Archive for the 'High Dividend Stocks' Category

REITs: Time to buy?

Zacks recently suggested that it might be time to start looking at REITs. While cautioning that negatives remain – such as a lack of access to credit and rising delinquencies – the investment firm points out that most REITs are trading at a discount to net asset value (NAV) and sporting an average yield [...]

Magic Formula’s top ten high-yield dividend stocks

Recently, MagicDiligence – a site dedicated to finding investment opportunities using Joel Greenblatt’s Magic Formula investing stock strategy – compiled a list of the top ten Magic Formula dividend stocks, sorted by dividend yield.
The strategy, as detailed in Greenblatt’s “The Little Book That Beats the Market” tries to identify good businesses selling at bargain prices [...]

Dividend investing advocate sells everything

Looking for signs of a bottom? How about when the author of a book championing buy-and-hold dividend investing throws in the towel and sells everything he has in his retirement income portfolio?
Derek Foster – who retired several years ago at age 34 to live off his investments – has done just that. The author [...]

Dividend income fund manager’s 6 favorite dividend stocks

In an interview in Barron’s this week, Judith Saryan, a co-manager of the Eaton Vance Dividend Income Fund (EDIAX: 6.80 +0.59%, yld: N/A%) offered a half dozen of her favorite dividend stocks (see below), based on the cash on their balance sheets, cash flow, and the amount and maturity of debt they had coming due.
Here’s [...]

Five dividend stocks yielding over 5%

Despite all the recent dividend cuts, it’s easy to find plenty of high-yielding dividend stocks in the current market environment. And Investopedia does just that with its list of five dividend stocks yielding 5% or greater.
Here’s my quick take on the five dividend stocks mentioned (the stars represent Dividendinvestor.com’s star ranking system – three [...]