Stock Screening - Dividends

Screening for stocks is an easy way to find stocks to invest in. You can select your criteria, or someone else's, and find stocks that you may want to invest in. As always I would recommend researching any stocks before investing in them.

Zacks ranks stocks based on their own criteria, based on increasing or decreasing earnings estimates. They claim a pretty good annual return for investing in their highly ranked stocks.

This weeks article is about screening for dividend stocks. Kevin Matras has found a strategy that through back-testing easily beats market returns.

Here is his dividend paying stock criteria:

• Price >= $10
• Market Cap >= $500 million
• Zacks Rank <= 3
• No analyst sell ratings
• Current Dividend Yield >= 8%