MarketBeat tracks approximately 250,000 analyst recommendations each year and tracks more than 15,000 securities around the globe that pay dividends.
This slide show lists the 15 dividend-paying stocks that also have the highest average analyst recommendations from Wall Street's equities research analysts over the last six months.
- Dividend Yield
- 4.92%
- Consensus Rating
- Buy
- Rating Score
- 3.5
- Ratings Breakdown
- 8 Buy Ratings, 1 Hold Ratings, 0 Sell Ratings.
- Consensus Price Target
- $18.16 (6.4% Upside)
About NETSTREIT

NETSTREIT Corp. is an internally managed real estate investment trust (REIT) based in Dallas, Texas that specializes in acquiring single-tenant net lease retail properties nationwide. The growing portfolio consists of high-quality properties leased to e-commerce resistant tenants with healthy balance sheets.
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#2 - Pembina Pipeline (NYSE:PBA)
- Dividend Yield
- 5.54%
- Consensus Rating
- Moderate Buy
- Rating Score
- 3.2
- Ratings Breakdown
- 6 Buy Ratings, 2 Hold Ratings, 0 Sell Ratings.
- Consensus Price Target
- $56.00 (50.5% Upside)
About Pembina Pipeline

Pembina Pipeline Corporation provides energy transportation and midstream services. It operates through three segments: Pipelines, Facilities, and Marketing & New Ventures. The Pipelines segment operates conventional, oil sands and heavy oil, and transmission assets with a transportation capacity of 2.9 millions of barrels of oil equivalent per day, the ground storage capacity of 10 millions of barrels, and rail terminalling capacity of approximately 105 thousands of barrels of oil equivalent per day serving markets and basins across North America.
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#3 - Franklin BSP Realty Trust (NYSE:FBRT)
- Dividend Yield
- 12.99%
- Consensus Rating
- Buy
- Rating Score
- 3.2
- Ratings Breakdown
- 7 Buy Ratings, 0 Hold Ratings, 0 Sell Ratings.
- Consensus Price Target
- $15.30 (40.3% Upside)
About Franklin BSP Realty Trust

Benefit Street Partners operates as a self-managed real estate investment trust (REIT). BSP earns income from investing in a leveraged portfolio of residential mortgage pass-through securities consisting almost exclusively of adjustable-rate mortgage (ARM) securities issued and guaranteed by government-sponsored enterprises, either Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae) or Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (Freddie Mac) (together, the government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs)), or by an agency of the federal government, Government National Mortgage Association (Ginnie Mae).
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#4 - Smartstop Self Storage REIT (NYSE:SMA)
- Dividend Yield
- 4.24%
- Consensus Rating
- Buy
- Rating Score
- 3.2
- Ratings Breakdown
- 12 Buy Ratings, 0 Hold Ratings, 0 Sell Ratings.
- Consensus Price Target
- $39.10 (5.1% Upside)
About Smartstop Self Storage REIT

Symmetry Medical Inc (Symmetry) is a medical device solutions company, including surgical instruments, orthopedic implants, and sterilization cases and trays. The Company designs, develops and offers worldwide production and supply chain capabilities for these products to customers in the orthopedic industry, and other medical device markets (including but not limited to arthroscopy, dental, laparoscopy, osteobiologic, and endoscopy segments).
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#5 - Rio Tinto (NYSE:RIO)
- Dividend Yield
- 7.56%
- Consensus Rating
- Moderate Buy
- Rating Score
- 3.2
- Ratings Breakdown
- 6 Buy Ratings, 5 Hold Ratings, 0 Sell Ratings.
- Consensus Price Target
- $73.00 (23.9% Upside)
About Rio Tinto

Rio Tinto Group engages in exploring, mining, and processing mineral resources worldwide. The company operates through Iron Ore, Aluminium, Copper, and Minerals Segments. The Iron Ore segment engages in the iron ore mining, and salt and gypsum production in Western Australia. The Aluminum segment is involved in bauxite mining; alumina refining; and aluminium smelting.
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#6 - Sunrise Realty Trust (NASDAQ:SUNS)
- Dividend Yield
- 10.67%
- Consensus Rating
- Buy
- Rating Score
- 3.1
- Ratings Breakdown
- 4 Buy Ratings, 0 Hold Ratings, 0 Sell Ratings.
- Consensus Price Target
- $13.06 (16.1% Upside)
About Sunrise Realty Trust

Sunrise Realty Trust, Inc engages in commercial real estate (CRE) lending business. It focuses on originating CRE debt investments and providing capital to borrowers and sponsors with transitional business plans collateralized by CRE assets. The company intends to create a diversified investment portfolio, targeting investments in senior mortgage loans, mezzanine loans, whole loans, B-notes, CMBS, and debt-like preferred equity securities across CRE asset classes.
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#7 - Valero Energy (NYSE:VLO)
- Dividend Yield
- 3.13%
- Consensus Rating
- Buy
- Rating Score
- 3.1
- Ratings Breakdown
- 15 Buy Ratings, 2 Hold Ratings, 0 Sell Ratings.
- Consensus Price Target
- $150.88 (5.1% Upside)
About Valero Energy

