Dividend Stock Portfolio For Income: Top 5 Stocks

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1. Merck & Co., Inc. (NYSE:MRK)

Number of Hedge Fund Holders: 98

Merck & Co., Inc. (NYSE:MRK) tops our list of the best stocks for a dividend stock portfolio. The company’s dividend growth currently stands at 13 years and offers a quarterly dividend of $0.77 per share. The stock has a dividend yield of 2.35%, as of April 28.

At the end of Q4 2023, 98 hedge funds, growing significantly from 85 in the previous quarter, held stakes in Merck & Co., Inc. (NYSE:MRK), as per Insider Monkey’s database. These stakes are worth over $7.1 billion in total. Fisher Asset Management was the company’s leading stakeholder in Q4.

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