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Many investors want to invest in companies that pay dividends to their shareholders. If your focus is on attractive current dividend yields, the stock market builds in warnings. Very high dividend yields mean some investors are shying way, keeping share prices low because they worry the companies will lower their dividends. So investors need to look harder to limit the risk of dividend cuts.
Last week we ran a screen that narrowed the 168 real-estate investment trusts in the Russell 3000 Index
RUA to a group of just six companies that passed strict criteria for that industry group. Those stocks had dividend yields ranging from 4.42% to 6.58%, with the payouts appearing to be very well supported by the REITs’ operations.
This post was originally published on Market Watch
