Last week’s post on the best US dividend stocks was a major success and many readers contacted me to thank me or ask additional questions. I did get a feeling that there was a lot more information out there and possibilities to do even better.

So here is what I did, I took the universe of US stocks and applied some criterias:

1-Profitable companies (in the past year)
2-At least 2% of dividend growth in the past year
3-Positive 5 year dividend growth
4-Taking out companies with too little market cap or revenues

I also added a few more criterias and came up with a very interesting list that you can look at and sort below:

I will try to get more information some of the specific names and please feel free to ask any questions. All infos contained here are as of January 14th 2010.

I was happy to find so many stocks that have been able to pay a steady and increasing dividend while remaining profitable.

So which ones of these look the most interesting to you? I would personally look into the energy companies that should remain very profitable as the economy regains strength. You also have companies like McDonald’s which we could expect to do well in any period:) And many others!