The Top 10 Dow Dividend Stocks for April

It’s hard out there for income investors.

10-year Treasuries are yielding just 1.9%, the dividend yield on the S&P 500 is also stuck right around 2%, and investors are mired in a constant will-they-or-won’t-they with the Federal Reserve.
Interest rates look like they’ll finally edge higher this year, but the Fed’s general dovishness means any rate hikes will probably be fairly insubstantial.

Luckily, there are still plenty of solid blue-chip dividend stocks out there. They’re a little riskier than pure fixed-income investments, sure, but they’re also a lot likelier to appreciate over the next five years or so, which won’t be true for bonds if rates finally advance.
With that said, today we’ll look at the top 10 dividend stocks in the Dow Jones Industrial Average — a set of blue chips that each yields more than 3% currently: (more)

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