Qualcomm Qualcomm (NASDAQ: QCOM), one of the world's largest mobile chipmakers, pays a forward dividend yield of 1.5%. Higher interest rates, which counter inflation, are also sparking fears of an economic slowdown and causing investors to rotate from dividend stocks toward lower-risk bonds. That business model insulates it from the ongoing chip shortage, and its cost-cutting migration from 200mm to 300mm wafers over the past few years enabled it to significantly reduce its own manufacturing costs and boost its gross margins.