, but vehicle sales fell 4%, reflecting a tougher pricing and volume backdrop.

Management commentary also pointed to mixed signals. "Total loss frequency for the second calendar quarter of 2025 was 22.2%, up from 21.5% in the same quarter in 2024," CEO Jeff Liaw said on the September earnings call. That helps Copart because more totaled cars generally means more units for auction. But other factors offset this tailwind. CCC Intelligent Solutions' Crash Course data shows used-vehicle values drifting lower year over year into the spring, while claim counts and repair-shop dynamics have been volatile. These crosscurrents can pressure both seller behavior and fee growth.

The investment case hinges on the next upcycle (and the price you pay)
Copart is one of the market's better business models: a two-sided marketplace with global liquidity, network advantages from land capacity and dense logistics, and structurally high returns on invested capital. Over the course of a full economic cycle, this has translated into steady growth and strong cash generation.

The trouble is that the path from here is unclear. If auto sales stay soft, miles driven could level off, used-vehicle values may slip further, and insurers might generate fewer total-loss cars than investors hope. And, looking longer term, advances in driver-assist and self-driving technology could gradually reduce crash frequency and lengthen vehicle lifecycles -- which would dampen the industry's natural unit growth. To be fair, technology has also tended to raise repair complexity and costs, which can increase total-loss frequency; recent data points to that effect. But the balance of these forces is uncertain.

The stock's valuation leaves room (but not a lot) for disappointment. Using the company's reported full-year earnings per share of $1.59 and a recent share price around $45, Copart trades near 28 times earnings. That multiple is not extravagant for a capital-light marketplace with global reach, yet it is hardly a bargain when growth is slowing and industry dynamics are unsettled. If the recovery in unit volumes and pricing proves sluggish, today's price could translate into mediocre returns.

But none of this diminishes Copart's long-term appeal. The company's land bank, international expansion, and operational advantages should support solid growth through cycles. But investors do not need to rush. Shares could get cheaper if macro and industry data remains choppy, or if another quarter shows only modest progress. Waiting for either a lower entry price or clearer evidence that growth is reaccelerating (for instance, faster service-revenue growth and improving sequential trends) is probably wise.

Copart remains a fantastic business. Given the year's sell-off, it is getting closer to interesting.

Daniel Sparks and his clients have no position in any of the stocks mentioned. The Motley Fool has positions in and recommends Copart. The Motley Fool has a disclosure policy.

These ETFs hold dividend-paying stocks that should do well with interest rates dropping.

The Federal Reserve recently cut its benchmark short-term interest rate by 25 basis points. The central bank cited slowing economic growth, notably on the jobs front. The Fed's mandate to keep the economy and jobs both growing while keeping inflation under control has been challenging lately, making it difficult to determine what the prime rate should be. The current forecast on the economy's direction points to one to two more rate cuts in 2025.

The market celebrated the Fed's action, and certain stocks stand to benefit more than others in a lower interest rate environment. These three exchange-traded funds (ETFs), focused on dividend-paying stocks, should do particularly well since it's more challenging to get adequate income from fixed-income investments like CDs and bonds in a low-rate environment.

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1. Schwab U.S. Dividend Equity ETF
The Schwab U.S. Dividend Equity ETF (SCHD 0.81%) tracks the Dow Jones U.S. Dividend 100 Index. Since it invests passively, the ETF has a low 0.06% expense ratio. The underlying index consists of U.S. stocks with high dividend yields and a track record of consistent payments.

The ETF's portfolio had the highest weight, 19.2%, invested in the energy sector, closely followed by consumer staples' 18.8%, as of June 30. Other major sectors include healthcare (15.5%), industrial (12.5%), information technology (9%), financials (8.9%), and consumer discretionary (8.4%). Certain sectors, like consumer staples and healthcare, have results that tend to hold up well in various economic climates. No individual stock made up more than 5% of the portfolio. The largest holdings include familiar names, like AbbVie, Chevron, and Home Depot.

The Schwab U.S. Dividend Equity ETF has a 3.8% yield as of Sept. 18. By comparison, the S&P 500 index has a 1.2% dividend yield.

2. Utilities Select SPDR Fund
The Utilities Select SPDR Fund (XLU 1.63%) tracks the Utilities Sector Index, which consists of the 31 utility companies in the S&P 500. These include electric, water, and gas utility providers, independent power producers, and renewable electricity producers.

The fund doesn't provide diversification across sectors, but utilities have defensive characteristics since people have everyday needs for water, heat, and electricity. Additionally, the sector may have some growth characteristics given the tremendous amount of electricity needed to run data centers for things like artificial intelligence.

The five largest weighted companies in the ETF make up about 40% of the fund. Their weights range from 5.3% to 11.4%.

