An Overview Of The Best Yielding Dividend Challengers Researched By Dividend Yield - Stock, Capital, Investment. Dividend Challengers are stocks that have raised their dividend payments for more than five years in a row but not more than nine years. 196 companies have achieved this goal of which 33 yielding above five percent. Here is a brief overview of the best yielding Dividend Challengers. Huge dividends also include a bigger risk of dividend cuts due to the low diversification level. Nearly 60 percent of the results have a market capitalization of less than USD 1 billion. Despite the risk, 90 percent have a buy or better rating outstanding.