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[russellm]

Dividend Filter problem

I have been having a problem with the dividend filter in backtesting.
To illustrate, I created a scan that looks for stocks with at least $1000 in annual dividends. I did this by entering a "1" in the min dividend filter.

You can see the scan here:
http://www.trade-ideas.com/StockInfo/_ScreenerScan.html?SYMBOLS_PP=25&sort1=MinDividend&sort2=None&sort3=None&MinDividend=1&XN=on&X_NYSE=on&X_AMEX=on

When I looks up some of the stocks that the scan returns in Yahoo finance and view their key statistics, they have N/A listed in the dividend fields, indicating that they do not have a dividend.
Some of the symbols with no dividends are PRAA,PKJ,PJA,GNK,ISSC.
Some but not all of these are ETFs.

Can you explain what's happening here, and why the min dividend filter isn't showing me stocks with dividends?

Thanks,
Russell