which corporations paid dividends last year?
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many... go to yahoo stock screener and search
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A 'dividend' is the sum payable each year from the profit made.
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Sell when your in need of money. Coca Cola is a good stock. It also pays dividends.
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go their website - also try investor relations and check their 10k annual report
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Here is a list for stores this year:\n\nhttp://www.bargainshare.com/index.php?showtopic=88485
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Typically companies distribute their dividends quarterly.  Their is a date of record when the board of directors announces that the will pay a divident.  Then there is a payment date of the dividend which is usually posted with the date of record in the Wall Street Journal.  That is when the company pays its dividend.  It could be 45 days or more from the date of record.  If you have any questions about the stocks that you own you could call the investor relations people and they should give you a better idea of when and how much you should be receiving.
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Chamwen gave a pretty good explanation of buying and selling for profit. There is one other factor, which you may or may not have been asking about. Many companies pay dividends to their shareholders. If you look at a detailed stock quote (see the link below), you'll usually see a 'dividend yield' figure (under the Valuation header on this page). In this case, HPT's dividend yield is 6.3% (meaning that over the course of the past year, they have paid dividends that equal 6.3% of their share price).\n\nThese dividends can be paid out to you to provide regular income (I own HPT through Sharebuilder, and have my dividends automatically reinvested).
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If they were yielding 9% on a par of $50, then they pay $4.50 annually per share in dividends. $4.50/$60 is a return of 7.5%.
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Here is the right answer :)\n\n1. Exxon Mobil\n\n6. ConocoPhillips\n2. Wal-Mart Stores\n\n7. General Electric\n3. General Motors\n\n8. Citigroup\n4. Chevron\n\n9. AIG\n5. Ford Motor\n\n10. IBM\n\n\nlet me know ppl
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Winners Demonstrate Investment Excellence and Stewardship in a Year of Mixed\n                                   Results\n\n    CHICAGO, Jan. 4 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- In a year when international-\nstock funds soared, bond funds struggled, and domestic-stock funds fell\nsomewhere in the middle, the best fund managers demonstrated that even when\nthe markets are mixed, superb analysis, long-term focus, and outstanding\nstewardship make a difference.\n    To recognize the best fund managers, Morningstar, Inc., a leading provider\nof independent investment research, each year selects leaders in three\ncategories -- domestic stock, international stock, and fixed income. Today,\nMorningstar announced its 2005 Fund Manager of the Year award winners:\n\n     -- Domestic-Stock Fund Manager of the Year:\n        Christopher Davis and Ken Charles Feinberg\n        Selected American Shares (SLASX)\n        Davis NY Venture A (NYVTX)\n\n     -- International-Stock Fund Manager of the Year:\n        Robert Lyon, Matthew Pickering and Jerrold Senser\n        ICAP International (ICEUX)\n\n     -- Fixed-Income Fund Manager of the Year:\n        Tad Rivelle, Laird Landmann, Stephen Kane, and David Lippman\n        Metropolitan West Total Return Bond (MWTRX)\n\n    "This year's winners are longtime Morningstar favorites. We've recommended\nthese managers for years, and they have long been on the Morningstar Analyst\nPicks list," said Kunal Kapoor, director of mutual fund analysis for\nMorningstar. "The managers at Davis Selected Advisers, ICAP and Metropolitan\nWest stand out for their attention to fees, investing in the funds they\noversee and their respect for shareholders with all-around strong\nstewardship."\n\n    Domestic-Stock Fund Manager of the Year:\n    Christopher Davis and Ken Charles Feinberg\n    Selected American Shares (SLASX)\n    Davis NY Venture A (NYVTX)\n\n    Chris Davis and Ken Feinberg maintain a tight focus on producing good\nlong-term results for shareholders. They seldom trade, take heed of\ntransaction costs and taxes, maintain low expenses and avoid short-term bets.