11 Healthcare Stocks for Dividend Lovers
Published Mar 25, 2011 on Seeking Alpha

Healthcare is one of the fastest growing industries in the world. The annual growth rate of total expenditures on healthcare is 7.1% between 2000-2008 in the United States. Average annual growth in National Health Expenditures (NHE) for 2009 through 2019 is expected to be 6.3%. NHE as a share of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is expected to be 19.6% by 2019. We prepared a list of eleven Healthcare companies which pay fat dividend checks regularly. All companies in this list have a dividend yield of at least 3.5%. These eleven stocks returned 9.64% (including dividends) during the past 12 months, beating the government bonds by a large margin. 1-AstraZeneca PLC (AZN): AstraZeneca is one of the leading biopharmaceutical companies in the world. AZN recently traded at $46.22 and has a 5.52% dividend yield. AZN gained 9.34% during the past 12 months. The stock has a market cap of $68... Read more