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High-Yield Stocks That Offer More Than Just Dividends
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Published Wed, 18 Apr 2012 10:06:40 -0400 on Seeking Alpha
While the stock market has bounced back strong this year following a difficult 2011, investors still aren't exactly pouring into stocks. In fact, many continue to flat-out avoid equities. Except, that is, for at least one part of the market: dividend stocks. In a recent article for The Wall Street Journal, Jason Zweig noted that so far this year, investors have put a net of $9 billion into mutual funds and exchange-traded funds that focus on US stocks that pay stable, high, or rising dividends (Zweig cited fund flow data from EPFR Global). Over the same period, investors had removed a net of $7.3 billion from all other US stock funds. Zweig cautioned investors, saying it seems that many may be rushing into dividend stocks for the wrong reasons -- either because, with bond yields so low, they're looking for an easy way to replace income in their portfolios, or... Read more
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US7043261079 38.20 24.4 0.00 0.00 0.00