Finding Dividend Stocks
The Reuters Dividend Ratio report is a great resource to separate the good from the bad
If income is an important part of your investment goal, you will need to focus on the tradeoff between high current yield and high rates of dividend growth. Ideally, you would like to maximize both, but realistically, you will find that the stocks with the highest yield tend to have less attractive prospects for dividend growth. Even so, you will still want to come as close as you can to the best-case ideal.
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