Article updated on September 1st, 2026 by Nick Sismanis
Spreadsheet data updated daily
High dividend stocks are stocks with a dividend yield well in excess of the S&P 500’s average dividend yield of ~1.0%.
The resources in this report focus on truly high yielding securities (4.0%+ yields), with dividend yields multiples higher than the market average.
Resource #1: The High Dividend Stocks List Spreadsheet
The free high dividend stocks list spreadsheet has our complete list of ~200 individual securities (stocks, REITs, MLPs, etc.) with 4%+ dividend yields that we cover in the Sure Analysis Research Database.
This spreadsheet contains important metrics, including: years of dividend growth, dividend yields, payout ratios, buy/hold/sell ratings, fair value prices, expected total returns, and much more.
Resource #2: The 10 Best High Yield Stocks Now
This resource analyzes the 10 best high-yield stocks in detail. The criteria we use to rank high dividend securities in this resource are:
- Is in the 900+ income security Sure Analysis Research Database
- Rank based on dividend yield, from highest to lowest
- Dividend Risk Scores of C or better
- Based in the U.S.
- No more than three securities from any one market sector
Click below to jump to analysis on any of the Top 10:
- High Dividend Stock #10: Solvay Bank Corp. (SOBS)
- High Dividend Stock #9: Comcast Corporation (CMCSA)
- High Dividend Stock #8: United Bancorp, Inc. (UBCP)
- High Dividend Stock #7: Realty Income (O)
- High Dividend Stock #6: Hormel Foods Corporation (HRL)
- High Dividend Stock #5: NNN REIT, Inc. (NNN)
- High Dividend Stock #4: Albertsons Companies, Inc. (ACI)
- High Dividend Stock #3: Enterprise Products Partners L.P. (EPD)
- High Dividend Stock #2: Edison International (EIX)
- High Dividend Stock #1: Altria Group, Inc. (MO)
Resource #3: The High Dividend 50 Series
This series provides our most recent 3-Page PDF report for the 50 highest-yielding securities in the Sure Analysis Research Database now. Nearly all securities in Sure Analysis are updated quarterly.
Click here to jump to this resource now.
High Dividend Stock #10: Solvay Bank Corp. (SOBS)
- Dividend Risk Score: B
- Dividend Yield: 4.9%
Solvay Bank Corp. is the holding company for Solvay Bank, a state-chartered community bank serving Onondaga County and nearby markets in New York.
Its operations include consumer and commercial banking, trust and investment management, and insurance services, providing several sources of fee and interest income within a focused regional franchise.
For the quarter ended March 31st, 2026, total interest income was $12.2 million and net interest income was $7.0 million.
Net interest margin was 2.43%, while quarterly net income totaled $1.65 million.
The bank’s earnings remain sensitive to deposit costs, loan growth, and local credit conditions, but its established customer relationships and conservative operating history provide a measure of stability.
Solvay increased its quarterly dividend to $0.45 per share in 2026 from $0.44 previously, with the latest payment made on July 31st.
The increase extended the company’s dividend-growth streak to 34 consecutive years, an unusually long record for a small community bank.
Investors should nevertheless account for the stock’s limited trading liquidity and relatively sparse public disclosures.
Those characteristics can produce wider bid-ask spreads and require more careful monitoring, even though the B Dividend Risk Score and long dividend record compare favorably with many higher-yielding securities.
High Dividend Stock #9: Comcast Corporation (CMCSA)
- Dividend Risk Score: C
- Dividend Yield: 5.0%
Comcast Corporation combines broadband, wireless, business connectivity, media, studios, and theme parks.
Its cable network remains the principal cash generator, while Peacock, wireless, and Universal’s entertainment assets provide additional growth avenues.
Second-quarter 2026 revenue declined 1.2% to $29.9 billion, although pro forma revenue increased 4.7% after adjusting for portfolio changes.
Adjusted EPS fell 16.7% to $1.04, but free cash flow remained substantial at $4.6 billion.
