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Like I said, I'm just an amateur, so I wouldn't be qualified to recommend any stock in particular. I signed up for a an account at dividend.com and looked at t
by byoung2 13y ago
Like I said, I'm just an amateur, so I wouldn't be qualified to recommend any stock in particular. I signed up for a an account at dividend.com and looked at their ratings to see what to invest in. Anything above 20% seemed too good to be true, so I focused on a few with yields between 10 and 15% that had long histories of paying out.
- mrfusion 13y agoI always assumed anything that pays over 5 or 6% these days has some fundamental problem and I should stay away. Is that not necessarily the case? Why aren't more people buying good high dividend stocks and pushing the yields down?
- byoung2 13y agoREITs are different from normal stocks in that they get a tax break if they distribute at least 90% of their taxable income to shareholders each year, so their yields are much higher. REIT yeilds (and stock prices) should continue to rise now that housing prices are rising, and the overall improvement in the economy is creating growth in commercial real estate.