Nvidia is scheduled to report its second-quarter fiscal 2027 results on August 26, 2026, and I have reached the point where describing one of its earnings reports as “highly anticipated” feels almost comically inadequate. The market does not merely wait for Nvidia’s numbers anymore. It gathers around them like anxious relatives outside a delivery room. An ordinary company reports revenue, earnings and guidance. Nvidia reports the current condition of the artificial-intelligence economy. Its results influence semiconductor stocks, cloud providers, electrical-equipment companies, data-center developers, utilities and nearly every business that has managed to place the letters “AI” somewhere in an investor presentation. If Nvidia beats expectations, optimism spreads across the market as though the company has personally confirmed that the future remains under warranty. If management offers one cautious sentence about supply, margins or deployment timing, investors begin examining it with ...
I have never found dividend investing particularly glamorous, which is one of the reasons I like it. There are no rockets on the launchpad. Nobody is livestreaming from a rented sports car while explaining how a quarterly distribution changed the trajectory of civilization. Dividend investing usually involves profitable companies sending shareholders modest amounts of cash at predictable intervals. It is the financial equivalent of owning a sturdy refrigerator: useful, dependable and unlikely to attract a crowd at a party. That dependable quality has helped make the Schwab U.S. Dividend Equity ETF, better known by its ticker SCHD, one of the most recognizable dividend funds in the market. Investors often describe it as a simple source of income, but I think that description leaves out the most interesting part of the fund. SCHD is not merely searching for companies with large dividend yields. It is attempting to combine three characteristics that do not always appear together: current ...