Domestic wireless additions reached a record 448,000, taking total lines to 10.2 million.
Peacock also achieved its first quarterly profit, producing adjusted EBITDA of $189 million as paid subscribers increased by two million to 48 million.
Comcast completed the separation of Versant Media Group on January 2nd, 2026, and sold its Sky operations in Germany on May 31st, leaving a more focused operating portfolio.
That sharper focus could improve capital allocation, although competition in broadband and the cost of supporting newer growth businesses remain important risks.
Comcast maintained its annualized dividend at $1.32 for 2026 after 17 consecutive years of increases.
The C Dividend Risk Score reflects the tension between strong free cash flow and the weaker outlook for parts of the legacy connectivity business.
High Dividend Stock #8: United Bancorp, Inc. (UBCP)
- Dividend Risk Score: C
- Dividend Yield: 5.0%
United Bancorp, Inc. is the holding company for Unified Bank, a community bank with 19 banking centers across eastern and southeastern Ohio and parts of West Virginia.
Its small scale and concentrated footprint create more company-specific risk than a large regional bank, but they also support close customer relationships and a stable deposit franchise.
For the second quarter of 2026, United Bancorp reported net income of $2.1 million, or $0.36 per diluted share, up 9.4% and 9.1%, respectively, from the prior-year period.
Net interest income increased 6.2% to $7.0 million, while the net interest margin expanded to 3.82% from 3.65%.
Deposits reached $686.9 million, increasing $44.0 million during the first half, with demand and savings balances accounting for about 70% of the total.
Management continues to invest in banking centers, mortgage lending, treasury management, and technology, which raises near-term expenses but can broaden future earnings.
In August, United Bancorp increased its third-quarter dividend 5.3% year-over-year to $0.1975 per share after paying a $0.175 special dividend earlier in 2026.
The regular payout is the more useful measure of recurring income, and the company has increased its dividend for 13 consecutive years.
High Dividend Stock #7: Realty Income (O)
- Dividend Risk Score: C
- Dividend Yield: 5.3%
Realty Income is a diversified net-lease REIT known as “The Monthly Dividend Company.”
At the end of the second quarter, it owned or held interests in 15,588 properties leased to 1,798 clients across 92 industries.
Occupancy was 98.8%, and the portfolio’s weighted-average remaining lease term was 8.6 years.
Second-quarter 2026 adjusted funds from operations increased 3.8% to $1.09 per share.
Realty Income invested $2.6 billion during the quarter, or $2.1 billion at its proportionate share, at an initial weighted-average cash yield of 7.3%.
It also achieved 102.7% rent recapture on re-leased properties.
Management raised full-year AFFO guidance to $4.44 to $4.45 per share and increased its investment-volume outlook to $10.0 billion.
The REIT is increasingly using joint ventures and private capital, including a hyperscale data-center venture seeded with more than $6 billion of assets, to extend its scale without funding every investment alone.
The annualized dividend was $3.252 per share at quarter-end and consumed 74.5% of quarterly AFFO.
Realty Income has declared 674 consecutive monthly dividends and increased its payout for more than 31 consecutive years, making its income record notable despite interest-rate and tenant-credit risks.
Deep Dive: Click here to download (for free) our most recent 3-Page Sure Analysis PDF report on Realty Income (O).
High Dividend Stock #6: Hormel Foods Corporation (HRL)
- Dividend Risk Score: B
- Dividend Yield: 5.4%
Hormel Foods Corporation is a branded food producer whose portfolio includes SPAM, Planters, Jennie-O, Applegate, and Hormel-branded products.
Its mix of retail, foodservice, and international operations provides diversification, although commodity costs and cautious consumer spending can pressure margins.
For the fiscal third quarter ended July 26th, 2026, net sales were $2.96 billion and organic net sales declined 2%.
Adjusted operating income increased to $266 million, while adjusted earnings-per-share was $0.37 and cash flow from operations rose 54% to $241 million.
