Food and Beverage Stocks Pay Regular Dividends

Here are stocks from the food and beverage industry that sell well-known branded products that are in constant demand.

Consider the 13 dividend-paying stocks in the portfolio as candidates for a long-term dividend reinvestment portfolio.

Food and Beverage Stocks
Company	Symbol	Annual Dividend and Yield	Dividend Chart	Price and PDI Chart	Multiyear Returns	Industry
Campbell Soup	CPB	$1.10 (3.10%)	Chart	Chart	Table	Food products
Coca-Cola	KO	$1.76 (3.30%)	Chart	Chart	Table	Beverages
Dr Pepper Snapple	DPS	$0.60 (1.60%)	Chart	Chart	Table	Beverages
General Mills	GIS	$1.96 (2.70%)	Chart	Chart	Table	Food products
H.J. Heinz	HNZ	$1.68 (3.50%)	Chart	Chart	Table	Food products
Hershey Foods	HSY	$1.28 (3.00%)	Chart	Chart	Table	Food products
Kellogg's	K	$1.50 (2.80%)	Chart	Chart	Table	Food products
McCormick	MKC	$1.04 (2.70%)	Chart	Chart	Table	Food products
PepsiCo	PEP	$1.80 (2.70%)	Chart	Chart	Table	Food and Beverages
Sara Lee	SLE	$0.44 (3.10%)	Chart	Chart	Table	Food products
Smucker's	SJM	$1.40 (2.30%)	Chart	Chart	Table	Food products
Tootsie Roll Industries	TR	$0.32 (1.10%)	Chart	Chart	Table	Candy
Unilever PLC	UL	$0.54 (1.80%)	Chart	Chart	Table	Food and consumer products

NOTE: Dividend data and prices are from finance.yahoo.com as of Mar-20-10.

Non-Dividend-Paying Portfolios includes links to each portfolio of a few or no dividend-paying stocks.

Dividend-Paying Portfolios includes links to each portfolio of dividend-paying stocks.

Great Dividend Stocks includes links to more dividend-paying stocks.

To follow the day-to-day progress of the integrated oil and gas portfolio, check out the chart below. It is updated each day, so the portfolio values are always current. The current value of the portfolio assumes that $1,111.11 was invested (total of $10,000) in each stock at its closing weekly price for the first week of January 2001. NOTE: DPS is not included in the portfolio because of lack of price data.

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