NextEra Energy has the largest weighting in the ETF, 11.4%, and Constellation Energy follows with an 8.3% weight. Southern Company, Duke Energy, and Vistra have 7.7%, 7.2%, and 5.3% weights, respectively.

The Utilities Select SPDR Fund has a 2.8% yield. And since it tracks an index, it has a low 0.08% expense ratio.

3. Vanguard High Dividend Yield ETF
Vanguard High Dividend Yield ETF (VYM 0.68%) looks to track the FTSE High Dividend Yield Index. It also has a low expense ratio of 0.06%.

The ETF holds 579 stocks across 10 sectors. Financial, industrial, technology, healthcare, and consumer discretionary stocks comprise over 59% of the fund. The financial sector accounts for 21.7% alone.

An array of large-capitalization U.S. stocks makes up the fund. These companies have a proven track record of success throughout the years. Turning to the largest individual stock holdings, Broadcom has a 6.7% weight in the ETF, followed by JPMorgan Chase's 4.1%. ExxonMobil, Johnson & Johnson, and Walmart each have more than a 2% weighting.

The Vanguard High Dividend Yield ETF has a 2.5% yield.

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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is investing where he thinks the growth is headed.

It's no secret that Nvidia (NVDA 0.28%) is a driving force in the ongoing artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure build. Its graphics processing units (GPUs) and computing platforms are filling data centers with the power of accelerated computing.

AI models are being developed, trained, and commercialized using this compute power. Nvidia has been smart to invest its own profits in the ecosystem its products have helped create.

Nvidia's largest equity investment is with specialized cloud infrastructure company CoreWeave (CRWV -4.99%). Here's why that could be another lucrative move for Nvidia, and why investors should expect revenue and profits for the AI leader to keep growing.

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Nvidia is skating to where the puck is going
Nvidia invests in other companies within the AI infrastructure ecosystem. It focuses on start-ups and other companies aligned with areas within Nvidia's own strategic growth plans. That includes AI, gaming, autonomous vehicles, and other advanced technologies.

As is required by other large institutional investors, Nvidia files a Form 13F with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) disclosing its holdings in publicly traded securities. Its most recent filing showed investments in six different technology companies.

All six companies operate in areas where GPUs and related technologies are crucial. CoreWeave is its largest investment by far, with more than 24 million shares worth over $3.2 billion at recent price levels. Nvidia knows where growth is headed. As hockey legend Wayne Gretzky once famously said, "Skate to where the puck is going."

A huge new Nvidia partnership will benefit CoreWeave
A major recent announcement proves this point. Nvidia just revealed a strategic new partnership with ChatGPT creator OpenAI. Nvidia plans to invest as much as $100 billion in OpenAI. That investment will fund OpenAI's aspiration to establish and launch a minimum of 10 gigawatts worth of AI data center capacity. Those facilities will be filled with billions of dollars worth of Nvidia GPUs to support OpenAI's constantly improving AI infrastructure.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman summarized the long-term thinking this way:

Everything starts with compute. Compute infrastructure will be the basis for the economy of the future, and we will utilize what we're building with Nvidia to both create new AI breakthroughs and empower people and businesses with them at scale.

It won't just be Nvidia and OpenAI realizing benefits. The massive investment indicates just how much demand there is for data center AI infrastructure.

That's where CoreWeave comes in. The company is an AI hyperscaler providing cloud services through the quickly growing data center assets it owns and operates.

Nvidia knows there is still a huge imbalance between supply and demand for data center compute capacity. If it didn't strongly believe that, it wouldn't have committed such a large amount in its OpenAI partnership.

CoreWeave investment should pay off
Nvidia is at the center of much of the AI infrastructure build-out. Owning a stake in CoreWeave is yet another tentacle for revenue growth. Nvidia's investment is a big part of its strategy to vertically integrate itself within the AI ecosystem.

Consider that CoreWeave and Nvidia just signed a $6.3 billion cloud computing capacity order. It even includes a guarantee that Nvidia will purchase any data center capacity not acquired by CoreWeave's own customers. Nvidia has positioned itself to gain not only from the advanced chips it sells, but also the platform that deploys them.

It's not a coincidence that the CoreWeave ownership represents over 90% of the equity investment value reported most recently by Nvidia. Nvidia arguably knows more about all the dynamics involved with the AI infrastructure revolution than anyone else.

Nvidia stock is trading up by more than 33% so far in 2025. As investors see the complementary growth of CoreWeave and data center infrastructure, along with Nvidia's own revenue strength, there could very well be more upward pressure on Nvidia shares.

Howard Smith has positions in Nvidia and has the following options: short October 2025 $160 calls on Nvidia. The Motley Fool has positions in and recommends Nvidia. The Motley Fool has a disclosure policy.

Amazon and Microsoft are market leaders that are adapting to new tech opportunities.

The market is being led higher by megacap tech companies that have shown the ability to grow and adapt. With technology continually shifting, this is the key to long-term success and leadership.

