A List of High Dividend S&P500 Mega-Caps

In a previous study, we showed that the average return of high dividend yielding stocks was 13.04% between 1927 and 2009. Dividend stocks beat the overall market by an average of 1.36% per year in that period. We like high dividend stocks and consider them as alternatives to 10-year Treasury bonds. High dividend stocks generally perform well and usually increase dividend payments over the succeeding five to 10 years. Like Ray Dalio, we are concerned about the Fed’s inflationary monetary policy and want to protect ourselves against inflation. One of the ways of doing this without assuming significant risks is investing in high dividend stocks. Below, we provide a list of top 40 S&P500 stocks by market cap and ranked them based on their annualized dividend yields (The sector classifications are sourced from Finviz and the market data are sourced from Fidelity).The stocks with higher and lower dividends, and their... Read more