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Everyone wants to earn more. For investors in dividend growth stocks, the quick way to earn more is to select dividend stocks with higher yields. Swap those 2-4% yields in for stocks earning 7-10%, or more. Before doing making the trade, you should ask yourself the following two questions:

Information is powerful, but its sheer volume can be overwhelming. Screens and filters allow us to condense vast amounts of data into the targeted information we are looking for. It seems that yield is always on the mind of income investors, so I decided to screen first on yield and present the 10 highest yielding stocks in my database:

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Weekly roundup of stocks moving in and out of Joel Greenblatt's Magic Formula Investing screens.

Is a stock with a 3% yield and a 9% dividend growth rate better than one with a 7% yield and a 1.5% dividend growth rate? Last week we looked at yield-on-cost (YOC) and how it can be used to track the progress of a growing dividend of an individual stock. However, it is not a good metric for comparing multiple dividend stocks with each another.

Weekly roundup of stocks moving in and out of Joel Greenblatt's Magic Formula Investing screen.

Weekly roundup of stocks moving in and out of the Magic Formula Investing screen.

The top 10 current Magic Formula stocks ranked in 3 categories: forward indicated dividend yield, price-to-sales ratio, and price-to-book ratio.

Weekly roundup of stocks moving in and out of the Magic Formula Investing screen.

5 current Magic Formula stocks that look like excellent long-term dividend plays.

Vector Group is a holding company with the main operating unit being Liggett Group, the maker of discount cigarette brands Liggett Select and Grand Prix. A dividend play with a 11% yield, does this stock look like a good Magic Formula choice?