BGFV - Expect U.S. stocks to lead the charge on post-pandemic dividend payouts: At the Open

Investors have the most confidence in S&P 500 (SP500) (NYSEARCA:SPY) companies getting profits back to pre-pandemic levels and returning cash to shareholders, DataTrek Research says. Eleven companies tracked by SA contributor FerdiS in Dividend Radar boosted their payouts last week. And from a global perspective DataTrek illustrates why the U.S. will continue to take the lead. The S&P has a four-quarter trailing yield of 1.3% using payouts from the iShares Core S&P 500 ETF (NYSEARCA:IVV) as a proxy. IVV's 2019 payouts show a yield of 1.4%, which is 8% higher. "This signals the market’s confidence (entirely correct, given the last 2 quarters of reported earnings) that payouts will soon equal 2019 levels," DataTrek writes. Among global indices: MSCI All-World Index (NASDAQ:ACWI) has 12-month trailing yield of 1.4%, 2019 yield of 1.8%, a gap of 29%. MSCI All-World Index ex-U.S. (NASDAQ:ACWX) has 12-month of 2%, 2019 yield of 2.8%, a gap

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Expect U.S. stocks to lead the charge on post-pandemic dividend payouts: At the Open