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Industry Focus

Diagnosing Dividend-Paying Healthcare Stocks

Industry Focus

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4.6854 Ratings

🗓️ 18 November 2015

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

Understanding the anatomy of great dividend paying healthcare stocks, including what to look for and what to avoid.

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0:00.0

dividend hunting in the world of health care this is industry focus.

0:07.0

Hi everyone welcome to industry focus health care Edition I'm Christine Hargis and I'm

0:15.3

joined via Skype by Todd Campbell Todd how are you I'm doing great this week

0:20.0

great good to hear so it is dividend's week on Industry Focus, as our listeners who have

0:26.4

been with us so far this week, we'll know. And so we wanted to just take a dive into the world

0:31.9

of dividend investing. I mean, it's something that is really, really

0:34.8

important for retirement portfolios and people that are looking for steady income, but it's

0:39.2

important for all portfolios. I mean, they're a hallmark.

0:42.5

dividend stocks over time will bring you in some really great returns.

0:48.0

But there are so many dividend paying companies out there.

0:50.8

How do you know which ones to buy? And so we wanted to split it up by

0:54.5

industry and have everybody on the show just take a look into dividends within

0:59.3

their sector, the questions that are unique to the space and what are some promising

1:03.8

companies to look at. So of course the first number that you're going to look at

1:07.9

when you turn to dividends is the yield. How much is this company paying you?

1:12.0

And to me the first question that that yield, how much is this company paying you?

1:12.8

And to me, the first question that that raises,

1:15.8

and I want us to answer it through kind of a health care lens,

1:18.5

but also in general, Todd, is a bigger yield always better.

1:23.0

First, I'm so happy we're talking about this because I think this subject is very important.

1:29.2

People are relying more and more independent paying stocks to boost their portfolios to generate out retirement income.

1:35.2

So it's great that we're having this open discussion on dividend paying stocks and things to look for.

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