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Dividend Reinvestment Portfolio

The Dividend Reinvestment Portfolio includes ten dividend-paying stocks from five industries. Two stocks are selected for each industry. Therefore, there is some diversification within each industry. With dividend reinvestment you reinvestment all your dividends and buy additional shares. It's an easy way to accumulate shares over time.

The following table include well-known companies that pay reliable dividends.

 

Dividend Reinvestment Portfolio
Company
Stock Symbol
Industry
Annual Dividend
Dividend Yield
General Electric
Conglomerates
$1.24
4.40%
3M Company
Conglomerates
$2.00
2.80%
FPL Group
Diversified Utilities
$1.78
2.90%
Southern Company
Electric Utilities
$1.68
4.50%
H.J. Heinz
Food Processing
$1.66
3.30%
Hershey Foods
Food Processing
$1.19
3.30%
Colgate-Palmolive
Personal & Household Products
$1.60
2.10%
Procter & Gamble
Personal & Household Products
$1.60
2.30%
Johnson & Johnson
Pharmaceuticals Consumer Products and Medical Devices
$184
2.60%
Pfizer
Pharmaceuticals
$1.28
6.60%
NOTE: Dividend data are from finance.yahoo.com as August 27, 2008.


For a list of over 300 companies that have increased their dividends for at least 10 consecutive years read Mergent's Dividend Achievers.


Related Articles:

Dividend-Paying Stocks
Why Dividends Matter


Updated August 28, 2008.

 



 

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