3 Stocks to Buy With Dividends Yielding More than 5%
A good rule of thumb to follow in the stock market is that if something looks too good to be true, it probably is. In today's low-interest-rate environment, stocks with big dividend payments probably look like yield traps -- businesses where the market is pricing in a very likely cut to that dividend.
Still, there are legitimate businesses out there that pay decent dividends. To figure out which ones have staying power despite the high payment, you have to understand why they pay and may be able to sustain such a generous payout to their owners. With that criteria in mind, here are three stocks to consider buying with dividends yielding more than 5%.
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