When dividend stocks go up, you make money. When they don’t go up — you still make money (from the dividend). Heck, even when a dividend stock goes down in price, it’s not all bad news, because the dividend yield (the absolute dividend amount, divided by the stock price) gets richer the more the stock falls in price. Using the TipRanks database, we’ve looked up three stocks that are offering dividends of 9% yield or better – that’s more than 4x higher the average yield found in the markets today.