Frontier Communications Corp (FTR), Annaly Capital (NLY): The World’s Best Dividend Portfolio

Philip Morris has a new CEO, and its former COO, Andre Calantzopoulos, who’s taking the reins at the world’s largest tobacco company. He takes over for Louis Camilleri, who remains chairman but cedes the CEO role. Calantzopoulos has worked for the company since 1985, and I expect there to be no transition issues.

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

Dividend news:

Frontier went ex-dividend on March 6 and pays out $0.10 per share on March 28.

Brookfield Infrastructure went ex-dividend on Feb. 26 and pays out $0.43 per share on March 29.

Annaly Capital (NYSE:NLY) Series C went ex-dividend on Feb. 27 and pays out almost $0.48 per share on April 1.

ROIC went ex-dividend on March 13 and pays out almost $0.15 per share on March 29.

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 and is written by Jim Royal.

Jim Royal, Ph.D., owns shares of the 12 portfolio stocks mentioned in the table. The Motley Fool recommends Brookfield Infrastructure Partners, Exelon, National Grid, Retail Opportunity Investments, Seaspan, Southern, and Vodafone and owns shares of Annaly Capital Management, Brookfield Infrastructure Partners, Philip Morris International, Retail Opportunity Investments, and Seaspan.

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