3 Tech-Sector Stocks to Buy ... For the Dividends?

The technology sector's appeal is pretty straightforward: Disruptive technologies can sometimes lead to dramatic revenue (and eventually profit) growth, and dramatic gains in a firm's stock price as a result.

And as time has passed, technology has increasingly become a part of everything—to the point where technology is a primary driver of growth for other sectors. Technology and communications are effectively intertwined. E-commerce completely changed consumer companies. Technological advances are shaping offerings in the health care and financial industries.

Unsurprisingly, then, it's difficult to find better growth opportunities than what the tech sector has to offer.

But today, we're going to talk about technology stocks that are prized for another, less common reason: their dividends.

Disclaimer: This article does not constitute individualized investment advice. Individual securities, funds, and/or other investments appear for your consideration and not as personalized investment recommendations. Act at your own discretion.

How I Picked These Tech Dividend Stocks

Yes, technology companies can walk and chew gum at the same time (metaphorically speaking). It happens more often than you realize. Some of the market's largest tech names, including Nvidia (NVDA) and Microsoft (MSFT), pay at least some portion of their cash directly back to shareholders. 

Sure, it's unusual to find meaningful sources of yield in this sector ... but it's not impossible.

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My list of the best technology dividend stocks is pretty straightforward, selected based on the following criteria:

Market cap: I started with a selection universe of companies listed on major U.S. exchanges with a market capitalization of at least $300 million, which is the bottom of the range for small-cap stocks. (Stocks smaller than that can be considered small caps, but are often broken out into micro- and nano-cap stocks.)

Wall Street rating: From there, I excluded any company with a consensus analyst rating (provided by S&P Global Market Intelligence) of Hold or below. S&P boils down consensus ratings down to a numerical system where …

• 1 to 1.5: Strong Buy
• 1.5 to 2.5: Buy
• 2.5 to 3.5: Hold
• 3.5 to 4.5: Sell
• 4.5 to 5: Strong Sell

Indeed, every tech dividend stock on this list has a rating of 2 or less, indicating that at worst they enjoy a very firm consensus Buy rating, if not an outright Strong Buy rating.

Dividend yield: I then looked for stocks that yield more than the broader market, using the S&P 500 as a proxy. The S&P 500 currently yields 1.1%, so I excluded any stocks yielding less than 1.5% to give me a little wiggle room if the market's yield expands. And, in fact, no stock on this list currently yields less than 2%.

Let's take a look at a few picks from my longer list of tech dividend stocks to buy.

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International Business Machines

• Market cap: $246.3 billion
• Dividend yield: 2.6%
• Consensus analyst rating: 1.91 (Buy)

International Business Machines (IBM) is one of the oldest technology companies in the world, with roots going back to its founding in 1911 as the "Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company." IBM once sold record-keeping and measuring systems, but today, it's a global giant dealing in enterprise information-technology hardware, software, and services.

Its predominant offerings revolve around hybrid cloud (an IT infrastructure meshing public cloud, private cloud, and on-premises equipment), artificial intelligence, and consulting. And its clients and partners are a who's who of the technology world, including Microsoft, Salesforce (CRM), Samsung, Oracle (ORCL), Adobe (ADBE), and more.

IBM hasn't always been on the bleeding edge of technology—it was notoriously slow to pivot from hardware to the cloud. But it has been quicker to the artificial intelligence game, and it's viewed as having potential in quantum computing (itself a long-awaited accelerant for AI).

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"Based on our recent checks, IBM continues to see solid momentum across its portfolio of products for AI, hybrid cloud, automation, and cybersecurity with customers looking for trusted, scalable and compliant solutions that can be deployed across complex environments," says Wedbush analyst Dan Ives, who rates IBM stock at Outperform (equivalent of Buy). "IBM’s ability to combine software, consulting, and infrastructure into one integrated stack remains an important advantage to the company’s business flywheel as more organizations launch production-scale AI use cases."

Ives is in the majority right now. Currently, 14 covering analysts call this tech stock a Buy, while seven say it's a Hold and one calls it a Sell.

