- 1). First, visit Google's stock screener. To find the stock screener, do a search on Google for "Google stock screener". Likewise, you can click on the link in the resource section of this article.
- 2). What you will want to look for is the "Dividend Yield". The dividend yield is the percentage of the stock's value paid in dividend. For example, a $10 a share stock with a $1 per year dividend would have a 10% dividend yield.
It is possible that a stock could have a high dividend but be very costly, making the dividend yield small. So, in order to compare the dividends of two stocks, you will want to check the dividend yield. - 3). In the stock screener, you can move the slider to exclude stocks with low dividend yields. Where it says Div. Yield, just move the slider to the right. You will see stocks with high dividend yields.
- 4). Be careful because some stocks have high dividend yields because they are riskier bets than other stocks. In some cases they have lost a large amount of their value over the past year and so now the dividend yield appears high. But in reality the stock could be a loser that is on the brink of bankruptcy.
- 5). Once you have found some stocks with dividend yields that you like, do further research on the companies to be sure that you are getting what you hoped to. Good luck finding those dividend stocks!