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Investing in High-Yield Dividend Stocks

Percentage of earnings as dividends depends on what type of company.
REIT's payout 90% to keep their tax exempt status.
MLP's payout high dividends as well.
Owning growth companies is for the young (and foolish?)
As we get older and looking for an income stream we want money not hopes and promises. Too often the large corporations pay their exec's excessive salaries plus bonuses and damned be the shareholders. Think AIG, Citi GM and all the others that we had to bail out.
Established high dividend aristocrats pay from 20-40% of earnings.
If you are a dividend oriented investor you should try Dividend Detective for a few months. ($15/mo. And you can quit anytime.) It is very easy to read and packed with most listed dividend stocks.
I also subscribe to High Yield Investing = Carla Pasternak has some good ideas but as always you have to do your own due diligence.
I sell covered calls on some of my stocks to enhance the income. With any luck you can get 12% - 14% / yr. on a stock like Verizon.
For a fun site go to Stockgumshoe.com

Are High Dividends Sustainable?

Since I am older than dirt I have changed my investment attitude immensely. The preached wisdom is that seniors need to be very conservative and invest in "safe" low dividend stocks? Hogwash!!
Seniors need to have short term goals and change quickly with the market.

When I buy any stock I am investing (loaning) my money to the company. Am I to trust them to grow the company so I can get a return? In good economic times maybe! Of course that is after they give top managent their cut and squander what they can!

In these uncertain times show me the money. Cliff Watchel has it right and even Peter Schiff.
Pick 12 high dividend stocks with a good smattering of foreign dividend payers like from Canada to protect against the falling dollar and watch your basket of eggs like they were gold!

If 1 out of 12 has a problem you have 8.33% at risk easily covered by the other 11 divy stocks.

Give me a better idea in these uncertain times for oldsters?

Are High Dividends Sustainable?

Please don't lump REIT's (Uncle Sam) into your catch all methodology. As long (forseeable future) as the fed has to keep interest rates at near zero I will sock away the dividends. Go NLY, HTS, AGNC Go!!!!!!!!

S&P 500 Index: 10 Highest Yielding Stocks

Need to throw in NLY or HTS - gov't "guaranteed" high divy.

23 High Quality, High Dividend Stocks

She didn't mention the fact that they may be out of business by the end of the year!


On Jun 26 09:52 AM YoYoMama wrote:

> I'm glad you pointed out AGNC, a company with solid fundamentals.
> I have been watching this one for a while. They recently raised their
> dividend in an astounding way - from 85 cents to $1.50!! Talk about
> a vote of confidence in your company. The yield is incredible, perhaps
> unsustainable, at 25%, but WOW what a find. I'm waiting for a pullback.
>
>
> ANH also recently raised its dividend, is in my portfolio, and has
> treated me nicely. FLY has also been good to me, and is on a nice
> upswing.
>
> Dr. Kris may not have dug as deep as many would prefer This does
> not mean that there are not some good finds in this article.. Whether
> an article's analysis is light or deep, we all still must conduct
> our own due diligence.