\nEven though interest rates rose steadily in 2005, this team's superb stock-\npicking ability helped their financials-heavy portfolio buck conventional\nwisdom and trump the S&P 500 Index by 5 percent.\n    In 2004, Davis Selected Advisers demonstrated its strengths as a steward\nof shareholders' capital by instituting a less expensive, directly sold share\nclass (D class) for Selected American, which resulted in a sizable fee cut for\nthose who invest through the firm, rather than with a supermarket.\n    In 2005, the team at Davis Selected Advisers set a higher standard for\nstewardship. After being named as the management team to oversee the Clipper\nFund, the employees at Selected Advisers immediately invested $50 million of\ntheir money into the fund, and they offered Clipper's shareholders a nearly 50\npercent cut in management fees.\n    "This firm sets the bar for others in the industry," Kapoor said. "At a\ntime when other firms don't always do what is best for their shareholders,\nit's refreshing to see a firm so committed to the long-term welfare of\nfundholders. Davis and Feinberg were runners-up for our 2004 Domestic-Stock\nFund Manager of the Year, and they deserve this year's award. They follow in\nthe footsteps of Shelby Davis, Chris' dad, who won the Domestic-Stock Fund\nManager of the Year award in 1996."\n\n    International-Stock Fund Manager of the Year:\n    Robert Lyon, Matthew Pickering and Jerrold Senser\n    ICAP International (ICEUX)\n\n    In May 2005, the ICAP International Fund team, led by Rob Lyon, converted\nthe fund from a Europe fund to one with a broad foreign-stock mandate, in\norder to invest in Japanese companies the fund team found to be attractive.\nThis proved to be a fortuitous move as Japan enjoyed quite a rally in 2005.\nThe fund,
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Go out to their website and look there, if you don't find anything look at their annual stockholder's report, which should be located on their website as well.
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Right now, Oil/Petroleum Companies.  They showed record profits in 2005.
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Best Investment(s): Aquarius Platinum (AQP.L) - bought £5 worth last July via Halifax SHAREBUILDER (franchised from sharebuilder.com for the UK market)..... got as high as about 114% in profit before crashing back down to about 79% in profit.\nWOLFSON Microelectronics (WLF.L) - makes things like the sound chips used in the SONY PSP, XBOX360 + Video iPod. Stuck a tenner on them at the end of November '05. Currently +56.82% in profit, but that's only after they took a couple of big drops on Friday & Monday (28.00 on Monday).\n\nWorst Investment: Goshawk Insurance Holdings (GOS.L) - bought earlier this year as a bit of a dabble in "bottom fishing", appears they have de-listed. Bought 67.253522 in them for £5 (sharebuilder again)\n\nTinsley (Eliza) - TNL.L  Shares suspended since end of january due to company being put in administration (so much for making a huge profit on their low valued shares: 20.95123 for £5.\n\nD1 Oils (DOO.L) - one of my first investments early last year. The first I sold 'cos the value was going up & down like a prostitute's knickers on a good night. Was £5.12 in profit at the time, but only got 12p back after the commission fee was deducted.
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Most REITs pay a nice dividend (GGP, SPG)\nA lot of the DOW components also pay dividends.\n\nGE, XOM, CVX, PG also pay dividends.\n\nALD pays a really high dividend as well.\n\nKeep in mind, just because they pay high dividends doesn't mean they are good stocks.
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If you have an on line stock broker account, they probably have access to S&P reports that will give you the historical data. \n\nNot all REITs are anywhere near the same nor do they pay the same dividends. And many times a portion of the dividend is a return of capital. \n\nThere are even multiple categories of REITs. Appartment REITs, Office building REITs, shopping mall REITs, even storage bin REITs, hotel REIT's, and probably others I am not familiar with.
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go to finance.yahoo.com\n\ntype "^GSPC" then click on history\n\nit will give you the history with price adjusted for dividends
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Most publicly traded companies publishes quarterly and annual reports which gives you information about the company, how much they sale, etc.  You can get one by requesting one from the investors relation department of the company.  This department can ususally be found on the companies website.  You can also find a lot of this information on the yahoo finance pages.