how to look for dividend stock?

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You may find these two links usefull:

http://www.dividendstocksonline.com/

http://www.forbes.com/sites/thestreet/2012/01/18/3-top-dividend-stocks-for-2012/

I like Google Finance's stock screener. I recently used it to find some high dividend yield stocks.

Just go to http://www.google.com/finance#stockscreener

Click on Div Yield % to sort by highest percent. You can tweak the criteria at the top to ignore higher risk stocks. I put in a 1b market cap and changed the max 52w loss to -5.

Hope that helps!

Well all the numbers are adjustable, and you can play around with them. You don't want something with a huge 52w loss because the dividend yield may be skewed or is likely to go down, and the stock may be weak or in trouble anyway. I like 1-5b market cap to only show me more solid companies. Dividend investing seems like a more conservative play for me so when I picked my stocks I didn't want to get some $20m market cap stock that could tumble 20% in a week.

Agreed that a stock screener is the way to go for this.  Some let you customize your criteria more than others.  http://www.stockrover.com has a Dividend Screen as one of the defaults with the values that screens companies that have:

A market cap of $1B+

A Dividend yield >3% and <10%

A Dividend percent change during the last year >2

A Dividend percent change during the last 3 years >2

A Dividend percent change during the last 5 years >2

A payout ratio >30 and <60 (Dividend Per Share as a percent of Diluted Earnings Per Share)

Clicking on that screen TODAY shows returns 52 stocks, but to refine further you can simply change the variables and see the number of stocks that will pass the filter change in real-time, and you can save the edited screen so implementing it is as easy as clicking on it next time you log in.