11 Incredible Dividend Stocks

Most investors see dividends as a quaint concept like a bed and breakfast in the countryside, a horse-and-buggy ride through the city, or a pocket full of butterscotch suckers. They know that dividends are there, but they don't really take them seriously as a way to beat the market. And certainly companies aren't making it easy to be a dividend investor. Using data from Yale's Robert Shiller that goes back to 1900, my fellow Fool Morgan Housel has shown that the current dividend payout ratio -- that is, the amount of its profit that a company pays out as dividends -- is less than half of its long-term average.... Read more