find stocks with dividends

Start with a screener such as

. It permits you to enter your "required" min and max dividend yield. You can google and find other screeners. Morningstar.com and fidelity.com both have screeners. One might have to be a Fidelity customer to use its screener. You can use &b&c84&d&e&f 08&g=v for historical dividends. Two caveats: Finance.yahoo.com is not always accurate with dividend yields or historical prices. Also, a higher than usual dividend yield for a company may in fact signal a company in distress. More research is always necessary once the initial screen for "high dividend yield" is done.

The website fool.com has had an emphasis on large value (one category of dividend payers) stocks for the last several years. I would read it regularly for ideas on good, dividend stock buys.

One disadvantage of electric utility dividends: They do not grow as fast as those of large blue chip companies', on average.

Two advantages: (1) Electric utilities' dividends are above average at any given time. (2) The share value (= your principal) does grow at a good clip with time, though not as good as the S&P 500. The fact that utilities do not, due to more government regulation than the typical blue chip, have the same amount of free rein might explain why returns on principal are not as good as the S&P 500.

Many web sites are dedicated to dividend stock investing. Google.

Many funds are also devoted to dividend stocks.

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