A $15,000 investment in any of these three dividend stocks -- Prudential Financial (NYSE: PRU), United Bankshares (NASDAQ: UBSI), and U.S. Bancorp (NYSE: USB) -- could net you $500 or more annually in passive income and help you fight inflation. The consumer price index (CPI), a measure of inflation, hit 8.3% on an annualized basis in April (not seasonally adjusted). Investors will reap the rewards of this strong balance sheet, as Prudential plans to return $11 billion to shareholders from 2021 through 2023.