What are your picks for dividend stocks?

Answer 1

In addition to dividends, you want to look at dividend growth rate. Here's a sort list I just did especially for you from TC2000. These are high dividend stocks, with a 5 year dividend growth >5%, that have increased in price by at least 5% over the last 5 days...
TNH
CIB
FDG
TKS
TMP
SURW
PCU
PCH
AAUK
PVD
TOT
FRO
IRE

Remember to do you homework on these before buying.
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Answer 2

There's Armanino Foods (AMNF), you get a yield of over 5 percent (one and a quarter cent dividend, recent price: 89 cents). It is a little supplier whose owner holds some 40-ish percent of the company and pays himself by declaring a quarterly dividend.

If you look at the S&P500 and select those with a good forward earnings estimate, above average profit margin, and better than average dividend and you get a short list like this: ACE, AIZ, DHI, KBH, PNC, HOT, ALL, TRV, and XL. It used to be that you went to utilities to get good but stable dividend-paying companies. More recently, you went to banks. Now days, be sure to shop insurance companies.

Remember, a high paying dividend may be an indication of a falling stock price. As I know personally, it doesn't help to get big dividends if the value of the stock falls faster than your stream of income. If the stock price isn't stable then high yields are pretty worthless. If the stock price is rising, then your yield will fall (unless they are super profitable and want to pass it back to the owners, which is sort of out of fashion these days).

Answer 3

any huge well-established corporation if you're looking for a dependable stream of income. Be sure you look their finances over thoroughly though because some companies will continue to pay high dividends (exceeding their earnings) just to conceal deeper problems and keep the stock price propped up. Anyway, my pick would probably be my favorite company of all time: Coca-cola, ticker symbol KO, which pays a 2.7% div. right now and also has a climbing stock price.

Answer 4

I own southern Copper ( PCU)... right now the share price is high, so I don't know if you would venture a " buy"...but it pays a terrific dividend... and minerals/materials is going to continue to be a very good area with the global growth/industialization that's going on.
Some other great divs are with the Canadian Royal Trusts...10% and upwards....and most pay monthly. Coming tax changes took them out of favor for awhile, but most have come back to near their good share prices that they had last fall. HTE is particularly attractive..because they are a little into " refining" which has just been on fire for a couple of months.

Answer 5

XOM = Exxon Mobil. Always goes up every year, pays a nice little dividend, you can invest your money directly with the company and not pay brokerage fees.

Answer 6

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Answer 7

costco is a good one, I think there business is going to grow! grow! grow!

Answer 8

Big MO.