8 Safe Dividend Stocks With Excellent Growth Rates

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 prepared a list of eight large scale companies with high growth rates and pay fat dividend checks regularly. All companies in this list have a market capitalization above $2 billion, five years EPS growth rate higher than 20%, and dividend yield of at least 4%. These eight stocks returned 19.22% (including dividends) during the past 12 months, beating the government bonds by a large margin. 1. AmeriGas Partners, LP (APU): AmeriGas is the only major propane company in the U.S. APU recently traded at $44.83 and has a 6.29% dividend yield. The stock returned 16.71% during the past 12 months. Current P/E ratio is 17.2 on these shares. 2. CPFL... Read more