Let's look at two top companies that have not only grown to become the largest in the world today, but also have bright futures, given their ability to adapt and find new opportunities.

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1. Amazon
Amazon (AMZN 0.78%) built its e-commerce business by spending years pouring money into warehouses and logistics, and now it is using artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics to get more out of that network. Its DeepFleet AI model is now coordinating more than 1 million robots across its fulfillment centers, and these robots are doing more than just moving boxes around. Some can spot damaged products before they get shipped, which means fewer returns, and some can even repair themselves.

But the use of AI does not stop there. Amazon is also using AI to figure out which warehouse should hold a product, the best route to get it to a customer, and even where the driver needs to go in a huge apartment complex to drop a package off. This is leading not only to quicker deliveries, but also to lower costs.

Amazon is also using AI to help advertisers better target users with its high-gross margin sponsored ad business. This is resulting in strong operating leverage in its e-commerce business, with its North American operating income surging 47% last quarter on only an 11% increase in revenue.

At the same time, AWS is still a powerful growth engine. It continues to lead the cloud market with nearly 30% share and grew revenue by more than 17% last quarter. Demand is strong because customers are rushing to build AI models and applications, and AWS makes that simple with tools like Bedrock and SageMaker.

The company is also pushing into agentic AI with Strands and AgentCore, which let customers build AI agents and run them safely. Its custom Trainium and Inferentia chips make training and running those models cheaper and faster, which keeps customers on its platform.

Amazon is making a lot of capital expenditures (capex) to build its AI infrastructure, but it has a history of spending big, then reaping the rewards later. With margins expanding in e-commerce and AWS still capacity constrained, the growth story here is far from over, and the stock still looks like a long-term buy.

2. Microsoft
In the past, Microsoft (MSFT 0.88%) was often viewed as a slow mover, but with AI, it moved quickly, which has proven to be the right move.

The company made a large, early investment in OpenAI, which gave it early access to its GPT models and let it roll out Copilot AI assistants across its Office suite. Those tools are valuable because they can save workers time, and at $30 per user, per month, this can add a lot of growth.

The bigger growth driver, though, is its cloud computing unit Azure. Microsoft's cloud revenue jumped 39% last quarter, and it could have been higher if it hadn't run into capacity constraints. The company is spending heavily to add more graphics processing units (GPUs) and servers, which should allow it to capture even more demand in the quarters ahead. Microsoft is also diversifying its AI stack, adding models from xAI and building its own in-house models, giving customers more flexibility.

What makes Microsoft a compelling stock to own for the next decade is that Azure is the fastest-growing of the big three cloud providers, and it has a chance to eventually challenge AWS for the No. 1 spot in cloud computing. That is where enterprise AI workloads are being run, and Microsoft is quickly becoming one of the top choices for companies that want access to the best models and the infrastructure to run them at scale.

Microsoft has proven it can adapt and act quickly, which is exactly what you want to see from a tech leader.

Geoffrey Seiler has no position in any of the stocks mentioned. The Motley Fool has positions in and recommends Amazon and Microsoft. The Motley Fool recommends the following options: long January 2026 $395 calls on Microsoft and short January 2026 $405 calls on Microsoft. The Motley Fool has a disclosure policy.

After material sell-offs, this trio of reliable dividend stocks is worth a close look for investors of all stripes.

The S&P 500 index (^GSPC 0.59%) is hovering near all-time highs. And yet shares of retailer Target (TGT 1.02%) have lost 66% of their value. Food maker General Mills (GIS 1.31%) has seen a price decline of more than 40%. And iconic beverage and snack giant PepsiCo (PEP 0.39%) is off by 25%.

All three of these high yielders are reliable dividend payers, which means their relatively high yields should make them look dirt cheap for dividend lovers. Here's a quick look at each one.

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1. Target is out of step; it's been there before
Target is a large retailer. The retail sector is inherently driven by the vagaries of consumer buying habits. One day your brand is so hot that consumers say the name with a French twist to highlight its attractiveness. The next day, Walmart and its everyday-low-price mentality is eating your lunch. That's just how it goes in the retail sector, with Target's stock off by a huge 66%.

Given the steep drop in Target's shares, it is pretty clear the company isn't doing particularly well right now. For example, same-store sales fell 1.9% in the second quarter of 2025, with overall sales off by around 0.9%. And that not-so-great outcome was an improvement over the company's first-quarter performance. This isn't all bad, however, as improvement hints that a turnaround is possible.

The big story here is that Target is a Dividend King with more than five decades of annual dividend increases behind it. The company has worked through hard times before and gotten back on track. It seems highly likely that it will do the same this time around, as well. If you buy today you can collect a historically high 5.2% yield. A $1,000 investment will get you around 11 shares of the iconic retailer.

