TheStreet.com’s Best Large-Cap Dividend Stocks

Written by The Dividend Guy on November 22, 2006

Although I don’t venture to TheStreet.com very often, I was of course intrigued when I saw that Jim Cramer and his team had a listing of what they consider to be the best large-cap dividend stocks.

To come up with their list, they focused on stocks with the following:

1. A minimum market capitalization of $10 billion

2. A dividend yield of over 2% - but the dividend yield cannot exceed the company’s projected growth in earnings per share (my comment - this is interesting)

3. The stocks must have an overall rating of at least A-, meaning they are in the top 10% of all the stocks TheStreet.com rates

The list that they have come up with, especially since there are many companies I have never even heard of, which is a good thing. I believe that I sometime get a bit myopic in my thinking and looking at the usual suspects of dividend payers. Seeing a list like this gives me some new ideas:

MO - Altria (4.25%)
BAC - Bank of America (4.08%)
T - AT&T (4.02%)
SPI - Scottish Power (3.63%)
AEP - American Electric (3.56%)
D - Dominion Resources (3.39%)
WFC - Wells Fargo (3.05%)
FE - FirstEnergy (3.05%)
FPL - FPL (2.83%)
BLS - Bellsouth (2.68%)
ETR - Entergy (2.49%)
AZN - Astrazeneca (2.45%)
LNC - Lincoln National (2.35%)
WMI - Waste Management (2.28%)
WYE - Wyeth (2.05%)
EMR - Emerson Electric (2.03%)


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3 Comments so far

  1. Latest Finance News » History » TheStreet.com’s Best Large-Cap Dividend Stocks November 23, 2006 12:23 am

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  2. Matt November 28, 2006 12:49 pm

    Unfortunately two of those can be scratched off the list….

    BellSouth is merging with AT&T, and Scottish Power just announced they are being acquired by a spanish utility.

  3. Yolanda April 27, 2007 2:22 am

    Interesting. Got to check the site myself.

    Yolanda
    www.findmypaydayloan.com

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