3 Top Stocks With High Dividend Yields

With the market near all-time highs, and interest rates near all time lows, it seems finding industry-leading names offering fat dividends would be virtually impossible. It isn't, but you do have to tread into some riskier places to find them, like oil, malls, and a laggard technology company. But Total (NYSE: TOT), Simon Property Group (NYSE: SPG), and International Business Machines (NYSE: IBM) could be just what you are looking for, if you are trying to add some yield to your portfolio. Here's a primer on why.

Based in France, international integrated oil giant Total is one of a small group of dominant global energy companies. Its yield today is an attractive 7.1%, though a part of that is because oil is in the midst of a downturn. The economic shutdowns used to slow the spread of the coronavirus pandemic are a big piece of that, but there's also the long-term transition the world is making toward clean energy to worry about.

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