5 Safe Dividend Stocks to Quit Your 9 to 5 Job

2. AT&T, Inc. (NYSE:T)

Number of Hedge Fund Holders: 68

Dividend Yield: 8.1%

AT&T, Inc. (NYSE:T) is a telecommunications company, ranking 2nd on our list of safe dividend stocks to quit your 9 to 5 job. The company is the world’s largest of its kind and also the largest provider of mobile telephone services in America.

KeyBanc upgraded shares of AT&T, Inc. (NYSE:T) this October from Underweight to Sector Weight.

Our data compiled by the end of the second quarter of 2021 showed that 68 hedge funds out of the 873 tracked held stakes in AT&T, Inc. (NYSE:T) worth roughly $2.9 billion. This is compared to 63 hedge funds in the previous quarter with a total stake value of approximately $2.7 billion.