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These are the rates on the plainest income there is: short-term government debt, the national average paid on insured bank deposits, and the average yield across corporate bonds. The site opens here because every other income on it is priced against these. When something pays noticeably more, the extra is payment for taking on something — a longer wait, a weaker borrower, a payment somebody can cancel — and working out what that something is, is most of the job. Each figure is the latest observation its publisher released, with the date beside it, not a live market price.

A screen is a filter, not a verdict. Every row here is a large US company that already pays a dividend, ordered by a score this site computes from what has actually been paid — never from what anyone expects next. Read the yield knowing what it is: a payment divided by a price. It rises when the price falls, so a high number near the top of a list can be a company the market has marked down as easily as a generous one. Open a ticker to see the payment history the yield came from.

Forward here means the last regular payment annualised by its cadence, over the latest price — an estimate of the next twelve months rather than cash already paid. Each security's own page also shows the trailing twelve-month figure, which will differ whenever a payment has changed in the last year. See how we compute these numbers.