Foodservice organic sales increased 2% and segment profit grew 3%, marking the segment’s twelfth consecutive quarter of organic sales growth.
Retail results were weaker, with organic sales down 3% as lower commodity turkey and private-label snack-nut activity offset growth in several priority brands.
Hormel raised and narrowed fiscal 2026 adjusted EPS guidance to $1.45 to $1.51, while trimming its sales outlook to $12.1 billion to $12.2 billion.
The company also completed the sale of its Brazil operations as part of a broader effort to simplify the portfolio.
Hormel’s annualized dividend is $1.17 per share, and the company has increased its dividend for 60 consecutive years.
High Dividend Stock #5: NNN REIT, Inc. (NNN)
- Dividend Risk Score: C
- Dividend Yield: 5.5%
NNN REIT, Inc. owns a large portfolio of single-tenant properties leased primarily under long-term triple-net agreements.
Tenants generally pay property taxes, insurance, and maintenance, keeping NNN’s recurring capital requirements relatively low and supporting predictable cash flow.
NNN generated second-quarter 2026 adjusted funds from operations of $0.90 per share, up 5.9% year-over-year.
Occupancy improved to 99.1%, and the REIT completed $291 million of investments at a 7.3% initial cash cap rate and a 17.9-year weighted-average lease term.
Following the quarter, management increased 2026 AFFO guidance to $3.55 to $3.59 per share and raised its acquisition target to $700 million to $800 million.
The company also exercised a $200 million incremental term-loan option and negotiated lower pricing on both its term loan and revolving credit facility, improving financial flexibility as it expands the portfolio.
In July, NNN raised its quarterly dividend 3.3% to $0.62 per share.
That marked its 37th consecutive annual dividend increase, a record matched by very few publicly traded REITs.
High occupancy, long leases, disciplined acquisition yields, and a long dividend record strengthen the income case, although interest rates and tenant credit remain important risks.
Deep Dive: Click here to download (for free) our most recent 3-Page Sure Analysis PDF report on NNN REIT, Inc. (NNN).
High Dividend Stock #4: Albertsons Companies, Inc. (ACI)
- Dividend Risk Score: C
- Dividend Yield: 5.5%
Albertsons Companies, Inc. is one of the largest U.S. food and drug retailers.
At the end of its latest quarter, it operated 2,240 stores in 35 states and the District of Columbia under banners including Albertsons, Safeway, Vons, Jewel-Osco, and ACME, supported by 1,708 in-store pharmacies.
For the first quarter of fiscal 2026, revenue increased 0.2% to $24.9 billion, while identical sales declined 0.8%.
Digital sales rose 13%, and pharmacy remained a source of growth, but adjusted EBITDA fell to $1.01 billion and adjusted EPS declined to $0.42.
Management reduced its full-year outlook, now expecting identical sales to decline 0.5% to 1.5%, adjusted EBITDA of $3.55 billion to $3.63 billion, and adjusted EPS of $1.75 to $1.85.
Albertsons responded by launching ACI Edge, which will consolidate 11 operating divisions into four regions and centralize center-store merchandising.
The plan is intended to simplify decision-making, improve value, and better leverage the company’s scale, but savings will take time while customer investments pressure near-term results.
The board raised the quarterly dividend 13% to $0.17 in April and expanded the share-repurchase authorization to $2.0 billion.
The high yield therefore comes with meaningful operating risk following the guidance reduction, consistent with the C Dividend Risk Score.
High Dividend Stock #3: Enterprise Products Partners L.P. (EPD)
- Dividend Risk Score: C
- Dividend Yield: 5.8%
Enterprise Products Partners L.P. is one of the largest publicly traded midstream partnerships.
Its integrated system of pipelines, processing plants, fractionators, storage facilities, and export terminals earns primarily fee-based cash flows by transporting and handling natural gas, natural gas liquids, crude oil, refined products, and petrochemicals.
