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High Yield Stocks====================================================================================================== 1. Macquarie Infrastructure Symbol: MIC Macquarie Infrastructure Company Trust owns, operates, and invests in a diversified group of infrastructure businesses, which provide basic, everyday services in the United States. Its portfolio comprises an airport services business, an airport parking business, a district energy business, a gas production and distribution business, and a 50% interest in a company that owns and operates a bulk liquid storage terminal business. The company was founded in 2004 and is based in New York, New York. Current Dividend Yield: 7.5% 52 Week Range: $30 - $47 ======================================================================================================== 2. Magellan Midstream Partners LP Symbol: MMP Magellan Midstream Partners, L.P. engages in the transportation, storage, and distribution of refined petroleum products in the United States. The company's pipeline system transports petroleum products and liquefied petroleum gases from the Gulf Coast refining region of Texas through the Midwest to Colorado, North Dakota, Minnesota, and Illinois. The company was founded in 2000 and is based in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Current Dividend Yield: 6.1% 52 Week Range: $38 - $53 ======================================================================================================== 3. US Bancorp Symbol: USB U.S. Bancorp operates as the holding company for U.S. Bank that provides commercial banking and financial services in the United States. The bank engages in generating deposits and originating loans. As of December 31, 2006, the company operated 2,472 branches and 4,841 ATMs. U.S. Bancorp was founded in 1929 and is headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Current Dividend Yield: 5.1% 52 Week Range: $27 - $36 4. Penn West Energy Trust Symbol: PWE Penn West Energy Trust operates as an open-ended, unincorporated investment trust in Canada. The trust, through its subsidiaries, engages in acquiring, developing, exploiting, and holding interests in petroleum and natural gas properties and assets. Its oil and gas properties are located in the western Canadian Sedimentary Basin and within the provinces of British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba. As of December 31, 2006, it had proved plus probable gross reserves of 482,560 million barrels of oil equivalent; and had working interests in 20,480 oil and gas wells. Penn West Energy Trust was founded in 1979 and is headquartered in Calgary, Canada. Current Dividend Yield: 16.3% 52 Week Range: $23 - $36 ======================================================================================================== 5. MV Oil Trust Symbol: MVO MV Oil Trust owns net profits interest in oil and natural gas properties of MV Partners, LLC. These properties are located in the mid-continent region in the states of Kansas and Colorado. As of March 31, 2007, the company's oil and gas properties comprised approximately 995 producing oil and gas wells. MV Oil Trust was founded in 2006 and is based in Austin, Texas. Current Dividend Yield: 12.2% 52 Week Range: $19 - $27 ======================================================================================================== 6. Bank of America Symbol: BAC Bank of America Corporation, a financial holding company, provides banking and nonbanking financial services in the United States and internationally. As of September 26, 2007, the company operated approximately 5,700 retail banking offices and 17,000 automated teller machines. Bank of America was founded in 1874 and is headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina. Current Dividend Yield: 5.90% 52 Week Range: $33 - $54 ======================================================================================================== 7. Consolidated Edison Symbol: ED Consolidated Edison, Inc., through its subsidiaries, provides electric, gas, and steam utility services in the United States. It offers electric and gas service in southeastern New York and in adjacent areas of northern New Jersey and eastern Pennsylvania. The company also provides gas service in Manhattan, the Bronx, and parts of Queens and Westchester. As of December 31, 2006, the company served approximately 43,000 customers. Consolidated Edison was founded in 1884 and is based in New York, New York.Key Statistics Current Dividend Yield: 5.3% 52 Week Range: $42 - $52 ========================================================================================================
8. Health Care REIT Symbol: HCN Health Care REIT, Inc., a real estate investment trust (REIT), invests primarily in healthcare and senior housing facilities in the United States. The company's investments include assisted living facilities, skilled nursing facilities, independent living care retirement communities, and specialty care facilities. As of December 31, 2005, it invested in 195 assisted living facilities, 203 skilled nursing facilities, 31 independent living care retirement communities, and 13 specialty care facilities. The company has elected to be taxed as REIT under the Internal Revenue Code. As a REIT, it would not be subject to federal income tax purposes, provided that it distributes at least 90% of its REIT taxable income to its shareholders. Health Care REIT was founded in 1970 and is headquartered in Toledo, Ohio. Current Dividend Yield: 6.1% 52 Week Range: $35 - $48 ======================================================================================================== 9. Inergy Symbol: NRGY Inergy, L.P. engages in the sale, distribution, storage, marketing, trading, processing, and fractionation of propane, natural gas, and other natural gas liquids in the United States. The company involves in the retail marketing, sale, and distribution of propane, including the sale and lease of propane supplies and equipment, to residential, commercial, industrial, and agricultural customers. As of November 1, 2007, it served approximately 700,000 retail customers in 28 states from 321 customer service centers, which have an aggregate of approximately 32.2 million gallons of above-ground propane storage. The company was founded in 2001 and is headquartered in Kansas City, Missouri. Inergy, L.P. operates as a subsidiary of Inergy Holdings, L.P. Current Dividend Yield: 8.20% 52 Week Range: $27 -$38 ======================================================================================================== 10. Citigroup Symbol: C Citigroup, Inc., a multibank holding company, provides various financial services to customers in the United States and internationally. The company's Global Consumer segment offers banking, lending, insurance, and investment services. As of March 31, 2007, this segment operated through a network of 8,140 branches, approximately 19,100 automated teller machines, 708 automated lending machines, and the Internet. Citigroup was founded in 1812 and is based in New York, New York. Current Dividend Yield: 4.70% 52 Week Range: $22 - $55 =========================================================================================================== Disclaimer: I am not a registered investment advisor. Everything on this website is my opinion and put her for the enjoyment of my readers. I do not recommend making financial decisions based upon my opinions. I advocate doing your own research and making an informed decision. All information put forth on this website was obtained freely via the internet, radio and television. I do not have any contracts or deals with any financial newsletter of any kind. Income generated from this site is done through advertisements. I will always let my reader know if I hold any position on a recommendation I make. ===========================================================================================================
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