Verizon and 4 Other Stocks With 5% Yields—and Market-Beating Returns

It isn’t easy to find attractive dividend yields right now, and it’s even harder to find high-yielding stocks that don’t look like yield traps. The S&P 500 is up a solid 8.7%, but that growth, along with the popularity of dividend-averse tech stocks, has pushed the yield on the close to 1%—near record lows.