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Calvert's ESG analysis identified 100 top sustainable companies, with 83 dividend payers, focusing on five categories: planet, workplace, customer, community, and shareholder. Analysts predict 19.91% to 38.3% net gains for top ESG companies by March 2026, with Omnicom Group and Avient Corp leading potential returns. Sixteen of 83 dividend-paying sustainable stocks show negative free-cash-flow margins, indicating potential cash flow issues and higher risk.

Highlighting eight companies with upcoming dividend increases, four exceeding 10%, and an average increase of 11.4%, median at 9%. My investment strategy focuses on buying, holding, and expanding stakes in companies with consistent dividend growth and benchmark-beating performance. The list is curated using data from the "U.S. Dividend Champions" spreadsheet and NASDAQ, ensuring a minimum of five years of dividend growth.

After almost 15 years of a low-interest rate environment, which changed drastically after inflation spiraled to 9.1% in 2022, the Federal Reserve was forced to raise rates to 5.25% before dropping them back to the 4.25% level last year.

Best Buy is launching an influencer program, following a model popularized by Amazon and Walmart. As The Street reported Sunday (March 23), both those retail giants have programs that let popular internet personalities curate their own digital storefronts.

I maintain a hold rating for Best Buy due to uncertainty around tariffs and poor consumer spending, despite signs of recovery in 4Q24. Positive comp growth after 13 quarters and strong demand in computing and tablets indicate potential upside, especially with the Windows 10 upgrade cycle. Tariff concerns, with 60% of BBY's cost of goods sold from China, pose a significant risk to near-term earnings and market sentiment.

Seven of the ten lowest-priced BBB "Safer" dividend stocks, including Altria, Verizon, and Conagra, meet the dogcatcher ideal of dividends from $1000 invested exceeding single share prices. Analysts project 15.22% to 43.43% net gains for top-ten BBB dividend dogs by March 2026, with U.S. Bancorp and KeyCorp leading. Five BBB stocks, such as KeyCorp and Truist, show negative free cash flow margins, making them unsafe buys despite high yields.

Many stocks are struggling this year due to fears that tariffs and trade wars could weigh on the economy, potentially resulting in a recession. Numerous companies have already been raising concerns about rising costs, which has investors worried that a broad market sell-off may be inevitable.

President Trump has followed through with his plans for levying import tariffs of 25% on goods from Mexico and Canada and adding an additional 10% for a cumulate addition of 20% tariffs on Chinese imports. The reasons are attributed to curbing the inflows of fentanyl across borders, boosting American manufacturing national security and balancing trade deficits.

Balfour Beatty plc (LSE:BBY) hiked its dividend 9% and confirmed that it will launch a £125 million share buyback this year as the infrastructure construction group grew profits and cash, while also topping up its order book. Core underlying operating increased 7% to £252 million as revenue swelled 4% to just over £10 billion.

With inflation already weighing heavily on American families, new tariffs on imported goods are set to intensify financial strain, particularly for low-income households. The impact of these levies—targeting everyday items like clothing, electronics, and groceries—will ripple through consumer spending habits and drive up costs in sectors where affordability is already a concern.Economists from Bank of America and BNP Paribas expect the February Consumer Price Index (CPI) report to provide the first clear indications of these tariffs’ effect, with further increases anticipated in the coming months. As US retailers, including Target and Best Buy, brace for higher costs, long-term inflation expectations have climbed to near 30-year highs. The burden will fall hardest on those already struggling with rising living expenses, as businesses pass higher import costs onto consumers.Low-income consumers hit hardest by rising costsFamilies with tighter budgets, who typically allocate a