The Home Depot logo will be exhibited in front of a business in San Diego, California on March 10, 2025.
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The income of large US companies and the uncertainty in relation to the tariffs continued to work this week. While the stock market is still volatile, investors who are looking for constant returns could give their portfolios some attractive dividend shares.
In this regard, stock selection on TOP Wall Street analysts can be helpful, since the recommendations of these experts are based on a detailed analysis of the financial data of a company and the ability to pay dividends.
Here are three dividend playing shares that are highlighted by the top professionals of Wall Street, as followed by Tipranks, a platform that analysts based on their past performance.
Home Depot
The first dividend selection of this week is Home Depot (HD). The retailer for the home improvement reported mixed results for the first quarter of the 2025 financial year, but confirmed the guidance of the overall year. The company expressed its intention to maintain its prices and not to increase it in response to tariffs.
Home Depot declared a dividend of $ 2.30 per share for the first quarter of 2025, which is to be paid on June 18, 2025. With an annualized dividend of $ 9.20 per share, HD shares offers a dividend yield of 2.5%.
According to the results of the Q1 FY25, the evercore analyst Greg Melich confirmed a merchant for HD shares with a price target of $ 400. The analyst believes that the risk/reward profile of the Home Depot share is one of the best in the reporting of Evercore.
Melich claims that the headlines of Home Depot, although it usually appears, is of the opinion that remarkable diffraction has started. The analyst emphasized certain positive positive positive achievements in the Q1 performance of Home Depot, including the stabilization of the traffic, improving the shrinking (inventory lost for theft or other reasons) and the acceleration of online sales growth to 8% after it had remained 5% in the third quarter since the second quarter.
“HD remains a benchmark retailer who invests in technology, multichannel and shops, even if the current demand is still low,” Melich concluded. He continues to believe that Home Depot in 2023 and Walmart could be the “next big consumer/retail outbreak” area like Costco in 2024 as soon as the macro environment has improved.
Melich ranks 607 among more than 9,500 analysts, which were followed by Tipranks. His reviews were profitable in 68% of the cases and provided an average return of 12%. See Home Depot owner structure on Tipranks.
Diamondback -Energie
Next on the list of this week is the list Diamondback -Energie ((Catch) An independent oil and gas company that focuses on Onshore reserves, mainly in the Perm basin in West texas. Fang delivered better than expected results in the first quarter. In view of the ongoing volatility of the raw material price, Diamondback reduced the activity of the year as a whole to maximize the generation of the Free Cashflow.
In the meantime, the company returned 864 million US dollars of stock returns and a basic dividend of USD per share in the first quarter of 2025 million. Fangs Q1 2025 capital return made around 55% of the adjusted free cash flow. Based on the basic and variable dividends paid in the past 12 months, Fang Stock offers a dividend yield of almost 3.9%.
In a recently carried out research note, the RBC capital analyst Scott Hanold confirmed a merchanting for catch shares with a price target of $ 180. Hanold stated that the company reduced its capital budget from 2025 by $ 400 million or 10% to 3.4 to 3.8 billion US dollars, but the production outlook was only reduced by 1%.
The analyst said that Diamondback increased its free cash flow estimate by 7% in the next 18 months. Hanold believes that the company's decision will not deviate its operational dynamics or the ability to return to its productive capacity of 500 MB/D.
Hanold commented on Free Cashflow's priorities and found that thanks to the withdrawal of the shares, mainly at the beginning of April, the company traces the shares before buying back shares. He expects the company to use the remaining Free Cashflow to pay the runtime loan of $ 1.5 billion in connection with its double Eagle-IV acquisition in the Midland Basin, which was announced in February.
Overall, Hanold's bullish thesis on catch shares remains intact, and he believes that “catches one of the lowest cost structures in the pool and a cash flow break-even (including dividend) that is one of the best in the industry”.
Hanold is number 17 among more than 9,500 analysts, which were followed by Tipranks. His reviews were profitable 67% of cases and provided an average return of 29.1%. See Diamondback Energy Insider Trade Activity on Tipranks.
Conocophillips
Another dividend-paying energy status in the list of this week is conocophillips (POLICEMAN). The oil and gas exploration and production company reported in the first quarter of 2025 cross-market profits. In view of a volatile macrouamp field, the company reduced its total capital and the adjusted operating costs instructions, but retained its production prospects.
In the first quarter of 2025, conocophillips distributed 2.5 billion US dollars to shareholders, including 1.5 billion US dollars of stock returns and 1.0 billion US dollars via decent dividends. With a quarterly dividend of $ 0.78 per share (annualized dividend of USD 3.12), the COP shares offers a return of around 3.7%.
After investor meetings with the management in Boston, Neil Mehta, analyst by Goldman Sachs, confirmed a merchant for COP shares with a price target of $ 119. Mehta emphasized that management sees a considerable uncertainty of oil prices at short notice due to concerns regarding economic growth and voluntary production cuts through Opec+. However, the company is optimistic about long -term gas prices.
In the meantime, the analyst expects COPS BREAKEVEN in the coming times, with important growth projects being on the right track. Mehta explained that the benchmark price of Westtexas intermediate crude oil -also known as WTI -Breakeven (before the dividend) in 2025 in the middle of 40, he sees that the Breakeven in the direction of the low $ 30 $ after the Breaken -LNG expenditure of COP will occur in 2029.
Mehta commented on the shareholders of COP and explained that management recognized that their decision not to adhere to the capital return of $ 10 billion led to short-term volatility of the cop shares. Nevertheless, COP still offers a “convincing” return that Mehta will be 8%.
Mehta is among more than 9,500 analysts persecuted by Tipranks, number 568. His reviews were successful in 59% of the cases and provided an average return of 8.6%. See conocophillips hedge -fund activities on Tipranks.