Dividend powerhouses
Yields above 3%, filtered for the one thing yield screens never check: whether the company can actually afford it.
This is a screen, a live list of everything that passes the test in the sidebar. For six specific names argued case by case, with the risk stated in the same breath, see the dashboard AI Picks.
Dividend yield across the top 12 matches
Look at the spread, not the ranking. If the bars are all the same length, the screen is arbitrary: one point of dividend yield separates a company that made the list from one that did not, and the cut is doing more work than the data supports. A long tail means the top few are genuinely exceptional and the rest merely qualified.
What this screen is really buying
The matches are spread across sectors, which means the screen is selecting on the characteristic it claims to and not accidentally on an industry.
| Company | Price | P/E | Yield | Moat | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
BATS.L British American Tobacco | £31.20 | 9.0 | 8.0% | 72 | 66 |
RIO.L Rio Tinto | £48.20 | 9.0 | 6.2% | 60 | 63 |
MRK Merck & Co. | $82.00 | 17.0 | 3.5% | 75 | 66 |
HSBA.L HSBC Holdings | £7.10 | 8.5 | 5.8% | 66 | 66 |
SBK.JO Standard Bank Group | R236.00 | 9.5 | 5.2% | 68 | 67 |
PFE Pfizer Inc. | $28.30 | 11.0 | 5.9% | 60 | 61 |
FSR.JO FirstRand | R78.40 | 11.0 | 4.5% | 72 | 68 |
ULVR.L Unilever | £46.00 | 20.0 | 3.2% | 83 | 69 |
BP.L BP plc | £3.90 | 11.0 | 5.2% | 58 | 59 |
GSK.L GSK plc | £14.60 | 9.5 | 4.0% | 71 | 68 |
VOD.L Vodafone Group | £0.72 | 11.0 | 5.5% | 55 | 55 |
JNJ Johnson & Johnson | $146.20 | 14.7 | 3.4% | 76 | 70 |
SOL.JO Sasol | R114.00 | 6.0 | 4.8% | 48 | 52 |
CVX Chevron Corp. | $155.00 | 15.0 | 4.3% | 64 | 64 |
SHEL.L Shell plc | £29.10 | 9.2 | 4.1% | 63 | 64 |
XOM Exxon Mobil | $113.40 | 13.9 | 3.3% | 62 | 64 |
Educational information, not financial advice, and not a recommendation to buy anything. A screen is a place to start reading, never a place to stop.