Top 10 Dow Dividend Stocks

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Counting Down the Best of the Big 30 The Dow Jones Industrial Average has had a very interesting year. The overall blue-chip index has ticked up about 10% since Jan. 1, but a large number of stocks haven't shown investors fireworks, to say the least. Aside from a handful of tremendous gainers and a handful of tremendous losers, the overall Dow index has just plodded along. (Check out my previous article with a complete list of returns for all 30 Dow stocks in 2011 for details.) However, if you focus solely on share price, you are overlooking the power of dividends. Many Dow components offer robust dividend yields, and this income power should be taken into consideration. Stable blue-chip stocks with significant dividends are an important part of many individual investors' strategies, whether it's just providing a firm backbone for their portfolio or they are mainly focused on income investments. So which Dow stocks offer the biggest dividend potential? Here are the top 10 Dow dividend stocks as of May 2011: