Methodology: How we selected Canada’s best dividend stocks of 2025

In each of those, we assigned three points based on publicly available data:

• The yield assessment reflects each the present dividend yield and the expansion of the dividend during the last five years.
• The stability assessment Considers corporate debt ratios, return on equity, five-year earnings growth and the ratio of earnings per share to dividends.
• The review rating takes into consideration the stock’s earnings yield (the inverse of price-to-sales ratio) and price-to-books value.

We then added all three scores together to find out each stock’s overall rating, allowing each stock’s return and stability scores to be weighted and given a 20% weighting for the rating. The data used to value the securities was collected and current as of November 29, 2024.

The full list of Top 100 Dividend Stocks represents the bottom rating of 100 stocks out of the 168 eligible. Top performers earn the bottom scores, reflecting their relative rating on each of the factors.

From this we derived the letter system and the A-Team and B-Team of the 20 best dividend stocks in Canada, that are listed in our Best Dividend Stocks in Canada for 2025 Overview. The A-Team corporations scored well on all three criteria. The B Team represents corporations worthy of filling the equity sector gaps in a portfolio. Companies with higher scores were typically now not required to make use of a number of of our metrics, but they still needed to attribute those excluded from the list of 100. Note that this system doesn’t bear in mind all features of a stock’s suitability to your portfolio. It doesn’t bear in mind aspects corresponding to the standard of an organization’s management, brand equity, or whether the corporate has a competitive “moat.” These best dividend stocks we have identified needs to be a start line for further due diligence. To see how our 2024 top dividend stocks performed, try the highest dividend summary.

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About Michael McCullough

Michael is a financial author and editor based in Duncan, BC, and is the previous executive director of Canadian Business and editorial director of Canada Wide Media. He also writes for the Globe, Mail and Bcbusiness.