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Highest Dividend Yields of the New Dow

Published: Monday, 8 Jun 2009 | 8:55 AM ET

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By: Ariel Nelson
Director of Market Data & Content Services

With stocks rallying for over 3 months now, dividend yields continue to fall back to Earth. Today, two new components join the Dow, one with a dividend and one without. Travelers [TRV Loading... () ] has a yield of 2.74% while Cisco [CSCO Loading... () ], like many tech companies, does not pay a dividend. Their combined dividends, however, are still higher than the two companies they are replacing, Citigroup [C Loading... () ] and GM [GMGMQ Loading... () ], thereby increasing the overall average for the Dow. The average yield is now 3.11%, far from the 4.5% we saw in early March, but just below the 3.13% we saw one month ago.

Below is a table listing the yields of all 30 Dow components. Since April, AT&T [T Loading... () ] continues to be the highest yielding stock on the Dow. Verizon [VZ Loading... () ] has moved ahead of DuPont [DD Loading... () ] for second and third place.

Data Source: Thomson Reuters

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