5 High-Yield Dividend Stocks to Watch

When you think about dividend stocks, it's very easy to simply look at the posted yield and figure that the best stocks have the highest yields.

You might want to reconsider this. Dividend yield is one important piece of total return, but you can't leave out price growth. This is why choosing dividend-paying stocks with price appreciation potential is vital to a successful portfolio strategy. Here, we'll look at five dividend-paying stocks that have a proven track record of increasing their dividends as well as a strong position for price growth. 

AT&T (NYSE: T) has faced high debt loads and aggressive writedowns in the wake of its flailing DIRECTV acquisition. But it's currently offering a dividend yield of around 7%, and its stock is trading about 25% off its highs over the last two years.

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