Mon., September 25th, 2023 | MarketBeat Staff
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 12 months.
- Dividend Yield
- 2.53%
- Consensus Rating
- Moderate Buy
- Rating Score
- 3.4
- Ratings Breakdown
- 6 Buy Ratings, 0 Hold Ratings, 1 Sell Ratings.
- Consensus Price Target
- $60.00 (10.4% Upside)
About Sanofi

Sanofi, a healthcare company, engages in the research, development, manufacture, and marketing of therapeutic solutions in the United States, Europe, and internationally. It operates through Pharmaceuticals, Vaccines, and Consumer Healthcare segments. The company provides specialty care, such as dupixent, neurology and immunology, rare diseases, oncology, and rare blood disorders; medicines for diabetes and cardiovascular diseases; and established prescription products.
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#2 - Atlas Energy Solutions (NYSE:AESI)
- Dividend Yield
- 3.53%
- Consensus Rating
- Buy
- Rating Score
- 3.1
- Ratings Breakdown
- 10 Buy Ratings, 0 Hold Ratings, 0 Sell Ratings.
- Consensus Price Target
- $25.00 (5.2% Upside)
About Atlas Energy Solutions

Atlas Energy Solutions Inc provides proppant and logistics services to the oil and natural gas industry within the Permian Basin of West Texas and New Mexico. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Austin, Texas.
#3 - Canaccord Genuity Group (TSE:CF)
- Dividend Yield
- 3.96%
- Consensus Rating
- Buy
- Rating Score
- 3.0
- Ratings Breakdown
- 4 Buy Ratings, 1 Hold Ratings, 0 Sell Ratings.
- Consensus Price Target
- C$10.29 (27.0% Upside)
About Canaccord Genuity Group

Canaccord Genuity Group Inc, a full-service financial services company, provides investment products, and investment banking and brokerage services to institutional, corporate, and private clients. It operates in two segments, Canaccord Genuity Capital Markets and Canaccord Genuity Wealth Management.
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#4 - Smith & Nephew (NYSE:SNN)
- Dividend Yield
- 3.56%
- Consensus Rating
- Hold
- Rating Score
- 3.0
- Ratings Breakdown
- 4 Buy Ratings, 2 Hold Ratings, 1 Sell Ratings.
About Smith & Nephew

Smith & Nephew plc, together with its subsidiaries, develops, manufactures, markets, and sells medical devices and services in the United Kingdom and internationally. The company operates through three segments: Orthopaedics, Sports Medicine & ENT, and Advanced Wound Management. The company offers knee implant products for knee replacement procedures; hip implants for revision procedures; and trauma and extremities products that include internal and external devices used in the stabilization of severe fractures and deformity correction procedures.
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#5 - Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria (NYSE:BBVA)
- Dividend Yield
- 6.92%
- Consensus Rating
- Hold
- Rating Score
- 3.0
- Ratings Breakdown
- 2 Buy Ratings, 5 Hold Ratings, 0 Sell Ratings.
About Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria

Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria, SA, together with its subsidiaries, provides retail banking, wholesale banking, and asset management services. It offers current accounts; and demand, savings, overnight, time, term, and subordinated deposits. The company also provides loan products; deals in securities; leasing, factoring, brokerage, and asset management services; and manages pension and investment funds.
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- Dividend Yield
- 9.72%
- Consensus Rating
- Buy
- Rating Score
- 3.0
- Ratings Breakdown
- 8 Buy Ratings, 0 Hold Ratings, 0 Sell Ratings.
- Consensus Price Target
- $24.15 (27.3% Upside)
About NN Group

NN Group N.V., a financial services company, provides life and non-life insurance products in the Netherlands and internationally. The company operates through Netherlands Life, Netherlands Non-life, Insurance Europe, Japan Life, Banking, and Other segments. It offers Life insurance products, such as group and individual pension products, retail life insurance, and corporate life products; and non-life insurance products, including motor, fire, liability, transport, travel, health, property and casualty, and disability and accident insurance products.
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#7 - MSC Industrial Direct (NYSE:MSM)
- Dividend Yield
- 3.32%
- Consensus Rating
- Moderate Buy
- Rating Score
- 2.9
- Ratings Breakdown
- 3 Buy Ratings, 3 Hold Ratings, 0 Sell Ratings.
- Consensus Price Target
- $96.17 (0.7% Upside)
About MSC Industrial Direct

MSC Industrial Direct Co, Inc, together with its subsidiaries, distributes metalworking and maintenance, repair, and operations (MRO) products and services in the United States, Canada, Mexico, and the United Kingdom. Its MRO products include cutting tools, measuring instruments, tooling components, metalworking products, fasteners, flat stock products, raw materials, abrasives, machinery hand and power tools, safety and janitorial supplies, plumbing supplies, materials handling products, power transmission components, and electrical supplies.
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#8 - Plymouth Industrial REIT (NYSE:PLYM)
- Dividend Yield
- 4.2%
- Consensus Rating
- Moderate Buy
- Rating Score
- 2.8
- Ratings Breakdown
- 3 Buy Ratings, 1 Hold Ratings, 0 Sell Ratings.
- Consensus Price Target
- $25.25 (17.7% Upside)
About Plymouth Industrial REIT

