Nine months ago, Wall Street pundits were certain that four interest-rate cuts of 25 basis points each would occur in 2025. Then, as inflation stayed steady, the Federal Reserve lowered the federal funds rate by a whole percentage point in 2024. Then, inflation started to rise, and Wall Street said only two cuts in 2025. Now that the most recent inflation report has indicated that the consumer price index has moved higher, back above the 3% level, many on Wall Street feel there will be no cuts in 2025. It should be noted the current 4.33% federal funds rate is below the long-time average of 4.61%.
At 24/7 Wall St., we have closely followed dividend-paying stocks for over 15 years. With a growing audience of investors searching for safe income ideas that deliver more than the 10-year Treasury bonds’ 4.67% bi-annual dividend, we have screened hundreds of stocks, looking for recurring dividend payouts and a degree of safety that allows for a good night’s sleep. Four companies well-liked on Wall Street pay dependable recurring dividends and look to trade higher for the rest of 2025, making them outstanding ideas now.
Why do we cover dividend stocks?
Dividend stocks provide investors with reliable streams of passive income. Passive income is characterized by its ability to generate revenue without requiring the earner’s continuous active effort, making it a desirable financial strategy for those seeking to diversify their income streams or achieve financial independence.
Bloomin’ Brands
Bloomin’ Brands is one of the world’s largest casual dining companies.
With a portfolio of well-known restaurants and a massive 8.12% dividend, this is a solid idea for 2025. Bloomin’ Brands Inc. (NASDAQ: BLMN) owns and operates casual, upscale casual, and fine dining restaurants in the United States and internationally.
Its restaurant portfolio has four concepts:
- Outback Steakhouse, a casual steakhouse
- Carrabba’s Italian Grill, a casual Italian restaurant
- Bonefish Grill
- Fleming’s Prime Steakhouse & Wine Bar, a contemporary steakhouse
The company owns and operates more than 1,450 restaurants in 46 states, Guam, and 13 countries, some of which are franchise locations. Given the current trading level under $15 and the huge dividend, this could be an incredible 2025 total return idea.
British American Tobacco
This British multinational company manufactures and sells cigarettes and other tobacco and nicotine products.
European giant British American Tobacco PLC (NYSE: BTI | BTI Price Prediction) is a consumer-centric, multi-category consumer goods company that pays shareholders a hefty 7.05% dividend.
The company provides tobacco and nicotine products. Its segments include:
- United States
- Asia Pacific
- Middle East
- Africa
- The Americas
- Europe
The company’s product categories include:
- Vapor
- Tobacco Heating Products (THPs)
- Modern Oral, Traditional Oral, and Combustible cigarettes
Vapor products are handheld, battery-powered devices that heat a liquid (called an e-liquid) to produce an inhalable aerosol known as vapor. THPs are a new category of tobacco product designed to heat rather than burn tobacco.
Modern Oral products are smoke-free oral nicotine products called nicotine pouches, designed for use in the mouth. Traditional oral products include snus and snuff.
British American Tobacco brands include:
- Vuse
- glo
- Velo
- Grizzly
- Dunhill
- Kent
- Lucky Strike
- Pall Mall
- Rothmans
- Newport
- Natural American Spirit
- Camel
- Vogue
- Viceroy
- Kool
- Peter Stuyvesant
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- Shuang Xi
LyondellBasell
LyondellBasell is a global leader in developing and supplying materials that enable packaging, health, and transportation solutions.
This blue-chip chemical giant offers a very dependable 7.05% dividend. LyondellBasell Industries N.V. (NYSE: LYB) operates as a chemical company in:
- The United States
- Germany
- Mexico
- Italy
- Poland
- France
- Japan
- China
- Netherlands
The company operates in six segments:
- Olefins and Polyolefins-Americas
- Olefins and Polyolefins-Europe, Asia, International
- Intermediates and Derivatives
- Advanced Polymer Solutions
- Refining Technology
It produces and markets olefins and co-products, polyethylene and polypropylene, propylene oxide and derivatives, oxyfuels and related products, and intermediate chemicals, such as styrene monomer, acetyls, ethylene oxide, and ethylene glycol.
In addition, the company produces and markets compounding and solutions, including:
- Polypropylene compounds
- Engineered plastics, masterbatches
- Engineered composites, colors, and powders
- Advanced polymers, including catalloy and polybutene-1
- Refines heavy, high-sulfur crude oil, other crude oils, and refined products, including gasoline and distillates
Further, it develops and licenses chemical and polyolefin process technologies; manufactures and sells polyolefin catalysts; and serves food packaging, home furnishings, automotive components, and paints and coatings applications.
Plains All American Pipeline
This publicly traded master limited partnership owns and operates midstream energy infrastructure and provides logistics services.
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) engages in the pipeline transportation, terminalling, storage, and gathering of crude oil and natural gas liquids (NGLs) in the United States and Canada. The company operates in two segments.
The Crude Oil segment offers:
- Gathering and transporting crude oil through pipelines
- Gathering systems
- Trucks, barges, or railcars
- Terminalling, storage, and other facilities-related services and merchant activities
The Natural Gas Liquids segment provides:
- Gathering
- Fractionation
- Storage
- Transportation
- Terminalling activities
- Ethane, propane, normal butane, iso-butane, natural gasoline, and crude oil refining processes.
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