Best high free-cash-flow yield stocks for 2026: capital returners

Name: Best high free-cash-flow yield stocks — top 25 list
Creator: StockMarketAgent.AI
Published: 2026-08-07
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Free cash flow yield (FCF divided by market cap) is the closest single screen for 'how much actual cash is the business spinning off relative to my purchase price'. A yield of 6% or higher is well above the 10-year Treasury for most of the post-2008 period and meaningfully above S&P 500 average earnings yield, which is why the cohort tends to be where capital returners (buybacks + dividends) cluster. The list below filters for the cohort with positive FCF (so the yield isn't a math artifact) and market cap at or above $1B (so the result is not drowning in micro-cap signal noise).

How we picked: Cohort: FCF yield at least 6%, FCF positive, market cap at least $1B. Sorted by market cap descending.

Source snapshot 2026-08-07 · freshness SLO 72 hours.

01
SKHYSK hynix Inc.
FCF yield of 8.4% with positive free cash flow at Technology exposure.
766.10B KRW
02
BACBank of America Corporation
FCF yield of 21.5% with positive free cash flow at Financials exposure.
440.54B USD
03
CVXChevron Corporation
FCF yield of 7.3% with positive free cash flow at Energy exposure.
371.27B USD
04
UNHUnitedHealth Group Incorporated
FCF yield of 6.4% with positive free cash flow at Healthcare exposure.
366.86B USD
05
SHELShell plc
FCF yield of 12.7% with positive free cash flow at Energy exposure.
247.92B USD
06
AXPAmerican Express Company
FCF yield of 6.5% with positive free cash flow at Financials exposure.
231.36B USD
07
IBMInternational Business Machines Corporation
FCF yield of 6.3% with positive free cash flow at Technology exposure.
219.92B USD
08
VZVerizon Communications Inc.
FCF yield of 11.0% with positive free cash flow at Communication Services exposure.
195.23B USD
09
TMUST-Mobile US, Inc.
FCF yield of 9.5% with positive free cash flow at Communication Services exposure.
193.05B USD
10
TTETotalEnergies SE
FCF yield of 9.1% with positive free cash flow at Energy exposure.
190.92B USD
11
SNDKSandisk Corporation
FCF yield of 6.1% with positive free cash flow at Technology exposure.
187.53B USD
12
QCOMQUALCOMM Incorporated
FCF yield of 6.1% with positive free cash flow at Technology exposure.
171.31B USD
13
BUDAnheuser-Busch InBev SA/NV
FCF yield of 8.2% with positive free cash flow at Consumer Staples exposure.
166.85B USD
14
TAT&T Inc.
FCF yield of 10.9% with positive free cash flow at Communication Services exposure.
162.47B USD
15
GILDGilead Sciences, Inc.
FCF yield of 8.0% with positive free cash flow at Healthcare exposure.
162.40B USD
16
UBSUBS Group AG
FCF yield of 7.3% with positive free cash flow at Financials exposure.
162.21B USD
17
BBVABanco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria, S.A.
FCF yield of 24.4% with positive free cash flow at Financials exposure.
156.83B EUR
18
BKNGBooking Holdings Inc.
FCF yield of 6.1% with positive free cash flow at Consumer Discretionary exposure.
155.83B USD
19
CRMSalesforce, Inc.
FCF yield of 9.6% with positive free cash flow at Technology exposure.
152.96B USD
20
PFEPfizer Inc.
FCF yield of 7.4% with positive free cash flow at Healthcare exposure.
149.33B USD
21
UBERUber Technologies, Inc.
FCF yield of 7.0% with positive free cash flow at Technology exposure.
143.94B USD
22
COPConocoPhillips
FCF yield of 7.1% with positive free cash flow at Energy exposure.
142.25B USD
23
ULUnilever PLC
FCF yield of 6.1% with positive free cash flow at Consumer Staples exposure.
136.41B EUR
24
COFCapital One Financial Corporation
FCF yield of 22.0% with positive free cash flow at Financials exposure.
134.97B USD
25
LMTLockheed Martin Corporation
FCF yield of 6.5% with positive free cash flow at Industrials exposure.
134.52B USD

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