“Dividends are all the rage with investors. But some companies are so eager to hand them out, they’re paying dividends that are even bigger than their profit,” notes the author of today’s article. In fact, there are 42 companies in the Standard & Poor’s 500 that, in the past 12 months, have paid out dividends that exceed their reported net income. To see which S&P 500 companies have the highest payout ratios – the highest being energy company Kinder Morgan– as well as what these ratios might foretell about returns from these companies down the road, CLICK HERE.