6 BEST Dividend Stocks to Buy & Hold FOREVER (Ultimate Cash Flow 2025)

Dividend stocks are literally the cheat code in investing. It's the only actual passive income in the entire world. You buy the asset now, and within a few years, that asset not only grows in share price, but it also spits out some nice cash flow for you to start paying your bills with, or you could choose to make it an investing superpower called the dividend snowball, where those dividends start buying even more shares of the company or ETF, which is gonna make you very rich very quick. In order to build the best list of the top six dividends to buy now in 2025 and hold forever, I wanted to pick a couple high-dividend producers and many from differing sectors so that you're well-diversified and safe. 2025 should be a volatile year, and so putting all of your eggs in any one basket, which means putting them all in technology stocks or healthcare stocks or something like that is a very bad idea. My name's Nolan Gouveia. My students call me Professor G, and I made this channel to make investing simplified. So let's just jump right into it. The first stock comes from everybody's favorite sector, and that's the technology sector, and this one has a lower total dividend, but it has great price appreciation, which means that the stock keeps growing, and so does your portfolio, but also the actual growth rate on the dividend itself is skyrocketing. This one is one of the largest holdings in my portfolio, and this is none other than Microsoft. Microsoft is one of the largest companies in the world by market cap, solid competitive advantage in multiple ways, but most notably, AI. It's got very sticky products and happy customers. Microsoft's had a five-year dividend compounded annual growth rate of 10.26%, which just means that on average, the dividend has grown, increased by 10.26% each and every single year consecutively. So if you hold the stock, not only do you get a dividend and that dividend yield that was stated when you bought it, but that dividend is actually growing, and so you got to buy it at a much smaller share price, got to buy the dividend in at a much smaller share price, and now it's grown, so that's an extra bonus for those of you that pick dividends and hold them longer term. You're gonna hear this compounded annual growth rate referred to as CAGR, and that's what that means. This is a metric that I seek out when I'm looking for new dividend stocks to hold forever. Microsoft has a 10-year CAGR of 10.35% and a total revenue growth of 14.57%. The stock price has risen over 161% in the past five years, and the dividend still continues to grow. The current price is $421.50. Over the last year, it's up over 12%. That dividend yield is a little bit smaller, but it's at 0.79%, and that dividend growth streak is 19 years, meaning that Microsoft has not only had a dividend and issued a dividend for those 19 years, but each and every year, it's grown even more, and I don't see that slowing up. The next stock comes from one of the biggest possible growing sectors over the next decade, and this one is energy, and specifically renewable energy. NextEra Energy, NEE, has developed one of the largest portfolios of solar and wind power assets worldwide. This segment is gained from the shift away from polluting carbon fuels toward cleaner, renewable energy sources. Given the long-term nature of the power transition, the company is poised for continued growth over the coming decades. In the past 12 months, the stock has delivered a nearly 19% return to shareholders. NEE has a 29-year dividend growth. The current price is $71.69. The dividend yield is 2.87%, and the five-year dividend CAGR is 10.51%. 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The next stock is just a solid cash-flowing behemoth, but I'm interested to hear from you. What's your number one dividend stock to invest in in 2025? Comment that down below so that we can start a nice list for all the viewers of this video. But this next one is one in the energy sector as well, which President Trump vows to make skyrocket this year, and this one is Chevron, CVX. Warren Buffett and Berkshire Hathaway own huge positions in Chevron and OXY, which is another oil giant. Warren Buffett's position in Chevron is currently worth $17.2 billion. Everyone seems to be moving towards that future of the EV train or the electric or sustainable energy train, which is going to be a thing in the future, but for now, it's not the only thing, and people are forgetting that we still need those regular gasoline fuels, and even into the future, there's gonna be certain things that need gas. Like, I don't see a huge rocket going off to the moon with a battery. I also don't see huge cruise liners or even trains being fully powered by battery. Chevron's a dividend aristocrat, also one of the most stable dividend growth companies in the energy sector, having grown its dividend for 37 consecutive years. Now, Chevron is down 2.9% year to date, which is a good time for investors to be buying. Over the last five years, it's up almost 25%. The current price is $144.84. The dividend yield is nice and high at 4.5%. The five-year dividend CAGR is 6.49%, and the PE ratio's at 15, which is a very nice valuation and probably why Buffett likes it so much right now. The next stock to be sure and own is one from the financial sector, which is just a great sector to own and then something to just have solid and steady in your portfolio, but specifically when you're looking at a dividend-paying stock, you want something that's gonna be sustainable and not go up too high or go down too low because you wanna be able to count on that dividend. To be extra safe, I picked a company that has no long-term debt on their balance sheet because that's just gonna keep you incredibly safe. T. Rowe Price Group Inc., T-R-O-W, is an asset management company that offers a wide range of related products and services to its consumers. The company declared that its assets under management increased to 1.67 trillion in November from 1.61 trillion in October. It's focused on building its own ETF business and has been branching out into high-demand sectors like alternative investments. With no long-term debt on its balance sheet, it also has considerable flexibility to make adjustments as needed. In the past year, the stock has surged by over 5%. The current price of T-R-O-W is $113.09. The dividend yield is very high at 4.39%. That five-year dividend CAGR is amazing at 10.29%. It has a 27-year dividend growth streak, and the P-E ratio is nice and low at 12.4. Those numbers are some of the best that I've found all around. High dividend, great five-year CAGR, 27 years of consistent dividend growth, and a P-E under 15, that's all a lock for me. This next stock is also in the financial industry, and pretty much anybody that you talk to who's a serious dividend investor loves this stock for their portfolio and usually has it as a core position in their dividend portfolio. Visa, Inc., ticker symbol V, is a multinational payment card service provider based in the United States that facilitates electronic fund transfers across the globe. The company also provides commercial patent solutions, sells cards, has virtual cards, and offers B2B payment options. What I like about Visa is that they've been accelerating the digital payment section of their business and have some exciting stuff coming out this year. The current price is $316.04, and it's up over 21% this year. The dividend yield is lower at only 0.75%, but look at the dividend growth average, that's massive. The five-year dividend CAGR is 15.41% with a 16-year dividend growth streak, I love it. That dividend rating is a 98 from Snowball Analytics, which is one of the highest I've seen. Over the last five years, the company's share price has grown 63%, so that coupled with the crazy high average dividend growth rate each year makes this one another lock for me. The last stock that I wanna highlight here is one from the technology sector, but not just technology. One of the hottest parts of technology and the sector that's expected to boom the most over the next decade, and that's AI and semiconductors. This one's not only an amazing dividend stock, but also just a growth stock in general, and it has been on fire. This company's a bit of a sleeper because Nvidia and Taiwan Semiconductor are taking up all the spotlight in the semiconductor sector, but this one, I actually like for investors more than both of those. Broadcom Inc., AVGO, is a multinational tech company that specializes in semiconductors and related products. As you can see here, over the past five years, this thing has gone straight up. It's up over 674% in that time period. The five-year dividend CAGR is 7.12%. By 2027, Broadcom's addressable market at its three main XPU customers will grow to between $60 billion and $90 billion, up from just $12.2 billion in AI chip revenue in the fiscal year of 2024. The current price is $231.84. The dividend yield is at 1.02%, and over the last year, it's up over 100%. Watch either of these two videos to keep you going strong in your investing this year in 2025, and remember to comment down below what your favorite dividend stock is for this year. Thanks for watching.