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To: Johnny Canuck who wrote (45954)	11/23/2009 1:35:35 PM
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5%+ Dividend Yields in the S&P 500 18 comments November 20, 2009 \| about: CTL / DIA / FTR / MO / Q / QQQQ / SPY / WIN Bespoke Investment Group Follow 3346 Followers 0 Following About the author: Bios & more articles Bespoke's blog: Think B.I.G. Market Research: Bespoke Premium Bespoke Money Management Bespoke Institutional Contact Bespoke From Bespoke: Font Size: Print Email TweetThis For all the dividend hunters out there, below we provide a list of the S&P 500 stocks with dividend yields above 5%. As shown, Frontier Communications (FTR) tops the list with a yield of 13.33%. Windstream (WIN) has the second highest yield at 9.95%, followed by Qwest (Q) (8.63%) and CenturyTel (CTL) (7.98%). The four highest yielding stocks in the S&P 500 are all in the Telecom sector. Altria Group (MO) has the highest dividend yield in the Consumer Staples sector at 7.12%. In late 2008, this list would have been littered with financial stocks whose yields spiked since share prices were tanking. The dividends for the majority of financials ended up being cut or eliminated, however, so they no longer pay the nice dividends that investors looking for yields like. Now that things have stabilized, look for financials to start boosting dividends again. But as always, buyer beware. (Click to enlarge)