3 Facts About High-Yield Dividend Stocks Every Investor Should Know
If you are like me, you love a good dividend stock. There's nothing better than sitting back and collecting a quarterly dividend, especially if the stock in question is offering a big yield. But there are a few things you need to know before you pull the trigger. Plains All American Pipeline, L.P. (NYSE: PAA), Hormel Foods Corp (NYSE: HRL), and Magellan Midstream Partners, L.P. (NYSE: MMP) will help explain three key facts every dividend investor should know.
Plains All American is a midstream oil and natural gas partnership. It has been increasingly shifting its business toward fee-based assets over the past decade via construction of new assets and acquisitions. In fact, at the company's investor day, Plains All American projected that fees would account for 90% of its revenues in 2017. It would be reasonable to assume that this is a fairly stable business if you didn't look any further. So when the yield spiked over 9%, you might have been tempted to jump aboard.
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