2. General Mills is in the middle of an overhaul year
General Mills isn't a Dividend King, but it has a long history of providing investors with a generally rising dividend. The yield today is a lofty 4.8%, thanks to a 40% drop in the stock price. That's very attractive for a consumer staples company that is a vital partner to retailers across the country, noting that the average yield in the consumer staples sector is just 2.5% or so.

The truth is that General Mills is not hitting on all cylinders right now. Fiscal first-quarter 2026 sales were off 7% and organic sales dropped 3%. The company is calling fiscal 2026 an investment year, which basically means it is taking steps to get the business back on the growth track. That will include things like innovation and advertising. That's actually a pretty normal thing to do and to have to do for a branded food maker.

Given the high yield and the long history of success behind General Mills as a business, dividend investors should probably give management the benefit of the doubt. Indeed, a business turnaround is far more likely than General Mills going out of business. Investing $1,000 in the stock today will get you around 19 shares.

3. PepsiCo isn't doing as well as Coca-Cola
PepsiCo is a global consumer staples giant, with huge operations in the beverage, snack, and packaged food space. In the second quarter of 2025 the company managed to grow organic sales by 2.1%. That's not a horrible number at all, but it is much less exciting than the 5% organic sales growth achieved by beverage rival Coca-Cola. And investors have reacted by punishing PepsiCo's stock, which is down around 25% from its recent high-water mark.

PepsiCo isn't sitting around hoping for the best. It is using the playbook that it has long used, and the one that has allowed it to become a Dividend King. Specifically, it is adding new, on-target brands to its portfolio so it keeps pace with changing consumer tastes. It is also working to streamline its business operations. And the involvement of an activist investor (Elliott Management) suggests that there's extra pressure on management to turn things around.

The big story, however, is similar to the other two above. PepsiCo has worked through hard times before and is likely to do so again. But the price decline has left it with an attractive 4% dividend yield. Long-term investors with $1,000 to spare can buy seven shares of this iconic stock.

Even good companies go through hard times
Target, General Mills, and PepsiCo are all well-run businesses with impressive histories and lofty dividend yields. Sure, each one is in the middle of a rough patch, but each one has also survived such rough patches before. If you have a contrarian bent, buying while others are selling could set you up for collecting a reliable and lofty income stream. There's also the potential for capital appreciation, when these companies finally get back on track.

Reuben Gregg Brewer has positions in General Mills and PepsiCo. The Motley Fool has positions in and recommends Target and Walmart. The Motley Fool has a disclosure policy.

Gen Z investors may not need investment income right now, but income could do their portfolios a lot of good as they get started on their retirement nest egg.

Were you born between early 1997 and late 2012? In other words, are you one of America's 70 million Gen Z residents, currently between the ages of 13 and 28?

If so, you may not be thinking all that much about saving for retirement just yet. Many of the 20-somethings in your generation are, however, and wisely so -- the sooner you get started, the bigger your eventual nest egg will be. And as the Motley Fool's own in-house research points out, growth stocks are your favorite investment. Smart choice. You've got plenty of time to ride out the volatility most of these names are sure to dish out, en route to oversized gains.

If you're a Gen Zer steering clear of dividend stocks simply on principle, though, you might want to reconsider. There are actually several dividend-paying names able to offer the overall upside you want. They're just doing it in a different way than growth stocks.

Here's a closer look at three income-generating growth picks that might just be at home in a Gen Z portfolio.

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1. NextEra Energy
Utilities stocks are some of the oldest, stodgiest, and slowest-growth companies this country has ever birthed. They've seemingly evolved just enough to stick around, with most of them still struggling to phase out their legacy fossil-fuel power production facilities.

If you were going to create a brand-new electric utility outfit from scratch today, however, it would probably look a lot like NextEra Energy (NEE 1.59%). More than half the power it currently generates comes from renewable sources, while none comes from coal or oil. The dirtiest, least-green fuel source it uses is natural gas, which actually burns quite cleanly.

None of this is mere luck or accident, either; it's all by design. Recognizing well over a decade ago that the future of the industry was alternatives to fossil fuels, what was then Florida Power & Light began investing in solar and wind projects. The localized utility service provider continued to add clean production capacity -- enough to begin selling it to other utility companies. It's since grown into a major electricity wholesaler (although it also still directly serves 12 million Floridians) with a massive 72 gigawatts' worth of potential output. (That's enough to power about 50 million homes.)

That's still just the beginning, though. With the advent of artificial intelligence data centers and the ever-growing number of electric vehicles, research outfit McKinsey expects global electricity consumption to more than double between 2023 and 2050.

The problem? The world's not ready to deliver it. But as one of the nation's biggest energy infrastructure investors, with a backlog of nearly 30 gigawatts' worth of output capacity just waiting to be completed, NextEra Energy is readier than any of its rivals to meet the need. And it can do so in a way that satisfies environmental hawks as well as regulators.

