Here Are Warren Buffett's Best Performing Dividend Stocks (Food/Tech stocks)

Warren Buffett's $Berkshire Hathaway-A(BRK.A.US)$ lists numerous dividend stocks among its holdings, with the highest-yielding companies returning at least 3%. These dividend-paying stocks have created over $680 billion in value for shareholders, who have seen a 20.1% average annual return on BRK’s Class A shares.
Of the nearly 50 stocks in Buffett’s portfolio, four of its higher dividend-paying stocks currently provide superior yield. Here are two of them.

$Apple(AAPL.US)$
Dividend yield: 0.55%
Shares held: 894,802,319
Holding value: $122,337,373,000
Percent of portfolio: 40.76%

In Q1 2022, Berkshire Hathaway took advantage of a short-term drop to buy an additional 3.8 million shares. The investment has paid out handily, with a return of 444% since the end of Q1 2016 and four times better than the market.

Dividend yield: 4.17%
Shares held: 325,634,818
Holding value: $12,419,712,000
Percent of portfolio: 4.14%

Kraft Heinz remains the third-largest food and beverage manufacturer in North America behind $PepsiCo(PEP.US)$ and $NESTLE S.A SPONS(NSRGY.US)$ and is the fifth-largest player in the world.

The reason for Buffett and others to invest in dividend stocks is simple. They consistently outperform stocks that don’t pay dividends. Berkshire Hathaway is on pace to collect more than $6 billion in passive income.