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Dividend stock screener

Filter the US-listed common stocks and REITs in our database by yield, size, sector, payment schedule, rising years within our stored history and payout ratio. The filters describe what a security is; they do not judge it.

How to read this: start by narrowing the universe to the kind of income you are researching — a size floor and a sector do most of the work — and only then sort. A yield filter on its own tends to return whatever the market has most recently marked down. Every column here is a measurement of the past or the present; none of them is a forecast.

What this screener covers
Every figure on this page covers US-listed common stocks and REITs only. Preferred series and exchange-traded baby bonds are excluded by the database query itself, not filtered out by hand: both pay a contractual coupon on a fixed face amount rather than a dividend a board can raise, and they are covered on the preferred stocks and bonds pages instead. Fund wrappers — ETFs, closed-end funds and covered-call funds — and pass-through structures such as BDCs and MLPs are outside this set too, because a fund distribution is the sum of what its holdings paid minus fees, which is not the same measurement as a company dividend. Counts, medians, averages and sector aggregates below are computed across that equity set and nothing else.
Two yield columns, two different measurements
Two different yields appear in these tables and they are not interchangeable, which is why neither is ever headed simply 'Yield' and why both columns spell their basis out in the header rather than in a note. Yield (forward est.) is a forward estimate: the most recent regular payment multiplied by the number of payments a year, divided by the latest price. It describes what the next twelve months would pay if the payment and the price both stood still, and neither of those is promised. Yield (trailing 12m) looks backwards: the cash actually paid out over the last 365 days, divided by the same price. Where a security's cadence is irregular, or its last payment is too old for the stream to look live, the forward column falls back to the trailing figure — that is why the two columns are sometimes identical. A gap between them is information rather than an error: it usually means the payment was raised or cut during the year, or that a special distribution sits inside the trailing number. Neither column is comparable to a Treasury yield, a bond's yield to maturity, a credit index effective yield or a bank deposit APY without first adjusting for what each of those measures.
Filters

Filters the forward column, not the trailing one.

A ceiling filters out the distressed tail.

Common equity only. Preferreds and baby bonds, funds and BDCs have their own pages.

Consecutive years of higher total payments, counted only across the payment history we hold — which starts later than some companies' own records.

Excludes anything with no stored ratio, including most funds.

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Showing 101–150 of 282 common stocks and REITs. Page 3 of 6

Our payment history for a security begins wherever the data provider's history begins — often the early 1970s — so a rising-year figure in this table counts only the years we can see: an issuer may have raised its dividend for decades before our first stored payment, which means the numbers here are frequently shorter than the record the company itself reports, and the issuer's own investor-relations page is the authority on that record.

282 US-listed common stocks and REITs match the filters currently applied, sorted by market cap (largest first). The table lists ticker, name, structure, sector, latest stored price and market capitalisation, then two separately labelled yields — the forward estimate and the trailing twelve months — followed by the forward annual dividend per share, the payment schedule, the payout ratio against GAAP earnings per share, the number of rising years visible in our stored payment history and the research score. It is a research screen, not a recommendation, and the sort order is a filter rather than an opinion.

