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27 Strong Dividend Income Stocks

27 Dividend Stocks Delivering Strong Income By Insider Monkey. In our recent study we have shown that the average return of high dividend yielding stocks was 13.04% between 1927 and 2009. The dividend stocks beat the overall market by an average of 1.36% per year during this period.

We compiled a list of 27 large cap companies with tremendous market capitalization that also regularly pay fat dividend checks. All companies in this list have a market capitalization above $10 billion and dividend yield of at least 5.0%. These 27 stocks returned 20.3% (including dividends) during the past 12 months, beating government bonds by a large margin.

Here are the results:


Stock
Yield
Recent Price (USD)
(%)
Annaly Capital Management, Inc. (NLY)
14.30%
18.05
France Telecom SA (ADR) (FTE)
10.10%
19.39
Telecomunicacoes de Sao Paulo SA (ADR) (VIV)
9.80%
28.38
Nokia Corporation (ADR) (NOK)
9.40%
5.8
Telefonica S.A(ADR). (TEF)
9.00%
21.89
SeaDrill Limited (SDRL)
8.40%
34.32
Energy Transfer Partners LP (ETP)
7.40%
48.18
YPF SA (ADR) (YPF)
7.40%
42.98
CenturyLink, Inc. (CTL)
7.40%
39.31
Westpac Banking Corporation (ADR) (WBK)
6.90%
112
Telecom Italia S.p.A. (ADR) (TI)
6.90%
11.78
Banco Santander, S.A. (ADR) (STD)
6.30%
10.2
Eni S.p.A. (ADR) (E)
6.20%
43.32
Kinder Morgan Energy Partners LP (KMP)
6.10%
73.14
National Grid plc (ADR) (NGG)
6.00%
48.47
Southern Copper Corporation (SCCO)
5.70%
34.17
Altria Group, Inc. (MO)
5.70%
26.9
Vodafone Group Plc (ADR) (VOD)
5.60%
25.9
AT&T Inc. (T)
5.60%
30.77
Enterprise Products Partners L.P. (EPD)
5.50%
42.83
Reynolds American, Inc. (RAI)
5.40%
37.34
Verizon Communications Inc. (VZ)
5.30%
37.09
Eli Lilly & Co. (LLY)
5.20%
37.49
AstraZeneca plc (ADR) (AZN)
5.20%
49.34
Progress Energy, Inc. (PGN)
5.20%
48.09
Duke Energy Corporation (DUK)
5.10%
19.12
Williams Partners L.P. (WPZ)
5.10%
54.59



Source: Seeking Alpha