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    The 5 Highest-Yielding Warren Buffett Dividend Stocks

    by Dan Burrows, Contributing Writer, Kiplinger.com Sep 17, 2018 4 minutes

    Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.B) famously doesn't pay dividends - it has better ways to use its cash - but Chairman and CEO Warren Buffett sure loves collecting them.

    The great majority of the stocks in Berkshire Hathaway's portfolio are dividend payers. And, indeed, all of Berkshire's top 10 holdings - from Apple (AAPL) to Moody's Corporation (MCO) to Southwest Airlines (LUV) - pay dividends.

    Yields on these names are another matter. Buffett doesn't reach for yield any more than he chases performance. Apple, his favorite, sports of dividend yield of just 1.3% these days.

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