The Top 100 Dividend Stocks: August 2011

As the economy remains uncertain, it’s unclear how things will end up being fixed by the U.S. government. But one thing that does seem clear is that safer investing such as dividend investing is gaining a lot of ground. This makes it great timing to publish our monthly post about the top dividend stocks in the S&P500. It’s always a popular post, not only because of the list itself but also because of the fact that we start from that list when looking for high quality dividend stocks that help us build a passive income portfolio.Over the past few months, we have looked at quite a few criteria that have helped us find the best dividend stocks including current yield, dividend growth and also companies that produce solid enough earnings to keep up the dividend payments. We summed it all up when we discussed the 20 things that we... Read more