The first thing you need to realize about dividend stocks is that companies pay dividends for a bunch of different reasons. That means that if you just look at the dividend yields of two different stocks and try to compare them, you might end up making big mistakes about which one is more promising.
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Dividend stocks are shares of companies that pay dividends, which are the investor's cut of the profits that companies earn. Dividends are distributed to the owners of the company, the shareholders, with each holder of common stock entitled to a payment proportionate to his or her ownership in the enterprise.
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High-yield dividend stocks have fallen back into favor this summer as the market continues to remain choppy. Even though finding an investing strategy that works and generates big share price increases seems impossible, one thing that equity investors can rely on right now are the regular quarterly paydays from high yield dividend stocks.
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We didn't need yesterday's closing numbers to tell us the second quarter wasn't pretty, but they're telling nonetheless.
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Johnson & Johnson engages in the research and development, manufacture, and sale of various products in the health care field worldwide.
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When Scott Adams, creator of the comic strip "Dilbert," heard that BP PLC (BP, BP.LN) was "destroying a portion of the earth" without, at the time, cutting its dividend, he said he thought it would be a great time to buy.
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There are over 10,000 stocks traded on NYSE, NASDAQ and AMEX. Out of this wide universe of stocks only about 300 or so have managed to increase dividends for 10 consecutive years.
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The Motley Fool - Your portfolio's growth doesn't have to come from capital gains alone.
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