Should You Buy the 3 Highest-Paying Dividend Stocks in the Dow Jones?

Verizon (NYSE: VZ) is currently the highest-yielding stock in the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJINDICES: ^DJI), and it isn't even close. The wireless carrier is shelling out 6.3% of its market cap a year to its shareholders, 200 basis points higher than any of the 29 other stocks in the iconic index.Chevron (NYSE: CVX) and Merck (NYSE: MRK) are the only other Dow 30 components yielding north of 4%. With the leading money market rates now buckling below the 4% mark, it could be a good time for income investors to consider high-yielding Dow stocks. The risks are clearly there in swapping fixed-income investments for equities, but the ideal scenario in the process is the upside of the potential capital appreciation.Let's take a closer look at the three Dow stocks with the chunkiest payouts. Sometimes the risks outweigh the potential rewards.Continue readingWeiter zum vollständigen Artikel bei MotleyFool Weiter zum vollständigen Artikel bei MotleyFool