Healthcare Stocks: The Right Investments Pay Dividends

The health care industry seems to have a better grasp of what President Obama’s reforms mean for business. Now executives can calculate their next steps, and investors are pushing up prices for shares of health care related stocks. For income investors seeking dividends, health care stocks are often attractive because of decent yields - but also because they are resilient in flat, or downward trending, markets. Health care is typically a defensive sector, and if stock prices do fall higher yields usually mean shares get snapped up quickly - thus putting a higher floor under the stocks.... Read more