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...course, investing in stocks rather than bonds does carry some greater risks. Your return of principal is not guaranteed, and a company can choose to cut its dividend. So how can you tell if a particular dividend payer is a wise investment? Start by looking at dividend yield--the annual payout divided by the stock price. Still, betting on a company solely because it carries a high yield is risky. In mid-October, for instance, department-store company Saks offered a dividend yield above 16%. But the stock had fallen 33% over the previous six months, and uneven sales trends...
Here's a promising screen: we looked for dividend yields of between 2% and 4% (the S&P 500's yield is 1.68%), long-term earnings growth of better than 10% and a consistent hike in dividends. We looked too at the payout ratio--the percentage of earnings that is paid out in dividends. The lower the ratio, the easier it is for companies to meet their dividend obligations. Payout ratios vary by industry, but generally speaking, 50% or more is considered sizable; 75% or higher may be a red flag...
...individual forming part of a crowd acquires, solely from numerical considerations, a sentiment of invincible power which allows him to yield to instincts which, had he been alone, he would perforce have kept under restraint...
Luckily for paleontologists, the beds are divided into different layers that yield different sorts of fossils. The sleeping dino, for example, was found in what Mark Norell of the American Museum of Natural History in New York City calls Liaoning's "Pompeii layer," a 10-ft.-thick stratum of ash and sand. It was deposited so quickly that, like the ash from the infamous eruption in Italy, it buried creatures alive wherever they were standing--or snoozing. This one was tiny: excluding its tail, it's about the size of a Rock Cornish hen. That some of its bones have...
...under Saddam Hussein, Sistani has emerged since the dictator's fall as the country's pivotal political figure. Iraq's Kurds and Sunnis, as well as Shi'ites, pay heed to his views. His reach extends as far as Washington, where he has repeatedly forced the Bush Administration to yield to his demands and issued decrees that have altered U.S. plans for postwar Iraq. The reclusive ayatullah inserts himself into the political fray whenever he feels it is necessary. Just last week he issued a statement encouraging all Iraqis to participate in the election scheduled for January, and he called...