As a group, dividend stocks have underperformed the broader equities market by a considerable margin this year. With artificial intelligence (AI) stocks delivering exponential share price returns, and yields on 10-year Treasury notes surging north of 5%, even the highest-yielding dividend stocks have found it difficult to capture investors' attention in 2023.
That said, there are now some bargains worth scooping up among dividend stocks - and Wall Street analysts have recently grown notably more bullish toward at least one of these deeply discounted dividend-paying names in recent weeks.
