Love Dividends? 3 Stocks You Might Want to Buy

The companies you add to your income portfolio should be carefully selected to match your passion for dividends. That means looking for strong businesses with long histories of dividend increases. Here are three stocks that dividend lovers should be looking at today -- two with big yields and one with a smaller yield that's high compared with its own history.

This trio of stocks starts off with ExxonMobil (NYSE: XOM). The first thing to know about this diversified energy giant is that its earnings and stock price will tend to go up and down along with the price of oil and natural gas. That can lead to frustrating periods of weak performance because these commodities have volatile swings. Oil prices are relatively weak today, part of the reason Exxon yields a fat 4.6% -- toward the high end of its historical range. And it has increased its dividend annually for 37 consecutive years. 

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