The 7 Best High-Yield Retirement Stocks for Your Nest Egg Investors are thirsting for income to compensate for declining stock values. Those of you with more than five years until retirement might be tempted to find the best high-yield retirement stocks to plump up your nest egg and call it a day. Of course, everyone’s version of what constitutes high yield is different. The current dividend yield of the SP 500 is 1.62% . Some might consider double that to be the criterion for high yield. For the sake of this article, I’m going to use 5%. A quick screen of U.S.-listed stocks shows that 1,172 meet this standard. To weed out some of the companies, I’ll look for companies expected to grow their annual dividend per share by 10% over the next two years. That brings the number down to 61, a more manageable number. I’ll then pick those companies who’ve repurchased shares in recent years. This leaves me with 38 choices. 7 Cheap Stocks to Buy and Hold for the Long Haul Here are my seven best high-yield retirement stocks to buy. Like all of my galleries, I’ll also try to provide sector diversification.