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Dividend Stocks
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.

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Recent Dividend Stocks Articles
VIDEO: Making Sense of Today’s Market
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Four big names in solid, dependable dividends -- 3M, Colgate-Palmolive, Kimberly-Clark and McGraw-Hill -- strutted their stuff with quality reports.
9 Insanely Cheap Dividend Stocks
Low valuations and high dividends make these nine natural resource stocks compelling long-term investments -- even if the near term is dicey.
These Dividend Stocks Are in Danger After RadioShack Cut
High dividend-payout ratios for these two stocks mean no increases -- and perhaps even a cut.
Pengrowth Energy: The Perils of Chasing Yield
A dividend cut at this struggling natural gas stock serves as a lesson: Even though the yield still looks enticing, it's clearly not sustainable.
3 Dividend Plays for a Fair Price
Don't dump your money into sparsely yielding Treasuries or money-market accounts. Especially when there's some fairly priced dividend stocks on the shelf.
For Older Investors, Dividends Trump Bonds
It may not be a surprise that the older demographic tends to be drawn towards dividend stocks, but some other details about dividend investors may surprise you.
Is 7.8% Dividend Reason Enough to Buy a Bank Stock?
As long as it's giving 90% of its earnings to investors, NYB will have trouble sustaining its dividend payout.
Small-Town Casey’s a Big Time Dividend Player
Casey's Stores did not come up on our radar screen until just recently, but the stock merits a solid look as a dividend and appreciation portfolio player
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The direction of rates isn’t as important as the spread for mREITs. But rising rates do have other broad affects.
15 Companies Increasing Dividends
Mosaic, J.M. Smucker and Williams Cos. top this week's list of payout-boosting companies.
Top 10 Dow Dividend Stocks
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Chasing Yield: Love Dividends, But Diversify
Dividends are popular picks these days, but investors need to be careful. Don't pull all your eggs into one basket just because you see a high yield.
Jeremy Grantham’s Top 5 Dividend Stocks
Jeremy Grantham, GMO's chief investment strategist, has a preternatural eye for the market. So it's no surprise that GMO's top holdings all promise to pad investors' pocketbooks.
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While investors have been flocking toward dividend stocks in a mad dash to safety, these 10 high-yielding picks have been mostly ignored.
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For lovers of Warren Buffett and dividends, this is the perfect storm -- a list of some of Buffett's portfolio picks that boast high yields.
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Low yields have taken REITs to their highest level in four years -- but that doesn't mean higher yields will have the opposite effect.
9 Companies Increasing Dividends
Cummins, KLA-Tencor and Ryder System top this week's list of payout-padding performers.
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