You'd be plugging into this stock while its forward-looking dividend yield stands at 3.2%, by the way. And that's based on a dividend that's not only been raised every year over 30 years, but has also grown at an average rate of 11% per year for the past 10 years. That payout growth is better than the average annual net growth of the overall market.

2. Brookfield Infrastructure Partners
Brookfield Infrastructure Partners (BIP 4.92%) (BIPC 2.63%) is a bit of an unusual bird. It's not a conventional company that owns and operates a single business. Rather, it holds stakes in several different private and publicly traded companies operating in North America and abroad, including railroad outfit Genesee & Wyoming, Colombian natural gas distributor Vanti, Canadian midstream company Inter Pipeline, and U.S. data center operator Evoque. As its name suggests, infrastructure is its specialty, but the term can clearly mean a lot of things.

There are two reasons Gen Z investors might want to consider stepping into a stake in Brookfield Infrastructure Partners.

First, although it's willing to invest capital in several different kinds of business, a closer look at Brookfield's holdings actually reveals a rather savvy strategy. That is, it's limiting its investments not just to proven businesses the world can't live without, but to businesses with demand that will continue to grow indefinitely -- industries like utilities, data centers, logistics, and of course, energy. The holding company is also geographically diverse and tends to have exposure to underserved regions where competition is modest.

Second, this relatively young organization is being built from the ground up to pay ever-growing dividends. Not only is its current forward-looking yield of 5.5% above-average, but the company realistically thinks it can grow its payouts between 5% and 9% per year.

This rising income growth, paired with whatever capital appreciation the organization's holdings produce, has the potential to make Brookfield Infrastructure Partners a better long-term performer than the overall market and with less volatility.

3. Qualcomm
Finally, add Qualcomm (QCOM -0.25%) to your list of dividend stocks that are perfect for Gen Z investors.

Yes, this technology company pays a dividend, and a surprisingly healthy one at that. The forward-looking dividend yield of Qualcomm's shares currently stands at 2.1%, with roughly one-third of profits being regularly passed along to shareholders. The dividend has nearly doubled in size over the past decade, too, more or less in step with the company's earnings growth.

But Qualcomm isn't a dividend stock that also happens to be a technology growth company -- it's a technology growth company that also happens to pay a nice (and growing) dividend. This growth potential in technology remains the chief reason a young person would want to own it.

And that potential is particularly compelling right now.

Although most investors have heard of the company, there's no denying it's been largely left out of the artificial intelligence (AI) frenzy that's proven so bullish for Nvidia and Arm Holdings. As we enter the next phase of the AI era, though, look for artificial intelligence (and generative AI in particular) to shift away from data centers and toward mobile devices themselves. Global Market Insights expects the worldwide mobile AI industry to grow at an average annual pace of more than 25% all the way through 2034.

This bodes well for Qualcomm, which already has two cost-effective AI processors: its affordable Snapdragon X for personal computers, and its Snapdragon 8 for smartphones. Both are capable of performing the heavy-duty artificial intelligence work that will be expected of a range of consumer devices from PCs to smartphones in future. Qualcomm is well-positioned to capture at least its fair share of any growth on this front, just given its existing collaborations. Microsoft is featuring AI-capable business laptops with Snapdragon CPUs onboard, and Snapdragon processors were chosen to power smartphone giant Samsung Electronics' AI-capable Galaxy S25 handsets and Book4 Edge AI personal computers.

In other words, Qualcomm features prominently in AI's move to mobile devices. That's a growth opportunity that could remain robust for a long, long time.

James Brumley has no position in any of the stocks mentioned. The Motley Fool has positions in and recommends Microsoft, NextEra Energy, Nvidia, and Qualcomm. The Motley Fool recommends Brookfield Infrastructure Partners and recommends the following options: long January 2026 $395 calls on Microsoft and short January 2026 $405 calls on Microsoft. The Motley Fool has a disclosure policy.

Flare, the blockchain network known for expanding decentralized finance capabilities, has taken a significant step toward bringing XRP into the DeFi ecosystem. Its native token, FLR, saw an 8% rise in value recently, trading around $0.03, reflecting growing investor confidence following the rollout of FXRP – a new wrapped version of XRP designed specifically for decentralized finance applications.

Several major issuers, including Grayscale, Fidelity, and Bitwise, have filed new amendments to their Solana ETF applications. The amendment included provisions for staking.

Bitcoin (BTC) has entered a period of elevated uncertainty as macroeconomic factors and options market dynamics keep investors on the sidelines. Despite recent market corrections and shifts in investor sentiment, Bitcoin remains in focus, with significant capital poised to re-enter once favorable conditions emerge.

Wednesday was an absolute bloodbath for leveraged crypto traders, with over $1.19 billion in positions getting liquidated across the market.

