16 High Dividend Large Cap Stocks for Dividend Lovers

In a recent article we stated that since the beginning of this year, the average return of the 20 high dividend-yielding S&P500 stocks was 6.09%, beating the SPY by 2.33%. The second group of 20 stocks with lower dividend yields returned 3.29% on average, underperforming both the stocks in the first group and the SPY. We compiled a list of 16 large cap companies with tremendous market capitalization that also regularly pay fat dividend checks. The market data are sourced from Finviz. All companies in this list have a market capitalization above $10 billion and a dividend yield of at least 5.0%. These 16 stocks returned 16.5% (including dividends) during the past 12 months, beating government bonds by a large margin. 1. Annaly Capital Management, Inc. (NLY) is a real estate investment trust. NLY recently traded at $16.78 and has a 15.5% dividend yield. NLY gained 11.4% during the past... Read more