Own Dividend-Paying Stocks In Your Retirement Portfolio

Dividend-paying stocks are great choices for your retirement account. Before you retire, you can accumulate shares with dividend reinvestment. And during retirement you can use the dividends as income.

Here are 15 dividend-paying stocks that are appropriate for a retirement account. Many of these stocks have multiyear records of increasing their dividends, which is important to keep ahead of inflation.

15 Dividend-Paying Stocks For Retirement Account
*Company and buyupside.com* Article**	Stock Symbol	Industry	Annual Dividend & Yield
3M Company	MMM	Conglomerate	$2.10 (2.50%)
Abbott	ABT	Pharmaceuticals	$1.76 (3.30%)
Clorox*	CLX	Consumer Products	$2.00 (3.10%)
Colgate-Palmolive	CL	Consumer Products	$2.12 (2.50%)
C. R. Bard*	BCR	Medical Instruments & supplies	$0.68 (0.80%)
Ecolab*	ECL	Cleaning Products	$0.62 (1.40%)
General Mills*	GIS	Food	$1.96 (2.70%)
Grainger*	GWW	Electronics Wholesale	$1.84 (1.70%)
Heinz*	HNZ	Food	$1.68 (3.50%)
International Business Machines	IBM	Technology	$2.20 (1.70%)
Kellogg*	K	Food	$1.50 (2.80%)
NSTAR*	NST	Electric Utilities	$1.60 (4.50%)
Kimberly Clark*	KMB	Personal Products	$2.64 (4.30%)
Piedmont Natural Gas*	PNY	Natural Gas Utilities	$1.12 (4.00%)
Proctor & Gamble*	PG	Consumer Products	$1.76 (2.80%)
NOTE: Charts and dividend data are from finance.yahoo.com as of Mar-20-10. * denotes all-weather stock.

To follow the day-to-day progress of the retirement dividend 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 $666.67 was invested (total of $10,000) in each of the 15 stocks at its closing weekly price for the first week of January 2001.

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To see a chart of current and past dividends for these stocks, use the buyupside.com Dividend Chart Maker.

To get more performance information about these stocks, use the buyupside.com Stock Return Calculator.

See Daily Dividend-Paying Portfolio Updates On buyupside.com for a list of dividend-paying portfolios.

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Updated Mar-20-10.

Own Dividend-Paying Stocks In Your Retirement Portfolio

Own Dividend-Paying Stocks In Your Retirement Portfolio