MarketBeat tracks approximately 250,000 analyst recommendations each year and tracks more than 15,000 securities around the globe that pay dividends.
This slide show lists the 15 dividend-paying stocks that also have the highest average analyst recommendations from Wall Street's equities research analysts over the last 12 months.
- Dividend Yield
- 2.76%
- Consensus Rating
- Buy
- Rating Score
- 3.3
- Ratings Breakdown
- 3 Buy Ratings, 1 Hold Ratings, 0 Sell Ratings.
- Consensus Price Target
- $60.00 (10.2% Upside)
About Sanofi

Sanofi, a healthcare company, engages in the research, development, manufacture, and marketing of therapeutic solutions in the United States, Europe, Canada, and internationally. It operates through Pharmaceuticals, Vaccines, and Consumer Healthcare segments. The company provides specialty care, such as DUPIXENT, neurology and immunology, rare diseases, oncology, and rare blood disorders; medicines for diabetes and cardiovascular diseases; and established prescription products.
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#2 - Telefônica Brasil (NYSE:VIV)
- Dividend Yield
- 2.95%
- Consensus Rating
- Hold
- Rating Score
- 3.3
- Ratings Breakdown
- 2 Buy Ratings, 3 Hold Ratings, 0 Sell Ratings.
- Consensus Price Target
- $10.47 (14.2% Upside)
About Telefônica Brasil

Telefônica Brasil SA, together with its subsidiaries, operates as a mobile telecommunications company in Brazil. Its fixed line services portfolio includes local, domestic long-distance, and international long-distance calls; and mobile portfolio comprises voice and broadband internet access through 3G, 4G, 4.5G, and 5G, as well as mobile value-added and wireless roaming services.
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#3 - Rio Tinto Group (NYSE:RIO)
- Dividend Yield
- 5.62%
- Consensus Rating
- Moderate Buy
- Rating Score
- 3.2
- Ratings Breakdown
- 4 Buy Ratings, 4 Hold Ratings, 0 Sell Ratings.
- Consensus Price Target
- $73.00 (15.1% Upside)
About Rio Tinto Group

Rio Tinto Group engages in exploring, mining, and processing mineral resources worldwide. The company operates through Iron Ore, Aluminium, Copper, and Minerals Segments. The Iron Ore segment engages in the iron ore mining, and salt and gypsum production in Western Australia. The Aluminum segment is involved in bauxite mining; alumina refining; and aluminium smelting.
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#4 - BHP Group (NYSE:BHP)
- Dividend Yield
- 5.74%
- Consensus Rating
- Moderate Buy
- Rating Score
- 3.2
- Ratings Breakdown
- 3 Buy Ratings, 3 Hold Ratings, 0 Sell Ratings.
- Consensus Price Target
- $53.00 (3.1% Upside)
About BHP Group

BHP Group Limited operates as a resources company in Australia, Europe, China, Japan, India, South Korea, the rest of Asia, North America, South America, and internationally. The company operates through Copper, Iron Ore, and Coal segments. It engages in the mining of copper, uranium, gold, zinc, lead, molybdenum, silver, iron ore, cobalt, and metallurgical and energy coal.
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- Dividend Yield
- 6.04%
- Consensus Rating
- Buy
- Rating Score
- 3.1
- Ratings Breakdown
- 7 Buy Ratings, 1 Hold Ratings, 0 Sell Ratings.
- Consensus Price Target
- $17.75 (24.1% Upside)
About NETSTREIT

NETSTREIT Corp. is an internally managed real estate investment trust (REIT) based in Dallas, Texas that specializes in acquiring single-tenant net lease retail properties nationwide. The growing portfolio consists of high-quality properties leased to e-commerce resistant tenants with healthy balance sheets.
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#6 - Reckitt Benckiser Group (OTCMKTS:RBGLY)
- Dividend Yield
- 2.89%
- Consensus Rating
- Buy
- Rating Score
- 3.1
- Ratings Breakdown
- 4 Buy Ratings, 3 Hold Ratings, 0 Sell Ratings.
About Reckitt Benckiser Group

Reckitt Benckiser Group plc manufactures and sells health, hygiene, and nutrition products worldwide. It offers acne treatment creams, facial washes, and cleansing pads; germ protection products; condoms; heartburn and indigestion solutions; joints health products; chest congestion, cough, and sinus remedies; brain health products; migraine-headaches and rheumatic pain products; sore throat medications; and hair removal products under the Airborne, Clearasil, Dettol, Durex, Gaviscon, Move Free, Neuriva, Nurofen, Mucinex, Strepsils, and Veet brands.
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- Dividend Yield
- 7.12%
- Consensus Rating
- Moderate Buy
- Rating Score
- 3.1
- Ratings Breakdown
- 8 Buy Ratings, 0 Hold Ratings, 1 Sell Ratings.
- Consensus Price Target
- $52.11 (2.4% Downside)
About Mplx

MPLX LP engages in the operation of midstream energy infrastructure and logistics assets, and distribution fuels services. It operates through the Logistics and Storage (L&S) and Gathering and Processing (G&P) segments. The Logistics and Storage segment transports, stores, distributes, and markets crude oil, asphalt, refined petroleum products, and water.
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- Dividend Yield
- 4.24%
- Consensus Rating
- Buy
- Rating Score
- 3.1
- Ratings Breakdown
- 11 Buy Ratings, 1 Hold Ratings, 0 Sell Ratings.
- Consensus Price Target
- $79.11 (18.7% Upside)
About Shell

