12 Dividend Stocks With Best-In-Industry Profitability

Treasury yields are extremely low. Income investors who were planning to live on the interest payments of their savings have had to find other alternatives to Treasury bonds or savings accounts. Dividend stocks offer higher yields and have the potential to increase dividend payments over the next 5-10 years. Unfortunately, dividend payments aren't guaranteed. That's why we prefer stocks that have strong profitability and market power when picking dividend stocks. The stocks below have the highest return on equity in their industries. Their dividend yields are also higher than 10-year Treasury bonds which yield 1.85%. Half of the stocks in this list also yield more than 4.9%. Exxon Mobil Corp. (XOM) offers a 27% return on equity to its investors with an annual dividend yield of 2.2%, translating into a dividend payout ratio of 22%. In the last reported quarter, the company's earnings showed an increase of 40% year-on-year while... Read more