IBM is also one of our best long-term buy-and-hold stocks given its illustrious dividend history. "Big Blue" has paid dividends without interruption for more than a century. And it has also increased that distribution annually for 31 consecutive years (the latest, a modest bump announced in April 2026), making it one of the rare tech stocks to enjoy Dividend Aristocrat status. That payout is a sustainable 55% of 2026 earnings estimates.

Dolby Laboratories

• Market cap: $5.0 billion
• Dividend yield: 2.7%
• Consensus analyst rating: 1.75 (Buy)

Dolby Laboratories (DLB) is one of the biggest names in audio, though it does so much more, including imaging, accessibility, and other solutions for TV, broadcast, and live entertainment.

Its technologies include AVC, a digital video codec used in mobile devices, set-top boxes, cameras, and more; AAC, HE-AAC, and extened HE-AAC digital audio codecs; Dolby Atmos, an immersive surround-sound technology; Dolby Vision, a premium HDR video format; and Dolby AC-4, a next-generation audio compression codec used in modern broadcasting and streaming. It also offers Dolby Cinemas—premium cinemas that include its branded technologies—the cloud-based Dolby.io developer platform, and much more.

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"Management expects Dolby Atmos, Dolby Vision, and imaging patents (AVI) to grow 15% to 20% annually over the next few years," say William Blair analysts, who rate DLB shares at Outperform. "This revenue stream is nearly 50% of total revenue and continues to increase its share of overall corporate revenue. In 2021, by comparison, this revenue stream was only about 20% of revenue, highlighting the opportunity for further growth."

Auto is contributing heavily to this growth, William Blair's analysts say, in large part because Chinese manufacturers were early adopters of Atmos and Vision. The technology is also gaining ground in brands such as Hyundai, Mercedes, BMW, and more. Dolby Vision is also endorsed by Douyin, the Chinese app for TikTok, for use in Apple (AAPL) and Alphabet's (GOOGL) Android devices.

Dolby also has a thin analyst following, but of the four pros with ratings on the stock, three say it's a Buy, while the lone dissenter is a Hold.

DLB started paying dividends since 2010 but didn't improve the distribution until 2019. Since then, DLB has offered up intermittent raises. Today, its 33¢ quarterly dividend comes out to just 30% of 2026 profit estimates.

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Opera Limited

• Market cap: $1.7 billion
• Dividend yield: 4.3%
• Consensus analyst rating: 1.14 (Strong Buy)

Norwegian web browser company Opera Limited (OPRA), actually a subsidiary of China's Kunlun Tech, might not be the first name you think of when you think of web browsers. It's largely popular in Africa and increasingly so in Europe. 

But it has been around for quite some time—indeed, its Opera browser launched in 1995, making it one of the oldest desktop browsers still in use.

The Opera browser now exists in several forms, including Opera Mini, Opera GX for PCs and mobile, Opera for Android and iOS, and Opera for Computers. Its other products include sports score app Apex Football, virtual private network offering Opera VPN Pro, and AI-powered personalized news discovery and aggregation service Opera News.

And like with many browsers, Opera is now in the AI game, recently shipping its Opera Neon agentic AI.

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"We view Opera Neon as a differentiated offering given its model-agnostic approach, which should appeal to users and allow them to get the best capabilities across multiple LLM models," say B. Riley Securities analysts Naved Khan and Ryan Powell, who rate shares at Buy. "Commentary from [management] suggests that while agentic browsing is not yet mainstream, the company expects to learn how AI power users are using the browser and plans to implement key findings into its broader product suite."

B. Riley calls it a "best idea" from its 26th annual institutional investor conference, saying its positive views are underpinned by three key drivers: sustained double-digit growth in advertising, healthy growth in query revenue, and the anticipated initial public offering (IPO) of OPay by the end of the year. (Opera has a 9.5% stake in OPay.)

Opera doesn't have a huge Wall Street following, but all seven covering analysts rate the stock at Buy. In fact, its consensus rating is so high that OPRA isn't just one of the best tech dividend stocks you can buy, but one of the best tech stocks period. And their consensus view is for average annual profit growth of about 20% over the long run.

But what really stands out about Opera is its massive dividend, which at more than 4% is high for any sector and easily puts it among the top tech dividend stocks you can buy. Just note that OPRA only pays biannually (instead of the U.S. standard quarterly), and that its 40¢-per-share dividend hasn't budged since it was initiated in 2023.

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