Top 30, High Dividend Utilities Stocks

In a recent article, we compiled a list of top 30 S&P 500 Financial Stocks and showed that high dividend yielding financial stocks performed better than low dividend yielding ones since the beginning of this year. In another 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 prefer high dividend stocks since they generally perform better and usually increase dividend payments over the next 5-10 years. Some sectors contain many high dividend stocks and may appear attractive to dividend lovers. The utilities sector is one high dividend yielding sector. W e compiled a list of the top 30 US Utilities 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... Read more