High Yields from the S&P 500 and the best
buy ratings originally published at "long-term-investments.blogspot.com". It’s good to have
stocks with dividends. Dividends give you a passive income and improve your
quality of life. Some of you don’t have enough money to live off dividends and
they try to close the gap by choosing only High-Yields.
The higher the yield of a stock, the less capital
you need for an acceptable return. But High-Yields often have the problem that
they are not sustainable, especially when the market capitalization is low and
the debt high.
We’ve seen this problem with Pitney Bowes, a
very popular Dividend Aristocrat who yielded for months over 10 percent until
they decided to reduce the dividend distributions by a half. For sure, they still pay a good
dividend but your passive income is now significant lower.
Today I like to show you the highest yielding stocks from the S&P 500 with their current ratings. Only 13 companies
survived the strong market gain since the beginning of the year. Last year, the
number of High-Yields within the popular index was over 20!
Below the top results are many telecom service
companies as well as electric utilities. Five of the results have a current buy
or better rating.