Bangalore: The reputation, products and services of a well established tech company will not attract the people in terms of investing. It’s the dividend yield or share of the profit offered that brings them more into companies.  

After a long period of 16 years, Apple recently acknowledge that it has more money than it needs and decided to give stake holders a portion of its $97.6 billion revenue, through a quarterly dividend of $ 2.65 per share.

When it comes to other tech giants of Silicon Valley, the way they play with the profits vary. Some of them reinvest it in business or use it for repurchasing the company’s shares from market while others distribute profits to share holders as dividend yields.

VentureBeat took the average yield of a dividend for a number of U.S. companies over a five year period and found some interesting facts like Google, a big player in the space doesn’t offer any dividend yields!

Here are the 6 tech companies which will give you the best returns.

6. Apple

Average five year dividend yield: 0.36%

Price of single share: $ 596.05

5. HP

Average five year dividend yield: 0.9%

Price of a single share: $ 23.63

4. Qualcomm

Average five year dividend yield: 1.6%

Price of a single share: $66.68