13 Great Safe Dividend Stocks With Yields Over 4%

When the price of a dividend stock climbs, its yield falls. As a result, a rising stock market, such as we've had of late, can make it harder for income investors to find attractive dividend payers.

Indeed, the current dividend yield on Standard & Poor's 500-stock index is just 2.1%, down from 2.3% a year ago. For retirees dependent on investment income, a 2.1% yield won't even keep up with inflation in 2017.

True, investors can buy stocks with unusually high yields, but such names typically come with greater risks. A too-good-to-be-true yield can be a red flag about a company's financial health and an indicator that the dividend isn't sustainable.

That's why dependable, high-quality stocks with above-average dividend yields are such important components of a retirement portfolio. Here are four great dividend stocks that are paying double the yield of the blue-chip S&P 500 index.

Attached, we've tried to compile a couple of stocks which combines both, a high yield, growth and some kind of safeness.

These are the results...

8 Big-Dividend REITs Worth Considering Now

It's been a choppy year so far for big-dividend Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs). This has created some attractive buying opportunities as the market moved from January/February distress, to a near-infatuation with yield in the months that followed, a Brexit-induced flight to quality, a new real estate sector, and perhaps another leg lower following the upcoming November 1-2 Federal Reserve meeting.

For your consideration, we've provided a ranking of the best and worst performing big-dividend REITs year-to-date, and we've also provided five general recommendations on how to "play" the current state of the REIT sector. Further, we cover several specific REIT opportunities in this article, and here is our list of Top 8 Big-Dividend REITs Worth Considering.

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16 Income Growth Stocks With A PEG Below One

With the stock market in nearly nonstop rally mode over the past six years, investors haven't needed to look far to uncover an abundance of growth stocks. 

But not all growth stocks are created equal: While some could still deliver extraordinary gains, others appear considerably overvalued, and might instead burden investors with hefty losses. 

What exactly is a growth stock? Though it's arbitrary, I'll define a growth stock as any company forecast to grow profits by 10% or more annually during the next five years. To decide what's "cheap," I'll use the PEG ratio, which compares a company's price-to-earnings ratio to its future growth rate. 

Any figure around or below one could signal a cheap stock. Attached you can find a list of dividend growth stocks with a history of consecutive dividend hikes of more than 5 years and a PEG ratio below one. 

Each stock from the list is a Midcap with a market cap over 2 billion. I've tried to exclude all lower capitalized stocks out of the screen in order to keep the big risks away.

In total, there are 16 companies from my high quality dividend stock screen that fulfilled my criteria.

Here is the list of stocks with a PEG ratio below one....

16 Income Growth Stocks With A PEG Below One 
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20 Midcap High-Yield Stocks With Dividend Yields Between 5.05% and 20.21%

When you year the term "high yield dividend stock," probably the thing that comes to mind is a stock with a dividend yield in the 5%-7% range. 

If you are looking at the highest yielding stocks out there, then we're talking about companies with yields in the teens, twenties, and even as high as 70%! 

If that kind of return sounds too good to be true, that's because it is. Here's a list of the 20 highest yielding dividend stocks that are traded on the major U.S. exchanges and have market caps of greater than $2 billion.

Each of the results have a positve return on asset ratio which means that the corporate makes money on its assets. In addition, these income should grow over the next five years.

I also implemented a ratio to experess the debt load of the company. The stocks should have a debt-to-equity ratio of less than 1.

The 20 top results have a yield ratio between 5.05% and 20.21%

Here are the 20 highest yielding results from the list...

12 Stocks That Might Get A Boost Indirectly From Low Energy Prices

Crude oil’s crash may have roiled stocks to start 2016, but cheap fuel is actually a great thing for the average American. Consumer confidence is heading higher, thanks to low gas prices and a continually improving job market.

In general, it should be good the US economy to have a low oil price. The states are net import of oil. The cheaper the oil price, the cheaper the energy bill of the USA.

A negative impact is expected from the oil and gas industry, especially from own energy companies like Chevron, Exxon Mobil. A hard environment has share fracker and oil equipment firms.

Also headwinds faced by banks with a big loan portfolio related to the energy sector.

Today I would like to introduce some stocks that might get some backwinds from the low oil price. It's not only the consumer. Many energy consumption stocks like manufacturer, travel stocks, airlines could also improve margins due to lower energy costs.

Here are 12 higher yielding stocks that are directly benefiting from more leisure travel. They’re all on sale at the moment, too. 

Here are the results...