Markets are closed for Good Friday, which means no red or green numbers to stress about. Take a breath.

But while everyone else is off today, we wanted to take the time to give you a strategic boost by focusing on a straightforward income play that’s hidden in plain sight.

The S&P 500 trades at roughly 27x earnings right now. That's expensive by almost any historical measure. But hidden underneath that bloated average? A handful of world-class businesses paying fat dividends at prices we haven't seen in years.

Today, we're handing you the list.

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Here's the thing about market sell-offs and geopolitical chaos: they don't punish stocks evenly. Some names get dragged down with everything else, even when nothing is wrong with the actual business.

That's where opportunities live.

We went looking for companies with three things: strong dividends, proven track records of raising those dividends, and stock prices sitting well below what analysts think they're actually worth. Here's what we found.

If you want to get paid to own America's energy backbone, EPD is the way to do it. Enterprise operates one of the largest pipeline networks in the country, moving natural gas, oil, and petrochemicals. The stock trades at about 13.3x earnings and pays a 5.6% yield that has been raised for 26 consecutive years, every single year since the company went public. One thing to know: EPD is structured as a master limited partnership (MLP), which means you'll get a K-1 tax form instead of a 1099. It's a minor hassle, but the yield more than makes up for it in our opinion.

Pfizer is trading around $28.32 a share with a forward P/E under 10. That's absurdly cheap for a company generating billions in cash flow. The stock has been beaten up ever since the post-Covid revenue cliff, but the underlying business has stabilized. The dividend yield is sitting at 6.06%, which is five times the S&P 500 average. If you believe big pharma isn't going anywhere, Pfizer at these levels is hard to ignore.

People love to hate Verizon. It's boring. It doesn't double in a year. But boring is the point. VZ trades at a forward P/E of about 10x earnings with a 5.5% dividend yield, and that dividend is backed by the most predictable revenue stream in the world: people paying their phone and internet bills. Not flashy. But this is the kind of stock that can quietly compound for decades.

This one has been absolutely crushed. Clorox is down nearly 30% over the past year and is trading near $102, which is close to an 11-year low. Morningstar's fair value estimate? $163. That's a 37% discount to what they think it's worth. The company has raised its dividend for over 50 straight years and you're now getting paid nearly 5% to wait for the recovery. The business isn't broken. People still buy Clorox wipes, Glad bags, and Burt's Bees. The stock just got caught up in a digital transition that spooked Wall Street.

Here's one nobody's talking about. H&R Block has been cut in half over the past year, dropping from $60 to around $32. Why? Wall Street got spooked that AI would replace tax preparation. But here's the thing: HRB's actual numbers tell a completely different story. Free cash flow is still growing. The dividend is still getting paid. And management is aggressively buying back shares at these low prices. The stock now trades at roughly 6x forward earnings with a 5.28% yield. That's a valuation you almost never see outside of a recession. People still need help with their taxes, and H&R Block has been doing it for over 60 years.

Not the highest yield on this list, but this is one of the most reliable dividend growers in the market. BDX has raised its dividend for 54 consecutive years. It's a medical device giant that makes everything from syringes to diagnostic systems, and the stock is sitting around $155. First quarter earnings beat estimates on both revenue and EPS, so the business is humming. This might be a "buy when nobody's watching" kind of stock.

The S&P 500 is expensive. These stocks are not.

Every name on this list has been paying and growing dividends for years (most of them for decades). They're trading at meaningful discounts to what analysts think they're worth. And they span healthcare, telecom, energy, consumer staples, tax services, medical devices, and real estate.

You don't have to buy every name here. But if you're sitting on cash wondering where to put it, this is a pretty good place to start looking.

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Oil ripped higher on escalation fears. West Texas Intermediate surged 11% to trade above $111 a barrel; Brent jumped 6% past $108. Crude has climbed roughly 50% since the war kicked off in late February.

Tesla tumbled 5.4% after Q1 deliveries missed estimates. It was the worst-performing Mag 7 name on the day; other mega-caps wobbled but recovered.

March jobs report drops today. Economists expect a gain of 65,000 jobs, reversing February's surprise loss of 95,000 positions amid a massive healthcare strike. The unemployment rate is seen holding at 4.4%.

Initial jobless claims fell by 9,000 to 202,000 for the week ending March 28, marking the fifth straight week of declining claims and a three-month low.

Hedge funds dumped global stocks at the fastest pace in 13 years during March, per Goldman Sachs data. The selling was driven by a 17% spike in short positions across US ETFs as managers rotated into defensive consumer staples.

Two back-to-back cybersecurity incidents rattled the AI industry. Anthropic scrambled to contain a source code leak for its Claude agent app, while Mercor got hit via a supply chain attack that exposed training data from "every major lab," according to Y Combinator's Garry Tan.

President Trump's CFTC sued Illinois, Connecticut, and Arizona over attempts to regulate prediction markets like Kalshi and Polymarket. The administration argues the sites are federal "swaps," not state-level gambling operations, a sharp escalation in the fight over who regulates prediction betting.

Toyota is betting big on EVs despite cooling demand. The automaker will have four battery-electric vehicles in its US lineup by year-end and just committed another $1 billion to Kentucky and Indiana plants. Tariff costs for the fiscal year? A whopping $9 billion, the highest among major automakers.

The answer: Basic Materials!

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Brandon & Blake of Invested Inc