Bitcoin (BTC) has entered a delicate phase where market direction remains uncertain. Despite fresh inflows from Wall Street investors, macroeconomic caution and Federal Reserve signals are keeping BTC pinned in a tight range.

Vanguard, the $10 trillion asset manager known in crypto circles for blocking client access to Bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs), is reportedly reconsidering its stance on offering its clientele access to such investment vehicles.

Vanguard Planning To End Bitcoin ETF Ban
According to a Sept. 26 report from Crypto in America, citing anonymous sources familiar with the matter, Vanguard is now examining ways to satisfy customer demand for digital assets amid the evolving regulatory environment.

Notably, Vanguard does not intend to introduce its own products. Instead, the famously anti-Bitcoin investment manager is exploring whether to give clients access to third-party crypto ETFs on its brokerage platform, even as its biggest competitor, BlackRock, launched the wildly successful iShares Bitcoin Trust (IBIT), which became the fastest ETF in history to achieve the $80 billion assets under management record.

“They’re being very methodical in their approach, understanding the dynamics have been changing since 2024,” the source reportedly stated.

Vanguard staunchly indicated that it wouldn’t offer its clients trading access to any of the dozen spot Bitcoin ETFs that went live on US exchanges in January 2024, citing the crypto’s high volatility as bad for generating long-term returns.

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The company in July last year named Salim Ramji, the pro-crypto ex-BlackRock exec, to take the reins from his predecessor CEO Tim Buckley, leading to speculation of a reversal of the decision to shun BTC ETFs. However, Ramji poured water on the idea that he had any intentions for the asset management giant to change its approach to crypto funds.

“Vanguard is looking to end Bitcoin ETF ban (aka bend the knee lol),” Bloomberg Senior’s ETF analyst Eric Balchunas observed on X. “We heard chatter of this too. Smart of them imo. Bitcoin and Ethereum ETFs are hugely popular and Salim was one of IBIT’s midwives so he knows.”

<blockquote class=”twitter-tweet”><p lang=”en” dir=”ltr”>Vanguard is looking to end bitcoin ETF ban (aka bend the knee lol). &quot;The dynamics have been changing&quot; Nice scoop by Eleanor. We heard chatter of this too. Smart of them imo. Bitcoin and Eth ETFs hugely popular and Salim (the CEO) was one of IBIT&#39;s midwives so he knows.. <a href=”https://t.co/JH4Ys771iB”>https://t.co/JH4Ys771iB</a></p>&mdash; Eric Balchunas (@EricBalchunas) <a href=”https://twitter.com/EricBalchunas/status/1971556479988838407?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw”>September 26, 2025</a></blockquote> <script async src=”https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js” charset=”utf-8″></script>

Vanguard’s potential change in position comes as regulators under the Trump administration have adopted a more friendly approach toward crypto, with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission recently greenlighting new generic listing standards to expedite crypto ETF approvals.

“For all the crypto bros crashing out bc Bitcoin had a bad week after going up 350% this will brighten your day: Vanguard has 50 million investors. Obv many are not the bitcoin type but that’s massive, they are biggest fund company in the US by two times over,” Balchunas added.

Bitcoin fell below $109,000 yesterday, marking its weakest price in almost a month. The premier crypto has since reclaimed the $110,000 psychological threshold, but it remains to be seen whether the rebound is sustainable.

Cyber Hornet has filed with the SEC to launch a unique ETF that combines exposure to the S&P 500 with XRP. If approved, the fund will be known under the ticker “XXX”. It is meant to provide investors returns that closely correspond to an index of the S&P 500 and another tracking futures contracts for XRP – called the S&P XRP Futures 75/25 Blend Index.

In its structure, 75% of the Cyber Hornet ETF portfolio will be allocated to S&P 500 stocks, while the remaining 25% goes into XRP futures on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. The fund can also hold XRP directly or use ETPs to balance its exposure.

Cyber Hornet listed two other similar offerings in its SEC filing
Cyber Hornet also has two more ETFs in the works for Ethereum and Solana. The Ethereum version will be listed as “EEE,” and the Solana one as “SSS.” All of the funds have similar 75/25 models, mixing shares with futures contracts. Ethereum exposure comes from CME Ether futures and direct purchases. Meanwhile, the fund’s Solana share will track the S&P Solana Futures Index. This move coincides with growing investor interest — REX-Osprey’s Solana staking ETF just set a new asset record. 

Investors will pay a 0.95% management fee annually for the Cyber Hornet ETFs, but there are no shareholder trading fees. The SEC calculates that $10,000 invested would result in about $100 in fees after one year and $312 after three.

The ETFs will also rebalance every month to keep the 75/25 split intact, though Cyber Hornet may adjust more frequently if markets get volatile.

