If that happens, holders would enjoy handsome capital gains alongside a good yield and absolute safety.
With 10-year Treasury bills inching above 3.5%, a good earnings yield generally is considered somewhere north of 5.5%.
At one time a person could throw a dart at a page of utility stocks and be pretty sure of coming up with a company that had a stable revenue source and a good dividend yield.
The latter has a 4% yield with a good track record of increases, and has been met with skepticism of late over concern that the device world is passing it by as consumers show a taste for smartphones and tablets.
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When we are going through our analysis on stocks to buy, it is not what we make our sole decision on, but if it has a good current dividend yield, that is attractive to us in this slow growth environment.
Spanish sovereign debt might be a good bet because its yield is 6% and the spread over German debt is over 4%.
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There is a good chance high-yield munis are going to get riskier as the sluggish U.S. economy takes its toll on municipal finances, RBC's Mr. Mauro says.
The behemoth bank kicks out a quarter every three months, good for a 2.4% yield.
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So, I think there is a good opportunity in high-yield bonds.
The payout ratio is a non-stressful 46% of earnings and 44% of cash flow, good for a 3.17% yield.
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How higher tax rates can yield lower collections is a good question.
That's another reason why a lower bond yield is not always good news - even if the chancellor has gotten us into the habit of thinking otherwise.
Another electric utility Kramer recommends is Central Vermont Public Service Corp.. The company has good management and a 4.7% yield, Kramer says.
For example, we could increase the duration of our investment portfolio, we could go out and buy a lot of securities that have good short-term yield but have higher credit risk.
The iShares Morningstar Multi-Asset Income Index Fund ( IYLD) is a good choice that has a 4.7% yield and holds ten other income ETFs, invested in things like junk bonds, dollar-denominated emerging market bonds, Treasurys and dividend stocks.
Along with these positives, a fairly impressive dividend yield of 2.1% and double-digit earnings growth expectations make Texas Roadhouse a good pick for investors looking for both growth and income.
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With long-term earnings and revenue growth both above 19%, attractive valuations (the stock's PEG ratio is 0.47), high returns on equity, and a decent dividend yield, it's easy to see why Reese's guru strategies find the stock a good one for 2010 and beyond.
Local niche deals look like a good lifestyle business for savvy entrepreneurs, but are unlikely to yield more than a few scalable businesses.
But for investors, these are not good enough reasons to completely ignore a 6.9% dividend yield from a coal company.
In theory this was a good bet: The house could reap a tempting spread between the yield on the derivatives and its own cost of borrowing.
At the same time, one of the most important sub-components of the leading economic indicator series is the slope of the yield curve which, by itself, is a very good indicator.
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John Cavanagh, of the charity Spinal Research, said any work that could potentially yield a new therapy for people with nerve damage would be good news.
Check out the Market Blaster video above for a couple of stock ideas: Green Mountain Coffee Roasters for its hyper-growth that is suddenly on sale, and Altria, because the fat yield and the potency of nicotine addiction are good things for a portfolio regardless of the economic cycle.
In that light, a negative yield of 0.55% on index-linked bonds seems a good investment.
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The key is to tiptoe carefully into a diversified group of high-yield names with specific maturities whose balance sheets are good and whose price moves, based on interest rate fluctuations (called duration), will be muted.
It is a bad reason because the good folks that are snapping up the bonds at their current derisory yield are not being rewarded for the risks they are taking.
So we will see asset classes that will have very good runs (commodities, high-yield debt, currencies like the New Zealand dollar) only to lose a good deal of those gains in a short period.
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