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Mining For Dividend Diversification
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Published Thu, 31 May 2012 10:17:05 -0400 on Seeking Alpha
Generating income seems to be all the rage these days, with interest rates at historic lows, many investors have sought other ways to get income from their portfolios, such as with dividend stocks. However, in the quest for yield, unseen risk often lies just under the surface, waiting for some macro or micro event to expose it. It's easy to get taken in by a high yielder that has few real assets, and makes most of it's profits through leverage or excessive debt. I don't know about everybody else, but I'm not interested in getting a high yield if all of my principal has evaporated. I think one way to lessen the risk of principal loss and still earn a decent yield is to allocate a portion of your income portfolio to mining companies that pay dividends. Miners with holdings of hard asset commodities, like aluminum, copper, iron ore, zinc,... Read more
Stock name ISIN Last trade P/E Earnings/Share Dividend/Share Dividend yield IAMGOLD 
CA4509131088 5.14 5.7 0.89 0.25 4.86 BHP BILLITON PLC
US05545E2090 58.81 16.6 3.60 2.28 3.88 PEABODY ENERGY
US7045491047 20.63 0.0 -2.57 0.34 1.65 HECLA MINING
US4227041062 3.17 74.2 0.04 0.01 0.32