18 High Dividend Large Cap Stocks For Income Investors

By Dividendinvestr: High-dividend stocks deliver income and perform much better than the rest of the market both during market downturns and on the average. Some major market players also have high dividend yields. People can find much more information about large cap stocks, and so therefore, the market valuations for these stocks are more accurate.

By Dividendinvestr:High-dividend stocks deliver income and perform much better than the rest of the market both during market downturns and on the average. Some major market players also have high dividend yields. People can find much more information about large cap stocks and so therefore, the market valuations for these stocks are more accurate.

By Dividendinvestr:Dividend stocks deliver income and perform much better than the rest of the market, both during market downturns and on average. Below we complied a list of 6 high-dividend stocks that have a market cap of over $5 billion, P/E of lower than 15 and dividend yields higher than 4%. We obtained market data from Finviz and MSN Money, and hedge fund holdings from Insider Monkey.

By Dividendinvestr:Defensive investors like high-dividend stocks since they believe these stocks can protect them from potential inflation. Jim Cramer has been consistently recommending high-dividend stocks since the beginning of August. Below we prepared a list of 22 large cap stocks that pay fat dividend checks and have been recommended on Jim Cramer’s Mad Money recently. All companies on this list have dividend yield of at least 4% and market cap of at least $10 billion.

By Dividendinvestr:Jim Simons retired from Renaissance Technologies in 2010, but he still owns between 25 to 50 percent of the hedge fund. Renaissance Technologies manages over $25 billion of assets in several funds and the firm's funds earned net returns higher than 30% in 2011.

By Dividendinvestr:Jim Simons retired from Renaissance Technologies in 2010, but he still owns between 25 to 50 percent of the hedge fund. Renaissance Technologies manages over $25 billion of assets in several funds and the firm's funds earned net returns higher than 30% in 2011.

By Dividendinvestr:Steven Cohen is the founder of SAC Capital. Cohen is one of the legendary investors and the 106th richest man in the world, with a net worth of $8.3 billion. Cohen's investment strategy is based on both fundamental and quantitative analyses.

By Insider Monkey: We like dividend stocks and we believe they are better investments than long-term treasury bonds at this moment, which have an extremely low yield to maturity. Though bonds usually perform well in down markets, we do not think they are good long-term investments over the next 10 years.