The dividend danger zone

The 50 lowest dividend safety scores we track, as of 2026-08-16, 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	UUUUniversal Security Instruments	6.5	Very Unsafe
2	STLAPStellantis	7.8	Very Unsafe
3	BMNRBitmine Immersion Technologies	8.7	Very Unsafe
4	TCPCBlackrock TCP Capital	10.9	Very Unsafe
5	OFSOFS Capital	10.9	Very Unsafe
6	MNRMonmouth Real Estate Investment Corporation	11.1	Very Unsafe
7	MVOMV Oil Trust	11.1	Very Unsafe
8	BGSB&G Foods	11.6	Very Unsafe
9	FMCFMC	12.2	Very Unsafe
10	PNNTPennantPark Investment	12.4	Very Unsafe
11	AIVApartment Investment and Management	12.5	Very Unsafe
12	LXLexinFintech Holdings	12.8	Very Unsafe
13	LFTLument Finance Trust	13.1	Very Unsafe
14	NMFCNew Mountain Finance	13.2	Very Unsafe
15	BRE-CTBridgemarq Real Estate Services	13.3	Very Unsafe
16	SCMStellus Capital Investment	13.4	Very Unsafe
17	UWMCUWM Holdings Corporation -	13.5	Very Unsafe
18	FS5A.FFS KKR Capital	13.6	Very Unsafe
19	PTEC-LNPlaytech	13.6	Very Unsafe
20	STLAStellantis N.V	13.9	Very Unsafe
21	PUM.XETRAPUMA SE	13.9	Very Unsafe
22	NHTCNatural Health Trends	14.1	Very Unsafe
23	OXLCOxford Lane Capital	14.1	Very Unsafe
24	RWAYRunway Growth Finance	14.2	Very Unsafe
25	NEDSE.ASMKB NedSense N.V.	14.2	Very Unsafe
26	HRZNHorizon Technology Finance	14.3	Very Unsafe
27	ERA.PAEramet	14.3	Very Unsafe
28	FSKFS KKR Capital	14.7	Very Unsafe
29	OWQArbor Realty Trust	14.9	Very Unsafe
30	ABRArbor Realty Trust	15.0	Very Unsafe
31	WHFWhiteHorse Finance	15.0	Very Unsafe
32	OXSQOxford Square Capital	15.2	Very Unsafe
33	GECCGreat Elm Capital	15.2	Very Unsafe
34	PSBDPalmer Square Capital BDC	15.5	Very Unsafe
35	SGASaga Communications	15.6	Very Unsafe
36	RRTL.FRTL Group	15.6	Very Unsafe
37	CGBDTCG BDC	15.8	Very Unsafe
38	RCH-LNReach	15.8	Very Unsafe
39	IEPIcahn Enterprises	16.1	Very Unsafe
40	CCOICogent Communications Holdings	16.4	Very Unsafe
41	SARSaratoga Investment	16.5	Very Unsafe
42	ORCOrchid Island Capital	16.5	Very Unsafe
43	SACHSachem Capital	16.7	Very Unsafe
44	CIONCION Invt	16.8	Very Unsafe
45	TPVGTriplePoint Venture Growth BDC	17.1	Very Unsafe
46	IVRINVESCO MORTGAGE CAPITAL	17.2	Very Unsafe
47	SUNSSolar Senior Capital	17.3	Very Unsafe
48	CLI-LNCLS Holdings	17.3	Very Unsafe
49	SSTKShutterstock	17.5	Very Unsafe
50	RGPResources Connection	17.6	Very Unsafe

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