Actually yield varies according to the price you paid for the share. While most people decide based on 1st year expected yields based on current share prices. Continuous dividends actually increases your yield year by year since you purchase price is reduced based on every dividend you received.

Ultimately, the investment pays for itself eventually just by holding on to it. And from then on, its basically free money every year. Though on average, most dividend paying companies are priced where it takes at least 10 years to recoup your capital if based on current prices. But price appreciation along the way affected by their growth will help reduce that time needed to recoup the cost of purchase.

At least that is how I see it. Anyone thinks the same?

NCB 7.5-8.0%
UAC 7%
PARAMON 6-7%
ZHULIAN 6.5%
WTHORSE 6.0-6.5%

hi
I guess you are asking for the highest dividend yield.
One way to know is  to look at The Star newspaper at the Daily stock price and you can find the DY column
The last look  I have I have the following result:

CCB      29.3 %   (CYCLE & CARRIAGE BINTANG BERHAD)
KLK        21.2%
UTDPLNT  17.3%
BKAWAN   16.1%
AIRB      14.1%
BJTOTO  13.7%
Kulim      12.7%

I might had miss a few... but you can always double check it.
It look like Plantation tops the list

DiGi is the king of Dividend Stocks. Soon it will going to share-split 10 to 1 even more affordable now....

I always refer to the dividend yield of the share and compare that with FD rates.

No point referring to dividend paid becuase how much returns you get is always relative to what you put in.

With the exception of REITS, stocks like Digi, Carlsberg give very good and CONSISTENT returns.

The emphasis here is CONSISTENCY i.e. they allocate significant amount of profits for dividend payments and have been doing it for at least 5 to 10 years. If the stocks meet these criteria then only I buy.

By the way, I did not buy AsiAsia for the dividends, it is an interesting and promising business, but no strong div track record.

Personally I don't really like REITs quite difficult to sell, trade volumes are very low.

... my 2 cents ....

Wanting to buy BAT & Nestle but elections are coming probably...then wait for it to drop and buy back?

Btw, do any of you have a website or any links that help chart the growth of the shares throughout years/months?

Thanks!