What This Top Dividend Portfolio Is Holding Now: HSBC Holdings plc (ADR) (HBC), Royal Dutch Shell plc (ADR) (RDS.A), and BP plc (ADR) (BP)

While Shell’s shareholders suffered a stagnant dividend in the recent past, they did a lot better than their counterparts at BP. The latter had to suspend three quarterly dividends as a result of the Deepwater Horizon rig explosion in the Gulf of Mexico during 2010. However, the dividend has been growing strongly since, albeit from a post-blowout lower base.

At a recent share price of 456 pence, analyst forecasts give a yield of 5.2% for the current year, rising to that now-familiar 5.5% yield for 2014.

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