YCHARTS DIVIDEND DAILY: Dividends Are Hot – Help For Finding Some Below – But Know the Risks, Too

Dividends are hot with investors who’re seeking income, given the Treasury yields are so paltry and bank CDs and other interest-rate products offer next to nothing in returns.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Company Dividend Yield Chart by YCharts

At YCharts, we get it and have tools (and more tools) that help individual investors identify dividend stocks worth considering.

But before plunging into dividend-paying shares, it’s crucial to understand and consider how such stocks are different from bonds, and also how they’re different from stocks in general. Today’s Wall Street Journal offers a fine article to get you started in dividend stock risk awareness.

After you’ve digested that, then it’s time to think about which dividend payers – suggestions offered here and here and here and here and here and here – might be worth considering. YCharts covers the non-dividend payers – Apple (AAPL), Google (GOOG) and Amazon (AMZN), for instance. And those that pay a healthy dividend – Bristol-Myers Squibb (BMY), Exelon (EXC) Constellation Energy (CEG), Hasbro (HAS) and Pepsi (PEP), among many others.