stocks paying high dividend yields could become increasingly important for investors portfolios according to trivariate research founder and ceo adam parker highyielding stocks outperformed the market as the dotcom bubble burst and the federal reserve cut rates the former morgan stanley chief equity strategist said in a recent note with the current higher interest rate environment dividendyielding assets may become key to portfolio construction parker said over the longterm dividends represent 35 of all equity returns but in the last decade have only averaged 16 low 10year government bond yields are potentially the reason parker wrote we suspect dividends could matter more for equity returns in the next decade than the last more in line with longterm averages the research firm gave a list of stocks that have grown their dividends for 10 straight years and are in the top half of its quantitative model take a look at some of the names and where analysts see them going forward energy company chevron  the largest marketcap company on the list offers a dividend yield of 37 the company released preliminary secondquarter earnings results ahead of its actual announcement on friday chevron said it issued 28 billion in dividends and share repurchases of 44 billion in the latest quarter almost 50 of analysts covering the stock have either a strong buy or buy rating on shares according to refinitiv shares are down 94 year to date telecommunications giant verizon also made the cut the telecom giant has a dividend yield of 76 the company posted mixed results for the second quarter posting 121 in earnings per share excluding items compared to analysts forecast for 117 per share according to factset revenue of 326 billion was below expectations for 333 billion to be sure 20 of the 29 analysts covering the stock rate it a hold according to refinitiv the average price target on shares suggests about 21 upside shares are down 13 in 2023 another name on trivariates list philip morris  could rally almost 17 in the coming months according to analysts polled by refinitiv the tobacco giant pays a dividend yield of 52 threequarters of analysts covering the company have either a strong buy or buy rating on shares per refinitiv philip morris recently posted an earnings beat in the latest quarter which ceo jacek olczak attributed to smokefree product growth the stock has declined 4 year to date ibm is another high and steady yielding stock named by trivariate with a dividend yield of 47 the company recently reported an earnings beat in the second quarter but missed on revenue shares have traded near the flatline in 2023 —cnbcs michael bloom contributed to this report