5 Dividend Stocks Rewarding Shareholders

Life moves quickly. Already this year we have seen uprisings, natural and man-made disasters, tax season has come and gone, and the Royal Wedding was still fresh in our minds until the death of Osama bin Laden stole the headlines. How many of our New Year's resolutions are still intact? The tyranny of the urgent may tempt us to delay and time zips by. The problem is that we can easily be overwhelmed and shot down. The way to solve this is to focus on what works in the long term, allowing us to filter out what may work in the short term but won't stand the test of time. We continue to examine different portfolios to see what we can learn and use to further our investment portfolios. Howard Silverblatt at Standard & Poor's noted that the first four months of dividend increases in 2011 have already surpassed total... Read more