18 Forgotten Stocks With Monster Dividend Yields

For the past few years, Wall Street's attention has been almost exclusively on the mega-cap stocks. These stocks have delivered explosive returns, and the AI megatrend has only added more fuel to the fire.

A common denominator among these popular stocks is that they usually don't pay a dividend. And if they do pay dividends, the yields are too low to make a difference.

That has caused dividend stocks in the middle of the pack to be mostly forgotten. You will only see these businesses mentioned from time to time if anything significant happens. There are fewer eyes on these dividend stocks, and this has led to many of them being intrinsically undervalued.

Buying them before the economic cycle changes can help you realize market-beating gains. You can collect dividends in the meantime. MyInvestingNews has curated this slideshow with 18 "forgotten stocks" that are paying solid dividends at the moment.

• The underlying business of the stock must be based in the U.S.
• Market capitalization must be between $10 billion and $100 billion.
• Forward and trailing dividend yields above 5%.
• Dividend payout ratios below 100%, meaning total dividends paid out must not exceed net income.

• Price: $33.03
• Forward dividend yield: 5.18%
• Dividend payout ratio: 68%
• Years of consecutive dividend hikes: 7

• Price: $79.17
• Forward dividend yield: 5.19%
• Dividend payout ratio: 77%
• Years of consecutive dividend hikes: 3

• Price: $102.20
• Forward dividend yield: 5.24%
• Dividend payout ratio: 40%
• Years of consecutive dividend hikes: 17

• Price: $24.35
• Forward dividend yield: 5.26%
• Dividend payout ratio: 56%
• Years of consecutive dividend hikes: 43

• Price: $9.08
• Forward dividend yield: 5.26%
• Dividend payout ratio: 19%
• Years of consecutive dividend hikes: 1

• Price: $47.17
• Forward dividend yield: 5.30%
• Dividend payout ratio: 33%
• Years of consecutive dividend hikes: 19

• Price: $70.10
• Forward dividend yield: 5.60%
• Dividend payout ratio: 55.43%
• Years of consecutive dividend hikes: 1

• Price: $66.85
• Forward dividend yield: 5.70%
• Dividend payout ratio: 60%
• Years of consecutive dividend hikes: 11

• Price: $27.58
• Forward dividend yield: 5.79%
• Dividend payout ratio: 54%
• Years of consecutive dividend hikes: 1

• Price: $53.00
• Forward dividend yield: 6.16%
• Dividend payout ratio: 78%
• Years of consecutive dividend hikes: 1

• Price: $50.94
• Forward dividend yield: 6.49%
• Dividend payout ratio: 48%
• Years of consecutive dividend hikes: 22

• Price: $99.63
• Forward dividend yield: 6.55%
• Dividend payout ratio: 84%
• Years of consecutive dividend hikes: 16

• Price: $11.24
• Forward dividend yield: 6.66%
• Dividend payout ratio: 51%
• Years of consecutive dividend hikes: 1

• Price: $31.50
• Forward dividend yield: 6.90%
• Dividend payout ratio: 79%
• Years of consecutive dividend hikes: 27

• Price: $58.86
• Forward dividend yield: 6.95%
• Dividend payout ratio: 78%
• Years of consecutive dividend hikes: 55

• Price: $50.47
• Forward dividend yield: 7.57%
• Dividend payout ratio: 83%
• Years of consecutive dividend hikes: 12

• Price: $18.68
• Forward dividend yield: 8.11%
• Dividend payout ratio: 90%
• Years of consecutive dividend hikes: 4

• Price: $23.06
• Forward dividend yield: 8.36%
• Dividend payout ratio: 94%
• Years of consecutive dividend hikes: 1