“Companies may be only just beginning to catch on to the fact that investors are keenly interested in dividend-paying stocks,” Martin Adams said in a report.
Additionally, potential investors need to be aware that President Barack Obama is calling for higher taxes on dividends. Households earning over $250,000 a year would have to pay almost 40% next year on dividends, compared to the top income rate of 35%, Reuters reports.
U.S. dividend ETFs include:
- First Trust Morningstar Dividend Leaders Index Fund (NYSEArca: FDL)
- First Trust Value Line Dividend Index Fund ETF (NYSEArca: FVD)
- iShares Dow Jones Select Dividend Index ETF (NYSEArca: DVY)
- iShares High Dividend Equity Fund (NYSEArca: HDV)
- PowerShares ETF Trust Dividend Achievers Portfolio (NYSEArca: PFM)
- PowerShares High Yield Equity Dividend Achievers Portfolio (NYSEArca: PEY)
- Schwab US Dividend Equity ETF (NYSEArca: SCHD)
- SPDR S&P Dividend Aristocrats ETF (NYSEArca: SDY)
- Russell Equity Income ETF (NYSEArca: EQIN)
- Vanguard Dividend Appreciation ETF (NYSEArca: VIG)
- Vanguard High Dividend Yield ETF (NYSEArca: VYM)
- WisdomTree Equity Income Fund (NYSEArca: DHS)
- WisdomTree Total Dividend Fund (NYSEArca: DTD)
- WisdomTree LargeCap Dividend Fund (NYSEArca: DLN)
- WisdomTree MidCap Dividend Fund (NYSEArca: DON)
- WisdomTree SmallCap Dividend Fund (NYSEArca: DES)
- WisdomTree Dividend ex-Financials Fund (NYSEArca: DTN)
Some international dividend ETFs:
- EGShares Low Volatility Emerging Markets Dividend ETF (NYSEArca: HILO)
- First Trust Dow Jones Global Select Dividend Index Fund (NYSEArca: FGD)
- First Trust STOXX Euro Select Dividend Index Fund (NYSEArca: FDD)
- Global X SuperDividend ETF (NYSEArca: SDIV)
- Guggenheim ABC High Dividend ETF (NYSEArca: ABCS)
- Guggenheim Multi-Asset Income ETF (NYSEArca: CVY)
- Guggenheim S&P Global Dividend Opportunities Index ETF (NYSEArca: LVL)
- Guggenheim International Multi-Asset Income ETF (NYSEArca: HGI)
- iShares Dow Jones International Select Dividend Income Fund (NYSEArca: IDV)
- PowerShares ETF Trust International Dividend Achievers Portfolio (NYSEArca: PID)
- SPDR S&P International Dividend Fund (NYSEArca: DWX)
- SPDR S&P Emerging Markets Dividend ETF (NYSEArca: EDIV)
- WisdomTree DEFA Fund (NYSEArca: DWM)
- WisdomTree DEFA Equity Income Fund (NYSEArca: DTH)
- WisdomTree Emerging Markets Equity Income Fund (NYSEArca: DEM)
- WisdomTree Emerging Markets SmallCap Dividend Fund (NYSEArca: DGS)
- WisdomTree Global Equity Income Fund (NYSEArca: DEW)
- WisdomTree Global ex-US Utility Fund (NYSEArca: DBU)
- WisdomTree International Dividend ex – Financials (NYSEArca: DOO)
- WisdomTree International LargeCap Dividend Fund (NYSEArca: DOL)
- WisdomTree International MidCap Dividend Fund (NYSEArca: DIM)
- WisdomTree International SmallCap Dividend Fund (NYSEArca: DLS)
- WisdomTree Australia Dividend Fund (NYSEArca: AUSE)
- WisdomTree Europe SmallCap Dividend Fund (NYSEArca: DFE)
- WisdomTree Japan SmallCap Dividend Fund (NYSEArca: DFJ)
- WisdomTree Middle East Dividend Fund (NYSEArca: GULF)
For more information on dividend payers, visit our dividend ETF category.
Max Chen contributed to this article.