The bull market that has been charging for the past year has seen a surge in volatility recently. The Chinese startup DeepSeek released its

Fact checked by Peter Gratton Some aristocrats actually like sharing the wealth. In fact, dividend aristocrats share more and more every year. A dividend aristocrat is an S&P 500 company that has increased its dividend annually for at least 25 years,

AGNC Investment (NASDAQ: AGNC) has maintained its monster dividend (14.5% current yield) for 58 months in a row. The mortgage-focused real estate investment trust (REIT) believes that streak will continue.

These four top dividend stocks offer dependable passive income streams and solid total return, and they are too cheap to ignore any longer.

Brookfield Infrastructure's organic growth drivers helped fuel strong results last year. They gave it the fuel to increase its high-yielding dividend by another 6%. The company has ample catalysts to continue growing at a healthy rate over the next few years.

The annualized dividend paid by AbbVie is $6.56/share, currently paid in quarterly installments, and its most recent dividend ex-date was on 01/15/2025

Berkshire began buying Chevron in the fourth quarter of 2020, ramping its position to a peak of 165.36 million shares in the third quarter of 2022. The position has come down since, but Chevron remains a core Berkshire holding -- currently its fifth largest by value.