The dividend danger zone

The 50 lowest dividend safety scores we track, as of 2026-07-07, updated with every weekly rescore. History is blunt about lists like this: in our testing, about 2 in 5 stocks rated Very Unsafe cut their dividend within a year, and about 1 in 4 rated Unsafe did. A high yield on a stock here is usually the market pricing in the cut before it's announced.

#	Stock	Score	Rating
1	LYBLyondellBasell Industries NV Class A	18.0	Very Unsafe
2	FMXFomento Economico Mexicano S.A.B. de C.V.	33.1	Unsafe
3	VNOMViper Energy	43.2	Borderline
4	BASFYBASF SE	44.5	Borderline
5	CRRFYCarrefour	47.3	Borderline
6	HASIHannon Armstrong Sustainable Infrastructure Capital	48.1	Borderline
7	GISGeneral Mills	49.0	Borderline
8	CWENClearway Energy C	49.5	Borderline
9	REXRRexford Industrial Realty	50.6	Borderline
10	NLSNNielsen N.V.	51.4	Borderline
11	PBRPetroleo Brasileiro S.A.- Petrobras	51.6	Borderline
12	EQNREqinor ASA	51.8	Borderline
13	DDominion Energy	52.7	Borderline
14	ENBEnbridge	53.0	Borderline
15	BTIBritish American Tobacco Industries p.l.c. ADR	53.7	Borderline
16	FPIFarmland Partners	53.8	Borderline
17	FROFrontline	53.9	Borderline
18	VICIVICI Properties	54.4	Borderline
19	AFGAmerican Financial Group	54.4	Borderline
20	ABEVAmbev S.A. American Depositary Shares	54.5	Borderline
21	TRNTrinity Industries	55.1	Borderline
22	FDPFresh Del Monte Produce	55.2	Borderline
23	ORealty Income	55.4	Borderline
24	PEPPepsiCo	55.7	Borderline
25	BAMBrookfield Asset Management	55.8	Borderline
26	EQHAXA Equitable Holdings	55.8	Borderline
27	BNLBroadstone Net Lease Inc -	55.8	Borderline
28	APDAir Products and Chemicals	55.8	Borderline
29	CUBECubeSmart	55.9	Borderline
30	GTYGetty Realty	56.1	Borderline
31	MOAltria Group	56.2	Borderline
32	OKEONEOK	56.3	Borderline
33	EXRExtra Space Storage	56.4	Borderline
34	NEENextEra Energy	56.5	Borderline
35	WECWEC Energy Group	56.6	Borderline
36	CVXChevron	56.6	Borderline
37	OHIOmega Healthcare Investors	57.1	Borderline
38	PAYXPaychex	57.2	Borderline
39	WPCW.P. Carey Inc. REIT	57.2	Borderline
40	EXCExelon	57.3	Borderline
41	YUMCYum China Holdings	57.4	Borderline
42	VZVerizon Communications	57.6	Borderline
43	BMYBristol-Myers Squibb	57.8	Borderline
44	TRGPTarga Resources	58.1	Borderline
45	AMTAmerican Tower Corporation	58.2	Borderline
46	FDXFedEx	58.3	Borderline
47	AWRAmerican States Water	59.1	Borderline
48	AMHAmerican Homes 4 Rent of Beneficial Interest	59.1	Borderline
49	BBarrick Mining	59.2	Borderline
50	NJRNewJersey Resources	59.2	Borderline

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