Two of these five dividend stocks just took a beating in October, and that selloff quietly pushed their yields to levels that make the safer-looking names on the list look stingy by comparison.
A big yield only matters if the business can keep paying it. Every name on this month’s list pays its dividend out of cash generation that clearly tops the dividend bill, and each has years of increases to show for it. Verizon (NYSE:VZ | VZ Price Prediction) is the clearest example. It guides to $21.94B to $22.14B of 2026 free cash flow, while its forward dividend costs about $11.76B a year. Here are five NYSE-listed income names where the payout rests on cash flow. Two of them are trading lower right now, which has pushed their yields…