Plymouth Industrial REIT, Inc (NYSE: PLYM) is a full service, vertically integrated real estate investment company focused on the acquisition, ownership and management of single and multi-tenant industrial properties. Our mission is to provide tenants with cost effective space that is functional, flexible and safe.
#9 - Rio Tinto Group (NYSE:RIO)
- Dividend Yield
- 5.51%
- Consensus Rating
- Moderate Buy
- Rating Score
- 2.8
- Ratings Breakdown
- 8 Buy Ratings, 3 Hold Ratings, 1 Sell Ratings.
- Consensus Price Target
- $72.00 (14.2% Upside)
About Rio Tinto Group

Rio Tinto Group engages in exploring, mining, and processing mineral resources worldwide. The company operates through Iron Ore, Aluminium, Copper, and Minerals Segments. It offers aluminum, copper, iron ore, diamonds, gold, borates, titanium dioxide, salt, silver, molybdenum, and lithium. The company also owns and operates open pit and underground mines, refineries, smelters, and concentrator facilities, as well as power stations, research, and service facilities.
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#10 - Altria Group (NYSE:MO)
- Dividend Yield
- 9.26%
- Consensus Rating
- Hold
- Rating Score
- 2.8
- Ratings Breakdown
- 2 Buy Ratings, 2 Hold Ratings, 1 Sell Ratings.
- Consensus Price Target
- $47.50 (12.9% Upside)
About Altria Group

Altria Group, Inc, through its subsidiaries, manufactures and sells smokeable and oral tobacco products in the United States. The company provides cigarettes primarily under the Marlboro brand; cigars and pipe tobacco principally under the Black & Mild brand; moist smokeless tobacco products and snus products under the Copenhagen, Skoal, Red Seal, and Husky brands; and on! oral nicotine pouches.
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#11 - Telefônica Brasil (NYSE:VIV)
- Dividend Yield
- 3.79%
- Consensus Rating
- Moderate Buy
- Rating Score
- 2.7
- Ratings Breakdown
- 3 Buy Ratings, 2 Hold Ratings, 0 Sell Ratings.
- Consensus Price Target
- $11.20 (25.9% Upside)
About Telefônica Brasil

Telefônica Brasil SA, together with its subsidiaries, operates as a mobile telecommunications company in Brazil. Its fixed line services portfolio includes local, domestic long-distance, and international long-distance calls; and mobile portfolio comprises voice and broadband internet access through 3G, 4G, 4.5G, and 5G, as well as mobile value-added and wireless roaming services.
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- Dividend Yield
- 5.66%
- Consensus Rating
- Buy
- Rating Score
- 2.7
- Ratings Breakdown
- 3 Buy Ratings, 0 Hold Ratings, 0 Sell Ratings.
About Orange

Orange SA provides various fixed telephony and mobile telecommunications, data transmission, and other value-added services to customers, businesses, and other telecommunications operators in France and internationally. The company operates through France; Spain and Other European Countries; The Africa and Middle East; Enterprise; International Carriers & Shared Services; and Mobile Financial Services segments.
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- Dividend Yield
- 5.28%
- Consensus Rating
- Moderate Buy
- Rating Score
- 2.7
- Ratings Breakdown
- 2 Buy Ratings, 1 Hold Ratings, 0 Sell Ratings.
- Consensus Price Target
- $15.33 (51.2% Upside)
About GeoPark

GeoPark Limited engages in the exploration, development, and production of oil and gas reserves in Chile, Colombia, Brazil, Argentina, and Ecuador. GeoPark Limited has a strategic partnership with ONGC Videsh to jointly acquire, invest in, and create value from upstream oil and gas projects across Latin America.
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#14 - International Game Technology (NYSE:IGT)
- Dividend Yield
- 2.59%
- Consensus Rating
- Buy
- Rating Score
- 2.7
- Ratings Breakdown
- 5 Buy Ratings, 0 Hold Ratings, 0 Sell Ratings.
- Consensus Price Target
- $45.17 (48.2% Upside)
About International Game Technology

International Game Technology PLC operates and provides gaming technology products and services in North America, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Asia-Pacific, Latin America, and the Caribbean. It operates in three segments: Global Lottery, Global Gaming, and Digital & Betting. The company designs, sells, operates, and leases a suite of point-of-sale machines that reconciles lottery funds between the retailer and lottery authority; provides online lottery transaction processing systems; produces instant ticket games; and offers printing services, such as instant ticket marketing plans and graphic design, programming, packaging, shipping, and delivery services, as well as iLottery solutions and services.
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- Dividend Yield
- 5.28%
- Consensus Rating
- Moderate Buy
- Rating Score
- 2.7
- Ratings Breakdown
- 5 Buy Ratings, 3 Hold Ratings, 0 Sell Ratings.
About Fortum Oyj

Fortum Oyj, together with its subsidiaries, engages in the generation and sale of electricity and heat in the Nordic countries, Germany, the United Kingdom, Russia, the Netherlands, Sweden, and internationally. The company's Generation segment generates power through nuclear, hydro, wind, and thermal resources; and provides power portfolio optimization, trading, and industrial intelligence, as well as nuclear services.
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