I’ve been interested in this topic and someone I knew sent me a link to a site with dividend stocks and it had these huge projections for earnings. I didn’t really find any information on how they came up with their numbers, but came up with some numbers based on a highly simplistic model to get ideas which ones to check out first.

So, then a week or so later I went back to start checking out a couple of the stocks and there was more information about how the list was compiled, and how utterly dumb. To me, it was the way to guarantee that you’d buy a stock with the most run up recently, which to me is also a way to ensure you missed the a run up.

Anyway, I looked closer at the top two picks from the site and yuck.

I write about investments on my blog as well.

Sometimes dividend players have problems and have to stop raising for awhile, but that does not mean you should give up on such a big cash generator like Merck.

Good luck.