Stick with those that pay you to own them, in other words, those with good dividend yields.
Their dividend yields are more than double the payout on a 10-year U.S. Treasury note.
Pharma dividend yields, even with the price increases, are 3% or higher in most cases.
The 4% dividend yields on these names generated probably 50% of your return, too.
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Meanwhile, investors are earning dividend yields so hefty that trash, rather than cash, may be king.
Specifically, it's because such firms can offer dividend yields of up to 7%, she says.
And they also are likely to increase their already decent dividend yields, he adds.
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In fact, many, many world-leading American companies now pay dividend yields higher than long-dated Treasuries.
Equity Residential and AvalonBay both offer dividend yields that are roughly twice that paid by Aimco.
With dividend yields of 3-5%, those stocks offer returns that will grow with any inflation.
You probably were not even aware there is a bubble in stocks that have high dividend yields.
Did you know that there are actually stocks with dividend yields much greater than their bond yields?
If that happens, dividend yields will rise and investors can once again look forward to high real returns.
Dividend yields are ranging 4% to 5%, and numerous companies have reasonable debt loads and plenty of cash.
Also extraordinary is that the dividend yields on blue chip stocks remains in the 4% to 5% range.
One area worth looking is in the financial sector, especially among regional banks that still offer fat dividend yields.
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So far, REIT equity investors remain attracted to nursing-home landlords, in part because of their relatively high dividend yields.
And probably most meaningful, we really like the dividend yields you can get on a number of stocks now.
Assuming that the fiscal cliff thing does actually happen we might well find that dividend yields near dry up.
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Share price declines on slowing core sales sometimes expand the dividend yields.
"I'm seeing quality companies at five and six times earnings, with dividend yields at or near double digits, " he says.
That has made them both value plays and income plays, as their dividend yields have risen pleasantly, to 4.6% and 3.8%.
With modest share price gains and dividend yields all above 4% at the moment, investors are not exactly sharing the pain.
The BDC sector yields over 11%, with AINV (15%), ARCC (10%), FSC (14%) and MAIN (9%) all sport generous dividend yields.
And yes, they all have strong current dividend yields as well: 2.6% for Aflac and Exxon-Mobil and 3.2% for Walgreens.
Dividend yields in Europe were higher than the yields available on government bonds, a phenomenon not seen since the late 1950s.
Currently, their dividend yields average a little under 4%, compared with the yield of 1.6% or so on Japanese government bonds.
Some dividend yields cited in the Garmin column only got more ridiculous.
Microsoft could join the 4 percent club, the handful of major corporations with dividend yields of 4 percent, likely to continue compounding.
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