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Best Dividend Paying Stocks Lists By Dividend Yield - Stock, Capital, Investment. Here is a current dividend list (from low-yield to high-yield paying stocks) of stocks with interesting performance and valuation figures. Stocks from that list are mid- and large caps (market capitalization of more than USD 1 billion) with double digit long-term earnings growth rates. The companies are traded at AMEX, NYSE, NASDAQ and part of the Dow Jones, S&P 500 or Nasdaq Composite. Date of the screen is 2012-03-01. The list is selected by the following criteria and sorted by dividend yield:

Market capitalization: > 1 Billion

Price/Earnings Ratio: > 0 < 100

Dividend Yield: > 3 < 20

Return on investment: > 10 < 100

Operating Margin: > 10 < 100

10 Year Revenue Growth: > 8 < 200

10 Year EPS Growth: > 10 < 100

Here the results from the screen:
Best Dividend Paying Stock List As Of March 2012....

Take a closer look at the full table. The average price to earnings ratio (P/E ratio) amounts to 11.93 while the dividend yield has a value of 4.81 percent. Price to book ratio is 4.27 and price to sales ratio 2.54. The operating margin amounts to 30.07 percent. Earnings per share grew by 21.43 yearly over the past decade.

Compared to the results of the last month, MFA Financial (MFA) is new in our results and covers now the top position of the screen. Additional new companies are Abbott Laboratories (ABT), Harris (HRS) and Statoil (STO).

Related Stock Ticker Symbols:
MFA, YPF, VALE, SCCO, MBT, ARLP, TLK, NVS, PBR, STO, STRA, CHL, EOC, YZC, ABT, TSM, GRMN, BBL, PEP, SSL, HRS, ABV, RES

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