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% or more

The search resulted in the following 11 stocks:

1.Company: Vodafone Group Plc (VOD)
Current Dividend Yield: 5.57%
Sector: Telecom
Country: UK

2.Company: Royal Dutch Shell plc (RDS.A)
Current Dividend Yield: 5.03%
Sector: Integrated Oil & Gas
Country: UK

3.Company: TOTAL S.A. (TOT)
Current Dividend Yield: 6.53%
Sector: Integrated Oil & Gas
Country: France

4.Company: GlaxoSmithKline plc(GSK)
Current Dividend Yield: 5.15%
Sector: Major Drugs
Country: UK

5.Company: Sanofi SA (SNY)
Current Dividend Yield: 5.24%
Sector: Major Drugs
Country: France

6.Company: Telefonica S.A (TEF)
Current Dividend Yield: 11.88%
Sector: Telecom
Country: Spain

7.Company: Eni S.p.A. (E)
Current Dividend Yield: 6.98%
Sector: Integrated Oil & Gas
Country: Italy

8.Company: Vale (VALE)
Current Dividend Yield: 7.92%
Sector: Metal Mining
Country: Brazil

9.Company: Westpac Banking Corporation (WBK)
Current Dividend Yield: 8.05%
Sector: Banking
Country: Australia

10.Company: Banco Santander, S.A. (SAN)
Current Dividend Yield: 2.13%
Sector: Banking
Country: Spain

11.Company: AstraZeneca PLC (AZN)
Current Dividend Yield: 6.06%
Sector: Biotechnology & Drugs
Country: UK

Disclosure: Long STD