Thanks-the CD's are so low I thought of putting some money in electric
utilities as you mentioned--thanks for the advice
Michael
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Start with a screener such as
http://screen.finance.yahoo.com/stocks.html . 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
http://finance.yahoo.com/q/hp?s=MO&a...=15&f=2008&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.

How do you find stocks that give big dividends--Looking at utilities..
I want to know how much dividend and how long have been pay it out..
thanks
Michael