20 High Dividend Stocks With Sustainable Payments

Defensive investors like high dividend yielding stocks and consider them as viable options in especially inflationary environments. We expect high dividend stocks to outperform the 10-year Treasuries over the next 10 years. On the other hand, high dividend yields are not the only important criteria to be sought in defensive stocks. Defensive investors may also seek sustainable dividend payments from each high dividend yielding stock. Since high dividend yielding companies with lower dividend payout ratio are more likely to continue paying high dividends in the future, we believe conservative investors like to pick such companies when seeking sustainability and inflation protection. We compiled a list of mega-cap U.S. stocks with low dividend payout ratios and high current dividend yields. The market data are sourced from Fidelity. All companies in this list have market capitalizations above $4 billion, 12-month dividend yields of at least 4% and positive EPS Growth over the... Read more