3 Dividend Stocks That Pay You Better Than Coca-Cola Does

The S&P 500 Index is yielding a paltry 1.4% right now, which makes beverage giant Coca-Cola's (NYSE: KO) 3.1% yield look huge by comparison. But on an absolute basis, Coca-Cola's dividend yield is still pretty modest.

You can find better yields. Here are three options to consider right now.

W.P. Carey (NYSE: WPC) is one of the oldest net-lease landlords you can buy. "Net-lease" means W.P. Carey owns properties that it leases to single tenants, where the tenants are responsible for most of the operating expenses of the assets they occupy. It is generally considered a low-risk approach in the real estate investment trust (REIT) sector. Adding to the safety factor here, W.P. Carey is diversified across the industrial (25% of rents), office (23%), warehouse (22%), retail (18%), and self storage (5%) sectors, with a sizable "other" category rounding things out. Moreover, roughly 39% of its rents come from outside the United States, largely from Europe. 

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