3 Historically Cheap Ultra-High-Yield Dividend Stocks -- Sporting an Average Yield of 5.68% -- Ripe for the Picking by Opportunistic Income Seekers

2026-03-04 05:26:00 ET

With thousands of publicly traded companies and over 4,000 exchange-traded funds (ETFs) to choose from, there are countless ways to make money on Wall Street. But among this laundry list of strategies, few have been as successful over the long term as buying and holding high-quality dividend stocks.

Public companies that pay a regular dividend to their shareholders are almost always profitable and, in many cases, have proven their ability to navigate a challenging economic climate. Best of all, income stocks tend to outperform .

In "The Power of Dividends: Past, Present, and Future," analysts at Hartford Funds, in collaboration with Ned Davis Research, analyzed over 50 years of return data from dividend payers and non-payers. Researchers found that dividend stocks more than doubled the annualized return of non-payers (9.2% vs. 4.31%, from 1973-2024) and did so while being notably less volatile.

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