4 Safe High-Yielding Dividend Stocks To Buy

Investing in the stock market can sometimes be a test of investors' patience. Over the past 15 years, the broad-based S&P 500 has plunged by more than 50%, only to completely erase these losses within a matter of years twice (the dot-com bubble and the Great Recession).

Long-term investors are well aware that the stock market tends to go up over the long-term, and has returned about 7% annually -- but that doesn't make it any easier holding onto stocks when the broad market indexes nosedive.

This is where dividend stocks come in. Dividend stocks offer a bounty of advantages over non-dividend stocks, which makes them attractive long-term holds.

The obvious difference is that dividends provide a hedge during a downturn. The average yield of the S&P 500 is just over 2%, and while that won't negate a stock market correction lower, it's better than nothing.


The two more important advantages of dividend stocks are that they usually imply a healthy business model and they can be reinvested to supercharge your long-term gains. 

Companies typically won't pay a regular dividend to investors if they don't believe their business model is on solid footing.

By a similar token, being able to reinvest your dividends over the long run can allow you to buy more shares of dividend paying stocks, which yields bigger payouts, and even more shares. This compounding pattern is what lends to rapid wealth creation.

 The thing about dividends is that investors can be lured solely based on yield, which isn't necessarily a good thing. As investors, we want the highest yield imaginable so we can boost our reinvestment potential.

But yields can rise because stock prices are falling. If investors aren't able to decipher whether a high yield is the result of a healthy shareholder return policy or a struggling business model, there could be problems. 

With this in mind, I figured we'd take a brief look at four safe stocks with healthy dividend yields north of 5%. By "safe," I mean companies with below-average volatility and proven business models that won't leave you sleepless at night.

These are the results...

17 Best Rated Monthly Dividend Paying Stocks With Big Yields

While most dividend paying stocks that trade on exchanges in the US pay quarterly, there are some stocks that pay their dividends on other schedules. 

A handful pay their dividends semi-annually while there is a larger population of monthly dividend stocks. 

While only one aspect that should be considered in selecting stocks for investment, monthly dividend payments can be advantageous for building wealth over time and to smooth out a dividend retirement income stream.

Attached you will find a compilation of monthly paying stocks that met the following criteria:

- Pay dividends of 6% (plus or minus)
- Are growing those dividends
- Have solid balance sheets

A handful of these businesses even have investment grade credit ratings. The table below provides a list of 17 monthly dividend stocks sorted on dividend yield.

These are the results...

17 Monthly Dividend Stocks (click to enlarge), Source: Valuewalk.com

Dividend Growth Stocks Of The Week 21/2016

Dividend growth investing is a popular model followed by the investing community to build assets.

Companies which not only pay dividends, but raise them year after year have been shown to perform better overall for investor returns.

Following companies announced dividend increases this week. These are the dividend grower from the past week... If you like them to receive in the future, just subscribe to my free newsletter. 

Here are the latest dividend growth stocks compiled...

5 Technology Dividend Stocks With Better Dividends Than J&J, Procter And Exxon Mobil

The investing landscape has changed quite a bit for dividend investors. 

Those seeking high yields in equities had to traditionally invest in the financial, utilities, telecom, and consumer-staples sectors.

Today, investors can also find attractive yields in an industry traditionally devoid of dividend payers -- technology.

By the end of 2003, only 22 information-technology stocks paid a dividend. Today, that list is up to 185.

Of those companies, 87 are yielding at least 2.17%, the current dividend yield of the S&P 500. Some of the more popular names are paying out well over 3%.

Here are five technology stocks paying a dividend higher than Johnson & Johnson, Procter & Gamble, and ExxonMobil.

These are the stocks I'm talking about...

9 Stocks For Value Investors With Dividend Focus

Value investing, perhaps more than any other type of investing, is more concerned with the fundamentals of a company's business rather than its stock price or market factors affecting its price. 

In the Cabot Benjamin Graham Value Investor, I utilize a value investing strategy developed by Benjamin Graham in the 1920s. 

The details of this value strategy are spelled out clearly in his book, "The Intelligent Investor," published 60 years ago. 

The objective of Graham's strategy is to identify unappreciated stocks and show you how to find undervalued stocks that meet certain criteria for quality and quantity ... stocks that are poised for stellar price appreciation.

Out of the multitude of companies, which ones would legendary value investor Benjamin Graham buy today? I've compiled nine great companies that fit Benjamin Graham's methods and criteria.

The companies in this list pass the rigorous requirements of either the Defensive Investor or the Enterprising Investor and are undervalued by the market.

These are the results: