How to find high yielding shares

The yield on a share, or the percentage dividend, changes from company to company, and indeed some won't pay a dividend at all.

For instance traditionally relatively new technology companies won't pay a dividend as they are investing all their capital back into the company and its technologies and developing new products.

Tried and tested established companies in some sectors will by the norm of the sector pay a healthy dividend, and indeed the average dividend from one sector to the next can vary considerably.

So how do you find high yield shares? Well, you can do your research on a company by company basis, but there are also lists that are compiled regularly in newspapers, investment magazines and also on financial websites that list currently high yielding shares.

There are some that appear on a very regular basis. Generally the larger the company and one that may have less movement in price may offer a larger dividend, though this is not always the case.

But if you look at high yielding shares then typically you might expect to see some large oil companies like Royal Dutch Shell and utility companies such as United Utilities, massive communications companies such as Vodafone.

Remember to take into account when buying a share what the dividend is going to be - many people focus on companies that they think the stock price is going to rise of, and there is nothing wrong with that - but remember that, and particularly for long term investors who are going to reinvest the dividends into buying more shares in a company - they are a hugely significant way of making your portfolio work hard for you.

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