Moreover, the funds may trade slightly higher or lower than their underlying value, just like most ETFs. The ETFs are also set to trade on Nasdaq if approved. Individual investors will trade shares on the open market, while authorized participants manage 25,000-share creation and redemption units.

The filings show Cyber Hornet’s push to link stock market benchmarks with crypto diversity. If launched, they’d be the first funds to unite XRP, ETH, and SOL with S&P 500 performance.

The US SEC is investigating trading activity before companies announced ETF strategies
The US SEC is still working with the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) to look into potentially abnormal trades made right before companies unveiled treasury management and ETF strategies. 

Investigators are probing whether trades were made using privileged information, a potential case of insider trading or manipulation. Significant price jumps in the hours triggered the inquiry before companies revealed treasury and ETF strategies.

Analysts say the SEC is paying closer attention to strange trading patterns than ever. As firms adopt ETFs and digital assets for treasury use, oversight is tightening to safeguard market order. The probe remains in its early phase and hasn’t resulted in enforcement yet, but it signals a tougher stance on potential abuse.

The inquiry builds on the SEC’s ongoing look at ETF structures and the quality of corporate transparency. Regulators have long been wary of sudden ETF volume jumps that don’t align with available information.

Still, the SEC recently cleared the path for a wave of new crypto-related exchange-traded funds. The agency approved generic listing standards for commodity-based exchange-traded products, allowing crypto funds to move through the approval process much faster.

With these standards now applied across Nasdaq, Cboe BZX, and NYSE Arca, issuers no longer need individual approvals under Section 19(b) of the Securities Exchange Act 1934.

Previously, launching a spot crypto fund required a lengthy application, public comment, and SEC review. This is why nearly all existing crypto ETFs have focused on Bitcoin and Ether—the largest digital assets by market capitalization.

The new approach is intended to speed up launch timelines, slash administrative costs, and make more digital assets available to investors in an ETF structure.

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Given XRP’s explosive growth at one point in 2025, the asset has left a big price gap, which is positioned just under its current trading levels.
Here’s what that means and if (or how) it can impact the price of Ripple’s cross-border payments token.

$XRP has a price gap sitting between $2.73 and $2.51. pic.twitter.com/T1100MsSBc

— Ali (@ali_charts) September 27, 2025

The chart by the popular analyst highlights XRP’s price gap positioned between $2.51 and $2.73. It’s identified using Glassnode’s UTXO Realized Price Distribution (URPD), a metric tracking the price at which existing tokens were last transacted. It suggests potential market resistance or support levels based on historical data.

The graph highlights several similar gaps on XRP’s chart, but most of these (although more significant) are positioned further below the current levels. As such, Martinez doubled down on his belief that the $2.71 support is crucial in determining the asset’s future behavior.

As reported earlier this week, he noted that if XRP successfully defends that level, which it has over the past few days, it could bounce back toward its all-time high of $3.60.

Other analysts outlined two more plausible scenarios for the asset’s upcoming moves, which include a surge beyond $3.20 or a substantial decline below that price gap to $2.20. According to ERGAG CRYPTO, this move lies on whether XRP can indeed remain above the $2.70 support.

The XRP Army also remains bullish as one of its most vocal and popular members, going under the X handle Cobb, predicted that Ripple’s underlying asset will “never trade below $2.50 again.”

For now, XRP remains around $2.80 after bouncing off the aforementioned support. However, it’s still 7% down weekly and was surpassed by Tether’s USDT in terms of market cap.

The Dogecoin ecosystem is experiencing a surge of new investor interest following the launch of the first U.S. Dogecoin exchange-traded fund (ETF). The Rex-Osprey DOGE ETF made its trading debut last week with remarkable momentum, recording $6 million in trading volume within just the first hour. This figure was 140% higher than Bloomberg analyst Eric Balchunas’ day-one forecast and nearly six times greater than the average trading volume of new ETFs across an entire session.

The strong performance has positioned Dogecoin among the most successful crypto-based ETFs to date, surpassing many earlier launches that struggled to exceed $1 million in day-one activity. Balchunas had originally predicted a modest $2.5 million in first-day trading, but Dogecoin investors far outpaced expectations. The ETF’s immediate traction has intensified community discussions, fueling optimism for a significant DOGE price rally.

Adding to this momentum, the 21Shares spot-based DOGE ETF proposal has been listed on the Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC), signaling stronger market adoption. Meanwhile, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is reviewing additional Dogecoin ETF applications from Grayscale and Bitwise, with decisions expected by October 17. Analysts suggest the success of the first ETF has likely improved the odds of approval for these filings.

Dogecoin’s market price reacted positively to the ETF launch, climbing 5.12% within 24 hours to $0.28 and reaching an intraday high of $0.285 on September 18. After consolidating above its breakout zone, DOGE later corrected to $0.22, but traders remain focused on resistance levels at $0.39 and $0.43-$0.45. A breakout past these points could return Dogecoin to 2021 price levels, but this time on a stronger base near $0.20-$0.25.

