Top Dividend Stocks You've Never Heard Of

Next up is Vector Group(VGR Quote), which yields 8.2% and has paid quarterly dividends for the past 15 years. This Miami-based cigarette manufacturer owns such brands as Liggett Select, Eve, Pyramid and USA. It also produces Quest, a low-nicotine cigarette. The stock has a price-to-earnings ratio of 21 and a P/E-to-growth (PEG) ratio of 1.7.

Vector's stock was recently added to the portfolio of Steel Partners, a San Francisco-based activist hedge fund with an excellent track record. Steel is known for getting its foot in the door at companies and loudly clamoring for change. It remains to be seen if it will do so with Vector, but the company's large dividend is probably keeping the fund at bay.

Coinmach Service(DRA Quote) provides laundry equipment services to apartment buildings and designs and constructs laundromats. It has paid a dividend of $0.206 for the past six quarters and generates a 7.6% yield. The stock, which has a forward P/E of 65 and a PEG of 2.5, was recently added to the portfolio of Wohl Capital.

Southern Copper(PCU Quote), which is involved in the mining and milling of copper, molybdenum, zinc and silver, yields 7%. It has a P/E of 11.8, with a quarterly earnings increase of more than 30% year over year. The stock was recently added to the portfolios of Zweig Dimenna Partners and Pequot Capital Management.

Go to Stockpickr for the complete list of the Top Dividend Stocks You've Never Heard Of.

Other interesting dividend portfolios include:

• Top 5 Unknown Dividend Plays, a list developed by the author of the blog Dividend Money.
• Top 100 Highest-Yielding Stocks That Pay Monthly Dividends
• Tax-Free Dividend Closed-End Funds -- these funds that pay tax-free dividends.
• Highest-Yielding BRIC stocks, the highest-yielding stocks from Brazil, Russia, India and China.