S&P 500 Index: 10 Highest Yielding Stocks

A list of the ten highest dividend yielding stocks in the S&P 500 Index is detailed below. Currently, 371 of the S&P 500 companies pay a dividend and have an average yield of 3.9%. The overall yield for the index is 2.9%.

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Source: indexArb

Comments

[Rob Viglione:]

There's a good deal of risk to these dividends, particularly for the real estate plays. However, yields look quite tempting...

2008 Dec 29 10:01 AM

[sr9web:]

DDR pays nothing right now - better check your numbers

2008 Dec 29 10:41 AM

[hamsami:]

Better quality with the 'Dogs of the Dow'.

2008 Dec 29 02:46 PM

[EttU:]

Dividends are great, growth is great, quality is great, what is not great are the CEO's who run the company's into the ground, the Board of Directors who usually are a sleep at the wheel and all the consultants who talk nonsense while collecting their fees. We also should not leave out all the regulators who in the last 8 years have been in bed with above actors. Harvard MBA's and Yale lawyers should be put out to pasture for awhile and have them live with the Bears instead of with the Bulls.

2008 Dec 30 08:26 PM

[CaptD:]

If you don't LOVE these 10; I challenge you to provide your own 10 and "time will tell"!

Let's start sorting through the "Wana B's" and find out who is best able to "see over the horizon"...

Here is aref mine:
IRBT, CIT, NVdA, C, APPL, MS, FDX, SBL, BA, COST;
it's time to put up or shut up...

I really look forward to reading yours...

Happy New Year!

2008 Dec 31 11:15 PM

[tshk1221:]

DDR's website issued a statement back in December, 2008 that its dividend for 2009 was likely to be $1.50 per share slashed from 2008. If calculated, it is about 19% from your stock investment. I don't think DDR is lying to investors in the US and the world through its website. If you consider the beaten-down stock prices and dead real estate market that will eventually turn up in 5 - 10 years, this could be the investment chance of your life time.

In addition, DDR will distribute maximum earnings possible through dividends to be exempt from federal taxes on their earnings. Certainly, real estate market is dead, and the current economic downturn is bad enough to increase vacancy. But, that does not mean that all of their real estate holdings and tenants will get sour.

Click on the Dividend Yield row of DDR of the table above, and you will be redirected to a diffent website. The website clearly shows the estimated dividend from DDR in 2009. 19% estimated dividend!

I just bought DDR yesterday.

Jan 09 08:16 PM

[Rynnyn:]

For Dividend Yield my 10 are WIN,TPD,ATN,AINV,SSL,D...
I never said i was a smart man, but i think this will hold up over time.

Feb 04 02:39 AM

[Rynnyn:]

Lets try this again. My 10 are WIN, TPP, ATN, AINV, SSL, DEO, SO, LLTC, FTR, ATG;

Feb 04 02:51 AM