10 New Dividend Kings for Safety and Yield

Dividend stocks are favorites of famed value investors like Warren Buffett and George Soros, and for good reason. Dividends are paid out by companies who earn excess cash and can create the most value by returning these earnings to investors, rather than by funding internal projects. When a firm can safely put out a high yield dividend every quarter, the stock is a solid return-generating investment choice for any portfolio. Investment Underground looked at 10 stocks paying out high dividends, and here’s what we found: AT&T (T): This telecom giant is well known to consumers for providing cellular phone service, landline telephony, cable television, and wired internet. Over the past year, AT&T paid out $1.72 in dividends per share for an incredible 5.67% yield. The great news is that the company still generated $3.51 in EPS and has $5.99 in cash flow per share, more than enough... Read more