Anyone know of some good dividend stocks

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BMY
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Century link is paying .54 every quarter which seems very good

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Gauge in terms of annual percentage...so at 4% you're receiving $400 per year on $10,000 invested. For this to do any good, you've got to buy and hold for at least 20 years and hope that the dividend grows or at least holds, all the while buying more of the stock.

Look no further than these sectors:
Telecoms
T
VZ
Utilities
Think Electric and Water companies...
Duke
Southern Company
Consumer Staples
PG
PM
UL
Enormous Banks
(especially Canadian ones)
BNS
RY
JPM
BAC

I'd stay the hell away from Ford

Just search for the most recent list of dividend aristocrats or dividend champions. Find blogs or sites that give you some basic guidelines for evaluating these stocks such as the dividend discount model, payout ratio, etc. Go from there with your own well reasoned buying criteria that fit your goals and risk tolerance

CIM
Pays quarterly dividends of $0.50. Great return on a $20 stock. Even better yield when it was $16/share.

MPW

I have been using solely focused on dividend growth investing for the last 10 years. To me dividend growth is everything.

Time and dividend growth will make you rich.

My first tip would be to not overpay for the stock, pay close attention to the P/E ratio at the time of purchase.

The biggest problem with dividend stocks, especially the ones that look so great when they pop up on a screener, is that they are on the way down. Nothing worse than chasing a 4% dividend, just to watch it lose 8% in value over the course of the same year.