Dividend research screen over US-listed common stocks and REITs. Yield (forward est.) is the last regular payment annualised over the latest price; Yield (trailing 12m) is the cash paid over the last 365 days over that same price. Rising yrs counts only the years inside our own payment history. Preferred series, baby bonds, ETFs, closed-end funds, BDCs and MLPs are excluded from this screen.
Save★ Ticker Name Type Sector Price Market cap Yield (forward est.)Latest payment, annualised, over today's price. Yield (trailing 12m) Forward div / share / yrWhat a share is on track to pay over a year. Pays Payout (GAAP EPS) Rising yrs (our history) Score
QSR Restaurant Brands International Inc. Common stock Consumer Cyclical $81.57 $28.30B 3.19% 3.11% $2.60 Quarterly 89.19% 10+ † 55
ATO Atmos Energy Corporation Common stock Utilities $167.56 $27.97B 2.39% 2.91% $4.00 Quarterly 45.07% 38 76
WSM Williams-Sonoma, Inc. Common stock Consumer Cyclical $234.52 $27.61B 1.30% 1.21% $3.04 Quarterly 30.08% 16 66
AWK American Water Works Company, Inc. Common stock Utilities $137.60 $27.35B 2.60% 2.50% $3.58 Quarterly 58.33% 17+ † 73
DOV Dover Corporation Common stock Industrials $202.06 $27.21B 1.03% 1.03% $2.08 Quarterly 24.80% 23 67
HPQ HP Inc. Common stock Technology $29.52 $27.00B 4.07% 4.03% $1.20 Quarterly 42.81% 15 87
DGX Quest Diagnostics Incorporated Common stock Healthcare $244.51 $26.99B 1.41% 1.36% $3.44 Quarterly 34.18% 14 66
ES Eversource Energy Common stock Utilities $71.03 $26.71B 4.43% 4.34% $3.15 Quarterly 78.66% 25 85
XYL Xylem Inc. Common stock Industrials $112.81 $26.34B 1.52% 1.47% $1.72 Quarterly 39.80% 13 62
CINF Cincinnati Financial Corporation Common stock Financial Services $171.42 $26.31B 2.19% 2.11% $3.76 Quarterly 16.32% 38 75
PPG PPG Industries, Inc. Common stock Basic Materials $113.65 $25.26B 2.60% 2.53% $2.96 Quarterly 40.52% 42+ † 77
EXPD Expeditors International of Washington, Inc. Common stock Industrials $189.05 $24.73B 0.86% 0.84% $1.62 Semi-annual 22.74% 31 66
JBHT J.B. Hunt Transport Services, Inc. Common stock Industrials $262.18 $24.62B 0.69% 0.68% $1.80 Quarterly 25.12% 12 61
BRO Brown & Brown, Inc. Common stock Financial Services $73.34 $24.54B 0.90% 0.90% $0.66 Quarterly 18.26% 30 66
WST West Pharmaceutical Services, Inc. Common stock Healthcare $348.48 $24.52B 0.25% 0.25% $0.88 Quarterly 11.05% 23 62
HUBB Hubbell Incorporated Common stock Industrials $464.19 $24.52B 1.22% 1.20% $5.68 Quarterly 32.83% 16 68
CHD Church & Dwight Co., Inc. Common stock Consumer Defensive $102.51 $24.29B 1.20% 1.19% $1.23 Quarterly 38.67% 20 68
STE STERIS plc Common stock Healthcare $236.44 $23.04B 1.07% 1.07% $2.52 Quarterly 30.68% 15 65
RGLD Royal Gold, Inc. Common stock Basic Materials $267.76 $22.72B 0.71% 0.70% $1.90 Quarterly 18.94% 10 58
CMS CMS Energy Corporation Common stock Utilities $68.74 $21.56B 3.32% 3.28% $2.28 Quarterly 67.25% 14 76
BR Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc. Common stock Technology $184.82 $21.38B 2.11% 2.11% $3.90 Quarterly 39.45% 18+ † 71
SNA Snap-on Incorporated Common stock Industrials $394.56 $20.41B 2.47% 2.47% $9.76 Quarterly 2.82% 16 77
