which stock has the highest dividend yield 
this will depend on the timeframe you look at dividend yields change daily as the prices of shares that pay dividends rise or fall some stocks with very high dividend yields may be the result of a recent downturn in share price and oftentimes that dividend will be slashed or eliminated by the managers if the stock price does not soon recover the bottom linemany stocks pay dividends to reward their shareholder high yielding dividend stocks can be a good buy for some value investors but may also signal that a stock s share price has recently fallen by quite a bit making the legacy dividend comparatively higher in relation to the share price a high dividend yield could also suggest that a company is distributing too much profits as dividends rather than investing in growth opportunities or new projects correction january 10 2023 this article was corrected from a previous version that incorrectly stated the formula for the dividend payout ratio 