In addition to dividends, you want to look at dividend growth rate. Here's a sort list I just did especially for you from TC2000. These are high dividend stocks, with a 5 year dividend growth >5%, that have increased in price by at least 5% over the last 5 days…
TNH
CIB
FDG
TKS
TMP
SURW
PCU
PCH
AAUK
PVD
TOT
FRO
IRE
Remember to do you homework on these before buying.
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Why do most stock market investors think Obama is bad for the economy?
Do Liberals not own any stocks or do they think that is something only the evil rich Republicans do?
Everyone has their own proven method. For me,nothing is more important than the balance sheet and ratios. What do you guys consider most important when picking stocks? Please do not name any real stocks.
for school we are doing a project and learning about the stock mrket we are supposed to pick to companies and such to buy stock from what is doing well?? thanks in advance
I have to do a school project where I invest $25,000 of fake money into 5 companies. I've picked which ones I want to invest in, however I don't exactly know how to "buy" them..Or what am I buying, stocks or shares? Is it possible to invest $5000 into each company? Helllllp!
Only one sure thing in the stock market, and that is fluctuation. The market will go up and the market will go down. The real trick to making money is to make good guesses as to which it is going to do and when.
Examine the markets, choose a stock with a good record of dividends and capitol gains. Compare it to the performance of other stocks in the industry, and compare its performance to the overall market. When it is all over, it still comes down to paying your money and taking your chances.
Personally, I don't have the nerve or the education to play the stocks. I invest in mutual funds. Use the same methods, study past performance (though this is no guarantee of future performance), study the portfolio held by the fund, study turn-over in the portfolio, study the fund management and the stability of that management. Look at the record of dividends and capitol gains disbursements. Then decide if you want to play it safe, take big gambles, or small gambles. It is actually best to spread your investment among several funds in different categories. Invest part of your funds in safe growth/income funds, and only invest what you can afford to throw away in high risk funds. Put the rest in low or medium risk funds. That will give you relatively safe growth, some mildly risky chances for big profits, and a chance to either make big profits or loose your butt. With risk spread, you probably won't loose evereything.
Doc Hudson