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To: shane forbes who wrote (14944)	9/11/1998 6:19:00 PM
From: sea_biscuit	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 25814

I knew you were kidding but... I am not looking so much at actual dividend yield as the consistency with which dividends have been increased. Take Wal-Mart, for instance. You could never have bought it for its dividend yield. However, it is a dividend increase "champion", and has been one for a long time now. Btw, another useful resource is "The Dividend Rich Investor", by Joseph Tigue and Joseph Lisanti. Coming back to dividend yields, I shepherd the stocks which have high dividend yields (say, greater than 2% or so, like Philip Morris, for instance) into IRAs and those with low dividend yields such as McDonald's, into taxable accounts. As for REITs, since I am "wedded" to the Handbook, my selections are limited to MT, NPR, WRE and a few others. I have WRE in my IRA. The yield is about 7% and it has done over 15% in total return in the longer run. I hope it continues to do so. And if it doesn't, the Handbook will tell me when to get out, of course! Dipy.