Warren Buffett's Best 10 Dividend Stocks Everybody Should Also Own

Warren Buffett, one of the most legendary investors of all time, is a great source for finding high-yield dividend stocks.

Armed with a simple strategy of buying high quality businesses at reasonable prices with an intention of holding them forever, Buffett has racked up one of the best long-term performance track records.

Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway owned over 40 stocks at the end of 2015, and the majority of them pay dividends.

More impressively, nine of Buffett's top 10 positions pay a dividend, and nearly a quarter of his stocks have a high dividend yield of about 3% or more.

We took a closer look at Buffett's top 10 stock picks for dividends which are also ideal investments for conservative retiree dividend portfolios.

Let's take a look at some of the best dividend stocks that Berkshire Hathaway likes so much.

These are Warren Buffett's top stocks sorted by yield...

17 Dividend Challengers With A Strong Buy Rating

Today I would like to take a look at the recommendations from brokerage firms or analysts. 

I analyzed the Dividend Challengers group (stocks with more than 5 years of consecutive dividend growth) by the current recommendations.

Seventeen of the stocks have a current strong buy rating. Attached you will find a full list with some fundamentals.

It's a little bit easier to join the club of Dividend Challengers than to be a Dividend King, Champion, Aristocrat or Contender.

Here are my favorites from the screen...

20 Stocks With A Free Cashflow Inital Yield Over 5%

A profitable company is solid and a good investment if it growth and scales its profits. That's a fact. 

But often we see earnings that are no earnings. The cash flow is often higher or lower and the need for capital expenditures makes it more complicated to evaluate the true earnings for return orientated investors.

A High free cash flow can be used for so many interesting things like organic growth, merger and acquisitions or even buybacks and special dividends.

Attached I've compiled a few stocks that offer a free cash flow yield over 5 percent. That’s a good initial yield in my view.

Here are my favorite results...

Oversold Dividend Growth Stocks As Buying Opportunity? Check out These 11 Stocks

A lot of people like to “cheer” for higher prices in the short-term. Yet for the long-term net buyer, it’s lower prices that can provide the ultimate benefit.

This allows you to purchase more shares, which creates more income and a greater underlying earnings claim. Personally when I see lower prices, that’s when I tend to get more interested.

It's a first step to discover those stocks that might get cheaper but you need to discover carefully if there is a reason for the cheapness.

Attached you will find a selection of stocks from the dividend growth space that become cheaper over the recent year.

Here are the stocks I'm talking from...

40 Dividend Stocks With Potential To Boost Future Payments

In volatile markets, investors look for both growth and income in their portfolios. This can be achieved by honing in on companies that not only pay dividends but have been consistently increasing their payout. 

Stocks that have a history of enhancing shareholder returns through consistent dividend hikes make an investor’s portfolio immune to large swings in stock prices in turbulent times.

Simultaneously, these offer outsized payouts or sizable yields on a regular basis irrespective of the market direction. Although these stocks do not necessarily have the highest yields, they are proven outperformers over the long term.

In today's screen you will find a couple of stocks with good potential to hike dividends for the next years. Each of the stocks have attractive fundamentals in my view.

You will find the lists attached at the end of this article. The focus from the screen was growth with solid financials.

Here are the best yielding results in detail....