S&P 500: High Dividend Stocks

Matt Phillips at the Wall Street Journal’s MarketBeat blog has a good feature on stocks that have a long record of paying dividends. This list, from Standard & Poor’s, includes large company stocks as usual, but also includes small and mid-cap stocks. Here is an excerpt from the MarketBeat post [emphasis added]: So, here’s a fresh list of dividend payers to know. Compiled by Howard Silverblatt, senior index analyst at Standard and Poor’s. The list includes 73 stocks from the broad S&P 1500, which includes midcaps and small caps as well as blue chips. These companies have paid increasing annual cash dividends for the past 10 years. The yield information was as of Friday Dec. 17.... Read more