3 Top Stocks With High Dividend Yields

Dividend yields can be high for a lot of reasons, and sometimes those reasons make investing in high-yield stocks risky. For instance, dividend yields can swell if share prices fall because a company's on shaky financial ground. Premium dividend yields make these stocks hard to pass up...

Although there's no way to completely protect yourself from the risk that a company falls on tough times, focusing on companies with catalysts that support dividend payments may improve the odds of picking winners instead of losers. With that in mind, three Motley Fool contributors scoured the universe of dividend-paying stocks for companies that pay a high yield they think is sustainable. They settled on Hess Midstream Partners (NYSE:HESM), AT&T (NYSE:T), and Alliance Resource Partners (NASDAQ:ARLP). Are these top stocks to consider buying now?

Source: Motley Fool

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