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7 High-Dividend Stocks: Are They Safe?

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  Published Mon, 19 Dec 2011 10:43:58 -0500 on Seeking Alpha
  

  
  

  Is it time to flee to safety? With the economic and political climates only becoming more tumultuous, I have been paying closer attention to dividend stocks recently. We all know about the blue chip dividend companies, but there are attractive companies with high yields that are going ex-dividend every week. This strategy can work in one of two ways: either you buy before the ex-date to receive the dividend, or buy after if the stock declines far below the after-tax amount of the dividend. Buying the stock to receive the dividend is intuitive, but many have contacted me requesting further details on the second strategy. Investopedia has a great example of how this works. To explain this, I will use AT&T (T) as an example. AT&T declared a $0.43 dividend to shareholders of record on October 10, 2011. On the ex-dividend date, the stock price should decline by the after-tax... Read more
  

  Stock name									ISIN	Last trade		P/E	Earnings/Share	Dividend/Share	Dividend yield
  AMERICAN CAPITAL AGENCY									US02503X1054	29.65		12.4	2.38	5.00	16.86
  INVESCO MORTGAGE CAPITAL									US46131B1008	20.41		7.3	2.79	2.60	12.74
  TWO HARBORS INVESTMENT									US90187B1017	11.92		9.1	1.30	1.28	10.74
  HATTERAS FINANCIAL									US41902R1032	26.83		7.9	3.39	2.80	10.44
  ALTRIA GROUP									US02209S1033	37.44		17.2	2.16	1.76	4.70
  PHILIP MORRIS INTERNATIONAL									US7181721090	95.68		18.3	5.21	3.40	3.55
  PORTLAND GENERAL ELECTRIC									US7365088472	32.33		17.2	1.86	1.08	3.34

  
  

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