how can i find out if a company pays dividends on a stock before i buy it?

Answer 1

Most common info or quotation pages will tell if there is a dividend and its rate of yield or even when the cut-off for the next dividend is, assuming it has one. WSJ, BusinessWeek, CNN.com, even Yahoo Finance.

Of course, you could also click on investor relations at the company's website.

Answer 2

Top10Traders has a dividend page. Click on the link below, and then enter your stock symbol, and it should tell you if it has a dividend, and when the dividend will be paid:

http://www.top10traders.com/Dividends.aspx

You have to own the stock before the ex-date in order to be entitled to the dividend.

http://www.top10traders.com is a free site that lets you create a portfolio of stocks with $100,000 in "play" money. Each day the site ranks the best performing portfolios, so you can see how your picks perform compared to other investors.

Hope this helps.

Answer 3

The financial websites all have tons of information. To save yourself a lot of time, try to screen for good stocks that pay good dividends. You can get an easy list to start with and do your research from there.

Answer 4

You can look up all sorts of information about companies before investing in them at the Yahoo Finance section. It also includes dividend information.

Answer 5

Most of the information is found online at the company's website. This information is under investor relations.

Answer 6

In yahoo/finance, when you get a "quote" the dividend is listed. I think its usually the last item in the second column.
Here's an example: http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=PCU
the div here is 10.2%

Answer 7

Normally it is listed with the rest of the stock overview on any online stock viewers.