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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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. …
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To identify some of the high yielding large cap foreign stocks, I ran the screener with the following criteria: 1. Stocks must trade on the NYSE 2. Market cap must >= $5B 3. Dividend yield must be at least 7% The above search resulted in the following 15 stocks: 1.Company: Tele Norte Leste Participacoes SA …
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