These companies have stable earnings, modest valuations and yields that beat anything on offer from the Treasury, considering the ability of dividends to grow with earnings over time.

这几家公司盈利稳定，估值适中，而且考虑到股息也将随利润而水涨船高，其股息也高于美国国债能提供的任何收益。

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The companies offer big dividends as incentives to investors to stick with them while they make acquisitions or build up other products that will make share prices grow again.

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Recently, GBI announced a program that allows publicly traded companies to offer shareholders their dividends in physical gold or silver, instead of cash.

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This would allow government to capture more taxes from dividends, he says, since companies would presumably be pressured to offer more dividends since double-taxation would be avoided.

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