7 Dividend-Yielding Stocks For The Next 5 Years

Just because a company pays dividends, it does not mean that stock is a good investment. In fact, companies often offer dividends in order to make up for low earnings expectations, slow growth or a risky patch. In other words, investors have to choose high-dividend yielding stocks carefully. One way to do this is to keep the focus on larger companies that have strong earnings growth estimates in addition to decent dividends. These companies will boost their dividends as their earnings grow at a high rate. We developed a list of companies that fit our criteria. Specifically, the companies on this list have market caps over $2 billion, pay dividends over 3% and have EPS growth expectations of over 15% per annum on average for the next five years. Watsco, Inc. (WSO) is an electronics wholesale company with a $2.26 billion market cap. The company is currently priced at 21.73... Read more