4 Top Dividend Payers of the S&P 500
The S&P 500 has hundreds of dividend-paying stocks. Lately, those stocks haven't been paying out the way they used to. With the market's valuation still close to all-time highs (despite the recent pullback) and more companies opting for share repurchases over the last few decades, the average dividend yield among stocks in the S&P 500 is currently only 1.41%.
That yield seems rather pedestrian, and it's only slightly higher than the yield you can get from buying a one-year U.S. Treasury bill, which is yielding 1.13%. For investors with the goal of increasing their portfolio's dividend income, they need to go in search of individual stocks that still pay out a high dividend yield.
Here are four top dividend payers in the S&P 500 that investors might want to consider for their portfolios.
Source Fool.com
