Try These High-Yielding Consumer Goods Stocks On For Size

March 24, 2009 3:16 PM EDT

In this tough economic environment, you want to search for stocks that not only may rise, but also currently return income through a dividend. Today, I wanted to highlight a few consumer oriented stocks that produce dividends over 5%. The average return of the stocks in my last column on REITs with dividend yields over 20% is 14% in less than 2 weeks! To that I say, a big Jim Cramer booyah.

  • Reynolds American (NYSE: RAI) yielding 9.3%
  • Avery Dennison (NYSE: AVY) yielding 7.8%
  • British American Tobacco (NYSE: BTI) yielding 7.5%
  • Cal-Maine Foods (Nasdaq: CALM) yielding 6.9%
  • Mattel (NYSE: MAT) yielding 6.8%
  • Pitney Bowes (NYSE: PBI) yielding 6.6%
  • Oshkosh Crop (NYSE: OSK) yielding 6.3%
  • Lorillard (NYSE: LO) yielding 5.9%
  • Kimberly Clark (NYSE: KMB) yielding 5.2%
Now, obviously at any time, these companies can lower their dividend, but if you are looking for some high-yielding dividend stocks, then you should definitely take a look at the above consumer stocks.

Reynolds American Inc. (RAI) is a holding company for R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company.
Avery Dennison Corporation (Avery Dennison) is engaged in the production of pressure-sensitive materials, office products and a variety of tickets, tags, labels and other converted products.
Mattel, Inc. (Mattel) designs, manufactures and markets toy products worldwide through sales to customers and directly to consumers.
British American Tobacco PLC is a holding company that owns, directly or indirectly, investments in the numerous companies constituting the British American Tobacco Group of companies.
Kimberly-Clark Corporation is a global health and hygiene company focused on product innovation and building its personal care, consumer tissue, K-C Professional and Other and health care brands.


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CALM 38.28

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LO 122.58

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MAT 32.17

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