We screened the Forbes Global 2000 roster for companies with healthy dividend yields. We limited the list to companies where analysts expect a payout ratio (see table footnotes) of 51% or less. The average yield for the companies on the accompanying table is 6.7% vs. 2.3% for the S&P 500 and 3.4% for the MSCI Barra EAFE index of foreign stocks.
Svenska Handelsbanken Banking $26.54 8.5% 13% Sweden
Barloworld Conglomerates 13.24 8.1 10 South Africa
Telkom Telecommunications Services 17.05 8.0 8 South Africa
Fletcher Building Construction 6.74 5.2 39 New Zealand
Volvo Group Capital Goods 14.33 6.4 11 Sweden
Prices are in U.S. dollars as of March 20. * Indicated annual dividend rate divided by 2008 estimated earnings per share. Sources: FT Interactive Data, FactSet Estimates, Thomson IBES via FactSet Research Systems; Thomson One Analytics
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