10 Dividend Stocks for a Fat Payday

Market Cap: $64.39 billion
Annual Dividend Payout: $5.48
Current Dividend Yield: 5.04%
* As of market close 8/5/2010

Westpac Banking Corporation ADR (NYSE: WBK) provides a range of banking and financial products and services to individuals and corporate customers primarily in Australia and New Zealand. WBK was founded as Australia’s first bank in 1817, and it has been paying dividends ever since. And if nearly 200 years of offering dividends to shareholders isn’t impressive enough, its biannual dividend rate has added up to more than $5 per share annually for two of the past three years — a number it is projected to top again in 2010.