The 9 Highest-Yielding Warren Buffett Dividend Stocks
Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.B) famously doesn't pay dividends - it has better things to do with its shareholders' cash - but Chairman and CEO Warren Buffett sure loves collecting them. In 2018 alone, Berkshire raked in $3.8 billion in dividends - "a sum that will increase in 2019," Buffett said in the annual letter.
The great majority of the stocks in Berkshire's portfolio are dividend stocks. And, indeed, all of its top 10 holdings - from Apple (AAPL) to Coca-Cola (KO) to American Express (AXP) - pay a cash distribution.
Buffett has never been one to reach for yield, but a number of Berkshire Hathaway's income-generating equities are quite generous by today's standards. As of Aug. 26, nine of Warren Buffett's dividend stocks sported yields of at least 3%. (For comparison, the yield on the S&P 500 is just below 2%.)
After excluding names that are now negligible parts of Berkshire Hathaway's portfolio - namely, United Parcel Service (UPS) - these are the Warren Buffett dividend stocks with the highest yields.
Bank of New York Mellon
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Shares held: 80,937,250
Holding value: $3.3 billion
Dividend yield: 3.0%
Despite its impressive-sounding moniker, Bank of New York Mellon (, $41.11) is not exactly a household name. But it's a big deal in financial services, and Warren
