Highest Dividend Yield Stocks - Complete Rankings
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What these columns measure
- Dividend Yield
- The latest declared dividend annualized by the company's payment frequency, divided by the current price. It states what that declaration is worth over a year at today's price rather than what the company has actually paid over the past one. The price is the denominator, so the figure moves when the price moves and nothing about the payment has to change for it to rise: a company whose shares have halved shows twice the yield on the same dividend, which is why the largest figures on this board are worth reading beside the price column. A "special" marker means a special dividend was also recorded for the company in the past twelve months, not that the ranked yield comes from it; a "Last dividend" badge means the last recorded ex date is older than the company's payment schedule allows, which is six months for most companies and longer for those that pay once or twice a year, so the payment may since have been reduced or discontinued while the yield still reflects it.
- Frequency
- How often the company has been paying. The yield is annualized on this cadence, so an irregular payer's yield is the least reliable figure on the board.
- Dividend
- The per-share amount of that most recently declared payment in US dollars, which is the amount the yield is worked out from, since the price beside it is in US dollars too. When a company declares its dividend in another currency, as many Canadian companies do, we convert it at the newest official exchange rate we hold and show the amount it declared beneath, with its currency code, so a figure that differs from the company’s own announcement is the same payment stated in dollars. When the company’s next payment is a different amount, because it has raised or cut the dividend from a later date, that amount is shown beneath as the next one.
- Ex Date
- The day the company’s next payment goes ex, which is the first day a purchase no longer carries entitlement to it, so a buyer has to own the shares before then. A company that declares several months ahead has more than one payment on record, and the row names the soonest that has not gone ex yet, while the yield still comes from the latest one declared. When no payment is still ahead, Ex Date and Pay Date describe the latest declaration, whose dates are already past, and a past date there is not stale.
- Pay Date
- The day that same payment is made. Both dates are exchange calendar days and read identically wherever you are.
- 52W Price Change
- The share price change from the split-adjusted close a year ago to the latest close. It is context for the yield and says nothing about why the price moved. A dash means one of the two closes is missing, the ticker belonged to another company a year ago, or a spin-off inside the year breaks the price series.
- Why a company may be missing
- A forward yield is stated only when a twelve-month measure comes within a factor of 2 of it either way: the sum of what the company actually paid over the last twelve months, or a second data source's yield. A declaration the feed recorded wrongly, or a payout too variable to annualize, fails both, and the row is left off rather than shown with a figure nothing else supports. A company with neither twelve-month figure is listed on its declared figure alone. A company is also left off when no price has been recorded for it in the last 10 days, since a yield worked out over a price that old would not describe the stock as it trades now, and it comes back at the next daily rebuild once a new price arrives. A company that has announced its own liquidation is left off too, since its regular dividend will not continue. So is a company whose dividend is declared in a currency we hold no recent official exchange rate for, because its yield cannot be worked out in dollars until a rate arrives.
- Why funds lead the list
- The highest yields belong mostly to closed-end funds, business development companies and mortgage REITs, whose distributions can include a return of the investor's own capital rather than earnings. A high yield here says what the payout is worth at today's price, not that the business behind it is healthy.
- Why a cell shows a dash
- A dash is a value the source did not supply, never a zero. Under Frequency it means no recognizable payment pattern for the symbol, which makes the annualization behind its yield an assumption rather than an observed cadence; under Country or Sector it means the value is not recorded for the company.
