PFF yields more than 8 %.
Not exact matches
I rejected the iShares S&P US Preferred (
PFF), despite its tempting 7.2 %
yield, because it was nearly all financials, among -LSB-...]
Investors looking to balance risk and income while searching for
yield may want to consider the iShares S&P National AMT - Free Municipal Bond Fund (MUB), the iShares Core Dividend Growth ETF (DGRO) and the iShares U.S. Preferred Stock ETF (
PFF).
Roughly half of the ETFs have a higher correlation to treasury bonds and the other half to the S&P 500 Index (i.e., CWB — convertible bonds, JNK — high
yield corporate,
PFF — preferred stock and XLU — utilities all react to interest rates but are more correlated to the stock market than to treasury bonds).
Investors looking to balance risk and income while searching for
yield may want to consider the iShares S&P National AMT - Free Municipal Bond Fund (MUB), the iShares Core Dividend Growth ETF (DGRO) and the iShares U.S. Preferred Stock ETF (
PFF).
The distribution
yield of
PFF has fallen to 9.5 %.
One would assume that
PFF's
yield will be somewhere in that vicinity (although there are no guarantees).
Preferred stock Exchange Traded index Fund
PFF now
yields 14.27 %.
The fund had just four equivalent positions: in the SPDR ® Bloomberg Barclays Investment Grade Floating Rate ETF (FLRN), Guggenheim BulletShares 2017 High
Yield Corporate Bond ETF (BSJH), iShares U.S. Preferred Stock ETF (
PFF), and First Trust Materials AlphaDEX ® Fund (FXZ).
PFF, by way of comparison, now
yields 7.77 %.
PFF is currently sporting an 11.52 %
yield.
And at the moment, its nearly 6 %
yield is a little better than popular rivals such as the iShares U.S. Preferred Stock ETF (
PFF) and PowerShares Preferred Portfolio (PGX).
In addition to this
PFF stock quote, take a look at
PFF Covered Calls and how you can use call options to simulate a 3 %, 5 %, or 10 % annual
yield with synthetic
PFF Dividends.