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British American Tobacco sold the shareholding in Indian conglomerate ITC for more than initially planned.

I have a mixed opinion of British American Tobacco (Malaysia)'s move to discontinue e-vapor sales. BATMF's renewed focus on analog cigarettes should stabilize profitability and support a high dividend payout. But the pivot away from vapes limits BATM's long-term growth potential and appeal to specific investors.

I'm bullish on the second half of 2025, expecting further market gains if CPI trends lower and trade talks progress positively. Despite a small portfolio decline this week, my Dividend Harvesting Portfolio continues to meet its goals of generating recurring income and mitigating downside risk. Reinvesting dividends and strategic additions to undervalued positions have driven forward annualized dividend income above $2,200, with $2,500 in sight for 2025.

President Trump has set the stage for the end of the world's major countries taking advantage of unlimited largess and trade considerations from the United States, a practice that began after World War II and has been in place in some form or another ever since.

Typically, investors put a focus on high-yield securities if the goal is to live off from portfolio income streams. These high-yielding securities come from BDC, REIT, MLP, CEF and other value-oriented segments. The common drawback of them is the lack of meaningful income growth and tightly correlated exposures.

Earnings season saw strong reports from Microsoft, Apple, Meta, and Amazon, boosting the S&P 500 by 2.75% and the Nasdaq by 2.82%. The Dividend Harvesting Portfolio gained 1.98% this week, with a total return of 23.42% and forward dividend income reaching $2,195.04. Added to positions in Bristol-Myers Squibb, Pfizer, and BP, focusing on undervalued stocks with strong dividend yields and growth potential.

British American Tobacco (BTI -0.27%) is a difficult investment to understand. It isn't that the company's operations are complex, per se, but that the business today has two different outlooks based on the time period over which you want to own it.

It's been one month since President Donald Trump's "Liberation Day" announcement, which featured a wave of tariff policies targeting just about every country around the world. During this time period, the S&P 500, Nasdaq Composite, and Dow Jones Industrial Average each plummeted by as much as 11%.

The final trades of the day with CNBC's Melissa Lee and the Fast Money traders.

This article is part of our monthly series where we highlight five large-cap, relatively safe, dividend-paying companies offering significant discounts to their historical norms. We go over our filtering process to select just five conservative DGI stocks from more than 7,500 companies that are traded on U.S. exchanges, including OTC networks. In addition to the primary list that yields about 3.74%, we present two other groups of five DGI stocks each, from moderate to high yields of up to 9%.