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trailing vs forward
- Forward
- 42.50%
- Trailing
- 58.75%
trailing vs forward
- Forward
- 41.24%
- Trailing
- 41.24%
trailing vs forward
- Forward
- 31.30%
- Trailing
- 45.22%
trailing vs forward
- Forward
- 28.07%
- Trailing
- 28.07%
trailing vs forward
- Forward
- 27.81%
- Trailing
- 31.79%
trailing vs forward
- Forward
- 27.37%
- Trailing
- 45.26%
trailing vs forward
- Forward
- 26.42%
- Trailing
- 28.62%
- Payout
- 91.61% of earnings
trailing vs forward
- Forward
- 25.53%
- Trailing
- 23.40%
- Payout
- 89.80% of earnings
trailing vs forward
- Forward
- 24.73%
- Trailing
- 23.63%
- Payout
- 86.05% of earnings
trailing vs forward
- Forward
- 23.95%
- Trailing
- 25.95%
trailing vs forward
- Forward
- 23.89%
- Trailing
- 24.71%
trailing vs forward
- Forward
- 23.78%
- Trailing
- 23.78%
trailing vs forward
- Forward
- 23.74%
- Trailing
- 11.92%
- Payout
- 50.00% of earnings
trailing vs forward
- Forward
- 23.62%
- Trailing
- 66.93%
trailing vs forward
- Forward
- 23.57%
- Trailing
- 13.95%
- Payout
- 46.93% of earnings
trailing vs forward
- Forward
- 23.23%
- Trailing
- 23.23%
trailing vs forward
- Forward
- 23.04%
- Trailing
- 24.96%
trailing vs forward
- Forward
- 22.93%
- Trailing
- 22.93%
trailing vs forward
- Forward
- 22.55%
- Trailing
- 22.55%
trailing vs forward
- Forward
- 21.89%
- Trailing
- 22.58%
trailing vs forward
- Forward
- 21.78%
- Trailing
- 12.09%
- Payout
- 56.74% of earnings
trailing vs forward
- Forward
- 21.22%
- Trailing
- 21.22%
trailing vs forward
- Forward
- 21.09%
- Trailing
- 18.10%
- Payout
- 57.14% of earnings
trailing vs forward
- Forward
- 21.05%
- Trailing
- 20.83%
trailing vs forward
- Forward
- 20.94%
- Trailing
- 13.07%
- Payout
- 38.75% of earnings
trailing vs forward
- Forward
- 20.61%
- Trailing
- 23.81%
trailing vs forward
- Forward
- 20.51%
- Trailing
- 20.51%
trailing vs forward
- Forward
- 20.47%
- Trailing
- 23.53%
trailing vs forward
- Forward
- 20.00%
- Trailing
- 20.00%
trailing vs forward
- Forward
- 20.00%
- Trailing
- 20.00%
trailing vs forward
- Forward
- 19.78%
- Trailing
- 14.84%
- Payout
- 85.71% of earnings
trailing vs forward
- Forward
- 19.19%
- Trailing
- 19.19%
trailing vs forward
- Forward
- 18.99%
- Trailing
- 18.99%
trailing vs forward
- Forward
- 18.87%
- Trailing
- 18.87%
trailing vs forward
- Forward
- 18.75%
- Trailing
- 18.86%
trailing vs forward
- Forward
- 18.60%
- Trailing
- 27.65%
trailing vs forward
- Forward
- 18.43%
- Trailing
- 8.19%
trailing vs forward
- Forward
- 18.40%
- Trailing
- 18.40%
trailing vs forward
- Forward
- 17.51%
- Trailing
- 17.51%
trailing vs forward
- Forward
- 17.14%
- Trailing
- 21.59%
trailing vs forward
- Forward
- 17.00%
- Trailing
- 17.00%
trailing vs forward
- Forward
- 16.94%
- Trailing
- 21.99%
- Payout
- 37.14% of earnings
trailing vs forward
- Forward
- 16.72%
- Trailing
- 16.72%
trailing vs forward
- Forward
- 16.66%
- Trailing
- 16.66%
trailing vs forward
- Forward
- 16.62%
- Trailing
- 12.15%
trailing vs forward
- Forward
- 16.51%
- Trailing
- 13.06%
trailing vs forward
- Forward
- 16.50%
- Trailing
- 18.45%
trailing vs forward
- Forward
- 16.40%
- Trailing
- 22.10%
- Payout
- 37.61% of earnings
trailing vs forward
- Forward
- 16.30%
- Trailing
- 16.30%
trailing vs forward
- Forward
- 16.13%
- Trailing
- 16.13%
trailing vs forward
- Forward
- 15.93%
- Trailing
- 15.93%
trailing vs forward
- Forward
- 15.86%
- Trailing
- 14.93%
- Payout
- 27.62% of earnings
trailing vs forward
- Forward
- 15.83%
- Trailing
- 15.30%
trailing vs forward
- Forward
- 15.65%
- Trailing
- 15.65%
- Payout
- 63.72% of earnings
trailing vs forward
- Forward
- 15.63%
- Trailing
- 12.80%
- Payout
- 61.30% of earnings
trailing vs forward
- Forward
- 15.53%
- Trailing
- 15.53%
trailing vs forward
- Forward
- 15.44%
- Trailing
- 3.86%
trailing vs forward
- Forward
- 15.42%
