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Looking To Start Earning Passive Income in March? Here Are 6 Top Dividend Stocks
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Since 1926, dividends have contributed approximately 32% of the total return for the S&P 500, while capital appreciations have contributed 68%. Therefore, sustainable dividend income and capital appreciation potential are essential for total return expectations.
A recent study from the Hartford Funds, in collaboration with Ned Davis Research, found that dividend stocks delivered an annualized return of 9.18% over the past half-century (1973-2023). Over the same timeline, this was more than double the annualized return for non-payers (3.95%).
Most dividend investors seek solid passive income streams from quality dividend stocks. Passive income is a steady stream of unearned income that doesn’t require active traditional work. Shared ideas for earning passive income include investments, real estate, or side hustles.
We screened our 24/7 Wall St. passive income research database, looking for the top dividend stocks that can supply consistent, dependable income for investors looking to establish a solid passive income stream. Six Blue-Chips stocks made the grade, and all are rated Buy on Wall Street.
AT&T is the world’s fourth-largest telecommunications company in terms of revenue.
The legacy telecommunications company has been going through a lengthy restructuring while lowering the dividend, which still stands at a rich 6.45%. AT&T, Inc. (NYSE: T) provides worldwide telecommunications, media, and technology services.
Its Communications segment offers wireless voice and data communications services.
AT&T sells through its company-owned stores, agents, and third-party retail stores:
AT&T also provides:
In addition, this segment offers residential customers broadband fiber and legacy telephony voice communication services.
It markets its communications services and products under :
The company’s Latin America segment provides wireless services in Mexico and video services in Latin America. This segment markets its services and products under the AT&T and Unefon brands.
This integrated giant is a safer way for investors looking to position themselves in the energy sector. It pays a rich 4.35% dividend, and Buffett added 16 million shares in the first quarter. Chevron Corporation (NYSE: CVX) engages in integrated energy and chemicals operations worldwide through its subsidiaries.
The company operates in two segments:
The Upstream segment is involved in the following:
The Downstream segment engages in:
Chevron announced in the fall that it has entered into a definitive agreement with Hess Corporation (NYSE: HES) to acquire all of the outstanding shares of Hess in an all-stock transaction valued at $53 billion, or $171 per share based on Chevron’s closing price on October 20, 2023. Under the terms of the agreement, Hess shareholders will receive 1.0250 shares of Chevron for each Hess share. The transaction’s total enterprise value, including debt, is $60 billion.
Berkshire Hathaway owns 6.8% of Chevron’s outstanding stock with 126,093,326 shares, and the energy giant makes up 5.1% of the portfolio.
Spun off from Johnson & Johnson, Inc. (NYSE: JNJ) last year, this potential total return home run pays a solid 4% dividend. Kenvue Inc. (NYSE: KVUE) is a global consumer health company.
The company operates through three segments:
The self-care segment offers cough, cold, and allergy pain care, digestive health, smoking cessation, and other products under:
The Skin Health and Beauty segment provides face and body care, hair care, sun care, and other products under:
The Essential Health segment offers oral and baby, women’s health, and wound care products under:
The company was established in 1849 in New York by two German entrepreneurs.
This top pharmaceutical stock was a massive winner in the COVID-19 vaccine sweepstakes but has been crushed as many are not getting boosters. Pfizer Inc. (NYSE: PFE) discovers, develops, manufactures, markets, distributes, and sells biopharmaceutical products worldwide and pays a hefty 6.17% dividend, which has risen yearly for the last 14 years.
The company offers medicines and vaccines in various therapeutic areas, including:
Pfizer also provides medicines and vaccines in various therapeutic areas, such as:
This stock has been locked in a tight trading range, looks ready to break out, and pays a fat 7.60% dividend. Plains All American Pipeline, L.P. (NYSE: PAA), through its subsidiaries, transports, terminals, stores, and gathers crude oil and natural gas liquids (NGL) in the United States and Canada through pipelines.
The company operates in two segments:
The Crude Oil segment offers:
The Natural Gas Liquids segment provides:
Universal Corporation is one of the world’s top tobacco merchants
While this company’s products, like Altria’s, may not be for everyone, they have strong demand, have been in business for almost 150 years, and offer shareholders a hefty 6.32% dividend. Universal Corporation (NYSE: UVV) processes and supplies leaf tobacco and plant-based ingredients worldwide.
The company operates through two segments:
It is involved in procuring, financing, processing, packing, storing, and shipping leaf tobacco for sale to manufacturers of consumer tobacco products.
The company contracts, purchases, processes, and sells flue-cured, burley, and oriental tobaccos primarily used in the manufacture of cigarettes and dark air-cured tobaccos primarily used in the manufacture of cigars, naturally wrapped cigars and cigarillos, smokeless, and pipe tobacco products.
Universal Corporation also provides value-added services, including:
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