CenturyLink?

Good dividend stock. I wouldn't expect to get rich off of it, but it shouldn't be going anywhere anytime soon either.

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I own it. Love the 11% dividend.

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Even with the dividend minimizing the losses it's return (with dividends reinvested) would be roughly:

1 year: -16.7%
2 year: -18.7%
3 year: -25.9%
5 year: -19.9%

Now over the last 6 months, you would be up about 12.4% However, without knowing much about Centurylink their fundamentals don’t look promising and ISPs are obviously facing some issues as well.

Besides over the last 5 quarter, their EPS has totaled $1.87 and their dividend payout is $2.70, for a 144% payout ratio. I know this has been a trend for a while but that’s usually not a good sign.

They sell a shite ton of bandwidth to corporate customers, they own alot of fiber in the tunnels around the country's data hubs. They also lease alot of lines from ATT and resell that bandwidth.

The PE ratio is out of wack because the dividend is so high, making the stock sell for more than what the company is actually probably worth.