The Average Dividend Yield is 1%. Want More Income? These 3 Stocks Offer Yields

It is a difficult time to find attractive stocks if you are a dividend investor. The S&P 500 index (SNPINDEX: ^GSPC) is trading near all-time highs and offering a historically tiny dividend yield of roughly 1%. That's simply too low a number to be interesting.

Don't fear, if you do a little digging, you can still find attractive high-yield stocks. Three strong investment candidates today are Enterprise Products Partners (NYSE: EPD), Realty Income (NYSE: O), and PepsiCo (NASDAQ: PEP). Here's why these high-yielders, with yields of up to 5.9%, should be on your radar today.

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Enterprise Products Partners may seem like an odd suggestion, given that it operates in the energy sector. The geopolitical conflict in the Middle East has upended that sector. However, the master limited partnership's (MLP's) lofty 5.9% yield is backed by a toll-taker business, not high energy prices. The cash flows backing the distribution c

Fuente original: Yahoo Finance (https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/stocks/articles/average-dividend-yield-1-want-153500778.html)