The Smart Money's Top 5 High Yield Dividend Stocks

For the past couple of decades, dividend investing has gone largely overlooked as a market strategy. Typically, the companies that pay dividends are stable companies that have been around forever -- and while security is all well and good, it makes for a far less glamorous holding than say, a tech or emerging market stock. But those who turned their noses up at these "boring" old companies may have missed out on a whole lot of profit -- according to Ned Davis Research, from 1972 to 2006 dividend-paying stocks returned an annual average of 10% versus just 4% for non-dividend payers. And plenty of other studies back up this data.... Read more