7 High Dividend Healthcare Stocks

In our previous study, we projected National Health Expenditures (NHE) for 10 years and showed that NHE as a share of GDP is expected to be 19.6% by 2019. As healthcare spending and costs are rising, we believe that healthcare stocks are attractive and will continue to be in the portfolio of many hedge funds in the future. Our past studies also showed that dividend stocks on average beat the market in the long term. Between 1927 and 2009, high dividend stocks on average returned 13.04%, beating the market by 1.36% per year. In this article, we are going to focus on the healthcare stocks with high dividend yields. Below we compiled a list of top seven dividend stocks in the healthcare sector. All companies have at least $2 billion market cap and dividend yield higher than 3%. The market data is sourced from Finviz. Ticker Company Dividend Yield 52-week... Read more