Best of / best-high-fcf-yield-stocks Best high free-cash-flow yield stocks for 2026: capital returners 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 2026-10-28 · freshness SLO 72 hours.
01 FCF yield of 8.5% with positive free cash flow at Technology exposure.
913.22B KRW 02 UNH UnitedHealth Group Incorporated FCF yield of 6.1% with positive free cash flow at Healthcare exposure.
365.18B USD 03 BAC Bank of America Corporation FCF yield of 26.8% with positive free cash flow at Financials exposure.
352.37B USD 04 FCF yield of 10.5% with positive free cash flow at Energy exposure.
301.57B USD 05 IBM International Business Machines Corporation FCF yield of 6.2% with positive free cash flow at Technology exposure.
239.50B USD 06 FCF yield of 7.2% with positive free cash flow at Industrials exposure.
233.03B USD 07 AXP American Express Company FCF yield of 6.5% with positive free cash flow at Financials exposure.
213.58B USD 08 FCF yield of 8.4% with positive free cash flow at Energy exposure.
208.41B USD 09 FCF yield of 7.6% with positive free cash flow at Technology exposure.
199.56B USD 10 GILD Gilead Sciences, Inc. FCF yield of 6.5% with positive free cash flow at Healthcare exposure.
197.28B USD 11 VZ Verizon Communications Inc. FCF yield of 12.3% with positive free cash flow at Communication Services exposure.
178.90B USD 12 FCF yield of 6.6% with positive free cash flow at Healthcare exposure.
167.91B USD 13 FCF yield of 6.7% with positive free cash flow at Healthcare exposure.
166.04B DKK 14 BUD Anheuser-Busch InBev SA/NV FCF yield of 8.6% with positive free cash flow at Consumer Staples exposure.
160.13B USD 15 FCF yield of 11.6% with positive free cash flow at Communication Services exposure.
158.39B USD 16 SCHW The Charles Schwab Corporation FCF yield of 7.0% with positive free cash flow at Financials exposure.
153.65B USD 17 SONY Sony Group Corporation FCF yield of 6.9% with positive free cash flow at Technology exposure.
144.32B JPY 18 FCF yield of 8.0% with positive free cash flow at Technology exposure.
144.28B USD 19 FCF yield of 8.2% with positive free cash flow at Financials exposure.
143.22B USD 20 FCF yield of 12.7% with positive free cash flow at Communication Services exposure.
139.51B USD 21 BBVA Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria, S.A. FCF yield of 26.9% with positive free cash flow at Financials exposure.
135.75B EUR 22 PBR.A Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. - Petrobras FCF yield of 14.3% with positive free cash flow at Energy exposure.
135.71B BRL 23 PBR Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. - Petrobras FCF yield of 14.4% with positive free cash flow at Energy exposure.
135.62B BRL 24 UBER Uber Technologies, Inc. FCF yield of 7.6% with positive free cash flow at Technology exposure.
133.27B USD 25 PGR The Progressive Corporation FCF yield of 12.2% with positive free cash flow at Financials exposure.
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