Enterprise produced record second-quarter 2026 results, with net income attributable to common unitholders increasing 28% to $1.8 billion, or $0.84 per unit.
Adjusted EBITDA rose 17% to $2.8 billion, while operational distributable cash flow increased 21% to $2.3 billion and covered the quarterly distribution 1.9 times.
Equivalent pipeline volumes reached a record 14.7 million barrels per day, and marine-terminal volumes increased 33% to a record 2.8 million barrels per day.
The partnership raised its quarterly distribution 2.8% to $0.56 per unit and repurchased $159 million of units during the quarter.
Enterprise has increased its distribution for nearly three decades, supported by a similarly durable record of cash-flow-per-unit growth.
Management expects 2026 growth capital spending of $2.9 billion to $3.4 billion, net of asset-sale proceeds.
Recently completed and upcoming projects should expand capacity and support stronger cash-flow growth in 2027, while the 1.9-times coverage ratio provides a meaningful cushion for the current distribution.
High Dividend Stock #2: Edison International (EIX)
- Dividend Risk Score: C
- Dividend Yield: 6.4%
Edison International is the parent of Southern California Edison, which supplies electricity to roughly 15 million people across Southern, Central, and Coastal California.
The company also owns Trio, a smaller collection of nonregulated energy and sustainability advisory businesses.
Edison reported second-quarter 2026 net income of $534 million, or $1.39 per share, compared with $343 million, or $0.89 per share, a year earlier.
Core earnings increased to $592 million, or $1.54 per share, from $374 million, or $0.97 per share.
The improvement primarily reflected the adoption of Southern California Edison’s 2025 general rate case decision.
Management reaffirmed 2026 core EPS guidance of $5.90 to $6.20 and its longer-term target of 5% to 7% annual core EPS growth through 2030.
Wildfire exposure remains the central risk, although Southern California Edison’s Eaton Fire compensation program had paid nearly 2,800 claimants more than $410 million by August 14th.
The utility continues to harden its system while the ultimate cost of claims and related regulatory treatment remain important variables.
Edison’s $0.8775 quarterly dividend represents 23 consecutive years of growth, but the C Dividend Risk Score appropriately recognizes the unusually significant liability and regulatory risks.
High Dividend Stock #1: Altria Group, Inc. (MO)
- Dividend Risk Score: B
- Dividend Yield: 6.5%
Altria Group, Inc. owns the leading U.S. cigarette brand Marlboro along with Copenhagen, Skoal, on!, and NJOY.
Cigarettes still generate most of its profits, while oral nicotine and other smoke-free products are intended to offset the industry’s persistent volume decline.
Second-quarter 2026 revenue net of excise taxes increased 1.2% to $5.36 billion, and adjusted EPS rose 2.8% to $1.48.
For the first half, adjusted EPS increased 4.9% to $2.80 as pricing and cost control supported smokeable-products profit despite lower volumes.
Management narrowed full-year adjusted EPS guidance to $5.61 to $5.72, implying growth of 3.5% to 5.5%.
Altria is expanding on! PLUS nationally, with the product reaching roughly 120,000 stores and additional strengths and flavors planned.
This provides a credible smoke-free growth platform, although NJOY ACE is still not expected to return in 2026.
In August, the board increased the quarterly dividend 4.7% to $1.11 per share, lifting the annualized payout to $4.44.
That was Altria’s 61st dividend increase in 57 years.
The payout remains high relative to earnings, but the predictable cash generation of the cigarette business supports the B Dividend Risk Score and the highest yield among the securities passing this screen.
Deep Dive: Click here to download (for free) our most recent 3-Page Sure Analysis PDF report on Altria Group, Inc. (MO).
The High Dividend 50 Series
The High Dividend 50 Series includes download links for our 3-Page Sure Analysis PDF Reports for the 50 highest-yielding Sure Analysis Research Database securities.
Securities are organized by yield, from highest to lowest.
