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Many investors overlook the importance of steady income. No matter your investment profile, dividends provide stable growth with consistent payments that accrue and compound over time. If you plan to retire wealthy, you need stocks that will pay you to own them. Our investment analysts highlight the stocks with the highest yields, uncover those increasing their payouts and evaluate the highly regarded Dividend Aristocrats, plus much more. Read on to find out how you can profit from investing in dividend stocks.

Recent Dividend Stocks Articles

3 Grand-Slam Dividend Stocks You’ve Never Heard Of

Fat yields, great returns, respectable market caps and heavy insider buying make these unheralded dividend stocks look like big winners.

Philip Morris Sweetens the Dividend Pot

Philip Morris delivered another dividend increase to investors, and tobacco stocks continue to be among the best dividend sectors

Top 11 Dow Dividend Stocks for September

Looking for big yield and security? Look no further than this list of the Dow Jones Industrial Average's top 11 dividend stocks.

VZ Dials Up Its Dividend: 5 Companies Increasing Dividends

It was a slow week for dividend increases, but Verizon and Hess were among the companies increasing their payouts.

3 Dividend Stocks That Still Trump Treasuries

The 10-year Treasury has touched and now is hovering around 3% yields, meaning it's time to improve your standards for dividend stocks.

VIDEO: Focus on Dividend Growth for Big Returns

Look for stocks that steadily increase dividends -- not just because dividend growth indicates they're healthy, but because your yield on cost could soar.

2 Floating-Rate Funds to Keep Your Head Above Water

These floating-rate business developing companies are a great way to bring in dividend yield and get a jump on rising rates.

Canadian Banks Give Back: 13 Companies Increasing Dividends

A slow week of dividend increases heading into the Labor Day weekend still had 13 companies increasing dividends for shareholders

Buy This Microcap Paying an 8% Dividend

Most microcaps are targeted as growth plays, but tiny Collector's Universe is worth a look because of its tremendous dividend.

International REITs: Look to Asia for Yield

Investors who focus exclusively on U.S. real estate are missing out on a world of potential opportunities in international REITs.

International REITs: 3 British Buys

International REITs offer great diversification, dividend income and targeted exposure to some of the world's best real estate markets.

5 Dividend Stocks with Exceptional Business Models

In my dividend investing, I focus on mostly companies with long streaks of dividend increases based on solid fundamentals leading to cash flow

Searching for Income? Stay Away From Most Electric Utility Stocks

The economic and regulatory backdrop for electric utility stocks is not very favorable -- so investors should be selling the former safe-haven picks.

5 Dividend Stocks for Your Day-to-Day Needs

Things like trash collection and wireless phone and Internet service probably aren't going away anytime soon -- and that's good news for these five dividend stocks.

GPS Stocks the Shelf: 14 Companies Increasing Dividends

A busy week of earnings releases brought a solid week of dividend increases, with 14 companies joining our Companies Increasing Dividends list

2 Insurance Stocks for Great Dividend Growth

For a well-balanced portfolio, investors should invest in dividend-growth stocks. These insurance companies are great candidates.

4 Heavily Shorted Dividend Stocks to Sell

These four heavily shorted dividend stocks might offer up sweet payouts, but investors are still better off avoiding them.

The Predictive Value of 4 Rising Dividend Stars

These 4 dividend paying stars got that way through a history of solid business fundamentals and the ability to increase dividends every year

Exxon Mobil an Undervalued Dividend Machine

Exxon Mobil is one of the steadiest dividend payers in the market, and the price is getting right to take a position so keep an eye on the price