5 High Dividend Stocks to Buy Now

High dividend stocks included on our list had a number of criteria to meet — all stocks satisfied a minimum dividend yield requirement, have been growing their dividends, maintained a reasonable payout ratio, had a stable market capitalization, demonstrated sales growth, and kept price-to-earnings ratio (P/E ratio), return on invested capital (ROIC) and volume at stellar levels. Less than 40 stocks made it through our screening process. Among those few dozen high dividend stocks, we selected five high dividend stocks to buy now...

Rio Tinto (NYSE:RIO) is an industrial metals and mining company extracting minerals worldwide but operating primarily in North America and Australia. Vale (NYSE:VALE) is the largest miner of iron ore in the world and competes closely with Rio Tinto for the title of largest diversified mining company. General Mills (NYSE:GIS) is a dominant food company specializing in snacks, cereal, yogurt, baking ingredients, pet food, ice cream and countless other products. Lazard (NYSE:LAZ) is a financial services company earning revenue in two primary business segments: asset management and financial advisory. Hercules Capital (NYSE:HTGC) is a financial services company engaged primarily in mortgage finance, providing loans to steady-growth, venture capital-backed companies in a variety of industries.

Source: Dividend Investor

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