Thanks!
I did a quick check on the stock symbols below and found out that AT&T is the best deal on surface with 5.57% dividend & 69.4% payout ratio. They have growth their dividend for the last 30 years (impressive!)
Take AT&T as example, I need to open another account with Computershare?
There are some fee also:
Automatic investment Fee ---- $1
Optional Cash Purchase ----- $2.50
Reinvestment Fee ---- 5% up to $2
Sale Fee ---- $10
Did I got the fact correctly?
If you are trading big, use Interactive Broker, small use SCB.
Those are my recommendations, I'm not sure about Computershare and I'm looking at it from a Singaporean investor point of view.
And yes, if you are looking for records, there is a dividend champions list which list down all counters with more than 25 years of
consecutive growing dividends.
But as many here have said, don't be blinded by the divvys. AT&T has been stagnating in terms of share price but it's growing divvy is good. MO though has been growing and growing in both divvy and share price.
As always I recommend everyone who is interested in US counters to read Seeking Alpha on the counter they are interested in, seriously.
Especially the comments section where lots of gems are found.
Have fun.