25 High Dividend Stocks Being Targeted By Short Sellers

We like high dividend stocks and consider them as alternatives to 10-year Treasury bonds. Like Jim Rogers and Ray Dalio, we are concerned about the Fed’s inflationary monetary policy and want to protect ourselves against inflation. One of the ways of doing this without assuming significant risks is investing in high dividend stocks. High dividend stocks are usually safer but under some circumstances they might be extremely dangerous. The vulnerable high dividend yielding companies may be targeted by short sellers. So, high short interest in high dividend stocks may signal danger. We compiled the list of stocks that have at least 5% dividend yield and a minimum of 5% open short interest. These stocks may be substantially riskier than other high dividend yielding stocks: Company Ticker Market Cap Dividend Yield Short Interest PROSPECT CAPITAL CORP PSEC $1.1B 10.0% 10.2 CENTURYLINK INC CTL $12.4B 7.2% 10.0 FIRSTENERGY CORP FE $11.2B 6.0%... Read more