Sorry, I mis-phrased that. What stocks are you looking at?
Brazilian dividend-paying stocks. Mostly major names. I don't know what to make of it, but I see very attractive yields. Brazil isn't the US. It has had its fair share of political and financial turmoil. It is also the B in the BRIC (or BRICS) stock/investing theme which started about a decade or more ago.
Sometimes that can signal trouble ahead as well as potentially a dividend cut. In the past 18 months I've been quite happy with most US names that I bought at what looked like distressed level dividend yields. Locked in an attractive yield and sitting on nice capital gains. In retrospect one says "shoulda done more", but it requires nerves to do it, as the risks are out there (and I have seen in the past high yielders that I bought only to have the dividend slashed and stock price go down along with it). I did mention upthread a small HSA account that is now more than triple the value it was 18 months ago. Doing this with money one has written off in their minds is easier than with money one actually expects to see grow.