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Tobacco titan Altria (NYSE: MO) has long been a solid dividend-paying company. It remains one today -- and it's offering a fat dividend yield, recently 7.8%. It's generally smart to seek out dividends growing at a good clip,

While most of Wall Street focuses on large and mega-cap stocks, as they provide a degree of safety and liquidity, many investors are limited in the number of shares they can buy. Many of the most significant public companies,

When seeking high-yield dividend stocks, one of the best places to look is in the midstream energy space. Many of these companies are structured as master limited partnerships (MLPs), which pass through their profits to their unitholders and as such don't pay corporate taxes.

Dividend stocks can be enriching investments. They supply income and have historically produced higher total returns than non-payers. With the stock market rallying last year, div