Seven remarkable stocks

Seven remarkable stocks
With these insights in mind, I screened for dividend payers with expected annual growth rates of more than 15% over the next five years. I then included only those stocks that have received a high rating from our Motley Fool CAPS investment research service. Here are the results:

Company	Yield	CAPS Rating (out of 5)
America Movil (NYSE: AMX)	3.7%	*****
Intel	2.5%	****
Johnson Controls (NYSE: JCI)	1.5%	*****
Vale (NYSE: RIO)	1.5%	*****
Tesoro (NYSE: TSO)	1.0%	****
Teva Pharmaceutical (Nasdaq: TEVA)	1.0%	*****
Baker Hughes (NYSE: BHI)	0.7%	*****

Data from Yahoo! Finance, adr.com, and Motley Fool CAPS as of Feb. 21, 2008.

Fund your retirement

An investor who picked up $10,000 worth of Altria in January 1970 initially acquired 277 shares, a stake that would have started by paying out a mere $69 per quarter at the time.

That wasn't much then, but after 38 years of stock splits, our hypothetical investor now has 26,592 shares of Altria, another 26,592 shares of the recently spun-off Philip Morris International (NYSE: PM) and 18,402 shares of the earlier spin-off of Kraft -- altogether worth $2.5 million today. Perhaps, more importantly, our investor would be receiving about $100,000 each year in dividends. (It should also be noted that these figures would be even larger if the investor reinvested dividends over the years.)

(from Motley Fool)