Dividend stocks are nice to own in any kind of market. After all, who doesn’t like getting quarterly checks in the mail? But dividend stocks are especially appealing when interest rates are falling like they are now. That’s because fixed-income investors tend to rotate back into dividend stocks as yields fall, which benefits dividend stocks as their prices tend to rise as more investors move back into the stocks.
With the new rate-cutting cycle just beginning, investors who buy dividend stocks now can take advantage of the upcoming rotation. On that note, let’s take a look at the three highest-yielding dividend stocks on the Nasdaq-100 index and see if any of them are worth buying.
This post originally appeared at The Motley Fool.