- Oxford Square Capital Corp. (OXSQ)
- Invesco Mortgage Capital Inc. (IVR)
- Prospect Capital Corp. (PSEC)
- Orchid Island Capital Inc. (ORC)
- ARMOUR Residential REIT Inc. (ARR)
- Saratoga Investment Corp. (SAR)
- CION Investment Corporation (CION)
- Dynex Capital, Inc. (DX)
- Stellus Capital Investment Corp. (SCM)
- Horizon Technology Finance Corp. (HRZN)
- BCP Investment Corporation (BCIC)
- AGNC Investment Corp. (AGNC)
- Innovative Industrial Properties Inc. (IIPR)
- Mesa Royalty Trust (MTR)
- PennantPark Floating Rate Capital Ltd. (PFLT)
- PennantPark Investment Corporation (PNNT)
- Himalaya Shipping Ltd. (HSHP)
- Timbercreek Financial Corp. (TBCRF)
- Ellington Financial Inc. (EFC)
- Trinity Capital Inc. (TRIN)
- MSC Income Fund, Inc. (MSIF)
- Gladstone Commercial Corp. (GOOD)
- PermRock Royalty Trust (PRT)
- Capital Southwest Corp. (CSWC)
- Permianville Royalty Trust (PVL)
- NexPoint Residential Trust Inc. (NXRT)
- Gladstone Capital Corp. (GLAD)
- Nexus Industrial REIT (EFRTF)
- FinVolution Group (FINV)
- Silvercrest Asset Management Group Inc. (SAMG)
- Atrium Mortgage Investment Corporation (AMIVF)
- Delek Logistics Partners, LP (DKL)
- Allied Properties Real Estate Investment Trust (APYRF)
- Source Rock Royalties Ltd. (SRRRF)
- BTB Real Estate Investment Trust (BTBIF)
- Perrigo Company plc (PRGO)
- Firm Capital Mortgage Investment Corp. (FCMGF)
- Banco Bradesco S.A. (BBD)
- Hess Midstream LP (HESM)
- SIR Royalty Income Fund (SIRZF)
- Gaming and Leisure Properties Inc. (GLPI)
- True North Commercial REIT (TUERF)
- Western Midstream Partners, LP (WES)
- Itau Unibanco Holding S.A. (ITUB)
- Slate Grocery REIT (SRRTF)
- Blue Owl Capital Inc. (OWL)
- Fibra Mty, S.A.P.I. de C.V. (FMTYF)
- Artisan Partners Asset Management Inc. (APAM)
- Firm Capital Property Trust (FRMUF)
- Universal Health Realty Income Trust (UHT)
Final Thoughts
The ranking shows why a high starting yield must be considered alongside the source and durability of the underlying cash flow.
Altria leads the screen after its latest dividend increase, while Edison International offers a nearly identical yield with a very different risk profile centered on regulation and wildfire liabilities.
Enterprise Products, Realty Income, and NNN rely more heavily on contracted or lease-based cash flows, whereas Hormel and Albertsons depend on consumer demand, pricing, and operating execution.
The two community banks offer locally focused income but also carry greater trading-liquidity and concentration considerations, while Comcast combines strong free cash flow with competitive pressure in broadband.
Dividend Risk Scores of C or better provide a useful first screen, but they do not eliminate payout, valuation, interest-rate, regulatory, or company-specific risk.
The separate High Dividend 50 list illustrates this point even more clearly, as its highest yields include mortgage REITs, BDCs, royalty trusts, foreign securities, and other structures whose distributions may fluctuate substantially.
Comparing payout coverage, balance-sheet strength, business cyclicality, and the latest company developments remains essential before relying on any headline yield.
Additional dividend-stock resources include:
- The Dividend Kings List: stocks with at least 50 consecutive years of dividend growth.
- The Dividend Aristocrats: S&P 500 stocks with 25+ years of consecutive dividend increases.
- The Monthly Dividend Stocks List: stocks that make 12 dividend payments per year.