Barron's has a recent post about quality dividend stocks for retirement. They pick their top 10 favorites. Here is the second part of Barron's article which lists the B Team of dividend stock picks. 10 for the Money by Vito J. Racanelli
Which companies are worthy of a retiree's income portfolio? Barron's has selected 10 for the A team, plus a second 10 that didn't quite make the cut, but easily could have. The A team is listed in the table, The Best Bets; the B Team is in the table, Lots of Bench Strength.
Company (Ticker) Yield
Abbott Labs (ABT) 3.0%
AT&T (T) 6.3%
Coca-Cola (KO) 2.9%
Emerson Electric (EMR) 3.2%
Lockheed Martin (LMT) 3.3%
Merck (MRK) 4.3%
Microsoft (MSFT) 1.7%
Telefonica ADR (TEF) 5.2%
United Tech (UTX) 2.3%
Wal-Mart (WMT) 2.0%
Disclosure: The Div Guy owns shares of ABT and T at the time of this post.
I see that you have 6 of these "top 20" dividend stocks. When you see lists like these, picked by the *experts* do you feel the need to start leaning towards purchasing some of the ones you don't have that are on said list? Or are there too many top 10's out there?
Ed,
I like to look at the lists for new ideas. I will do some research on some of the stocks that look interesting. I will add a couple of the stocks in the article to my watch list, that I follow along with the stocks I own. I need to trim some of my holdings in 2010 and I want to pick up a couple more quality dividend stocks.