Here's How to Find the Best Dividend Stocks
Finding great income stocks would be easy if the only metric that mattered was yield. If that was true, then an investor would simply screen for the highest-yielding stocks they could find and buy whatever pops up. Unfortunately, this is often a recipe for disaster -- a high yield is often a signal that a company is in trouble.
What's an income investor to do? My suggestion is to develop a simple process that weeds out potential duds from consideration. Below, we'll take a closer at the three steps I use to find the best dividend-paying stocks.
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