STOCK MARKET WATCH -- Friday, 13 January 2012

[tclambert]

94. There are always some companies paying dividends.

These days, with online screeners it's easy to find stocks with decent dividend yields. Of course, the screener programs don't work perfectly, the data isn't perfectly up to date, and you still have to do do your due diligence to check to see that the companies fundamentals are sound. Very high dividends usually means there's something fishy going on. Though in one case, with a REIT, I concluded the only thing going on was fear, 'cause the RE in REIT stands for Real Estate. For a year and half now, I've collected pretty good dividends from that REIT. Its fundamentals still look sound, so I may buy some more when I save up a few dollars.