S&P 500 Stocks at a 10-Year High Dividend Yield
A mechanical filter over every S&P 500 constituent: the trailing twelve months of dividends divided by the latest weekly close, recomputed week by week across ten years. The screen keeps only the names whose current yield is the highest reading of their own decade — a level the market rarely lets a healthy payer reach.
Filter Result
Run of 2026-08-17: 1 of 495 constituents yielded more than any week in their own ten-year history.
1 matches
| Company | Current yield |
|---|---|
| Rollins, Inc.ROL · Consumer Cyclical | 2.02% |
This is a mechanical filter result, not investment advice or a recommendation.
Why a Record Yield Matters
A yield at a ten-year high almost always means the price fell, not that the dividend grew.
Yield Rises When Price Falls
Dividends move once a quarter; prices move every second. When a payer’s yield prints a ten-year high, the usual driver is a collapse in the denominator. The market is pricing in trouble the dividend has not yet acknowledged — sometimes a cut that has not been announced.
How It Is Computed
For each constituent we sum the dividends paid over the trailing 52 weeks and divide by the weekly close, then repeat that calculation for every week of the last ten years. The screen matches when today’s figure exceeds every prior week. Non-payers and stocks without a full decade of history are skipped.
What It Is Not
A record yield is not a promise of income. The trailing dividend is money already paid; the next twelve months can look very different if the board cuts. The filter reads the past and the price, nothing else.
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