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Highest Dividend Yields of the Dow

Thursday, May 14th, 2009

With stocks rallying for over 2 months now, dividend yields continue to fall back to Earth.  The average dividend yield of the Dow 30 has fallen nearly 30% since the rally began in early March.  Combined with dividend cuts made earlier this year from companies like CNBC parent, General Electric $GE and Alcoa $AA, the average yield is now 3.1%, far from the 4.5% we saw in early March. 

Below is a table listing the yields of all 30 Dow components.  Since April, AT&T $T continues to be the highest yielding stock on the Dow.  Merck $MRK  and Verizon $VZ have moved ahead of DuPont  $DD  for second and third place. 

 

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