A dividend stock refers to a company that is known to regularly reward their shareholders with a fraction of their profits on a monthly, quarterly, semi-annually or sometimes even a yearly basis.
Dividend paying companies provide a steady stream of income to shareholders, and many still offer the potential for stock price appreciation. Stability and income generation has always remained a top priority for many investors.
Given ongoing economic uncertainty, investors hunt for dividend-paying stocks that are undervalued, as only companies that have quality fundamentals and a robust foundation have the financial stability to maintain their dividends during questionable economic periods.
Another great aspect of adding dividend stocks to one’s portfolio is the ability to reinvest any dividends paid out by a company, using them to buy more shares (sometimes called ‘DRIP’), and taking advantage of compounding returns.
Best Dividend Stocks August 2024
| Company Name | Stock Symbol | Dividend Yield | P/E Ratio | Dividend CAGR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Regions Financial Corporation | RF | 4.8% | 11.6x | 11.4% |
| Nexstar Media Group, Inc. | NXST | 3.8% | 14.2x | 29.2% |
| Bank Ozk | OZK | 3.7% | 7.1x | 12% |
| The Wendy’s Company | WEN | 5.9% | 17.0x | 24.1% |
| Hess Midstream Partners LP | HESM | 7.3% | 20.0x | 11.6% |
| TEGNA Inc. | TGNA | 3.3% | 4.6x | 10.2% |
| Virtus Investment Partners Inc | VRTS | 3.7% | 13.5x | 28.1% |
| Dorchester Minerals LP | DMLP | 9.5% | 11.3x | 16.4% |
Why We Picked These Dividend Stocks
The dividend stocks that have been screened and included in the list below show solid, consistent dividend prospects, strong fundamentals, long profit histories and strong credit ratings. We want to show investors that the best dividend stocks available for trading often still have room to run, while also hedging against too much volatility and generating additional compoundable (when reinvested) income.
The numbered list of such top dividend companies are displayed below:
Regions Financial Corporation (RF)
- Market Cap: 19.12 billion
- Fair Value: $22.2
- Fair Value Upside: 6.3%
Regions Financial Corporation (RF) is an American bank holding company, with headquarters located in Birmingham, Alabama. It provides financial services including retail and commercial banking, stock brokerage as well as mortgage related services, among others. It is the largest deposit holder in states of Tennessee and Alabama, and is engaged in a partnership with Operation HOPE, Inc. for providing free financial education to underserved communities.
Nexstar Media Group Inc (NXST)
- Market Cap: 5.81 billion
- Fair Value: $238.42
- Fair Value Upside: 34.8%
Nexstar Media Group, Inc. is a leading diversified media company which produces and distributes engaging local as well as national news, sports and entertainment content across its television and digital platforms. It includes over 310,000 hours of programming produced annually by its business units.
Headquartered in Irving, Texas, Midtown Manhattan, and Chicago, Nexstar owns America’s largest local broadcasting group of top network affiliates, with 200 owned or partner stations in 116 U.S. markets reaching 220 million people.
- Market Cap: 4.89 billion
- Fair Value: $43.79
- Fair Value Upside: 1.5%
Bank OZK (OZK) was established in 1903 as a small community bank in Jasper, Arkansas. Now, the bank has assets of $30 billion, more than 2,700 employees and over 240 offices in eight states. The company offers deposit services, including non-interest bearing checking, interest bearing transaction, business sweep, savings, money market, individual retirement, and other accounts, as well as time and reciprocal deposits. It also provides trust and wealth services, such as personal trusts, custodial accounts, investment management accounts, and retirement accounts, as well as corporate trust services, including trustee, paying agent and registered transfer agent services, and other related services.
- Market Cap: 3.43 billion
- Fair Value: $17.66
- Fair Value Upside: 4.6%
The Wendy’s Company (WEN) is a well-known American fast-food restaurant chain founded in 1969 by Dave Thomas. Wendy’s is famous for its square hamburgers, sea salt fries, and the Frosty, a signature frozen dairy dessert. Headquartered in Dublin, Ohio, Wendy’s operates a global network of company-owned and franchised stores.
Hess Midstream Partners LP(HESM)
- Market Cap: 8.17 billion
- Fair Value: $41.28
- Fair Value Upside: 12.9%
Hess Midstream is a fee-based, growth-oriented, midstream company that owns, operates and develops a diverse set of midstream assets to provide services to Hess and third-party customers. Hess Midstream owns oil, gas and produced water handling assets that are primarily located in the Bakken and Three Forks Shale plays in the Williston Basin area of North Dakota. It operates through three segments: Gathering; Processing and Storage; and Terminaling and Export.
- Market Cap: 2.56 billion
- Fair Value: $21.68
- Fair Value Upside: 43.5%
Tegna Inc is an American broadcast, digital media and marketing services company, founded on June 29, 2015, after the Gannett Company split into two publicly traded companies. It is the largest owner of Big Four affiliates in the top 25 markets among independent station groups and reaches approximately 39% of all TV households across the United States. Tegna owns or operates 68 television stations in 54 markets.
Virtus Investment Partners Inc (VRTS)
- Market Cap: 1.48 billion
- Fair Value: $229.58
- Fair Value Upside: 10.8%
Virtus Investment Partners Inc. (VRTS) is a publicly owned investment manager. It operates as a multi-manager asset management business, comprising a number of individual affiliated managers, each having its own investment process and brand, and the services of unaffiliated sub advisers. The firm primarily provides its services to individual and institutional clients. It launches separate client focused equity and fixed income portfolios.
- Market Cap: 1.18 billion
- Fair Value: $29.83
- Fair Value Upside: 1.2%
Dorchester Minerals, L.P. is a publicly traded limited partnership that commenced operations on January 31, 2003. The company is engaged in the acquisition, ownership, and administration of royalty properties in the United States. Its royalty properties include producing and nonproducing mineral, royalty, overriding royalty, net profits, and leasehold interests in 593 counties and parishes in 28 states; and net profits interests represent net profits overriding royalty interests in various properties owned by the operating partnership.
How to Find The Best Dividend Stocks
To start, we focused only on those U.S. stocks that have a market capitalization exceeding $1 billion as well as a significant market share, while presenting stable financial conditions for continuing the growth of their dividend payouts regardless of ongoing macro conditions.
In order to guarantee that we are not buying stocks that are already extremely expensive, a fair value assessment filter was added in the InvestingPro screener, which shows only those stocks that have growth potential going forward, thereby avoiding risks of a sudden, big drop in share price.
Further, a filter for dividend compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 5 years has also been incorporated in our stock screening criteria, which curates a list of only those companies that are consistently growing their payout ratios at 10% or more.
Here are the steps to finding top U.S.-based dividend stocks easily using Investing Pro:
- Click on the Screener tool.
- Select ‘Dividend Yield’ as a filter parameter on the Screener page, and set the threshold value to greater than 3%.
- Add a P/E Ratio filter and set the range between 0 and 30x.
- Add a further four metrics: Market Cap, Shareholder Yield, Fair Value Upside and Dividend CAGR (5y), setting their range to desired values. You can also follow our stock selection metrics as shown in the screenshot below.
- For U.S.-centric stocks, select ‘United States’ under the ‘Trading Region’ tab drop-down, and make sure to check (select) the ‘Primary Trading Item’ option.
- You can then see the list of all the companies falling in the desired screener filters’ range arranged in a descending order.
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