How to Find the Best Dividend Stocks

Investors are flocking to dividend-paying stocks, and it's not as if you can blame them. Conservative investors that have lived off a steady diet of money market funds, CDs, and T-bills are looking for more than the sub-1% yields they're getting from their fixed income vehicles. Here's where stocks with regular quarterly disbursements come in.

Quality companies paying quality distributions are great, but finding them isn't easy. Let's go over some of the things to watch for -- and to watch out for -- on the quest to find the best dividend stocks.

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