Annaly Capital Management, Inc. (NLY), Altria Group Inc (MO) & The World’s Best Dividend Portfolio

Dividends and earnings announcements
Here is the recent news on earnings and dividends:

Dividend news:

Philip Morris went ex-dividend on March 26 and pays out $0.85 per share on April 12.

Ryman Hospitality went ex-dividend on March 26 and paid out $0.50 per share on April 11.

AT&T went ex-dividend on April 8 and pays out $0.45 per share on May 1.

All that, of course, means more money coming into our pockets.

It’s fun to sit back and get paid, and with the market volatility, we might have a good chance to reinvest those dividends at good prices. Europe continues to be an absolute mess, and continued bad news will probably have stocks plunging again. If they do, I’ll be inclined to pick more shares up.

Foolish bottom line
I’ve been a fan of big dividends for a while, and I think this portfolio will outperform the market over time through the power of dividends. As I promised in the original article, I’ll continue to track and report on the portfolio’s progress, including news on these companies.

The article The World’s Best Dividend Portfolio originally appeared on Fool.com.

Jim Royal, Ph.D., owns shares of the 12 portfolio stocks mentioned in the table and is short April $20 calls on Seaspan. The Motley Fool recommends Brookfield Infrastructure, Exelon, National Grid, Retail Opportunity Investments, Seaspan, Southern, and Vodafone and owns shares of Brookfield Infrastructure, Philip Morris, Retail Opportunity Investments, Ryman Hospitality, and Seaspan.

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