- Trailing
- 15.42%
- Payout
- 77.10% of earnings
trailing vs forward
- Forward
- 15.31%
- Trailing
- 16.96%
trailing vs forward
- Forward
- 15.30%
- Trailing
- 15.42%
trailing vs forward
- Forward
- 15.19%
- Trailing
- 15.13%
- Payout
- 99.82% of earnings
trailing vs forward
- Forward
- 15.14%
- Trailing
- 12.97%
- Payout
- 42.15% of earnings
trailing vs forward
- Forward
- 15.10%
- Trailing
- 15.33%
trailing vs forward
- Forward
- 15.04%
- Trailing
- 15.04%
trailing vs forward
- Forward
- 15.00%
- Trailing
- 20.11%
trailing vs forward
- Forward
- 14.95%
- Trailing
- 14.95%
- Payout
- 97.84% of earnings
trailing vs forward
- Forward
- 14.92%
- Trailing
- 16.08%
trailing vs forward
- Forward
- 14.86%
- Trailing
- 17.23%
trailing vs forward
- Forward
- 14.83%
- Trailing
- 15.13%
- Payout
- 69.92% of earnings
trailing vs forward
- Forward
- 14.79%
- Trailing
- 14.79%
- Payout
- 87.34% of earnings
trailing vs forward
- Forward
- 14.66%
- Trailing
- 14.77%
trailing vs forward
- Forward
- 14.57%
- Trailing
- 15.89%
trailing vs forward
- Forward
- 14.53%
- Trailing
- 16.57%
trailing vs forward
- Forward
- 14.39%
- Trailing
- 14.39%
trailing vs forward
- Forward
- 14.33%
- Trailing
- 14.33%
trailing vs forward
- Forward
- 14.33%
- Trailing
- 20.30%
trailing vs forward
- Forward
- 14.29%
- Trailing
- 14.29%
trailing vs forward
- Forward
- 14.29%
- Trailing
- 21.43%
trailing vs forward
- Forward
- 14.24%
- Trailing
- 14.24%
trailing vs forward
- Forward
- 14.24%
- Trailing
- 16.28%
trailing vs forward
- Forward
- 14.16%
- Trailing
- 8.34%
- Payout
- 18.48% of earnings
trailing vs forward
- Forward
- 13.90%
- Trailing
- 13.90%
trailing vs forward
- Forward
- 13.87%
- Trailing
- 13.87%
trailing vs forward
- Forward
- 13.86%
- Trailing
- 13.86%
trailing vs forward
- Forward
- 13.75%
- Trailing
- 13.75%
trailing vs forward
- Forward
- 13.70%
- Trailing
- 13.70%
- Payout
- 89.52% of earnings
trailing vs forward
- Forward
- 13.69%
- Trailing
- 17.53%
trailing vs forward
- Forward
- 13.69%
- Trailing
- 14.83%
trailing vs forward
- Forward
- 13.68%
- Trailing
- 13.68%
- Payout
- 96.30% of earnings
trailing vs forward
- Forward
- 13.68%
- Trailing
- 13.68%
trailing vs forward
- Forward
- 13.61%
- Trailing
- 13.61%
trailing vs forward
- Forward
- 13.60%
- Trailing
- 14.14%
trailing vs forward
- Forward
- 13.60%
- Trailing
- 13.20%
trailing vs forward
- Forward
- 13.56%
- Trailing
- 13.56%
trailing vs forward
- Forward
- 13.46%
- Trailing
- 13.46%
trailing vs forward
- Forward
- 13.43%
- Trailing
- 13.43%
trailing vs forward
- Forward
- 13.42%
- Trailing
- 13.42%
trailing vs forward
- Forward
- 13.35%
- Trailing
- 13.35%
trailing vs forward
- Forward
- 13.34%
- Trailing
- 4.34%
trailing vs forward
- Forward
- 13.32%
- Trailing
- 13.32%
Yields reflect each company's most recent declared dividend, annualized by its payment frequency and divided by the latest price, with a dividend declared in another currency first converted to US dollars at the newest official exchange rate. Companies whose dividend is only predicted, with no recent or scheduled payment, are excluded. Rows marked "Last dividend" have a last recorded ex date older than the company's payment schedule allows, which is six months for most companies, about nine and a half for one that pays twice a year and about thirteen for one that pays once a year; the payment may have been reduced or discontinued.
How to read this ranking
Dividend Yield is the column the board is ordered by, and it is a forward yield: the most recently declared dividend annualized by the payment frequency shown beside it, divided by the latest price. A quarterly payer's declaration is therefore multiplied by four. That annualization is an assumption rather than a record, which is why Frequency sits next to the yield and why a row with no recognizable cadence shows a dash there instead of a number.
