On-line exchanging continues to grow greatly inside previous several years. Some sort of share investor should work with a brokerage to be able to key in his or her investment instructions.

Stocks are the darlings of today's investor. Everyone today wants to make big money through stocks. Firstly, the big reason behind is that stock investment does not require big chunks of money as in the case of property investment. Secondly, there are no restrictions of timely payment or premium as in the case of Insurance. And thirdly there is no fixed time gap as in the case of bank's fixed deposits, so as to start earning from investments. Thus, we can conclude that

Investing in stocks depends on the pocket and willingness of the amount of investment.

There are no timely payment of premiums, a person can invest at any point of time when he/she feels comfortable.
There is no time gap to wait for, as the person is free to sell his/her stock whenever he/she feels that the stock price has moved enough in the positive territory to give enough profit margins.
Therefore, the need of the hour is to find the possible high yield stocks. Stocks that give maximum possible dividends, and their price moves steadily in the upward direction.

List of High Yield Dividend Stocks.

A list of high yield stocks is depicted below which are giving an average of up to 18.6% of return from the investment.

Stocks With A High Dividend Yield

Company

Business

Price

Yield

Indicated Annual Dividend

2001 Expected Payout Ratio

ArvinMeritor (nyse: ARM - news - people)

Auto Parts

$ 15.38

5.7%

0.88

47%

Bank of America (nyse: BAC - news - people)

Banking

50.94

4.4

2.24

45

Bemis (nyse: BMS - news - people)

Packaging

30.19

3.2

0.96

37

Commerce Group (nyse: CGI - news - people)

Auto Insurance

25.70

4.5

1.16

40

Dana (nyse: DCN - news - people)

Auto Parts

18.00

6.9

1.24

76

R. R. Donnelley & Sons (nyse: DNY - news - people)

Commercial Printing

26.63

3.5

0.92

40

Harsco (nyse: HSC - news - people)

Metal Services

26.19

3.7

0.96

36

Philip Morris (nyse: MO - news - people)

Tobacco

42.56

5.0

2.12

52

Supervalu (nyse: SVU - news - people)

Food Wholesaling

13.75

4.0

0.55

28

Prices as of Jan. 16. EPS=Earnings per share. Sources: Interactive Data Corp., IBES International and Market Guide via FactSet Research Systems
Thus from the above table states that Arvin Meritor gives a yield of 5.7% as recorded on January16th, 2008.
Furthermore .88 is the annual dividend been recorded. Similarly Commerce group dealing in auto insurance is giving a yield of 4.5 % and the annual dividend is given as 1.16.
The facts revealed from the above data depicts that the Bank of America is one bank which gives maximum returns and dividend on investments. Also the tobacco making company namely Philip morris which is depicted as MO in the Newyork Stock Exchange(NYSE) gives the maximum of 5% yield as compare to other tobacco companies. The dividend disbursed is also 2.12 which is much better as compared to other stocks in the NYSE.
All the above companies depicted in the data shows their yield, dividend and other factors when compared proves them to be outstanding as compared to their rivals in the market. Therefore a person before making investment in the stock market can go through the above data and can make wise decision on investment. As the past records of the stocks are quite valuable and profitable if they are used while making investment decision. Moreover the investment in such stocks even if they are costly will prove to be a beneficial task in the future and the reap of this crop will be quite fruitful.
Latest Forbes report and analysis.
As per the Forbes report, the year 2008 marked the presence of maximum number of Indians in the top multi millionaire list. This means that Bill gates of Microsoft (American company) is no more the top millionaire of the world. Now the top millionaire of Indian origin includes,
Ist level: Mukesh Ambani (Reliance Industries.)
IIIrd level: (Laxmi Narayan Mittal) L.N.Mittal (Corus group.)
And as far as Bill gates (Microsoft) is concerned, he stands second now. The other reports depict the scare of slow down in United States economy and fall in the stock market for a longer time span.
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Yields on Canadian royalty trusts look too good to last. The risks are real, but so is the opportunity at these prices.
Conclusion.
The high yield stocks need to be recognized and than investment decisions on them should be taken keeping in view the risks of investing in market. Like they say, "Investment of such kind is subject to market risks, so please read the offer documents before investing."
A disclaimer may be needed here. That the above-depicted table is based on the past records. As no one estimate about future. Therefore the good return giving stocks may not give as good returns in near future depending on any of the probability of some circumstances. Therefore investment decisions should be made on person on descretion and what we can supply is the past records. But the gurantee of getting profits depends on the company's future.
Acknowledgement.
The above stated valuable information is supplied by www.forbes.com.

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