Shell plc operates as an energy and petrochemical company Europe, Asia, Oceania, Africa, the United States, and Rest of the Americas. The company operates through Integrated Gas, Upstream, Marketing, Chemicals and Products, and Renewables and Energy Solutions segments. It explores for and extracts crude oil, natural gas, and natural gas liquids; markets and transports oil and gas; produces gas-to-liquids fuels and other products; and operates upstream and midstream infrastructure to deliver gas to market.
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- Dividend Yield
- 2.89%
- Consensus Rating
- Moderate Buy
- Rating Score
- 3.0
- Ratings Breakdown
- 10 Buy Ratings, 4 Hold Ratings, 0 Sell Ratings.
- Consensus Price Target
- $84.38 (15.3% Upside)
About Sysco

Sysco Corporation, through its subsidiaries, engages in the marketing and distribution of various food and related products to the foodservice or food-away-from-home industry in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, France, and internationally. It operates through U.S. Foodservice Operations, International Foodservice Operations, SYGMA, and Other segments.
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- Dividend Yield
- 3.65%
- Consensus Rating
- Buy
- Rating Score
- 3.0
- Ratings Breakdown
- 5 Buy Ratings, 0 Hold Ratings, 0 Sell Ratings.
- Consensus Price Target
- $24.80 (26.6% Upside)
About Opera

Opera Limited, together with its subsidiaries, provides mobile and PC web browsers and related products and services in Norway and internationally. The company offers mobile browser products, such as Opera Mini, Opera browser for Android and iOS, and Opera GX for PCs and Mobile; Opera Touch; PC browsers, including Opera for Computers and Opera GX; Apex Football; Opera VPN Pro; and Opera News, an AI-powered personalized news discovery and aggregation service.
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#11 - NanoXplore (TSE:GRA)
- Dividend Yield
- 12.38%
- Consensus Rating
- Buy
- Rating Score
- 3.0
- Ratings Breakdown
- 3 Buy Ratings, 1 Hold Ratings, 0 Sell Ratings.
- Consensus Price Target
- C$3.00 (28.8% Upside)
About NanoXplore

NanoXplore Inc is a graphene company, manufacturer, and supplier of high-volume graphene powder for use in industrial markets. The company provides graphene-enhanced plastic and composite products to various customers in transportation, packaging, electronics, and other industrial sectors. Geographically, it generates a majority of revenue from the United States.
- Dividend Yield
- 6.77%
- Consensus Rating
- Moderate Buy
- Rating Score
- 3.0
- Ratings Breakdown
- 10 Buy Ratings, 2 Hold Ratings, 1 Sell Ratings.
- Consensus Price Target
- $18.80 (78.1% Upside)
About AES

The AES Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, operates as a diversified power generation and utility company in the United States and internationally. The company owns and/or operates power plants to generate and sell power to customers, such as utilities, industrial users, and other intermediaries; owns and/or operates utilities to generate or purchase, distribute, transmit, and sell electricity to end-user customers in the residential, commercial, industrial, and governmental sectors; and generates and sells electricity on the wholesale market.
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#13 - First Merchants (NASDAQ:FRME)
- Dividend Yield
- 3.14%
- Consensus Rating
- Moderate Buy
- Rating Score
- 3.0
- Ratings Breakdown
- 4 Buy Ratings, 1 Hold Ratings, 0 Sell Ratings.
- Consensus Price Target
- $49.00 (12.9% Upside)
About First Merchants

First Merchants Corporation operates as the financial holding company for First Merchants Bank that provides community banking services. The company offers a range of financial services, including time, savings, and demand deposits; and consumer, commercial, agri-business, public finance, and real estate mortgage loans.
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- Dividend Yield
- 2.7%
- Consensus Rating
- Buy
- Rating Score
- 3.0
- Ratings Breakdown
- 6 Buy Ratings, 0 Hold Ratings, 0 Sell Ratings.
- Consensus Price Target
- $25.17 (4.7% Downside)
About Archrock

Archrock, Inc, together with its subsidiaries, operates as an energy infrastructure company in the United States. The company operates in two segments, Contract Operations and Aftermarket Services. It engages in the designing, sourcing, owning, installing, operating, servicing, repairing, and maintaining of its owned fleet of natural gas compression equipment to provide natural gas compression services.
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#15 - Cogent Communications (NASDAQ:CCOI)
- Dividend Yield
- 4.77%
- Consensus Rating
- Moderate Buy
- Rating Score
- 3.0
- Ratings Breakdown
- 5 Buy Ratings, 2 Hold Ratings, 1 Sell Ratings.
- Consensus Price Target
- $80.25 (0.4% Upside)
About Cogent Communications

Cogent Communications Holdings, Inc, through its subsidiaries, provides high-speed Internet access, private network, and data center colocation space services in North America, Europe, Oceania, South America, and Africa. The company offers on-net Internet access and private network services to law firms, financial services firms, and advertising and marketing firms, as well as heath care providers, educational institutions and other professional services businesses, other Internet service providers, telephone companies, cable television companies, web hosting companies, media service providers, mobile phone operators, content delivery network companies, and commercial content and application service providers.
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