Dividend is the single declared payment per share the yield was built from; the annual total is that payment times the payment frequency. Ex Date is the first day a purchase no longer receives a payment, so a buyer has to own the shares before it, and Pay Date is the day the payment lands. Both describe the company’s next payment that has not gone ex yet, which for a company declaring several months ahead can come well before the declaration the yield is built from, and once nothing is still ahead they describe the most recently declared dividend, so a past date there is not stale. A row marked "Last dividend" has a last recorded ex date older than the company's payment schedule allows, which means its yield may rest on a payment the company has already stopped making.
Market Cap, Price, Country and Sector describe the company as it stands now. Price is also the yield's denominator, so a stock that has fallen hard carries a high yield on an unchanged payment, and that is the single most common reason a name reaches the top of this board.
When a High Yield Is a Warning
Yield is a ratio, and the fastest way to raise it is for the denominator to fall. A stock whose price has halved shows double the yield on the same unchanged payment, which is why the highest figures on any yield ranking are so often companies the market has already marked down rather than companies paying unusually well. Before treating a double-digit yield as income, check whether the price collapsed, whether the payout ratio exceeds what earnings support, and whether the latest declaration actually matches the frequency the yield was annualized from.
A second trap is a payment that is not really profit being distributed. Some funds and partnerships return capital to holders, which lands in an investor's account looking exactly like a dividend while reducing the value of what they still own. A one-off special payment does the same thing to the arithmetic: it inflates a trailing yield for twelve months and then disappears, which is why rows carrying one are marked here.
Not every high yield is a warning, though. Some structures are required to distribute most of their income, so a persistently high yield is normal for them rather than a symptom: business development companies, real estate investment trusts, and master limited partnerships all sit in that group. Our sector and industry labels come from a vendor classification that does not name these structures directly, so we do not turn that into a column; treat it as context to check on the company's own filings rather than as a fact this page asserts.
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What this ranking covers
- Universe
- Companies on NYSE, Nasdaq and NYSE American that declared a dividend in the past twelve months.
- Floors
- Market cap of at least $100 million.
- Exclusions
- Companies whose dividend is only predicted, with no recent or scheduled payment, and rows whose yield a second source contradicts.
- Measured on
- Forward yield: the latest declared dividend annualized by its payment frequency, divided by the latest price.
- Refreshed
- Rebuilt from the latest close, so a yield moves when the price moves even though the declaration behind it has not changed.
Frequently Asked Questions
Q Which stocks have the highest dividend yields right now?
ABR leads this ranking, followed by IEP and ECC. The ranking uses the forward yield, and includes only companies with a recent or scheduled payment rather than a merely predicted one.
Q How is the dividend yield on this page calculated?
Forward yield takes the most recently declared dividend, annualizes it by the company's payment frequency, and divides by the current price. A quarterly payer's latest payment is therefore multiplied by four, a monthly payer's by twelve. A dividend declared in another currency, such as a Canadian bank's, is first converted to US dollars at the newest official exchange rate, since the price is in dollars; a company whose currency has no recent official rate is left off until one arrives. That differs from a trailing yield, which sums what was actually paid over the last twelve months, and the two can diverge sharply for an irregular payer. A forward yield is listed only when the trailing sum, or a second data source's yield, comes within a factor of 2 of it; a row that fails both is left off the board, and a company with neither twelve-month figure is listed on its declared figure alone.
Q Why does payment frequency matter for a yield?
Because the annualization depends on it. A yield built from a quarterly payment assumes three more like it will follow, so a company whose cadence is irregular, or whose latest payment was a one-off special, produces a forward yield that may never be paid. The frequency column exists to make that assumption visible, and rows including a special payment in the trailing twelve months are marked.
Q Is the highest yield the best dividend stock?
Rarely. Yield is a ratio, so it rises when the price falls just as readily as when the payment rises, and the top of any yield ranking is populated by companies the market has already repriced downwards. A yield worth acting on is one the company's earnings can sustain, which is why the payout ratio matters more than the headline figure.
Q Why do some companies always show double-digit yields?
Certain structures are required to distribute most of their income to holders, so a persistently high yield is normal for them rather than a signal: business development companies, real estate investment trusts, and master limited partnerships are the common examples. Our classification data does not identify these structures directly, so this page does not label them; check the company's own filings to know which you are looking at.
Q What is a return of capital, and why does it matter here?
Some distributions are not profit being shared but the investor's own capital being returned, which arrives looking exactly like a dividend while reducing the value of the remaining holding. A yield computed from such a distribution overstates the income the business actually generates. This page cannot distinguish the two, so treat an unusually high yield as a question to investigate rather than an answer.