I ran the stock screener for high dividend/yield stocks, trusts and funds with yields greater than 10% and trading in the New York Stock Exchange. This resulted in the following list. Investors looking for high yields can use this list as a starting point for further research.
Stocks and Funds Yielding > 10%:
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Magyar Telekom Plc. of Hungary(MTA) and Telecom Corp of New Zealand(NZTCY) offer excellent dividends. Iowa Telecommunications Services (IWA) offers telecom services to customers in rural Iowa, Minnesota and Missouri.
BP Prudhoe Bay Royalty Trust (BPT) is a oil royalty trust operated by BP Alaska in the North Slope oil fields of Alaska. ING International High Dividend Equity Income Fund(IID) is closed-end fund which invests mainly in foreign stocks and derivatives linked to stocks.
Article shows “disinformation through ignorance” at its best…
You should at least do a minimum DD on the the data you base your list upon…for instance your GMR pick has dropped to a low div of $.12/qtr (last one pd in 09) although it looks like the data you based it upon was from prior periods – hence your fabulous 23% yield number…
And then claiming “Div…As of Feb 09, 2010” is simply covering up and mis-labeling bad information – simply because you couldn’t be bothered to verify your results…