IN FOCUS | High Dividend Yield Stocks
Stocks having high dividend yields could result in steady stream of
cash flows, says M.R. Raghu, Managing Director, Marmore
MENA Intelligence, a research house specialized in MENA
economies and business issues with the focus on providing
actionable solutions
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015 could be marked as a year to
forget for most GCC investors as
stock markets witnessed double
digit losses on the back of a 35% fall in
crude oil prices. However, with stocks
trading at cheap levels, high dividend
yields can be considered by investors
to consider investing into stocks. Stocks
which have high dividend yields could
result in steady stream of cash flows and
potentially generate better total returns
than those that do not pay any dividends.
Additionally dividend paying stocks also
tend to be less volatile than the nondividend payers as these stocks tend to
be quality companies and generally show
greater stability during unsteady markets.
Hence it might be interesting to compile
a list of stocks that hav