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.
#1 - Franklin BSP Realty Trust (NYSE:FBRT)
- Dividend Yield
- 11.38%
- Consensus Rating
- Buy
- Rating Score
- 3.5
- Ratings Breakdown
- 6 Buy Ratings, 0 Hold Ratings, 0 Sell Ratings.
- Consensus Price Target
- $15.50 (22.5% Upside)
About Franklin BSP Realty Trust
Benefit Street Partners operates as a self-managed real estate investment trust (REIT). BSP earns income from investing in a leveraged portfolio of residential mortgage pass-through securities consisting almost exclusively of adjustable-rate mortgage (ARM) securities issued and guaranteed by government-sponsored enterprises, either Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae) or Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (Freddie Mac) (together, the government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs)), or by an agency of the federal government, Government National Mortgage Association (Ginnie Mae).
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#2 - Reckitt Benckiser Group (OTCMKTS:RBGLY)
- Dividend Yield
- 3.23%
- Consensus Rating
- Buy
- Rating Score
- 3.3
- Ratings Breakdown
- 5 Buy Ratings, 2 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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#3 - BHP Group (NYSE:BHP)
- Dividend Yield
- 6.04%
- Consensus Rating
- Moderate Buy
- Rating Score
- 3.2
- Ratings Breakdown
- 3 Buy Ratings, 3 Hold Ratings, 0 Sell Ratings.
- Consensus Price Target
- $53.00 (5.9% 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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#4 - Telefônica Brasil (NYSE:VIV)
- Dividend Yield
- 3.57%
- Consensus Rating
- Hold
- Rating Score
- 3.2
- Ratings Breakdown
- 2 Buy Ratings, 3 Hold Ratings, 0 Sell Ratings.
- Consensus Price Target
- $10.47 (29.8% 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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- Dividend Yield
- 2.77%
- Consensus Rating
- Moderate Buy
- Rating Score
- 3.2
- Ratings Breakdown
- 11 Buy Ratings, 4 Hold Ratings, 0 Sell Ratings.
- Consensus Price Target
- $85.93 (17.7% 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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#6 - Rithm Capital (NYSE:RITM)
- Dividend Yield
- 9.35%
- Consensus Rating
- Buy
- Rating Score
- 3.1
- Ratings Breakdown
- 7 Buy Ratings, 1 Hold Ratings, 0 Sell Ratings.
- Consensus Price Target
- $12.94 (14.1% Upside)
About Rithm Capital
Rithm Capital Corp. operates as an asset manager focused on real estate, credit, and financial services. It operates through Origination and Servicing, Investment Portfolio, Mortgage Loans Receivable, and Asset Management segments. Its investment portfolio primarily comprises of mortgage servicing rights (MSR), and MSR financing receivables, title, appraisal and property preservation, excess MSRs, and services advance investments; real estate securities, call rights, SFR properties, and residential mortgage loans; consumer and business purpose loans; and asset management related investments.
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- Dividend Yield
- 7.91%
- Consensus Rating
- Moderate Buy
- Rating Score
- 3.1
- Ratings Breakdown
- 8 Buy Ratings, 0 Hold Ratings, 1 Sell Ratings.
- Consensus Price Target
- $49.89 (2.5% 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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#8 - Rio Tinto Group (NYSE:RIO)
- Dividend Yield
- 6%
- Consensus Rating
- Moderate Buy
- Rating Score
- 3.1
- Ratings Breakdown
- 4 Buy Ratings, 4 Hold Ratings, 0 Sell Ratings.
- Consensus Price Target
- $73.00 (19.7% 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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#9 - Iron Mountain (NYSE:IRM)
- Dividend Yield
- 2.83%
- Consensus Rating
- Buy
- Rating Score
- 3.1
- Ratings Breakdown
- 7 Buy Ratings, 0 Hold Ratings, 0 Sell Ratings.
