List of Dividend Paying Shares

redbuzzard

Ark_Welder wrote: »

However, it is one thing to make assumptions about an individual's intentions, but quite another to provide answers based upon those assumptions, which may have no bearing on the reason for the question being asked.

The OP may very well be intending to buy high-yielding shares rather than shares with a yield - that is what I assumed, and is also is the specific reason why I did not sort the lists of companies and their yields into order before providing the links. But it is the links that, hopefully, answer their question. Whereas suggesting that they do something that is based on an assumption, may not.

Let's try and answer what is being asked rather than giving answers to what has not been asked.

Gosh, sorry.

It's just a discussion point isn't it? My post to which you object was a response to Big Freddie's apparently puzzled comment on Flock's suggestion of equity income.

I still think it's a reasonable idea for Flock to raise in response to a question about shares that pay dividends, whether it involves an assumption (which I acknowledged) or not.

Your reply to the OP with the link was a perfectly good answer of course, of which I implied no criticism.

Ark_Welder

redbuzzard wrote: »

Gosh, sorry.

It's just a discussion point isn't it? My post to which you object was a response to Big Freddie's apparently puzzled comment on Flock's suggestion of equity income.

I still think it's a reasonable idea for Flock to raise in response to a question about shares that pay dividends, whether it involves an assumption (which I acknowledged) or not.

Your reply to the OP with the link was a perfectly good answer of course, of which I implied no criticism.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheep#Flock_behavior

wolfma

Thanks to all that replied.

I was looking for a dividend company list as I am looking to buy shares in dividend paying companies which have large upside potential. Hence, ideally I was looking for stuff outside the FTSE 100.

The digitallook links and that upcomingdividends site was exactly the type of thing I was looking for. Thanks for the links.

Bazofts_Revenge

I bought the Financial Times last Saturday and as you would expect there's a wealth of info there especially in the foreign markets which many websites ignore. Look down the european listings and you will find many household names which bear good yields. Beware distractions though.... I'm very interested in putting an offer in for a 1700 acre estate in Scotland which was in the FT's property pages... I'm about £7,800,000 short off the £8m asking price...

Glen_Clark

redbuzzard wrote: »

Up to a point, Lord Copper.

Flat dividends in money terms can point to a declining situation - the company doesn't want to cut the divi unless it has to, so pushes the figures to maintain earnings cover and maintain it - the corollary is that they will avoid booking bad news if they can, and will have emptied every drawer and cupboard for anything they have squirrelled away or overlooked in previous years to maximise the reported profit.

There's no one indicator of a solid dividend but lots of things add up to a picture. Look at the cash flow, bearing in mind it's a function of investment as well as op costs and revenues.

Of course what you can't see in the accounts is unreported events after the last filing. Always check news, regulatory announcements, and read trading statements carefully and between the lines - what's missing, or fudged? Those statements aren't statutory in format so they are easiest to massage - a bit like fund performance in brochures!

You make some very good points Mr Salter
All I am saying is that they cannot say they have paid more dividends than they have actually paid.
But they can say they have made more earnings than they have actually made. (Typically by over valuing intangible assets like Goodwill, then eventually writing them down as 'exceptional items' when they can maintain the pretense no longer.)