Revisiting Top Paying Dividend Stocks - Size Matters
Published Jun 5, 2012 on Seeking Alpha

I recently wrote an article listing the top paying dividend stocks from a range of industries. The purpose of the article was to provide readers with a list of stocks to investigate as potential additions to their portfolios. One of the comments suggested that I track their performance to see how dividend yield might correlate to future performance. While I can start tracking this most recent list, I can also review the performance of the previous set of top paying dividend stocks from my July 7, 2011, article. The main table is replicated below: Top Paying Dividend Stocks July 2011

Ticker Name Industry Market Cap ($ Millions) Dividend Yield
HHS Harte-Hanks, Inc. Advertising 529 3.9%
LMT Lockheed Martin Corporation Aerospace & Defense 28,301 3.7%
CZZ Cosan Limited Agriculture Crops 2,160 2.1%
UPS United Parcel Service, Inc. Air Courriers 72,763 2.8%
RYAAY Ryanair Holdings plc Airlines 8,539 12.2%
TAP Molson Coors... Read more