24 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 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. Since we are a source for free insider trading data, we compiled this list of stocks that have at least a 5% dividend yield and a minimum of 5% open short interest. We also require that the short interest has been increasing compared to the previous month. These stocks may be substantially riskier than other high dividend yielding stocks: Company... Read more