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To find out which will be the top dividend stocks in 2012 for cash payouts, we looked back to see which dividend paying stocks paid out the most cash in dividends in 2011. This year’s group are all large cap Dow dividend stocks, which is logical, since market cap is an important part of this equation.

These 5 stocks paid out from over billion to billion-plus in 2011, and appear likely to increase those amounts in 2012, given their historic and recent dividend growth rates. (Even though GE lowered its dividends in 2009, it began increasing them again in 2010):

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Upcoming Dividends: All of these stocks pay quarterly dividends, and 3 of them are listed in our High Dividend Stocks By Sectors Tables. The projected dividends listed below are based upon the most recent quarterly payout:

Except for GE, these stocks were rewarded by investors

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Even though it’s flat for the past year, the industrial sector has been coming on like gangbusters over the past few months:

One of the reasons for this new-found momentum has been earnings forecasts, which place the sector near the top of the heap for EPS growth over the next five years:

Caterpillar, (CAT), has thus far been one of the best stocks to buy in 2012 for price gains. If you were fortunate enough to have bought it in late 2011, you’d have a nice gain already:

Even though the market has been doing well so far in 2012, many analysts are forecasting a bumpy road ahead in 2012.

So how can you protect your gains in CAT?

Fortunately, CAT has some of the highest options yields of any Dow dividend stocks, which will allow you

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TV, movies, and theme parks – we humans love to be entertained, and we greatly reward those who entertain us. We found 3 dividend stocks who capitalize on this endless fascination, which may be some of the best stocks to buy in 2012 for undervalued growth and income within the Cable/Film/Broadcasting Industry:

Valuations: Compiling Industry Averages is a bit messy for these firms – although they all operate within the Cable TV industry, and Disney (DIS) and Viacom (VIA.B) also are active in the film industry. Viacom and Time Warner Cable (TWC) currently look quite undervalued on a PEG basis, while Disney is very near the 1.00 undervalued PEG threshold. TWC also looks undervalued on a cash basis – its Price/Free Cash/Share is only 3.15 vs. the 10.05 industry average .

Covered Calls: Even though Disney’s next annual ex-dividend date isn’t until December, you can create your own much higher

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GREAT FALLS, Mont., Jan. 17, 2012  /PRNewswire/ — Gas Natural Inc. (NYSE Amex: EGAS) (the “Company”), a natural gas utility company serving approximately 63,500 customers in six states, has announced that its Board of Directors declared a monthly dividend of .045 per share to…
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If you’re looking for dividend paying stocks with growth at reasonable values, the Tech sector may offer some of the best stocks to buy in 2012. The Tech sector rose just 1.03% in 2011, in spite of increasing earnings by over 18%. However, Standard & Poor’s currently projects the Tech sector to have the biggest EPS increase in 2012, and this sector’s P/E is also now lower than its 4-year average:

Tech Sector Dividend Paying Stocks - Although Tech isn’t a bastion of high dividend stocks, you can find some dependable dividend stocks in this sector, most notably a few giants in their respective industries:

Covered Calls: By selling covered call options, you can greatly improve upon the dividend yields of these stocks. The call options pay from 3 to 11 times what the dividends pay in these approximately 3-month trades. (All of the options in this article expire in

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LANCASTER, Pa., Jan. 3, 2012 /PRNewswire/ – Armstrong World Industries, Inc. (NYSE: AWI) today announced the completion of a refinancing and a special dividend payment by WAVE, its fifty percent joint venture with Worthington Industries.  Pursuant to the refinancing,…
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Apple (AAPL), of course, still hasn’t entered the ranks of dividend stocks, in spite of its shareholders’ increasing clamor for it to free up some of its billion cash hoard via dividends. However, there’s a proven strategy that we’ve used repeatedly that’s earned a better yield on AAPL than many high dividend stocks currently offer.

If you’d had the chance to buy AAPL at 1.60 over the past year, would you have taken that risk? How about 2.50? Given that AAPL’s current 52-week range is 0.50 to 6.70, both prices would have been rather profitable. AAPL has been one of 2011′s best stocks to buy for price gains, rising 23.56% year-to-date.

But you’re an income investor, not a trader, and AAPL still doesn’t pay dividends. So, what to do?

Solution: Create your own “dividend” from Apple via selling cash secured put options. Although AAPL doesn’t pay dividends, it does

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