These Were Last Week’s 10 Best Dividend Stocks

2. CBL & Associates Properties, Inc. (NYSE:CBL)

Dividend yield: 4.85%

Dividend payout ratio: 85.56%

Ex-Dividend Date: March 13, 2025

Number of Hedge Funds: 20

The stocks of CBL & Associates Properties, Inc. (NYSE:CBL) incurred an 8.58% increase in their value last week between February 10 and February 14, 2025. This growth was largely due to the financial performance of the company and its new executive compensation plan.

The American-based real estate investment trust saw strong financial results in the fourth quarter of 2024, including positive same-center net operating income (NOI) growth. With its new 2025 Annual Incentive Compensation Plan (2025 AIP) and the 2025 Long Term Incentive Compensation Program (LTIP), CBL & Associates Properties, Inc. (NYSE:CBL) has brought revisions to its compensation frameworks. The new plan aims at incentivizing the executives based on the achievement of corporate goals and individual performance goals. This creates a balance between the quantitative and qualitative objectives of the company, thus attracting investors seeking stable income.

CBL & Associates Properties, Inc. (NYSE:CBL) offers a dividend yield of 4.85%. The dividend payout ratio of the company stands high at 85.56% indicating that most of the earnings are used for making dividend payments. Twenty hedge fund portfolios, followed by Insider Monkey, owned stakes in the company at the end of Q3 2024, indicating solid institutional interest in its stocks. Income-focused investors can invest in the company’s shares on or before the ex-dividend date of March 13, 2025.