TSN Tyson Foods, Inc. Common stock Consumer Defensive $57.17 $20.27B 3.57% 3.55% $2.04 Quarterly 122.30% 11 58
RS Reliance Steel & Aluminum Co. Common stock Basic Materials $383.66 $19.59B 1.30% 1.29% $5.00 Quarterly 28.69% 15 69
NI NiSource Inc Common stock Utilities $40.65 $19.49B 2.95% 2.90% $1.20 Quarterly 61.82% 12 71
GPC Genuine Parts Company Common stock Consumer Cyclical $137.95 $19.02B 3.08% 3.03% $4.25 Quarterly — 42+ † 68
EVRG Evergy, Inc. Common stock Utilities $81.41 $18.77B 3.41% 3.41% $2.78 Quarterly 67.38% 20 78
ESS Essex Property Trust, Inc. REIT Real Estate $292.00 $18.76B 3.55% 3.53% $10.36 Quarterly 159.21% 31+ † 71
NDSN Nordson Corporation Common stock Industrials $333.58 $18.59B 0.98% 0.98% $3.28 Quarterly 33.04% 17 67
TSCO Tractor Supply Company Common stock Consumer Cyclical $35.38 $18.56B 2.71% 3.34% $0.96 Quarterly 48.95% 15+ † 73
ITT ITT Inc. Common stock Industrials $205.98 $18.42B 0.75% 0.72% $1.54 Quarterly 29.49% 13 62
CDW CDW Corporation Common stock Technology $142.09 $18.15B 1.77% 2.21% $2.52 Quarterly 37.54% 12+ † 61
LNT Alliant Energy Corporation Common stock Utilities $68.34 $17.65B 3.13% 3.09% $2.14 Quarterly 65.36% 12 72
MAA Mid-America Apartment Communities, Inc. REIT Real Estate $131.98 $15.36B 4.64% 4.63% $6.12 Quarterly 177.41% 15 78
LECO Lincoln Electric Holdings, Inc. Common stock Industrials $280.15 $15.27B 1.13% 1.11% $3.16 Quarterly 30.86% 22 68
SWK Stanley Black & Decker, Inc. Common stock Industrials $98.46 $14.87B 3.37% 3.37% $3.32 Quarterly 80.97% 36 71
CSL Carlisle Companies Incorporated Common stock Basic Materials $363.27 $14.70B 1.38% 1.25% $5.00 Quarterly 25.24% 23 69
MKC McCormick & Company, Incorporated Common stock Consumer Defensive $54.48 $14.65B 3.52% 3.47% $1.92 Quarterly 30.67% 28 84
PAG Penske Automotive Group, Inc. Common stock Consumer Cyclical $219.76 $14.43B 2.62% 2.57% $5.76 Quarterly 38.95% 14 74
MAS Masco Corporation Common stock Basic Materials $72.94 $14.38B 1.75% 1.74% $1.28 Quarterly 29.15% 12 68
AIZ Assurant, Inc. Common stock Financial Services $285.15 $14.13B 1.23% 1.21% $3.52 Quarterly 16.61% 21+ † 66
REG Regency Centers Corporation REIT Real Estate $76.72 $14.01B 3.94% 3.87% $3.02 Quarterly 82.65% 12 71
AVY Avery Dennison Corporation Common stock Consumer Cyclical $179.95 $13.76B 2.22% 2.12% $4.00 Quarterly 41.71% 15 75
BWXT BWX Technologies, Inc. Common stock Industrials $149.73 $13.72B 0.72% 0.71% $1.08 Quarterly 27.05% 10 52
RPM RPM International Inc. Common stock Basic Materials $106.79 $13.64B 2.02% 2.02% $2.16 Quarterly 41.08% 24 74
SJM The J. M. Smucker Company Common stock Consumer Defensive $125.45 $13.41B 3.57% 3.52% $4.48 Quarterly — 16 71
GL Globe Life Inc. Common stock Financial Services $172.24 $13.37B 0.77% 0.70% $1.32 Quarterly 7.47% 16 65
TXRH Texas Roadhouse, Inc. Common stock Consumer Cyclical $203.28 $13.36B 1.48% 1.41% $3.00 Quarterly 45.65% 14+ † 63
SEIC SEI Investments Company Common stock Financial Services $110.98 $13.32B 0.94% 0.94% $1.04 Semi-annual 0.13% 12 62
HRL Hormel Foods Corporation Common stock Consumer Defensive $23.78 $13.09B 4.92% 4.91% $1.17 Quarterly 136.97% 38 70

