28 US Dividend Stocks from the DJ STOXX Global Select Dividend 100 Index

The Dow Jones STOXX® Global Select Dividend 100 Index tracks the performance of the 100 highest-yielding dividend companies in North America, Asia/Pacific and Europe. Of the 40 stocks from North America, 28 are from the U.S. and the rest are from Canada. Some of the Canadian components in this index include Enbridge (ENB), Bank of Montreal (BMO), Trans-Canada Corp (TRP), National Bank of Canada (NA.TO), etc. In this post, lets take a quick look at the US companies represented in this index.

The 28 US stocks in the  DJ STOXX Global Select Dividend 100 Index and their Current Dividend Yields are shown below:

S.No.CompanyTickerDividend Yield as of Dec 9,2009
1AltriaMO7.06%
2Ameren CorporationAEE5.76%
3AT&TT5.94%
4Avery Dennison CorpAVY2.11%
5BB&T CorporationBBT2.32%
6Centurytel Inc7.66%
7Cincinnati Financial CorpCINF6.22%
8Consolidated Edison IncED5.36%
9Dow ChemicalDOW2.18%
10DTE Energy CoDTE4.98%
11Duke Energy CorpDUK5.50%
12Firstenergy CorpFE4.95%
13Genuine Parts CoGPC4.27%
14Limited Brands IncLTD3.32%
15M&T Bank CorpMTB4.39%
16Mattel IncMAT3.77%
17MerckMRK4.18%
18New York Community Bancorp IncNYB7.91%
19Pepco Holdings IncPEP2.84%
20PfizerPFE3.60%
21Pitney Bowes IncPBI6.32%
22PNC Financial Services GroupPNC0.75%
23Progress EnergyPGN6.07%
24Public Service EnterprisePEG4.17%
25Regions Financial CorpRF0.70%
26Reynolds American IncRAI6.93%
27Southern CoSO5.28%
28VerizonVZ5.69%

Altria (MO), CenturyTel (CTL) and New York Community Bancorp (NYB) offer over 7% dividends now. Altria is a favorite stock among many US dividend investors. It expects to maintain a dividend payout ratio of about  75% of net earnings. A $10,000 investment in the stock on January 2, 1970 would have grown to $516,533.33 for a return of 22,216.14% based on the closing price yesterday. The original 277.78 shares would have increased to 26,666.67 split adjusted. (Source: Investment Value Calculator at Altria’s  IR site).

New York Community Bancorp Inc (NYB) is offering 60 Million shares of common stock at $13.00 per share to fund the acquisition of the failed Cleveland,Ohio-based AmTrust Bank. PNC (PNC) and Regions Financial (RF) in the list are not great dividend payers now. Utilities such as Duke Energy (DUK), Consolidated Edison (ED) offer yields above 5%.

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