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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 189 meeting the criteria)

CompanyScorePayoutDividend/shareYears raisingDebt/EBITDA
NVIDIANVDA940,8%$0,0420,05×
BroadcomAVGO9448,2%$2,3630,85×
Eli LillyLLY9426,1%$6,23101,26×
Micron TechnologyMU940,7%$0,531-0,3×
Monolithic Power SystemsMPWR9445,8%$6,248-1,01×
Alphabet (Google)GOOGL937,6%$0,8310,26×
MastercardMA9318,4%$3,15120,62×
American ExpressAXP9321%$3,284—
MicrosoftMSFT9219,8%$3,64160,1×
Booking HoldingsBKNG9223,1%$9,610,3×
Western DigitalWDC921,8%$0,52-0,09×
VertivVRT925%$0,1700,05×
Expedia GroupEXPE9115,5%$1,61-0,36×
Southern Copper Corp/SCCO9157,3%$3,110,24×
IntuitINTU9029,5%$4,8150,49×
Occidental PetroleumOXY908,9%$0,9640,66×
ResMedRMD9023%$2,45-0,39×
Renaissancere HoldingsRNR902,8%$1,289—
Ameriprise FinancialAMP8916,7%$3,245-2,13×
Ross StoresROST8924,6%$1,625-0,84×
First Citizens BancsharesFCNCA897,3%$7,959—
NXP SemiconductorsNXPI8950,7%$4,0601,73×
Meta PlatformsMETA888,8%$2,110,69×
VisaV8823,1%$0,59110,42×
KLA CorporationKLAC8821,9%$0,820,67×
Marvell TechnologyMRVL887,7%$0,2400,58×
NewmontNEM8815,6%$10-0,23×
AllstateALL8810,1%$415—
GE VernovaGEV885,6%$1,251-4,16×
Hartford Insurance GroupHIG8815,4%$2,1613—
QualcommQCOM8730%$3,48180,87×
CaterpillarCAT8730,9%$5,94331,91×
Charles SchwabSCHW8726,3%$1,081—
TJX CompaniesTJX8733,5%$1,75-0,33×
AppleAAPL8613,8%$1,0270,25×
Applied MaterialsAMAT8619,8%$0,060-0,06×
ADPADP8659,5%$6,64510,11×
AmphenolAPH8618,8%$0,7531,36×
Cincinnati FinancialCINF8621,9%$3,4865—
Lam ResearchLRCX8517,5%$1,043-0,37×
ChubbCB8514,6%$2,5634—
Seagate TechnologySTX8519,9%$2,9420,43×
S&P GlobalSPGI8426,2%$3,84531,42×
Phillips 66PSX8443,7%$4,7514—
Parker HannifinPH8425,7%$7,4701,42×
CintasCTAS8435,1%$1,8450,68×
GarminGRMN8339,9%$2,686-1,07×
LindeLIN8340,8%$6331,75×
ConocoPhillipsCOP8250%$3,1890,61×
BlackRockBLK8248,7%$20,8430,22×

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