Merck’s current dividend yield now stands at 5.1% making it the fourth highest yielding Dow stock.
Pharmaceutical giant Merck & Co. announced today that they are maintaining their quarterly dividend payment of $.38 per share.
Here are five blue-chip dividend stocks that not only have attractive dividend yields, but are also very profitable and have reasonable payout ratios.
The falling stock prices of the blue chip companies of the Dow Jones index has produced some incredibly high dividend yields. So which dividend stocks are the safest?