High-Yield Stocks with Robust Dividend Growth

Historical references show that stocks boasting a combination of high yield and robust dividend growth can outperform the overall market as well as their low yield and low dividend growth peers. These stocks generally reflect healthy earnings growth or cash flow generation that can support high yields and increasing dividend streams. Below is a closer look at five dividend equities with dividend yields above 4% and historical five-year dividend growth rates above 10%. All featured equities have solid outlooks for continued earnings expansion and dividend growth. They come from diverse industries and offer income streams with a potential to beat inflation.

British American Tobacco (NYSEMKT: BTI), the world’s second-biggest cigarette maker. Brookfield Infrastructure Partners LP (NYSE: BIP) owns and operates premier utilities (38% of capital), transport (35%), energy (17%), and timber (10%) assets. Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT), an aerospace company and the largest U.S. government contractor, has seen robust dividend growth over the past five years. AL International Group (NYSE: TAL), one of the world's oldest and largest lessors of intermodal freight containers to shipping line customers. Omega Healthcare Investors (NYSE: OHI), a REIT that provides financing and capital to long-term healthcare facilities.

Source: Motley Fool

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