We love high dividend stocks and consider them as one of the best options for conservative investors. We don’t like the Fed’s inflationary monetary policy and the federal government’s huge budget deficits. We think high dividend-yielding stocks will perform much better than the 10-year treasuries over the next 10 years. One of the ways of picking the best dividend stocks is to invest in what prominent hedge funds like. We track more than 300 hedge funds that mostly use fundamental analysis to make investment decisions. We look for at least a 5% dividend yield and $5 Billion in market cap (dividend yields were sourced from Google Finance). Here are the 30 dividend monsters that we maintain hedge funds love the most: Company name Symbol Div yield (%) No of Funds Eli Lilly & Co. LLY 5.33 30 Verizon Communications Inc. VZ 5.42 28 Transocean LTD RIG 5.28 27 AT&T Inc. T 5.65 24 Altria Group, Inc. MO 5.67 21 Annaly Capital Management, Inc. NLY 13.9 21 CenturyLink, Inc. CTL 7.41 18 PPL Corporation PPL 5.17 17 AstraZeneca AZN 6.12 15 FirstEnergy Corp. FE 5.11 15 Penn West Petroleum Ltd PWE 5.03 15 SeaDrill Limited SDRL 9.08 15 Southern Copper Corporation SCCO 6.17 15 Frontier Communications Corp FTR 9.53 14 Duke Energy Corporation DUK 5.4 13 Health Care REIT, Inc. HCN 5.47 13 New York Community Bancorp NYB 6.69 12 SCANA Corporation SCG 5.02 12 Enterprise Products Partners EPD 5.75 11 Reynolds American, Inc. RAI 5.72 11 BCE Inc. (USA) BCE 5.53 10 Windstream Corporation WIN 7.67 10 HCP, Inc. HCP 5.25 9 Progress Energy, Inc. PGN 5.26 9 Sun Life Financial Inc. (USA) SLF 5.17 9 Ameren Corporation AEE 5.45 8 Plains All American Pipeline PAA 6.2 7 Buckeye Partners, LP BPL 6.25 6 Kinder Morgan Energy Partn KMP 6.39 6 Magellan Midstream Partners MMP 5.25 6