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5 Diverse Dividend Plays To Look At For Your Portfolio

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  Published Fri, 06 Jul 2012 11:53:11 -0400 on Seeking Alpha
  

  
  

  Only stocks that met the following criteria were included in this list. Novice investors would be wise to focus on the following criteria instead of obsessing on the yield factor only. High yields are generally not associated with safe long-term investors, and unusually high yields are usually a sign that all is not well with the company. In addition "our suggested guidelines when searching for new investment ideas" could prove to be useful for novice investors. Almost all the stocks in this article fulfilled the criteria listed in our guide. Net income should be trending upwards for the past 3 years Cash flow per share should be rising for the past 3 years EPS has to be trending upwards for the past 3 years Sales should be trending upwards for the past 3 years In general the payout ratio should be below 100% Interest coverage rate of at least 4.00... Read more
  

  Stock name									ISIN	Last trade		P/E	Earnings/Share	Dividend/Share	Dividend yield
  LINN ENERGY									US5360201009	34.93		0.0	-5.30	2.90	8.30
  POTASH CORP OF SASKATCHEWAN									CA73755L1076	42.32		17.5	2.45	1.40	3.31
  CLIFFS NATURAL RESOURCES									US18683K1016	21.40		0.0	-8.51	0.60	2.80
  WALT DISNEY									US2546871060	65.57		20.0	3.29	0.75	1.14
  COSTCO WHOLESALE									US22160K1051	113.38		25.9	4.38	1.24	1.09

  
  

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