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You may be familiar with Lowell Miller's recommendation in The Single Best Investment to use utilities and / or other stable, high dividend stocks as a substitute for bonds in a traditional portfolio.

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There are a multitude of reasons as to why this occurs but it's a powerful enough force that many investors have done quite well for themselves over an investing lifetime by focusing on dividend stocks, specifically one of two strategies - dividend growth, which focuses on acquiring a diversified portfolio of companies that have raised their dividends at rates considerably above average and high dividend yield, which focuses on stocks that offer significantly above - average dividend yields as measured by the dividend rate compared to the stock market price.

Money trees may not be real, but high - quality dividend stocks can be just as good.

Investors have long known that a high - dividend strategy has been subject to various «yield traps,» such as those stemming from temporarily high earnings, high payouts or falling stock prices.

During the first half of 2016, a rotational migration to low volatility, potentially higher - income assets became evident, as did the outperformance of dividend - generating stocks.

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These are defined as stocks that historically paid a persistently higher - than - average dividend (as a percentage of their share price) over time.

As it's become clear that low interest rates are here to stay, high quality dividend stocks are harder to find.

In order for companies to keep paying higher dividends, their earnings also need to increase which usually causes the stock prices to go up as well.

My IRAs are primarily in widow and orphan dividend growth stocks, and I keep about one year's worth of expenses in high - yield preferred ETFs as an emergency fund.

Still, as a high yielding stock this may be one to keep for a limited time as many dividend growth investors are looking to jump start their current income and then move into lower yielding, higher quality and higher dividend growth stocks.

High - dividend stocks such as utilities and phone companies fell; those stocks are often compared to bonds and they tend to fall when bond yields rise, as higher bond yields make the stocks less appealing to investors seeking income.

I appreciate your argument about how certain dividend stocks will never be able to to match the returns of high growth stocks such as Tesla.

Furthermore, and perhaps just as important, one should aim to invest when the valuation on a high - quality dividend growth stock is appealing.

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Value stocks typically offer higher dividends as well and are in more mature industries.

As I note throughout the Undervalued Dividend Growth Stock of the Week series, a high - quality dividend growth stock that's undervalued can confer multiple benefits to the long - term investor: a higher yield, greater long - term total return prospects, and leDividend Growth Stock of the Week series, a high - quality dividend growth stock that's undervalued can confer multiple benefits to the long - term investor: a higher yield, greater long - term total return prospects, and less Stock of the Week series, a high - quality dividend growth stock that's undervalued can confer multiple benefits to the long - term investor: a higher yield, greater long - term total return prospects, and ledividend growth stock that's undervalued can confer multiple benefits to the long - term investor: a higher yield, greater long - term total return prospects, and less stock that's undervalued can confer multiple benefits to the long - term investor: a higher yield, greater long - term total return prospects, and less risk.

As a side note, you should beware of small cap stocks that pay high dividends.

In buying stocks I try to maintain a balance between high yielders (such as most REITS) and low yielders with above average dividend growth rates (stock like SBUX, DAL).

This forced investors to seek income from «bond - surrogate» investments such as high - dividend - paying stocks, high - yield bonds, levered loans and real estate.

Within that group of high - dividend stocks, the ones that could potentially get hit the most are the richly valued ones, as there's a greater chance that they have been overbought due to their yields.

Past this level, I consider the investment as a high dividend yield stocks and I would rather stay away from it.

Without engaging in some due diligence, the passive investor seeking exposure to high dividend stocks could end up in an ETF with a few as 46 holdings or as many as 680.

As you already know per my investing strategy, I'm not a big fan of high dividend yield stocks.

When I send him this email, I also added to be very careful with high dividend yield stocks as they are riskier than regular stocks.

There are other real world factors that could drive down an ideal international allocation, such as taxation (dividend investors may prefer a higher allocation to domestic stocks due to more favorable tax treatment).

Investments such as convertible bonds, preferred stocks, and dividend - paying stocks have higher correlation to the equity markets and are more subject to equity sensitivity than fixed income investments such as U.S. Treasuries.