Valero Energy Corporation manufactures, markets, and sells petroleum-based and low-carbon liquid transportation fuels and petrochemical products in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Latin America, Mexico, Peru, and internationally. It operates through three segments: Refining, Renewable Diesel, and Ethanol.
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- Dividend Yield
- 2.99%
- Consensus Rating
- Strong Buy
- Rating Score
- 3.1
- Ratings Breakdown
- 3 Buy Ratings, 0 Hold Ratings, 0 Sell Ratings.
- Consensus Price Target
- $18.00 (20.9% Upside)
About Pearson

Pearson plc offers educational courseware, assessments, and services in the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada, the Asia Pacific, other European countries, and internationally. The company operates through five segments: Assessment & Qualifications, Virtual Learning, English Language Learning, Workforce Skills, and Higher Education.
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- Dividend Yield
- 7.5%
- Consensus Rating
- Moderate Buy
- Rating Score
- 3.1
- Ratings Breakdown
- 6 Buy Ratings, 1 Hold Ratings, 1 Sell Ratings.
- Consensus Price Target
- $55.50 (9.0% Upside)
About Mplx

MPLX LP engages in the operation of midstream energy infrastructure and logistics assets, and distribution fuels services. It operates through the Crude Oil and Products Logistics and Natural Gas and NGL Services segments. The Crude Oil and Products Logistics segment transports, stores, distributes, and markets crude oil, asphalt, refined petroleum products, and water.
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#10 - Gold Fields (NYSE:GFI)
- Dividend Yield
- 2.55%
- Consensus Rating
- Hold
- Rating Score
- 3.1
- Ratings Breakdown
- 2 Buy Ratings, 4 Hold Ratings, 0 Sell Ratings.
- Consensus Price Target
- $19.70 (18.6% Downside)
About Gold Fields

Gold Fields Limited operates as a gold producer with reserves and resources in Chile, South Africa, Ghana, Canada, Australia, and Peru. It also explores for copper and silver deposits. The company was founded in 1887 and is based in Sandton, South Africa.
#11 - CocaCola (NYSE:KO)
- Dividend Yield
- 2.86%
- Consensus Rating
- Buy
- Rating Score
- 3.0
- Ratings Breakdown
- 17 Buy Ratings, 1 Hold Ratings, 0 Sell Ratings.
- Consensus Price Target
- $76.27 (7.1% Upside)
About CocaCola

The Coca-Cola Company, a beverage company, manufactures, markets, and sells various nonalcoholic beverages worldwide. The company provides sparkling soft drinks, sparkling flavors; water, sports, coffee, and tea; juice, value-added dairy, and plant-based beverages; and other beverages. It also offers beverage concentrates and syrups, as well as fountain syrups to fountain retailers, such as restaurants and convenience stores.
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#12 - Smithfield Foods (NASDAQ:SFD)
- Dividend Yield
- 4.09%
- Consensus Rating
- Buy
- Rating Score
- 3.0
- Ratings Breakdown
- 8 Buy Ratings, 1 Hold Ratings, 0 Sell Ratings.
- Consensus Price Target
- $27.86 (13.9% Upside)
About Smithfield Foods

Smithfield Foods, Inc produces and markets a variety of fresh meat and packaged meats products both domestically and internationally. The Company operates in four segments: Pork, Hog Production, International and Corporate, each of which consists of a number of subsidiaries, joint ventures and other investments.
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#13 - NiSource (NYSE:NI)
- Dividend Yield
- 2.83%
- Consensus Rating
- Buy
- Rating Score
- 3.0
- Ratings Breakdown
- 10 Buy Ratings, 0 Hold Ratings, 0 Sell Ratings.
- Consensus Price Target
- $41.50 (5.1% Upside)
About NiSource

NiSource Inc, an energy holding company, operates as a regulated natural gas and electric utility company in the United States. It operates in two segments, Gas Distribution Operations and Electric Operations. The company distributes natural gas to approximately 3.3 million customers through approximately 55,000 miles of distribution main pipeline and the associated individual customer service lines; and 1,000 miles of transmission main pipeline in northern Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Kentucky, and Maryland.
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#14 - Sixth Street Specialty Lending (NYSE:TSLX)
- Dividend Yield
- 7.55%
- Consensus Rating
- Buy
- Rating Score
- 3.0
- Ratings Breakdown
- 7 Buy Ratings, 1 Hold Ratings, 0 Sell Ratings.
- Consensus Price Target
- $22.81 (6.4% Downside)
About Sixth Street Specialty Lending

Sixth Street Specialty Lending, Inc (NYSE: TSLX) is a business development company. The fund provides senior secured loans (first-lien, second-lien, and unitranche), unsecured loans, mezzanine debt, and investments in corporate bonds and equity securities and structured products, non-control structured equity, and common equity with a focus on co-investments for organic growth, acquisitions, market or product expansion, restructuring initiatives, recapitalizations, and refinancing.
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#15 - Orrstown Financial Services (NASDAQ:ORRF)
- Dividend Yield
- 3.08%
- Consensus Rating
- Buy
- Rating Score
- 3.0
- Ratings Breakdown
- 4 Buy Ratings, 0 Hold Ratings, 0 Sell Ratings.
- Consensus Price Target
- $38.00 (12.5% Upside)
About Orrstown Financial Services

Orrstown Financial Services, Inc operates as the financial holding company for Orrstown Bank that provides commercial banking and financial advisory services to retail, commercial, non-profit, and government clients in the United States. It accepts various deposits, including checking, savings, time, demand, and money market deposits, as well as certificates of deposit.
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