Eleven weeks ago, I invested my cold hard cash into 10 high-yield dividend stocks I believe will beat the market. Let's see the results so far:

Company

Average Cost

Shares

Recent Price

Total Value

Return

Altria (NYSE: MO)

$24.86

40

$27.17

$1,086.80

9.29%
Philip Morris (NYSE: PM)

$61.83

16

$68.28

$1,092.48

10.43%
National Grid (NYSE: NGG)

$45.63

22

$51.59

$1,134.98

13.06%
Annaly Capital Management (NYSE: NLY)

$17.55

57

$17.95

$1,023.15

2.28%
Frontier Communications (NYSE: FTR)

$9.36

106

$8.74

$926.44

(6.62%)
Southern Company (NYSE: SO)

$37.87

26

$39.91

$1,037.66

5.39%
France Telecom

$22.23

45

$22.75

$1,023.75

2.34%
Vodafone Group

$28.88

34

$27.94

$949.96

(3.25%)
Eli Lilly

$34.48

29

$38.72

$1,122.88

12.30%
Bristol-Myers Squibb (NYSE: BMY)

$25.37

39

$28.81

$1,123.59

13.56%
Cash  

147.24

  

$147.24

0%
Dividends Receivable  

12.29

  

$12.29

0%
Total Portfolio      

$10,681.22

6.81%
Investment In SPY        

3.51%
Return vs. SPY (percentage points)        

+3.30

Source: Capital IQ, a division of Standard and Poor's. SPY = SPDR S&P 500 ETF. Data as of May 10.

Since we last checked in, the S&P's return has risen by about 1.6 percentage points. But our portfolio did even better, moving from outperforming the market by 1.4 percentage points to beating it by about 3.3 percentage points. While outperformance is always good, it should be taken with a grain of salt. We're investing for the long term, and it's only been 11 weeks. I firmly believe the results will bear us out.

Movers and shakers
Of our stocks, the biggest mover in the portfolio the past two weeks was Eli Lilly, which rose 6.78%. The company beat earnings expectations a few weeks ago and recently announced a partnership with Medtronic to develop a new drug-device combination for Parkinson’s disease. Fool Analyst Brian Orelli believes investors shouldn’t get their hopes up.

Money!
There are 3 upcoming dividends for the portfolio:

  1. Eli Lilly will pay a dividend of $0.49 on June 10. The ex-dividend date is today, May 11.
  2. France Telecom will pay a dividend of 1.40 euros on June 15. The ex-dividend date is June 10.
  3. Southern Company will pay a dividend of $0.4725, a 3.9% increase, on June 6. The ex-dividend date was April 28.

Commentary
Fool analyst Anders Bylund examined Frontier Communications and determined that its huge dividend is safe.

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My Foolish bottom line
I'm highly confident in this portfolio's ability to crush the market over the next decade, and that's why I put $10,000 of my personal cash into these stocks. My strategy is simple. I'm buying strong companies with outsized dividends, reinvesting those dividends, and holding them for the long run. Over the coming year, I'll track my performance, update you on when I'm going to reinvest all my dividends, and keep you abreast of news affecting these companies.

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