Tariffs Aren’t Going to Touch These Stocks

By Douglas A. McIntyre Published May 11, 8:43AM EDT

Key Points

Companies in sectors like consumer staples, real estate, insurance, and telecom—such as Altria (NYSE: MO), Procter & Gamble (NYSE: PG), and Verizon (NYSE: VZ)—are benefiting from limited tariff exposure and strong dividend yields.
Dividend income is a key draw, with Verizon yielding around 6% and Altria offering over 7% while maintaining consistent payout growth despite macro uncertainty.
These sectors offer stability for investors looking to reduce exposure to geopolitical trade risks, particularly with ongoing China-U.S. tariff tensions.

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[00:00:04] Doug McIntyre: Lee, we’ve got an interesting set of circumstances.

[00:00:07] Doug McIntyre: The huge majority of large companies in the United States have some tariff exposure. Yeah, they do. Companies have a lot, a lot of tariff exposure and, and people are, worried sick about owning them. But there is a group of companies where tariff exposure is fairly small, aren’t there?

[00:00:27] Lee Jackson: Yeah, there is, and we’ve tried to detail this out to our readers so they could, if they’re attempted to move or shift some of their capital, it’s not a bad idea to look at these.

[00:00:38] Lee Jackson: And it’s items you would expect. Of course, it’s real estate Insurance companies are not really exposed to foreign tariffs. consumer staples are not, exposed to foreign service. And, and typically the companies that are in this group, communications companies, AT&T (NYSE: T | T Price Prediction), Verizon, they’re not subject to a ton of, tariffs by China.

[00:01:06] Lee Jackson: And I don’t think a lot of people in China have Verizon. So it’s companies like that. So, and, and, and a lot of these companies, they pay good dividends. they have domestic reduction, less Verizon and

[00:01:17] Doug McIntyre: Verizon and AT&T.

[00:01:19] Lee Jackson: Yeah. Yeah, Verizon. Well, people have been buying at t over the last year. Its dividend has come down to about 4%, but Verizon pays a 6% dividend.

[00:01:30] Lee Jackson: And so that’s a good area to be in. some of the big, insurance companies, Allstate, all those, they pay big, they, they don’t pay dividends as big as Verizon does, but they’re solid dividends. And again, consumer Staples, well, you, you Proctor and Gamble, you have Kimberly Clark (NYSE: KMB). Kimberly Clark makes diapers.

[00:01:57] Lee Jackson: I know as a new grandfather, diapers are apparently very well needed. So they, the demand never drops for these.And Coca-Cola (NYSE: KO) falls into that category as a consumer staple, as does your favorite stock, Altria.

[00:02:14] Doug McIntyre: I love Altria.

[00:02:15] Lee Jackson: I know you do, but it’s, those are all, and, and Altria pays a strong

[00:02:19] Doug McIntyre: 7% dividend.

[00:02:20] Doug McIntyre: Oh God. Yes. And they’ve got the, they’ve got the cash. They’re, to me, they are the dividend king. The dividend has been raised 55 times in 50 years.

[00:02:34] Lee Jackson: They are a dividend king. They, they fit the bill and in their recent earnings report, which was outstanding, any drop off in, in SIGs, burning SIGs, sales was more than made up by, the, the smuggle, vapor vapor stuff and the pouch stuff.

[00:02:56] Lee Jackson: The, the stuff that you, you put between your cheek and gum, like right here. Garrison used to say. Yeah. So,

[00:03:04] Doug McIntyre: but yes.

[00:03:04] Lee Jackson: Yeah. So I mean, if, you’re still concerned about tariffs, look at those companies, and again, it’s, it’s. consumer staples, real estate insurance communications, just companies that have domestic production and don’t have a lot of foreign exposure.

[00:03:19] Lee Jackson: And that’s one safe place to be until the tariff cluster, kind of diminishes somewhat, which it will it and it will diminish because this, this can’t go on forever. But, those are the areas you can look at if you’re worried about tariffs.

About the Author Douglas A. McIntyre →

Douglas A. McIntyre is the co-founder, chief executive officer and editor in chief of 24/7 Wall St. and 24/7 Tempo. He has held these jobs since 2006.

McIntyre has written thousands of articles for 24/7 Wall St. He is an expert on corporate finance, the automotive industry, media companies and international finance. He has edited articles on national demographics, sports, personal income and travel.

His work has been quoted or mentioned in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, NBC News, Time, The New Yorker, HuffPost USA Today, Business Insider, Yahoo, AOL, MarketWatch, The Atlantic, Bloomberg, New York Post, Chicago Tribune, Forbes, The Guardian and many other major publications. McIntyre has been a guest on CNBC, the BBC and television and radio stations across the country.

A magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College, McIntyre also was president of The Harvard Advocate. Founded in 1866, the Advocate is the oldest college publication in the United States.

TheStreet.com, Comps.com and Edgar Online are some of the public companies for which McIntyre served on the board of directors. He was a Vicinity Corporation board member when the company was sold to Microsoft in 2002. He served on the audit committees of some of these companies.

McIntyre has been the CEO of FutureSource, a provider of trading terminals and news to commodities and futures traders. He was president of Switchboard, the online phone directory company. He served as chairman and CEO of On2 Technologies, the video compression company that provided video compression software for Adobe’s Flash. Google bought On2 in 2009.