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Never mind that dividend-paying stocks have been left in the dust lately. Their favorable tax treatment makes them a compelling story for at least the next few years and possibly much longer. But before jumping in, you'll want to take a good look at what you're buying. Dividend strategies vary for different investors, and a slew of new dividend-oriented mutual funds are confusing what should be a fairly simple theme...
...prices) before the market gives credit for solid growth through 2004. If you want to stay home, wait for cyclical stocks to retreat or for the economy to prove out, or focus on stocks that have lagged: defensive companies in food or health care or those with a secure dividend yield in the 2% to 5% range...
...BSkyB reported a pretax profit of $418 million on sales of $5.13 billion in the year ended June 30. Financial success, however, doesn't necessarily mean consensus, and analysts have been probing for an explanation for Ball's rumored departure. One theory is that Ball wanted to pay a dividend on BSkyB stock, rewarding shareholders who saw the company through its long and costly digital conversion, and that Murdoch nixed it; he would rather use the cash to fund his expensive acquisition habit. "After enormous investment, BSkyB has become a cash machine, and different shareholders have different views...
TIME: This year dividend payers have not done nearly as well as nonpayers...
LOTSOFF: I don't think anything is particularly cheap. But I'm a buyer of junk-bond hedge funds, diversified alternative investments. In common stocks, I'm buying good-quality dividend payers. Despite all their legal problems, I have looked at pharma. I still cannot help but look at the demographics in Europe, Japan and the U.S., which says we're going to be eating many, many more pills. The growth potential there is misunderstood. I like Pfizer, Merck, GlaxoSmithKline, Bristol-Myers Squibb...