As you can see many of the stocks mentioned may have high current PE's but also feature long to very long dividend histories with relatively high ten year annualized dividend growth rates at around or better than 10 %.

It depends on how your stock portfolio performs and is somewhat correlated (as we saw earlier) with how high your dividend yield is.

Stocks in the utilities sector offer one of the highest dividend yields as a group, around 3.6 % for the Select Sector SPDR Utilities Fund (XLU).

We think they're attractive because they have faster rising earnings, higher dividend yields and lower valuations than U.S. stocks, and they can benefit as global growth accelerates.

That is, set up your investments for direct withdrawal from your checking or savings account, reinvest dividends, and focus on only buying the lowest risk, highest quality, most attractively valued stocks or index funds such as one based upon the S&P 500.

But today, their high dividend payouts make these stocks attractive bond substitutes, and as such, they sell at much higher P / Es than they have historically.

Most utilities, packaged food and mature pharmaceutical companies possess characteristics often thought of as typical for value stocks: high free cash generation, high quality balance sheets and high dividend payouts.

As a result, the biggest losses went to high - dividend companies such as utility and real estate companies whose stocks become less appealing than bonds to investors seeking incomAs a result, the biggest losses went to high - dividend companies such as utility and real estate companies whose stocks become less appealing than bonds to investors seeking incomas utility and real estate companies whose stocks become less appealing than bonds to investors seeking income.

UK stocks (as measured by the FTSE 100 Index) offer the highest dividend yield of any major region (as measured by the MSCI World Index).1 UK valuations are the cheapest relative to the rest of the world in 15 years.2 What's more, FTSE 100 Index companies with more than 70 % of their revenues from abroad stand to benefit from the weaker pound.

Pick the 10 stocks as of the end of 2016 that had the highest dividend yields, and then buy shares of them in equal dollar amounts.

Typically, it connotes the purchase of stocks having attributes such as a low ratio of price to book value, a low price - earnings ratio, or a high dividend yield.

Value stocks: companies that appear to be underpriced based on a number of fundmental factors, such as low price - to - earnings and price - to - book ratios or high dividend yield

Another option, though may be not as safe as CDs or money market accounts, is high quality dividend paying stocks (always understand that investing in the stock market is riskier than putting money in bank accounts), some with more than 5 % dividend yield at the end of 2010.

History shows that times of high market volatility are good times to be in growth investments such as dividend - paying stocks.

As a result, they now offer some of the highest dividend yields in the stock market.

Some examples of defensive sectors include utility, pipeline, pharmaceutical stocks as well as stocks with high dividend payouts.

As an investment, Cisco meets all my criteria: It's a high - quality dividend growth stock that appears to be trading below fair value.

The clear investment implication is to begin reducing risk in your stock portfolio — either by building up cash or shifting your holdings toward more conservative stocks, such as those with strong balance sheets and which pay high dividends.

Speculative traders who focus on high - risk, high - reward stocks (such as penny stocks) are more heavily scrutinized than someone who invests in blue - chip, dividend paying companies that are held for the long term.

To achieve superior returns through bull and bear markets alike, investors should look to stocks with the very highest dividend yields, according to a new study by Dow Theory Forecasts, an investment newsletter published since 1946, as reported by Barron's.

If you stick with top quality stocks paying the highest dividends, the income you earn can supply a significant percentage of your total return — as much as a third... Read More

As long as I consistently buy stocks with yields of 8 - 10 % and continue my matching program, I think 2016 will see new highs for dividend income (assuming no significant dividend cuts happen or the stock market crashesAs long as I consistently buy stocks with yields of 8 - 10 % and continue my matching program, I think 2016 will see new highs for dividend income (assuming no significant dividend cuts happen or the stock market crashesas I consistently buy stocks with yields of 8 - 10 % and continue my matching program, I think 2016 will see new highs for dividend income (assuming no significant dividend cuts happen or the stock market crashes).

Other investments are often touted as a substitute for high - quality bonds, including dividend stocks, preferred shares, real estate investment trusts (REITs) and high - yield bonds.