6 High-Yield Stocks With Good Upside Potential These are 6 high-yield stocks with good upside potential. The main criteria I looked for with these stocks is a dividend over 5% annually where the earnings more than cover the dividends. This is known as the dividend coverage ratio. Typically, I’m looking for no more than 35% to 45% as a dividend coverage ratio. In addition, the stock has to have an ongoing quarterly dividend that works out to an annual 5% dividend yield. In addition, I wanted to find stocks that also have good upside potential. I measured this by assuming that earnings will be stable or growing over the next year. This screens out stocks that have lower earnings forecasts or that appear to be trading over their inherent true value. 7 Retirement Stocks to Buy in Unexpected Sectors Let’s dive in and look at these stocks. DVN Devon Energy $54.66 STOR Store Capital $26.75 LYB LyondellBasell Industries $87.81 SRC Spirit Realty Capital $38.55 ET Energy Transfer $9.89 KT KT Corp $14.33 Devon Energy (DVN) Source: Jeff Whyte | Shutterstock.com Dividend Yield: 7.3% Devon Energy (NYSE: DVN ) recently raised its fixed and variable dividend to $1.27 quarterly, giving it a minimum 9.24% yield on an ongoing basis.