† A figure marked with a dagger is a floor, not a total. The rising run reaches the first year of payment history we hold for that security, so the count stops where our data stops rather than where the company's record does — the real record is longer by an amount we cannot see from here. Check the issuer's investor-relations page, which publishes its own dividend history, before quoting any of these numbers as a company record.

Data as of Aug 25, 2026.

Prices and market capitalisations last refreshed Aug 25, 2026; yields, streaks, payout ratios and scores derived from them Aug 25, 2026. No figure in this table is a live quote.

The score column is a screen, not a recommendation
The research score is a screen, not a recommendation and not a credit rating. It blends the current yield, how much of reported earnings the payment consumes, the length of the rising-payment run visible in our stored history and how many years of payments we hold for the security at all — both of the last two are bounded by how far back our payment data goes, so a company with a long record but a short file scores lower than one with the same record and deeper data. A high score means a security matched those four mechanical tests on the day the numbers were computed. It says nothing about what the shares will do next, and it does not know about a lawsuit, a refinancing or a lost contract. Full definitions are on the methodology page.

What each column means

Yield (forward est.) is the forward estimate: the most recent regular payment multiplied by the number of payments a year, divided by the latest stored price. It is used only when the cadence is known and the last payment is recent enough for the stream to look live.

Yield (trailing 12m) is the trailing figure: the cash actually paid over the last 365 days divided by that same price. Where the forward estimate cannot be established the forward column falls back to this number, which is why the two are sometimes identical. Neither is comparable to a bond's yield to maturity or a Treasury bill's discount rate without adjusting for what those measure. Full definitions are on dividend yield.

Forward div / share / yr is the same forward estimate expressed in dollars per share per year rather than as a percentage of the price. It is an annualised figure derived from one payment, not a total of payments received.

Payout (GAAP EPS) is the dividend as a percentage of GAAP earnings per share. Below roughly 60% the payment is comfortably covered by profit; above 100% it is being funded from cash, borrowing or asset sales. This ratio is close to meaningless for REITs and BDCs, whose accounting earnings sit far below the cash they actually generate — a REIT with a 180% payout ratio may be covering its distribution comfortably out of funds from operations. Blank means we hold no ratio for that ticker, which is the normal state for funds. See payout ratio.

Rising yrs (our history) is the number of consecutive completed calendar years, counted backwards from the most recent one, in which the total payments we store were higher than the year before. The window is our own payment history, which begins wherever our data provider's history begins — often the early 1970s. A figure printed as 55+ † is a floor rather than a total: that run reaches the first year of payments we hold, so the count ran out of data rather than out of increases and the company's actual record is longer. Because it is our count and not an index provider's, it will not match one — see dividend aristocrats for how the index versions differ — and because it is our history and not the company's, the issuer's investor-relations page is the authority on the record itself. Filtering on a minimum here filters on what we can see.

Score blends yield, payout safety, rising years and how much payment history we hold into a 0–100 number for sorting a large set quickly. It deliberately stops rewarding yield above roughly 6%, because past that level a higher yield has more often signalled a coming cut than a better deal. The yield component uses the forward estimate.

Sources for every column

Where each number on this page comes from. Price, market capitalisation and the security's name, sector and industry: Financial Modeling Prep, quote and company-screener endpoints, stored daily by pipeline/quotes.py and weekly by pipeline/universe.py. Individual dividend payments — amount, ex-date, record date, pay date and whether the payment was regular or special: Financial Modeling Prep, dividends endpoint, stored by pipeline/dividends_fmp.py. Payout ratio: Financial Modeling Prep, ratios-ttm endpoint, stored by pipeline/fundamentals.py and measured against GAAP earnings per share. Everything else — the forward yield estimate, the trailing twelve-month yield, the payment cadence, the count of rising years and the first year of history it could be counted from, the five-year growth rate, the next ex-date and the research score — is computed on this server by pipeline/compute.py from those stored payments and prices. No vendor's own yield field is printed anywhere in this section, which is why every figure here can be traced back to a list of individual payments on the security's own page.