With ETF liquidity confirmed, institutional accumulation underway, and DOGE hovering near $0.30, many traders believe the path to $1 Dogecoin is becoming increasingly realistic in this cycle.

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Hyperliquid launches APEX perpetual contract with community-driven governance.Enables up to 3x leverage in trading activities.Potential increase in trading volumes and liquidity.
On September 27, Hyperliquid announced the launch of the APEX perpetual contract with up to 3x leverage, a decision driven by strong community demand.

This launch signifies Hyperliquid’s commitment to community governance while potentially boosting trading volumes and liquidity for APEX in the DeFi space.

Hyperliquid APEX Contract Launches with Community Approval
Hyperliquid unveiled the APEX perpetual contract in response to community demand, offering leverage of up to 3x. The contract listing followed the HIP-3 process, where community votes drove its approval. The anonymous core team of Hyperliquid continues to focus on peer-led improvements and rapid feature releases.

Market activity is expected to rise, with the APEX-PERP contract potentially leading to heightened trading volumes. By addressing trader demand, the platform reinforces its position as a leading decentralized exchange for perpetual contracts.

Market observers have noted a positive response in Hyperliquid’s community forums and social media. Support for manageable leverage levels indicates confidence in the contract’s stability, with several users expressing enthusiasm for the increase in trading venues.

Hyperliquid Market Stats and Expert Predictions
Did you know? The introduction of APEX-PERP follows Hyperliquid’s previous success with meme tokens, often sparking short-term boosts in related trading activities.

Hyperliquid (HYPE) sees a market cap of $15.08 billion with a circulating supply of 336,685,219. Its 24-hour trading volume has decreased to $545.09 million. The token’s value has seen a 6.62% rise in the past 24 hours, with a notable fluctuation over three months according to CoinMarketCap.

Hyperliquid(HYPE), daily chart, screenshot on CoinMarketCap at 06:54 UTC on September 27, 2025. Source: CoinMarketCap

“HYPE is one of the only perps DEX tokens I consider a real monster for the next cycle—decentralized, fast, and not weighed down by VC unlocks. Perps markets are the future.” – Arthur Hayes, Co-Founder, BitMEXAnalysts from Coincu predict that this launch might stabilize the market volatility, leveraging community support for subsequent token listings. There’s optimism for increased liquidity, placing HYPE on a potentially upward trajectory based on current market dynamics.

DISCLAIMER: The information on this website is provided as general market commentary and does not constitute investment advice. We encourage you to do your own research before investing.

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Altcoins are facing intense pressure as Bitcoin slipped below $110K, which triggered over $1.1 billion in long liquidations on a 24-hour scale.

75% of the losses came from alts and nearly 45% from ETH alone after it broke below $4,000. But upside potential remains intact.

Alt Season Ends or Just Paused?
According to the latest update shared by Altcoin Vector, the Market Phase has rotated back to Bitcoin after 79 days of Ethereum dominance and swings through mid- and small-cap tokens. ETH’s season lasted 68 days, during which it lifted the asset from $2,200 to a $4,900 ATH before the shift.

Despite this, this rotation does not spell the end of altcoin upside potential. Bitcoin remains the key driver, and once it stabilizes and forms a bottom, altcoins could regain momentum. Despite BTC’s dip, the Risk-Off Signal remains steady, which means that there is no structural fragility. This suggests that early signs of a possible bottoming process could be taking shape across the market.

At a time when shorter-term price swings and Bitcoin-led rotations are distracting traders, crypto analyst Moustache said that altcoins are quietly shaping a long-term technical pattern that many investors seem to overlook.

According to his latest observation, most altcoins have been forming a Cup & Handle structure over the past four years, which happens to be a classic bullish setup in technical analysis. This long consolidation indicates that the market is preparing for a significant upward move.

Calm Before Explosive Rebound
Swissblock’s latest analysis also revealed that the crypto market is currently in a reset phase and signals a potential opportunity ahead. Historically, their Aggregated Impulse indicator, which tracks exponential price structures across the top 350 assets, has accurately flagged major bottoms.

Since 2024, the last seven times this signal triggered, BTC subsequently rallied 20-30%, while altcoins surged 50-150%. Currently, 22% of altcoins are showing negative impulse, which places the market near the historical bottom zone of 15-25%.

Swissblock noted that once this reset completes, Ethereum and other altcoins typically lead the next rotation. As such, patient investors could see substantial gains as market momentum shifts.

Vanadi Coffee, the Spanish coffee shop franchise turned bitcoin treasury company, announced the approval of investments in BTC for up to €1 billion. The company stated that it believes in bitcoin as an instrument that can be leveraged as a treasury diversifier and an inflation hedge.

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