The Best Performing Dividend Stocks over the Last 10 Years

Updated as of: September 12, 2025

Dividend income composes a major part of equity investing over the long run; 35% of all stocks listed on major US exchanges pay a dividend, making for plenty of options to take advantage of periodic earnings distributions.

With more than one-third of U.S. stock market total returns since 1930 having been produced by dividends, it’s no surprise that a common investment objective is dividend income.

To help advisors make more informed decisions about which stocks to consider for client portfolios, this article contains the best-performing dividend stocks from the last year all the way back to the past decade, with data routinely updated by YCharts.

To create this list, we used the YCharts Stock Screener to find the best-performing dividend yielding stocks on the S&P High Yield Dividend Aristocrats Index over a 1-year, 3-year, 5-year, and 10-year basis.

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• Best-Performing Dividend Stocks in the Last Year
• Best-Performing Dividend Stocks in the Last 3 Years
• Best-Performing Dividend Stocks in the Last 5 Years
• Best-Performing Dividend Stocks in the Last 10 Years
• What Was the Growth of $10,000 Over the Last 10 Years?

Best Performing Dividend Stocks in the Last Year

These are the top-performing dividend stocks over the past year, as of August 31, 2025.

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Best Performing Dividend Stocks in the Last 3 Years

These are the top-performing dividend stocks on an annualized basis between September 1st, 2022 and August 31, 2025.

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Best Performing Dividend Stocks in the Last 5 Years

These are the top-performing dividend stocks on an annualized basis between September 1, 2020 and August 31, 2025.

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Best Performing Dividend Stocks in the Last 10 Years

These are the top-performing dividend stocks on an annualized basis between September 1, 2015 and August 31, 2025.

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What Was the Growth of $10,000 in the Top Dividend Stocks Over the Last 10 Years?

If you invested $10,000 ten years ago into any of the ten best-performing dividend stocks over the last 10 years, your total return would be no less than $66K.

The best-performing dividend stock in the last 10 years was Texas Pacific Land Corp (TPL). A $10,000 investment into TPL 10 years ago would be worth $262,000 today on a total return basis. Right behind TPL was Microsoft Corp (MSFT); investing $10,000 into MSFT back in 2015 would’ve turned into $133,610 with dividend reinvestment.

The four best-performing stocks on the S&P High Yield Dividend Aristocrat index each achieved over $100,000 in value on a $10K investment ten years ago, with dividends reinvested.

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