- Consensus Price Target
- $131.00 (20.0% Upside)
About Iron Mountain
Iron Mountain Incorporated (NYSE: IRM) is a global leader in information management services. Founded in 1951 and trusted by more than 240,000 customers worldwide, Iron Mountain serves to protect and elevate the power of our customers' work. Through a range of offerings including digital transformation, data centers, secure records storage, information management, asset lifecycle management, secure destruction and art storage and logistics, Iron Mountain helps businesses bring light to their dark data, enabling customers to unlock value and intelligence from their stored digital and physical assets at speed and with security, while helping them meet their environmental goals.
#10 - Hercules Capital (NYSE:HTGC)
- Dividend Yield
- 8.11%
- Consensus Rating
- Buy
- Rating Score
- 3.0
- Ratings Breakdown
- 4 Buy Ratings, 0 Hold Ratings, 0 Sell Ratings.
- Consensus Price Target
- $21.75 (4.8% Upside)
About Hercules Capital
Hercules Capital, Inc is a business development company. The firm specializing in providing venture debt, debt, senior secured loans, and growth capital to privately held venture capital-backed companies at all stages of development from startups to expansion stage including select publicly listed companies and select special opportunity lower middle market companies that require additional capital to fund acquisitions, recapitalizations and refinancing and established-stage companies.
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- Dividend Yield
- 4.46%
- Consensus Rating
- Buy
- Rating Score
- 3.0
- Ratings Breakdown
- 4 Buy Ratings, 0 Hold Ratings, 0 Sell Ratings.
- Consensus Price Target
- $24.75 (35.4% 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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#12 - Hancock Whitney (NASDAQ:HWC)
- Dividend Yield
- 2.93%
- Consensus Rating
- Moderate Buy
- Rating Score
- 3.0
- Ratings Breakdown
- 7 Buy Ratings, 2 Hold Ratings, 0 Sell Ratings.
- Consensus Price Target
- $60.63 (2.6% Upside)
About Hancock Whitney
Hancock Whitney Corporation operates as the financial holding company for Hancock Whitney Bank that provides traditional and online banking services to commercial, small business, and retail customers. It offers various transaction and savings deposit products consisting of brokered deposits, time deposits, and money market accounts; treasury management services, secured and unsecured loan products including revolving credit facilities, and letters of credit and similar financial guarantees; and trust and investment management services to retirement plans, corporations, and individuals, and investment advisory and brokerage products.
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#13 - Equinor ASA (NYSE:EQNR)
- Dividend Yield
- 4.63%
- Consensus Rating
- Moderate Buy
- Rating Score
- 3.0
- Ratings Breakdown
- 5 Buy Ratings, 3 Hold Ratings, 1 Sell Ratings.
- Consensus Price Target
- $29.45 (18.1% Upside)
About Equinor ASA
Equinor ASA, an energy company, engages in the exploration, production, transportation, refining, and marketing of petroleum and other forms of energy in Norway and internationally. It operates through Exploration & Production Norway; Exploration & Production International; Exploration & Production USA; Marketing, Midstream & Processing; Renewables; and Other segments.
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- Dividend Yield
- 4.47%
- Consensus Rating
- Moderate Buy
- Rating Score
- 3.0
- Ratings Breakdown
- 3 Buy Ratings, 7 Hold Ratings, 0 Sell Ratings.
- Consensus Price Target
- $43.25 (29.3% Upside)
About GSK
GSK plc, together with its subsidiaries, engages in the research, development, and manufacture of vaccines, and specialty and general medicines to prevent and treat disease in the United Kingdom, the United States, and internationally. It operates through two segments, Commercial Operations and Total R&D.
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- Dividend Yield
- 16.06%
- Consensus Rating
- Moderate Buy
- Rating Score
- 3.0
- Ratings Breakdown
- 3 Buy Ratings, 2 Hold Ratings, 0 Sell Ratings.
- Consensus Price Target
- $11.67 (35.3% Upside)
About AFC Gamma
AFC Gamma, Inc originates, structures, underwrites, and invests in senior secured loans, and other various commercial real estate loans and debt securities for established companies operating in the cannabis industry. It primarily originates loans structured as senior loans secured by real estate, equipment, and licenses and/or other assets of the loan parties to the extent permitted by applicable laws and the regulations governing such loan parties.
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