High-Yield Equity Spotlight: RadioShack

MyPlanIQ submits:Two months ago we captured the dividend choices according to Miriam Reimer of TheStreet.com, We entered the ten choices into our system and then compared it with a balanced portfolio of Dividend producing ETFs for comparison. The stock selection was: Hewlett Pa

Given where interest rates are today, if you see a stock with a yield of around 8%, you have to salivate. The good news is that many such stocks really exist. The bad news is that the best of them come with more baggage than you'll see at a luggage superstore. Mr. Market isn't nearly the fool legend makes him out to be. If he's offering a yield like that, expect him to take back a pound of flesh in the form of a larger-the-usual number of dividends that get reduced or omitted as companies find it hard to keep pumping out the cash.

MyPlanIQ submits:Recently, we have seen divergent performance among U.S. dividend ETFs.

By Tom Lydon: As 2012 comes to an end and we head into the new year, exchange traded funds that generate income and investments that cover the international and emerging markets will continue to attract a lot of interest, an S&P Capital analyst says.

By Jim Pyke:I've been researching options to gain exposure to dividend stocks. ETFs focused on just dividend stocks provide one stop shopping for dividend stocks - strong dividend companies, reasonable expense ratios, and reduced transaction costs.

MyPlanIQ submits:Investors got a wake up call this week after the President's day: for the past two days, S&P has dropped 2.6%. We reviewed dividend stock ETFs performance in the following three equity classes:

By Michael Johnston:UBS continues to develop a suite of exchange-traded notes that appeal to yield-focused investors, recently expanding its lineup with a pair of ETNs that offer monthly leveraged exposure to dividend-paying stocks. Both of the new ETNs will be linked to indexes that currently serve as the basis for extremely popular dividend ETFs; the new UBS notes will amplify both the price swings and yields delivered by those benchmarks. The new ETNs are:

By David Van Knapp: Introduction This is the second in a series of articles that looks under the hoods of ETFs with "dividend" in their names. This article covers three ETFs whose names (or the names of their underlying indexes) imply "high yield." The ultimate goal is to discover if there is a dividend ETF that closely replicates the strategies, processes, and/or results of the many dividend growth investors who frequently write and comment here at Seeking Alpha.