13 High Yielding Stocks For Today's Market
Published Oct 10, 2011 on Seeking Alpha

The Motley Fool Stock Advisor recently recommended 13 high yielding dividend stocks. Their goal was to offer a wide variety of yields across a wide range of industries, coupled with solid growth potential. This is important because dividend-paying stocks historically outperform non-payers over the long term. According to Ned Davis Research, publicly traded companies paying a dividend returned 10.1% compared with just 4.1% for non-dividend companies between 1972 and 2006. The article clustered the companies into 3: a set of companies that have consistently, over the long term, increased dividends, a group of companies with either high yields or rapidly increasing yields, and then a set of their own picks. The companies they went for: Genuine Parts (NYSE: GPC) Emerson Electric (NYSE: EMR) 3M (NYSE: MMM) Diebold (NYSE: DBD) Dover (NYSE: DOV) McDonald's (NYSE: MCD) Procter & Gamble (NYSE:PG) Frontier Communications (NYSE: FTR) Annaly Capital (NYSE: NLY) Commercial Metals (NYSE:.... Read more