5 Great Stocks Yielding 5% – Lockheed Martin Corporation (LMT), AT&T Inc. (T)

The bottom line

A portfolio comprised of these stocks would allow dividend investors the opportunity to build a diversified portfolio of high-yielding stocks, giving you exposure to the energy, health care, consumer staples, industrials, and telecom sectors.  In the hunt for yield, you might be tempted to take speculative bets by investing in troubled companies with huge dividend yields resulting from collapsing stock prices.  However, you don’t need to take ill-advised risks in order to achieve big yields from your stocks.  These companies, each with well-known brands and long histories of increasing profits, offer modest valuations with dividend yields that are anything but modest.  If you’re an investor starved for yield, do yourself a favor and give these companies a closer look.

The article 5 Great Stocks Yielding 5% originally appeared on Fool.com and is written by Robert Ciura.

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