Royal Dutch Shell: an income titan for the 21st century
The largest company in the UK has not cut its dividend since the second world war. Shell is therefore a perfect pick to start up our basket of income boosters.
You can be sure of Shell
FTSE 100 oil and gas giant Royal Dutch Shell (RDSB) has a market cap of about £195bn and pays $15bn (£11.8bn) in dividends each year. We make no apology for what might seem a rather obvious first choice for our portfolio. Although there are other plausible long-term dividend stocks in the energy sector, none offer Shell's combination of scale and stability. More importantly, none can claim to have held or…
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