A Conservative Approach to Screening for High Dividend Yields

by Wayne A. Thorp

Dividends have regained some of the luster they lost during the raucous tech boom of the late 1990s. Two major reasons for this are:

  • A “flight to quality” by investors stung by the market collapse following the bursting of the Internet bubble, and
  • A change in the tax law that now taxes many dividends at a more favorable rate.
Conservative investors are attracted to dividend-paying stocks because the dividends—and the yields on dividend-paying stocks—provide a bit of a safe harbor during market tempests.

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