PFE – Monthly Income from Investing

Pfizer offers a Total Yield Stock Play with an Increasing Dividend Payout

While income investors constantly seek out stocks with growing dividend yields, they can also benefit from share buybacks. The share buybacks present an opportunity for investors to get capital gains in addition to current income. Currently, 80% of S&P 500 companies are buying back shares. Combine this with dividend yield and you can get a …

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Building a High Dividend Yield, Low Beta Income Portfolio (Part 3)

Dividen Stocks / By admin

For income investors wanting to go it alone, they should consider creating a portfolio of high dividend stocks with low beta. This type of portfolio will provide a risk to reward profile during times of uncertainty in the markets. By adding the component of a bullish outlook to the low beta stocks indicates these stocks …

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Dividend Stocks with Bond-like Yields

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While some wonder if dividend investing is a fad, the strategy probably has staying power. Bonds yield little, and short-term rates are near zero, leaving individuals with few places to find yield. Demographics favor income investing; millions of baby boomers retire each year, and they want income to supplement Social Security and minimize the drawdown …

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The Best Dividend Stocks for 2012 – Health Care

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S&P recommends marketweighting the S&P 500 Health Care sector. Year to date through November 18, the S&P Health Care Index, which represented 11.6% of the S&P 500 Index, was up 4.0%, compared to a 3.3% drop for the S&P 500. In 2010, this sector index rose 0.7%, versus a 12.8% advance for the 500. There …

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