Post a CommentIt is the time once again to do an update of what has become one of the more anticipated posts on IntelligentSpeculator as we do a summary of the best candidates for dividend stocks when investing in the broad US markets and more specifically in the S&P500 index!
As always, I urge investors to look at the dividends offered but also the general health of the company to ensure that they will be able to maintain a high payout! You better look at the entire list to find the rare companies that are not only paying dividends but also who keep taking up their dividend offering a solid long term growth perspective.
As was the case in past months, many communication companies dominate these charts as they have kept up the payments despite being in a rocky environment with lots of competition! I personally would strongly consider a company like Verizon(VZ) which does have issues but is generally still a solid player in the mobile industry and offers a dividend yield close to 7%!
What are your favourites on this list?
Top March 2010 Dividend stocks
LONG_COMP_NAME last price Dividend Yield Return MTD
FTR Frontier Communications Corp 7.79 12.83697047 2.365307
WIN Windstream Corp 10.13 9.871668312 -1.745881
CTL CenturyTel Inc 34.27 8.462212125 0.7644873
Q Qwest Communications International Inc 4.56 7.017543703 10.26101
MO Altria Group Inc 20.12 6.958250379 1.309165
RAI Reynolds American Inc 52.8 6.818181638 -0.7518826
T AT&T Inc 24.81 6.771462908 -2.168774
VZ Verizon Communications Inc 28.93 6.567576827 -1.665533
PGN Progress Energy Inc 38.29 6.476886965 -1.744933
HCP HCP Inc 28.78 6.462821453 3.26081
HCN Health Care REIT Inc 42.36 6.421152098 0.1685904
POM Pepco Holdings Inc 16.82 6.420927722 2.436051
PBI Pitney Bowes Inc 22.9 6.375546018 11.23357
AEE Ameren Corp 24.71 6.232294463 -3.287672
TEG Integrys Energy Group Inc 44.08 6.170598976 6.922188
NI NiSource Inc 15.02 6.125166556 5.403512
CINF Cincinnati Financial Corp 26.9 5.873606107 1.932551
DUK Duke Energy Corp 16.35 5.871559502 0.3749481
CNP CenterPoint Energy Inc 13.38 5.829596199 -2.725004
PNW Pinnacle West Capital Corp 36.41 5.767645989 1.647125
LLY Eli Lilly & Co 34.34 5.707629698 -1.044214
FE FirstEnergy Corp 38.65 5.692108791 -10.25703
ED Consolidated Edison Inc 42.75 5.56725173 -0.8862749
SO Southern Co 31.77 5.508341202 -0.7187486
LEG Leggett & Platt Inc 18.95 5.488126448 3.778754
LO Lorillard Inc 73.04 5.47645126 -2.219023
SCG SCANA Corp 36.05 5.270457632 1.235604
RRD RR Donnelley & Sons Co 19.89 5.228757978 0.3531771
BMY Bristol-Myers Squibb Co 24.51 5.222358104 0.6157619
TE TECO Energy Inc 15.33 5.218525844 -0.2014026
MCHP Microchip Technology Inc 27.06 5.040650269 6.157815
PPL PPL Corp 28.48 4.915730253 -3.424891
DTE DTE Energy Co 43.42 4.882542344 3.282581
AEP American Electric Power Co Inc 33.62 4.878048738 -1.760715
DD EI du Pont de Nemours & Co 33.72 4.863582401 4.712961
EXC Exelon Corp 43.3 4.849884306 -3.945567
VTR Ventas Inc 44.19 4.842724836 4.715635
D Dominion Resources Inc/VA 37.99 4.817057233 2.618646
PM Philip Morris International Inc 48.98 4.736627058 7.624701
XEL Xcel Energy Inc 20.81 4.709274479 0.1443637
PCL Plum Creek Timber Co Inc 35.73 4.701931003 -0.0834309
PLD ProLogis 12.89 4.654771325 3.539434
PEG Public Service Enterprise Group Inc 29.72 4.60969046 -2.844069
KIM Kimco Realty Corp 13.89 4.607631287 10.0634
SE Spectra Energy Corp 21.8 4.587155963 3.830575
NYX NYSE Euronext 26.38 4.548900863 12.68688
GAS Nicor Inc 41.65 4.465786349 2.788749
HCBK Hudson City Bancorp Inc 13.52 4.437869999 3.069873
AVB AvalonBay Communities Inc 81.42 4.384671989 6.278551
KMB Kimberly-Clark Corp 60.74 4.346394641 2.273114
A big thank you!