Before you read anything into a ranking
A dividend is a decision, not a contract. Boards can cut or suspend a payment at any meeting, and they usually do it at the worst moment — when earnings, the balance sheet and the share price are already under pressure, so the income and the capital fall together. A yield far above its peer group is normally the market pricing in that cut rather than an oversight: the yield is high because the price has already fallen. Dividends can also shrink in real terms if they grow more slowly than inflation, and a single-stock income stream concentrates company risk, sector risk and, for foreign payers, currency and withholding risk. Past payments are a record, not a promise.

Screener questions

What exactly does the score column measure?
A 0–100 blend of four mechanical inputs: yield (40%), payout safety (25%), the length of the rising-payment run visible in our stored history (20%) and how many years of payments we hold for the security (15%). The last two are both limited by how far back our data goes, so a long-established payer with a shallow file scores lower than the same company would with deeper history. The yield component deliberately stops rewarding extra yield above roughly 6% and starts penalising it, because beyond that level a higher yield historically signals distress rather than generosity. It is a research screen, not a rating and not a recommendation.
Why is your rising-year figure shorter than the record the company reports?
Because the two count over different windows. Our figure counts consecutive rising calendar years inside the payment history stored in this database, and that history begins where our data provider's history begins — frequently the early 1970s. A company that has raised its dividend since the 1950s or 1960s was raising it long before our first stored payment, and we cannot see those years, so the number in our column stops at the edge of our file rather than at the start of the run. Where that happens the table prints the figure with a trailing plus and a dagger to mark it as a floor. It is not a correction of the company's number and it is not a competing count: the issuer's investor-relations page is the authority on its own record, and the figure here is only the part of that record we hold the payments for.
What does the 'Rising yrs (our history)' column count, and why the plus sign?
It counts consecutive completed calendar years, working backwards from the most recent one, in which the regular payments we hold added up to more than the year before. The window is our own payment history and nothing else. A figure shown with a trailing plus and a dagger is a floor: the run reaches the first year of payments we hold for that ticker, so the count ran out of data rather than out of increases and the company's real record is longer. Filtering on a minimum rising-year count filters on the number we can see, so a company whose record is long but whose file with us is short can be excluded by that filter.
Why do some rows have no payout ratio or no score?
The payout ratio comes from a separate fundamentals job that covers a bounded set of symbols, so smaller names may not have one yet. The score needs a yield, which needs both a recent payment and a current price; a security missing either is left blank rather than guessed at.
Why is a ticker I expected missing?
First, because this screener covers common stocks and REITs only. Preferred series and exchange-traded baby bonds are excluded outright — they are fixed-income instruments and belong on the preferred stocks and bonds pages — and ETFs, closed-end funds, covered-call funds, BDCs and MLPs are covered in their own sections rather than mixed into a common-stock screen. Second, the underlying universe is built from US-listed dividend payers above a size floor, so a company that has never paid, has only just started paying, or trades outside those exchanges will not appear. Tickers that stop quoting are deactivated rather than left to go stale.
Which yield does the screener sort on?
Whichever one you choose. 'Forward yield estimate' ranks on the last regular payment annualised over the current price; 'Trailing 12-month yield' ranks on the cash actually paid over the past year over the same price. Both columns are always displayed, so a row that looks generous on one basis and thin on the other is visible rather than hidden by the sort. The default sort is market capitalisation, which says nothing about the income at all.
Does the default sort order mean anything?
No. The default is market capitalisation, largest first, precisely because size implies nothing about the income. Sorting by yield or by score changes the order of the same filtered set; it does not change what any of it is worth.

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