Despite their big yields, none of these companies pay big portions of their income or cash on dividends.
Big yields sometimes hide excessive risk, as evidenced by these two recent examples, which show the importance of watching for certain warning signals on the charts before jumping into select high-yield instruments.
Read Richard Lehmann and pocket 8% yields and big capital gains in fixed-income with bonds, convertibles, preferreds and MLPs.
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On yields pest resistant corn showed big differences in yield advantage - five times higher in the Prairie states than in the main crop-growing states.
Now, partly because corporate bonds are in short supply, but also because investors seem convinced once again that big firms will not go under, yields on riskier debt have fallen.
If a big increase in government borrowing pushes up bond yields, it will undermine cuts in short-term rates.
Most of the smartest investors I talk to, that are actually long equities, recommend holding big global companies whose stocks pay healthy dividend yields.
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So as the US credit outlook turns negative, and yields continue to be unattractive, the big emerging markets are solid alternatives.
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In our current yield starved environment, best-in-breed dividend paying large cap multinationals, as well as energy infrastructure MLPs, will be big beneficiaries as investors seek secure and growing dividend yields.
But when pushing A-Rod down from 3rd to 5th in the lineup for Game 4 failed to produce more productive yields, Coach Girardi had given his big dog the last bone of this particular series.
Its big rivals aren't in this line, which yields better margins and brings in other business.
Conditions today are very different from those in 1994, the year of the last big bond-market sell-off, when Treasury yields rose by 300 basis points.
In the current negative real interest rate environment, these large cap stocks will be big beneficiaries as investors seek out secure, growing dividend yields, something that fixed income markets will not be able to provide.
She watches him on a big flat screen via surveillance cameras in his house, which yields nothing.
Perhaps the big goal line stand had to do with the dollar or bond yields rising here in the U.S. (signaling that there was no panicked flight to quality occurring).
Nygren likes to buy stocks at a significant discount to their intrinsic values and is a big fan of share repurchases as opposed to stocks with above-average yields, as those currently tend to be fully priced.
With 10-year Treasury bills offering pitiful yields, a lot of investors are no doubt perusing the charts for big, solid companies offering hearty dividends.
That has helped to bring down yields on other financial assets, notably corporate bonds, which has benefited big companies by allowing them to raise money through issuing bonds rather than borrowing from banks (see chart).
One big question also hanging over the market is whether the BOJ can succeed in pushing down yields in its bid to force banks out of the safety of government bonds and back into the business of lending money.
The big problem is if you're a money manager and you're looking at these yields, these yields are just totally out of sight.
The problem is that in a market yielding 2% and with the financial services industry and most investors defining long term as next week, those securities having high yields (above say 4% for anything other than a utility) are seen as having big problems.
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