European companies generally pay higher dividends than American companies. Most companies have maintained that tradition during the past two years when the global financial crisis ravaged world markets. Many European banks have reduced or suspended due to government bailouts and the subsequent ownership stakes they acquired. Because of their high dividend yields, European dividend stocks …
Continue reading ‘10 High Dividend-Paying European Stocks’ »
To identify the large cap foreign stocks in NYSE with current dividend yields of 5% or higher, I ran the following screener: Exchange: NYSE Market Capitalization: ≥ $50.0B Dividend Yield :≥ 5.00% The screen resulted in 11 stocks out of which 9 were foreign ADR stocks. 1.Company: BP plc (BP) Dividend Yield: 6.48% 2.Company: Deutsche …
The one hundred components in the Dow Jones U.S. Select Dividend Index are “selected to the index by dividend yield, subject to screens for dividend-per-share growth rate, dividend payout ratio and average daily dollar trading volume. Components are weighted by indicated annual dividend”. As of July 31,2009 the total return for the index was -4.03% …
Continue reading ‘Ten Stocks from the Dow Jones U.S. Select Dividend Index’ »
The S&P High Yield Dividend Aristocrats is part of the S&P Dividend Aristocrats index series. This constituents in this index have followed a policy of raising dividends each year for at least 25 consecutive years. In addition, all the constituents are members of the S&P Composite 1500 . The stocks are equally weighted and are …
Continue reading ‘A Review of the S&P High Yield Dividend Aristocrats’ »