Best Dividend Stocks for Strong Income

We compiled a list of 24 large scale companies with tremendous market capitalization and pay fat dividend checks regularly. All companies in this list have a market capitalization above $10 billion and dividend yield of at least 5% . These 24 stocks returned 14.2% (including dividends) during the past 12 months beating the government bonds by a large margin. 1- AT&T Inc. (T): One of the leading telecom companies in the US, AT&T recently traded at $27.81 and has a 6.18% dividend yield. The stock returned 16.39 percent during the past 12 months. During the fourth quarter of 2010, Berkowitz's $19 Billion Fairholme Fund bought $276 million T shares. 2- TOTAL SA (TOT): One of the leading multinational energy companies, Total recently traded at $56.97 and has a 5.5% dividend yield. TOT gained 7.2 percent during the past 12 months. 3- Telefonica SA (TEF): One of the leading multinational telecom... Read more