Best Dividend Stocks
US dividend stocks with a yield of 2% or more, a payout their earnings cover and a dividend raised at least five years in a row, highest yield first.
Yield against payout
Higher pays more; further right keeps less of its earnings to go on paying. In the green band the earnings cover the dividend with room to spare (75% or less paid out; a real estate trust's is on its funds from operations). Each dot is a stock on this list.
- Average yield, this list
- 3.6%
- The S&P 500's yield
- 1.1%
- By market value
- Median years of raises, this list
- 16
Stocks we follow with full financials (the largest US companies) that yield at least 2%, pay out no more than 75% of their earnings (90% of their funds from operations for a real estate trust) and have raised their dividend at least 5 years in a row, highest yield first.
| Stock | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ![]() VICIVICI Properties | 7.42% | 1.84 | Quarterly | 81%of FFO | 8 | 24.80 |
| 2 | ![]() VZVerizon Communications | 6.19% | 2.83 | Quarterly | 72% | 22 | 45.72 |
| 3 | ![]() EPDEnterprise Products Partners LP | 6.05% | 2.24 | Quarterly | 74% | 27 | 37.02 |
| 4 | ![]() ORealty Income | 5.52% | 3.26 | Monthly | 76%of FFO | 32 | 59.04 |
| 5 | ![]() CMCSAComcast | 5.41% | 1.32 | Quarterly | 52% | 18 | 24.39 |
| 6 | ![]() KMBKimberly-Clark | 4.72% | 5.12 | Quarterly | 51% | 41 | 108.45 |
| 7 | ![]() PRUPrudential Financial | 4.70% | 5.60 | Quarterly | 50% | 18 | 119.24 |
| 8 | ![]() BPBP | 4.67% | 2.08 | Quarterly | 73% | 5 | 44.53 |
| 9 | VMRKVivmark Residential | 4.29% | 2.81 | Quarterly | 55%of FFO | 5 | 65.51 |
| 10 | ![]() PEPPepsiCo | 4.19% | 5.92 | Quarterly | 73% | 54 | 141.31 |
| 11 | ![]() BMYBristol-Myers Squibb | 4.05% | 2.52 | Quarterly | 56% | 19 | 62.16 |
| 12 | ![]() SPGSimon Property Group | 4.03% | 9.20 | Quarterly | 12%of FFO | 5 | 228.45 |
| 13 | ![]() KMIKinder Morgan | 3.97% | 1.19 | Quarterly | 73% | 9 | 29.96 |
| 14 | ![]() SLFSun Life Financial | 3.87% | 2.77 | Quarterly | 72% | 5 | 71.56 |
| 15 | ![]() AMTAmerican Tower | 3.79% | 7.16 | Quarterly | 60%of FFO | 14 | 188.80 |
| 16 | ![]() CNQCanadian Natural Resources | 3.72% | 1.80 | Quarterly | 44% | 11 | 48.52 |
| 17 | ![]() PEGPublic Service Enterprise Group | 3.69% | 2.68 | Quarterly | 74% | 15 | 72.62 |
| 18 | ![]() USBUS Bancorp | 3.63% | 2.16 | Quarterly | 41% | 16 | 59.46 |
| 19 | ![]() PNCPNC Financial Services Group | 3.55% | 8.00 | Quarterly | 39% | 16 | 225.37 |
| 20 | ![]() DTEDTE Energy Company | 3.45% | 4.66 | Quarterly | 70% | 17 | 135.14 |
| 21 | ![]() PLDPROLOGIS | 3.37% | 4.28 | Quarterly | 54%of FFO | 13 | 126.97 |
| 22 | ![]() SRESempra | 3.36% | 2.63 | Quarterly | 52% | 16 | 78.20 |
| 23 | ![]() CVXChevron | 3.35% | 7.12 | Quarterly | 64% | 39 | 212.68 |
| 24 | ![]() QSRRestaurant Brands International | 3.35% | 2.60 | Quarterly | 75% | 11 | 77.69 |
| 25 | ![]() LYGLloyds Banking Group | 3.34% | 0.1702 | Semi-Annual | 42% | 5 | 5.09 |
| 26 | ![]() MFCManulife Financial | 3.26% | 1.41 | Quarterly | 56% | 13 | 43.24 |
| 27 | ![]() FITBFifth Third Bancorp | 3.17% | 1.68 | Quarterly | 55% | 16 | 53.05 |
| 28 | ![]() SHELShell | 3.15% | 3.12 | Quarterly | 33% | 5 | 99.09 |
| 29 | ![]() MDLZMondelez International | 3.15% | 2.08 | Quarterly | 64% | 13 | 66.00 |
| 30 | ![]() NTRNutrien | 3.08% | 2.20 | Quarterly | 48% | 8 | 71.48 |
| 31 | ![]() EDConsolidated Edison | 2.99% | 3.55 | Quarterly | 70% | 52 | 118.57 |
| 32 | ![]() XELXcel Energy | 2.97% | 2.37 | Quarterly | 55% | 23 | 79.67 |
| 33 | ![]() ADMArcher Daniels Midland Company | 2.97% | 2.08 | Quarterly | 40% | 43 | 69.99 |
| 34 | ![]() TGTTarget | 2.93% | 4.64 | Quarterly | 59% | 43 | 158.42 |
| 35 | ![]() ERICEricsson | 2.92% | 0.2996 | Semi-Annual | 53% | 6 | 10.27 |
| 36 | ![]() NEENextera Energy | 2.87% | 2.49 | Quarterly | 55% | 31 | 86.95 |
| 37 | ![]() BMOBank of Montreal | 2.86% | 4.90 | Quarterly | 56% | 6 | 171.09 |
| 38 | ![]() SYYSysco | 2.86% | 2.20 | Quarterly | 58% | 39 | 76.89 |
| 39 | ![]() MDTMedtronic | 2.83% | 2.88 | Quarterly | 70% | 44 | 101.82 |
| 40 | ![]() MCDMcDonald's | 2.79% | 7.72 | Quarterly | 74% | 50 | 276.46 |
| 41 | ![]() EOGEOG Resources | 2.77% | 4.08 | Quarterly | 26% | 9 | 147.19 |
| 42 | ![]() IBMInternational Business Machines | 2.76% | 6.76 | Quarterly | 71% | 31 | 244.91 |
| 43 | ![]() MTBM&T Bank | 2.75% | 6.00 | Quarterly | 31% | 10 | 217.82 |
| 44 | ![]() SUSuncor Energy | 2.74% | 1.88 | Quarterly | 33% | 6 | 68.73 |
| 45 | ![]() HDHome Depot | 2.71% | 9.32 | Quarterly | 65% | 17 | 343.44 |
| 46 | ![]() ZTSZOETIS | 2.67% | 2.12 | Quarterly | 36% | 13 | 79.41 |
| 47 | ![]() AEEAmeren | 2.66% | 3.00 | Quarterly | 64% | 13 | 112.85 |
| 48 | ![]() PGProcter & Gamble Company | 2.63% | 4.35 | Quarterly | 64% | 43 | 165.39 |
| 49 | ![]() ACNAccenture | 2.63% | 6.84 | Quarterly | 48% | 7 | 260.48 |
| 50 | ![]() CMCanadian Imperial Bank of Commerce | 2.62% | 3.02 | Quarterly | 41% | 6 | 115.19 |
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