Buy 3 December Barron's Better Bet 'Safer' Dividend Dogs Of 23

Summary

• Long-term bond yields continue to rise. But investors looking for income can still find plenty of attractive opportunities with dividend-paying stocks that have healthy yields.
• “23 stocks pay huge dividends. They should be a better bet than treasuries.” —Barron’s Weekly.
• In an interview, Steven Wieting, strategist at Citi-Wealth, noted that a growing-dividend is a tangible-benefit for shareholders and a-hallmark-of companies with strong-balance-sheets. “Nobody can fake a dividend,” he said.
• Barron’s ran a stock screen on FactSet to find top dividend stocks, looking for companies paying a yield over 4.2% (right-around the 10-Year Treasury-bond’s current-yield) and growing dividends.
• The results below include blue-chip stocks, banks, real estate investment trusts, gas pipeline companies, and consumer firms.
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