What stocks pay the highest dividend/dividend yield?

Question

I was just wondering because I want to invest in high dividend stocks. So what are the top 10 stocks with the highest dividend/yield?

Answer 1

Its usually your trusts, the most popular are the real estate trusts, if you search you can find oil trusts along with a few others. I've  owned BPT since 04 and have not been too disappointed to get rid of it yet. Began the year at about 80 bucks, now at 95 and have recieved 5.71 per share dividend so far. Hoping for an additional 3 dollars in dividend this quarter. So 8k in Jan is now worth a little over 10k. Not bad for a down year........

Answer 2

Most of them are banks, but they may be cutting the dividend soon like Wachovia and WaMu.

Answer 3

Go to a good library and look in Value Line Investment Survey.  The body of the binder has VL's weeking list of stocks they provide detail on.  Usually on the inside front cover, is a weekly overview section which contains lists of the highest dividend issuing stocks, highest P/E stocks, lowest P/E stocks, etc.

Answer 4

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Answer 5

In the US, MLPs (master limited partnerships) pay fairly respectable returns, you can go to MSN Money and search MPLs.

You can also visit http://www.dividenddetective.com/

In MSN Money there are screens, pre-designed that will screen stocks for dividends, try visiting

http://moneycentral.msn.com/investor/fin...

Just  becareful, that the stocks that you select are not only based on current yield, the price may be dropping for reasons.  Pick stocks that have above average fundamentals and you'll do well

Good luck

Answer 6

All canroys pay high divys...like 10-15%+  I owned one called HTE for a while.  I liked that stock, but it went up in value 25% in two months so i took the short term profit.  Also they pay in canadian dollars, so you are exposed to the exchange rate, but at the way the dollar is falling it might be good for you.

Answer 7

Usually it is utilities, as it is difficult to get lots of growth. Some people say the US oil companies are like utilities. UK Banks are currently paying high dividends. It should be big companies with little growth prospects, but big steady profits. Remember the stated yield is historic. So the dividend next year may be cut. Look for dividend cover. Say £1 of dividend could be covered by £3 of earnings.