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Safe dividends: low payout and a quality business

A dividend's safety isn't in its yield but in its payout: how much of the profit goes to paying it. A company handing out 40% of what it earns can absorb a bad year without touching the dividend; one handing out 95% lives on the edge, and the first stumble means a cut.

In fact, a sky-high dividend yield is usually a warning sign, not a bargain: it almost always means the price has collapsed because the market doubts the dividend will survive. This list looks for the opposite: boring dividends, covered many times over, paid by businesses that also pass the quality bar.

Filter criteria: Cash dividend, payout ≤ 60% of earnings and quality score ≥ 60. REITs don't appear: their payout is measured against cash flow (FFO), not accounting earnings.

Top 50 (of 183 meeting the criteria)

CompanyScorePayoutDividend/shareYears raisingDebt/EBITDA
NVIDIANVDA940,8%$0,042-0,03×
Eli LillyLLY9426,1%$6,2310
Gilead SciencesGILD9447%$3,16111,56×
Micron TechnologyMU946,1%$0,460-0,23×
KLA CorporationKLAC9422,3%$6,759
MastercardMA9318,4%$3,15120,53×
American ExpressAXP9321%$3,284
Monolithic Power SystemsMPWR9345,8%$6,248-1,24×
MicrosoftMSFT9223,6%$3,32150,05×
Alphabet (Google)GOOGL927,6%$0,8310,26×
BroadcomAVGO9248,2%$2,3631,36×
Booking HoldingsBKNG9223,1%$9,610,25×
Renaissancere HoldingsRNR922,8%$1,289
VertivVRT925%$0,1700,33×
Meta PlatformsMETA918,8%$2,110,32×
IntuitINTU9130,7%$4,16140,25×
Expedia GroupEXPE9015,5%$1,61-0,35×
QualcommQCOM8930%$3,48180,76×
Western DigitalWDC892,3%$0,11-0,12×
Ameriprise FinancialAMP8916,7%$3,245
Royal CaribbeanRCL8919,3%$3,521,04×
First Citizens BancsharesFCNCA897,3%$7,959
Southern Copper Corp/SCCO8957,3%$3,110,27×
NXP SemiconductorsNXPI8950,7%$4,0601,73×
VisaV8823,1%$0,59110,42×
Lam ResearchLRCX8821,5%$0,922-0,04×
AmphenolAPH8818,8%$0,753-0,11×
NewmontNEM8815,6%$10
Ross StoresROST8824,6%$1,625-0,91×
Marvell TechnologyMRVL877,7%$0,2400,69×
ResMedRMD8722,2%$2,124-0,59×
AllstateALL8710,1%$415
GE VernovaGEV875,6%$1,251
AppleAAPL8613,8%$1,0270,23×
CaterpillarCAT8630,9%$5,94181,91×
Charles SchwabSCHW8626,3%$1,081
HiltonHLT869,8%$0,60-0,18×
Hartford Insurance GroupHIG8615,4%$2,1613
Applied MaterialsAMAT8519,8%$0,0600,02×
ADPADP8558,8%$6,0217
Parker HannifinPH8524,4%$6,69161,37×
S&P GlobalSPGI8426,2%$3,84181,42×
Las Vegas SandsLVS8451,2%$121,35×
Cincinnati FinancialCINF8421,9%$3,487
GarminGRMN8339,9%$2,686-1,07×
BlackRockBLK8248,7%$20,8430,31×
TJX CompaniesTJX8233,5%$1,75
EatonETN8239,8%$4,1615
Waste ManagementWM8249,3%$3,3180,07×
ProgressivePGR8225,4%$13,93

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