Investors searching for dividends rarely look among the swashbuckling denizens of the tech sector for their payouts. But maybe they should.
Stocks in the information technology sector of the S&P 500 will contribute 15.1% of more than $627 billion in annual dividends expected from companies in the index this year – second only to financial stocks. (Utilities, the quintessential dividend sector, will contribute just 5.5%.) There's also a growing contribution from so-called tech-plus companies – those that don't fall within S&P's official info-tech grouping, but which investors often include under a broad "tech stock" umbrella.
