How to Find the Best Dividend Stocks
Take it from me, a devoted income investor: It is way too easy to get suckered in by a big dividend yield. There's nothing wrong with high-yielding stocks per se, but you need to make sure there's more to the story than a fat payout, or you're likely to get burned.
Here are seven key lessons I've learned in my search for juicy dividends. Following them may protect you from making some painful investing blunders.
There are way too many stocks in the investable universe. So rather than rummaging through them all, you need to start with tools to help you cull out names you just won't be interested in.
Source Fool.com
