Look For Dividend Boosters For Steady Returns

Stocks with a high-dividend yield can provide investors additional cash flow. More importantly, it is tax-free. With April 2011 just over, the ‘earnings season’ is well and truly here. This is the time most companies pay out a portion of their profits as dividends to shareholders. Since dividends are tax-free, they are an attractive income source with a select class of investors, who depend on these for additional cash flow.

A company doing well and generating profits will usually be in a position to declare dividends regularly. Hence, a key parameter one should look at whilst investing in a stock is whether the company has a good dividend record. Typically, dividend yield stocks are large-caps and generally not capital-intensive. This is suggestive of the fact that the downside risk on these stocks is lower.

Source: Business Standard

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