23 High Dividend Stocks Being Targeted by Short Sellers

We like high dividend stocks and consider them as great alternatives to 10-year Treasury bonds. Like Jim Rogers, 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. 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 a 5% dividend yield and a minimum of 5% open short interest (data is sourced from Fidelity). 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 Name Symbol Dividend Yield 2011 Return AMERICAN... Read more