Dividend Stocks
11 Foreign Large Caps Paying More Than 5% Dividends
With one month to go in this year, I wanted to identify some foreign large cap ADRs that paid dividends of over 5%. So I ran the stock screener with the following criteria: 1. Stocks must trade on the NYSE 2. Market capitalization must be >= $50B 3. Stocks must have dividend yields of 5% [...]
HSBC: 43 High-Yielding European Stocks Likely To Outperform the Market
European equity markets have fallen heavily this year due to the ongoing debt crisis there. While most investors are avoiding European stocks some are wondering if the current opportunities are too good to pass up. Yesterday strategists at HSBC published a research report stating that investors have a rare opportunity to invest in high-yielding European [...]
U.S. Companies Can Pay More Dividends Than Their European Peers
European companies generally tend to have higher dividend yields than U.S. companies. For example, currently the dividend yield on the S&P 500 is just 2.15% compared to 3.69% and 4.2% for UK’s FTSE 100 and Germany’s DAX. Though European dividend yields are high, the total dividend payouts are still lagging according to a research report [...]
Download: S&P Dividend Aristrocrats Lists 2011
The S&P Dividend Aristocrats indices constitute stocks that have increased dividends for many consecutive years. For example, the S&P 500® Dividend Aristocrats measures the performance of large-cap blue chip companies in the S&P 500 that have followed a policy of increasing dividends for at least 25 consecutive years. So investors looking to add dividend stocks [...]
Not All Dividend Stocks Are Worth Investing In
The Weekend Investor section of The Wall Street Journal had an interesting article on dividend stocks. From the article: Mutual funds specializing in dividend stocks have seen inflows of $12.6 billion so far this year, four times as much as in all of 2010—even as stock funds as a whole have posted outflows of nearly [...]
Download: Dividend Achievers Lists 2011
Mergent publishes the Dividend Achievers list of indices which constitute companies that have consistently increased dividend payments. For example, the United Kingdom Dividend Achievers™ Index has the following features: Companies in the index must be incorporated in the UK. Companies must have increased their annual dividend payments for the last five or more consecutive years. [...]
