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Watch These Aggressive Dividend Plays

by Stuart Chaussee

Those of you who only look at large-cap, blue-chip, dividend-paying stocks will find many of the stocks you'll read about in this column unfamiliar. Still, that doesn't mean they should be ignored. Every new bull market has its own new group of leading stocks. Many of you probably already track Investor's Business Daily's list of the Top 100 leaders. I filtered through some leading stocks that have powered this market since it turned for good, just prior to the outbreak of war last year. The names in the table below are involved in various industries and countries, though most trade on the New York Stock Exchange. What they all have in common is they pay a dividend, an attractive bonus in any market environment; have high earnings-per-share ratings; and have high relative strength ratings. (The EPS and RS ratings are from IBD's database.) These elite market leaders...

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