The best dividend stocks can provide you with bountiful streams of passive income. With their lower risk and volatility profiles, these stalwart stocks should also help you protect your wealth while adding ballast to your diversified investment portfolio.

As traders and investors look ahead to 2025, the dividend sector is set to draw considerable interest, as market participants increasingly search for dependable income streams.

Brookfield Infrastructure currently has a dividend yield of around 4%. That's more than three times higher than the S&P 500 's (\^GSPC 1.26%) dividend y