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Biggest dividend yields

Companies ranked by dividends as a percentage of stock price.

Rank Company 2002
dividends
12/31/2002
stock price
Dividend
yield
1 MicroFinancial 0.1 0.7 14.1
2 American Biltrite 0.5 7.6 6.6
3 FleetBoston Financial Corp. 1.4 23.9 5.9
4 L.S. Starrett Co. 0.8 14.0 5.7
5 Nstar 2.1 40.0 5.3
6 Sonesta International Hotels Corp. 0.2 4.0 5.0
7 Tech/Ops Sevcon 0.2 4.4 4.1
8 Mayflower Co-operative Bank 0.6 16.1 3.7
9 LSB Corp. 0.5 12.7 3.5
10 PerkinElmer 0.3 8.9 3.2
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