by George McMiIllan for Lightspeed Trading
Fortunately, investors can still find attractive dividend yields even ignoring Oil and Gas stocks entirely. Not only that, but many of these stocks also have a host a positive fundamentals that make their dividends more secure, and they have exceptional earnings growth as well.
Oil and Gas stocks dominate the rankings for highest dividend yields right now as plummeting crude prices have ravaged the market values of those issues – sending the yields sky high. But those high yields are increasingly under threat as dividend cuts are already occurring for some of these companies and more are likely to happen in the near future.
We found five such dividend-paying stocks that fit the bill. Their key characteristics are:
