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How to Easily Screen for High Yield Dividend Stocks

November 17, 2025

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Happy Monday!

We have a great week of investing ahead. So get your head screwed on straight! Today, I’ll share some of my best research from the week, including a great tutorial on screening for high yield dividend stocks.

Your Monday Topics:

  • How to Easily Screen for High Yield Dividend Stocks

  • Portfolio Update

  • Top Dividend Raises

  • Earnings This Week

The Key Story

How to Easily Screen for High Yield Dividend Stocks

🛠️ How to Easily Screen for High-Yield Dividend Stocks

This week’s video breaks down my full step-by-step process for finding high-yield dividend stocks without falling into yield traps. I walk through exactly how I screen, what metrics matter, and four real case studies you can learn from immediately.

Here’s what I cover:

  • How to build a high-yield screen in minutes using dividend yield, dividend growth, payout ratios, and more.

  • Case Study #1 (Green Flags): Why Altria’s long-term earnings growth and cash-flow-based payout ratios make its 7%+ yield sustainable.

  • Case Study #2 (Red Flags): Energy Transfer’s dividend history, 2020 cut, and how debt levels and cash flow impact reliability.

  • Case Study #3 (Big Growth): A midstream stock delivering 8%+ yield and double-digit dividend growth.

  • Case Study #4 (Advanced): Why Hess Midstream offers a 9% yield, rapid growth, and avoids the K-1 tax headache.

If you want to learn exactly how I evaluate dividend sustainability, spot dangers early, and zero in on reliable income payers…

👉 Watch the full video here: How to Easily Screen for High Yield Dividend Stocks

It’s a simple, actionable walkthrough you can start using today.

Portfolio Update

My LARGEST Dividend EVER! (Undervalued Dividend Stocks)

📈 My Largest Dividend Ever (and Why It Matters)

This month I hit a huge milestone: I was paid $1,966 in dividends in a single day. Most of that came from two high-yield positions I’ve been steadily building: Hess Midstream (HESM) and MPLX.

In the new video, I break down:

  • The $1,966 dividend payday – how much came from each stock and how I reinvested it.

  • My current dividend income – ~$11,500 per year, broken down by quarter, month, day, and even per hour.

  • Why I’m still buying HESM & MPLX – high yields plus strong dividend growth and attractive valuations.

  • The power of reinvesting – how adding shares accelerates the snowball in companies like Altria and Exxon.

  • Future projections – if I stopped adding new money today, this portfolio could still compound into millions and over $400K/year in dividends over decades.

If you want to see how I’m using high-yield dividend stocks as a foundation for long-term financial independence…

Dividend News

15 Top Dividend Stocks That Don't Stop Growing

15 Dividend Stocks That Just Raised Their Payouts 💸

ADP – Automatic Data Processing (ADP)

  • ~2.7% yield after a 10.4% dividend hike

  • 10-year dividend CAGR ~12%

  • Payout ratio ~50–60% → very sustainable

Snap-On (SNA)

  • ~2.8% yield after a 14% raise

  • 10-year dividend CAGR ~15%

  • Payout ratios in the 30s → room for growth

Roper Technologies (ROP)

  • ~0.8% yield after a 10.3% raise

  • Double-digit dividend growth for a decade

  • Very low payout (~14–21%)

Exxon Mobil (XOM)

  • ~3.5% yield with a 4% raise

  • Slow but steady dividend growth (~3–4% CAGR)

  • Uses a strong balance sheet to survive oil cycles

AbbVie (ABBV)

  • ~3% yield with a 5.5% raise

  • 10-year dividend CAGR ~12%, now slowing

  • Free cash flow covers the dividend despite noisy GAAP earnings

Murphy USA (MUSA)

  • ~0.7% yield with an 18.9% raise

  • 5-year dividend CAGR ~20%

  • Ultra-low payout (~7–9%), but earnings have dipped recently

MPLX (MPLX)

  • ~8.2% yield with a 12.5% raise

  • High yield + high growth (5-year CAGR ~9%+)

  • K-1 structure, but one of my favorite high-yield names

Marathon Petroleum (MPC)

  • ~2% yield with a 9.9% raise

  • 10-year dividend CAGR ~12%

  • Very low payout; heavily buying back shares

Rollins (ROL)

  • ~1.25% yield with a 10.6% raise

  • Solid earnings and dividend growth

  • Payout in the low-to-mid 50–60% range

Visa (V)

  • ~0.8% yield with a 13.6% raise

  • 10-year dividend CAGR ~17%

  • Tiny payout (~20%) on a very high-quality business

D.R. Horton (DHI)

  • ~1.2% yield with a 12.5% raise

  • 5-year dividend CAGR ~21%

  • Very low payout (~14–15%) → lots of runway

Hess Midstream (HESM)

  • ~9% yield with a 2.4% quarterly raise

  • Raises the dividend every quarter (5-year CAGR ~11%)

  • High yield, strong coverage, no K-1 after restructuring

Comfort Systems (FIX)

  • ~0.25% yield with a 20% raise

  • Hyper-growth dividend (3-year CAGR ~62%)

  • Dividend is a tiny slice of free cash flow

McDonald’s (MCD)

  • ~2.4% yield with a 5% raise

  • 5-year dividend CAGR ~7–8%

  • Mature, steady compounder with sustainable payout

Brown & Brown (BRO)

  • ~0.8% yield with a 10% raise

  • 10-year dividend CAGR ~10% and accelerating

  • Very low payout (~14–16%)

👉 To see the full charts, payout ratios, and historical yields for each of these names, watch the full video on the channel where I walk through all 15 inside DividendData.com.

P.S. After this video was recorded. Disney raised it’s dividend by 50%. I cover it in the following video.

Earnings News

Earnings This Week

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That’s it for this week’s update. If you want to follow along in real time, analyze these tickers, or track your own portfolio, jump into DividendData.com. You’ll also find our Discord community and my AI research assistant there. Hit reply and tell me what you’re buying—I may feature a few notes next week.

📅 Keep Investing. Stay informed.

– Zach
Founder, Dividend Data

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