American investors looking for income stocks can consider going abroad for investment opportunities. While the US equity market offers decent dividend yields, foreign stocks have better yields. So instead of purely focusing on domestic stocks, adding overseas companies not only provides additional yields but also diversification benefits to a well built portfolio. Though investors are …

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Dividend paying stocks are an integral part of a well diversified portfolio. There are many quality dividend stocks around the world. The following table lists some of the top international dividend payers. For example, US energy giant Chevron(CVX) has consistently increased the dividend for the past 31 years. Swiss pharma firm Roche(RHHBY) has increased dividends …

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When investing in stocks it is important to consider if a company is paying a dividend or not. Dividend payers are relatively safer than non-dividend payers. Well established and profitable firms usually pay a dividend. Unlike other numbers that can easily be manipulated using financial magic dividends usually come out of profits are hard to …

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The World’s Top 10 Dividend Payers in the third quarter of 2018 as per the Janus Henderson’s Global Dividend Index report are shown in the table below: Click to enlarge Source: Janus Henderson via Money Observer The three US firms in the list are Keurig Dr Pepper(KDP), Apple(AAPL) and Exxon Mobil(XOM). Keurig Dr Pepper appears in the …

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