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Comparison of Dividend Yields Across 20 Country Indices

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The chart below shows the dividend yield across twenty country indices.These countries represent the largest countries based on market capitalization as of 12/31/2009: Click to Enlarge Source: Skloff Financial Group The dividend yield of U.S. stocks remained less than a paltry 2% since 2003. For the years shown, Australian stocks have consistently paid dividends in …

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The 100 Most Profitable U.S. Companies

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The 25 most profitable publicly-listed American companies that appear in the Forbes Global 2000 list for 2010 are listed below: [TABLE=502] The oil giant ExxonMobil(XOM) made the highest profits at over $19B on sales of $275B. The second and third spots were taken by software maker Microsoft(MSFT) and the world’s largest retailer Wal-Mart Stores(WMT). Among …

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The 10 Most Profitable British Companies

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The ten most profitable publicly-listed British companies that made it to the Forbes Global 2000 list for 2010 are listed below. [TABLE=500] All the firms noted above are also part of the FTSE 100 index. The oil giant BP plc (BP) is the most profitable British company. The current yield on the BP ADR is …

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More European Companies Delist from the NYSE

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The exodus of European firms from delisting their stocks on the New York Stock Exchange continue to climb. On Friday German auto maker Daimler AG(DAI) became the latest company to announce plans to delist from the NYSE. This follows the announcement of Deutsche Telekom AG (DT) two weeks ago to delist from the exchange. After …

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