Each of these dividend payers sports a fat yield of more than 6.5%.

It makes a lot of sense to seek dividend-paying stocks for your portfolio. That income, after all, can be reinvested into more shares of stock, and healthy dividend payers tend to increase their payouts over time, too. On top of that, there's potential share-price appreciation.

Better still, if and when the stock market slumps , many or most dividend payers will keep paying their shareholders, offering a way to profit even when stock prices are stagnant or falling.

Here, then, are three high-yielding dividend stocks to consider for your long-term portfolio.

1. United Parcel Service

For starters, there's United Parcel Service ( UPS 0.43% ) , recently yielding a fat 7.8%. Its shares are down about 33% this y

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