Great Dividend Stocks for a Long-term Portfolio - Stocks Grouped Into Nine Sectors

The dividend stocks presented here include stocks with both consistent multi-year dividend growth and steady price appreciation. Most of the stocks belong to the Dividend Achievers, Dividend Aristocrats or US. Dividend Champions, elite groups of stocks characterized by long periods of dividend increases.

The stocks are grouped into nine economic sectors. Click on a sector link in the table below and you will discover a wealth of up-to-date dividend, price and performance data plus charts and investor information about the company. The tables and charts, created by buyupside.com, that follow provide a one-stop solution designed to help you explore great dividend-paying stocks.

Great Dividend Stocks - Listed by Sectors
Sector - Click link for analysis	Comments
Consumer Discretionary	See well-known companies including Lowe's (LOW) and McDonald's (MCD).
Consumer Staples	See information for well-known stocks including Colgate-Palmolive (CL), Kimberly-Clark (KMB) and PepsiCo (PEP).
Energy	Includes premier energy stocks.
Financials	See bank and insurance stocks.
Health Care	Includes major pharmaceutical and medical device makers.
Industrials	See stocks including 3M (MMM) and Emerson (EMR).
Information Technology	Includes International Business Machines (IBM) and ADP (ADP).
Materials	See stocks including Air Products (APD) and Vulcan Materials (VMC).
Utilities	See natural gas, electric and water utilities.
NOTE: All price and dividend data in the charts and tables to follow are from Yahoo! Finance.

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Today's date: Mar-20-2010.