Top 17 Yields For Profitable US Companies
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Paul Tracy, Editor, High-Yield International and Co-Founder,
StreetAuthority provided a long
report on high dividend yield companies. His point is that
you can find many strong high yielding, solid companies that are
outside of the US.
This
interested me for two reasons:
- I want to learn all I can about high dividend yield stocks to find the best of the best for both income and growth to offset the paltry returns from other interest bearing instruments.
- I am always interested in diversifying and if I can have companies that have markets in other geographic regions, that is of great interest.
Paul starts with the top
US companies -- he filters the companies to make sure they are
profitable and so this isn't just a tactic for propping up the
stock price. He came up with 17:
In a future article, we will go on to look at the international
stocks but this is a set of stocks that are a mix of names and not
the usual suspects. This is an interesting blind filter and worth comparing with our dividend ETF benchnark portfolio.