dividend

Purchase dividend-yielding stocks A dividend is a sum of money paid to shareholders out of a company’s profits. Shareholders in companies with dividend-yielding stocks receive payments at regular intervals from the company. Since the income from the stocks is not related to any activity other...

I am wondering if there is such a thing? Say you would need 100000 with 7% to give u 700 dollar by the end of the year, honestly who has such a amount? Anyone here knows is there any ways which i dont need the lumpsum but able to earn the same dividend? Please do share your ideas here.

I am posting this question because I have stocks worth $20,000 or even more. Even if I am saying that I will not sell now but we don't know what the future holds for us so I just want to be ready in case I would need the money. When I received the stocks, the value was around 125 per share and...