a. palmer jr.

8 HealthCare Stocks with 3%+ Dividends

I guess as long as the investment is fairly safe, the dividends beat putting your money in a money market account.

8 HealthCare Stocks with 3%+ Dividends

Pfizer only pays 3.4% if you bought it today...If you bought when I did you paid much more for it and thus your dividends are way below 3.4. When I bought the dividends were 6% and the price was over 22 dollars. We're taking a beating on this one because when the price went down the dividends were halved as well. Needless to say, I'll be getting off at the nearest exit.

Why Health Insurers Make Lousy Villains

I wonder why these profitable companies aren't returning more of the profits to shareholders in the form of dividends rather than sending their board members to places like Hawaii for board meetings. I realize that execs. of a business can pretty well do what they want within the law, but shareholders really own the company. I think it is appalling that the profits of a company are withheld from the owners. Maybe all companies should be handled as trusts with a certain percentage of profits being mandated to being returned. That probably would put a little more "buy" into the stock market.

Wall Street Breakfast: Must-Know News

It would save us a lot of taxpayer money if the Feds just got rid of their more worthless employees...but that could be a slippery slope and where would you stop!