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Five Struggling Dividend Stocks I'm Still Bullish On
Aug 21, 2008 11:05 AM UTC

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Symbol	Sentiment	Start	Return	Closed
FR		08/21/08	-79.88%	--
GE		08/21/08	-45.23%	--
STI		08/21/08	-49.10%	--
ACAS		08/21/08	-85.60%	--
SFI		08/21/08	-54.58%	--

Via Long Investment Ideas from Seeking Alpha:

Earlier this week we looked at my top 5 high fliers for 2008. Unfortunately, for every up, there is a down and that is certainly true for my portfolio. As before, we will look at results through July 31, 2008. Here they are my cellar dwellers with comments:

#5 - General Electric (GE) -19.3% Total 2008 Return
Of my cellar dwellers, GE is the one I am most bullish on. I liked it at $38 when I bought my first tranche in July/2007, and liked it even more at $29 when I bought my last tranche this month.

#4 - First Industrial Realty, Inc. (FR) -22.3% Total 2008 Return
This was my first ever dividend investment. It was purchased in December/2003. FR has consistently raised it's dividend since then; and unfortunately, its share price has consistently fell since then. FR has more lives than a cat - each time I give it up for dead, FR raises its dividend.

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ryanstockmarket

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1 point commented 223 days ago reply

General Electric is a pretty safe stock that is not going to fail or go bankrupt and it pays a dividend of 4.66 percent

GE''s current share price @ $26 and change is fairly valued in comparison to peers in its sector group. This stock is in the low range of its 52 week trading range and its dividends are excellent for a stock in this current economic environment.

Annual Yield: 4.66 percent
Dividend: $0.31/shr
Ex-Date: 9/18/08
Qrtly Div. - 10/27/08

Just for the sake of clarity, let's note that the dividend yield is defined as the annual payment in dollars per share divided by stock price expressed in percent...,

Where:

DY = 100 * ($D)/P(1)
DY = Dividend yield in percent
$D = Annual dividend in $/share
P = Price in $/share

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