Look at Dividends Before Dumping Stock

Recession fears are sending everything down and it may be tempting to liquidate your stock positions.  Please reconsider!
People often forget that there are TWO ways to make money by going long on stocks: capital appreciation (the stock price rises) and dividends (when the company shares earnings).
Even if prices are dropping the dividends may not be.  Search for dividend yields.  A dividend yield equals the company’s annual dividend divided by the price of one share of stock.  The dividend yield changes as the price of one share changes.  So now that prices are moving lower dividend yields are moving higher.
I just ran a simple screener on …read more