Should You Buy the 3 Highest-Paying Dividend Stocks in the S&P 500? [Yahoo! Finance]
Altria Group, Inc. (MO)
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Income-focused investors, for example, often give dividend yield too much sway in their investment decisions. That can be a mistake. Take three of the highest yielders in the S&P 500 index as a starting point. Altria (NYSE: MO) AT&T (NYSE: T) , and Healthpeak Properties (NYSE: DOC) have huge yields, but they all have warts, and one looks like it could be a terrible long-term investment. Here's what you need to know before buying any of them. Altria: Avoid businesses that are dying Altria has a huge dividend yield of 9.3%. It has increased its dividend regularly for years. It hails from the consumer staples sector , which is generally considered a conservative area of the market. It also has a dominant position in the market it serves thanks to its ownership of an iconic brand, Marlboro. That last fact is actually the problem. Altria is a tobacco company that sells cigarettes in the United States, where smoking has been increasingly frowned upon. To put a number on that, the comp
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Earnings
- 4/25/24 - In-Line
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Sec Filings
- 5/6/24 - Form 4
- 5/2/24 - Form 144
- 5/2/24 - Form 144
- MO's page on the SEC website