We found a dozen great stocks with a payment schedule that will line your pockets with cash each month throughout the year.

12 Stocks to Get Dividends Every Month

Yield (as of November 23): 2.8%

52-week high: $106.68

52-week low: $72.43

5-year-dividend growth rate: 18.1%

Last dividend increase: 17.4% in April 2012

Also pays in: April, July, October


Oxy is primarily a domestic oil and gas producer, with much of its exploration in California and in shale formations in Texas and North Dakota. It differs from some other large oil companies in that it doesn't have a low-profit refining and marketing business. It also says, emphatically, in its investor presentations that increasing its dividend is a higher priority than making acquisitions, buying back stock or piling up reserves.

January: Occidental Petroleum (OXY)

Yield (as of November 23): 4.6%

52-week high: $44.22

52-week low: $32.76

5-year-dividend growth rate: 3.9%

Last dividend increase: 0.2% in October 2012

Also pays in: Every month



This real estate investment trust pioneered the strategy of buying or building free-standing drugstores, restaurants, cinemas, fitness centers and similar buildings and leasing them to familiar chains, which pay the rent, maintenance and taxes. Realty Income pays dividends every month and raises the rate several times a year, though slowly and usually by small amounts. The REIT is safe and consistent, with more than 500 consecutive monthly dividends to its credit.

February: Realty Income (O)

Yield (as of November 23): 4.6%

52-week high: $29.27

52-week low: $19.23

5-year dividend growth rate: 14.4%

Last dividend increase: 7.1% in September 2012

Also pays in: June, September, December


Intel, which makes semiconductors and processors, has been one of tech's most committed dividend-payers, although its 2012 increase was only half the size of its average hike over the past five years. Intel is wrestling with slowing growth in sales of desktop and laptop computers, its largest sources of sales and earnings. That makes Intel the one stock on this list that we might replace. But then again, if you want a tech stock that yields more than the general stock market, Intel is your best choice.

March: Intel (INTC)

Yield (as of November 23): 2.3%

52-week high: $77.60

52-week low: $57.00

5-year dividend growth rate: 16.9%

Last dividend increase: 8.9% in April 2012

Also pays in: July, October, January


Wal-Mart's stock is near its all-time high and earnings are sizzling, so you can expect good dividend growth for the foreseeable future. The five-year growth rate is inflated by an unusually large boost in 2011; 10% to 12% is closer to the norm. That's plenty to underscore that Wal-Mart doesn't mind sharing its wealth even when the economy is growing slowly.

April: Wal-Mart (WMT)

Yield (as of November 23): 3.2%

52-week high: $70.83

52-week low: $59.07

5-year dividend growth rate: 10.8%

Last dividend increase: 7.0% in May 2012

Also pays in: August, November, February


This is the archetypal solid, predictable, low-stress growth stock. It is so huge that a 7% to 10% dividend growth rate may be all you can expect -- but that's good enough considering that it usually yields more than 3%.

May: Procter & Gamble (PG)

Yield (as of November 23): 3.5%

52-week high: $102.22

52-week low: $83.31

5-year dividend growth rate: 20.4%

Last dividend increase: 10.0% in December 2012

Also pays in: September, December, March


McDonald's started getting serious about dividends in 2006, and it still is. Admittedly, the latest increase was less than the recent average because business in general hasn't been great. Sales were down all over the world in the most recent quarter. But that's unlikely to happen again.

June: McDonald's (MCD)

Yield (as of November 23): 3.4%

52-week high: $88.25

52-week low: $69.40

5-year dividend growth rate: 7.4%

Last dividend increase: 5.7% in April 2012

Also pays in: October, January, April


The maker of Kleenex, Huggies and Scott paper products resembles Procter & Gamble in that it makes familiar household products, it isn't risky, and it has lifted its payout every year . . . for the past 40 years. The company and the shares have had an excellent 2012. Figure on another dividend hike early in 2013.

July: Kimberly-Clark (KMB)

Yield (as of November 23): 5.2%

52-week high: $38.58

52-week low: $27.76

5-year dividend growth rate: 5.1%

Last dividend increase: 2.3% in February 2013

Also pays in: November, February, May


The share price has fallen back 15% from its high in early October. But it is still up for the year, and the current dividend yield is again over 5%, the highest in the Dow Jones industrial average. AT&T and Verizon dominate the wireless business, and although AT&T may sometimes leave you frustrated if you're a customer, it's good to be a shareholder.

August: AT&T (T)

Yield (as of November 23): 3.5%

52-week high: $72.74

52-week low: $61.71

5-year dividend growth rate: 9.1%

Last dividend increase: 7.0% in June 2012

Also pays in: December, March, June


A blue-chip cash machine with a great group of global health businesses, J&J grows just enough to raise dividends between 5% and 10% a year while the shares almost never misbehave. This is the way the stock market is supposed to work for patient, loyal investors.

September: Johnson & Johnson (JNJ)

Yield (as of November 23): 3.1%

52-week high: $59.96

52-week low: $48.49

5-year dividend growth rate: 12.1%

Last dividend increase: 10.1% in January 2013

Also pays in: January, April, July


ADP is a giant payroll processor that makes some of its profits investing the money it holds for employers before the paychecks are cashed and deposited. It's also a financial fortress, with $1.1 billion in cash and little debt. That means its dividends are ironclad and rise at a decent pace.

October: Automatic Data Processing (ADP)

Yield (as of November 23): 6.7%

52-week high: $26.87

52-week low: $15.77

5-year dividend growth rate: 26.4%

Last dividend increase: 1.6% in May 2012





Vale is a global diversified company based in Brazil with an irregular dividend schedule. We like it because there's usually a big payment in November, plus occasional extra dividends whenever the company decides they are in order. For example, while the payment in November 2012 was roughly the same as the one in 2011, Vale issued a good-size payment in May 2011, too. With metals prices rebounding from a slump, Vale ought to pay good dividends in 2013.

November: Vale (VALE)

Yield (as of November 23): 4.6%

52-week high: $45.41

52-week low: $36.97

5-year dividend growth rate: 4.3%

Last dividend increase: 2.2% in December 2011

Also pays in: March, June, September


AEP is one of the safest traditional (regulated) electric utility stocks because it operates in 11 states, which spreads the risk arising from storms and other controversies. It also pays a below-industry-average 52% of its earnings as dividends. That gives AEP scope to raise dividends even in slow years, and it makes the chance of a cut almost unimaginably small. AEP shares also yield more than most other electric systems -- a hard-to-explain bonus that has landed this utility in the Kiplinger Income 25 , the collection of our favorite income investments.

December: American Electric Power (AEP)

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