A turbulent market requires stability within the portfolio, and investors are buying dividend stocks to provide a combination of upward potential and stable income.

While the recent U.S. and China agreement on 90-day tariffs has provided some relief to investors, the threat of a huge responsibility under the Trump administration remains a concern.

The advice from top Wall Street analysts can help investors choose attractive dividend stocks backed by solid cash flow to pay continuously.

Here are three dividend stocks, highlighted by top Wall Street professionals, tracked by Tipranks, which tracks a platform that ranks analysts based on its past performance.

The first dividend option for the week is Chord energy ((Card), an independent exploration and production company with long-term assets primarily in the Williston Basin. The company recently reported stable results for the first quarter of 2025, attributed to the model's good performance, strong cost control and improvements in downtime.

Chord Energy returns 100% of its adjusted free cash flow (FCF) to shareholders through a stock buyback after announcing a base dividend of $1.30 per share. Based on the total dividends over the past 12 months, CHRD shares have a dividend yield of 6.8%.

Siebert Williams Shank analyst Gabriele Sorbara called Chrd the best option, reiterating a buy rating for the stock and increasing its price target from $121 to $125. Although no energy stocks are not affected by weak commodity prices, Solbara believes that his preferred best option is the best option for relative valuation due to its attractive assets with lower assets, its highest level, strong free cash flow and high-quality return on capital.

In a research report following the results, Solbara noted that the company's 2025 capital expenditure outlook decreased by $30 million, while maintaining its overall production guidelines and being supported by improved operational efficiency.

Nevertheless, CHRD is monitoring macroscopic situations and has the required operational and financial flexibility to further reduce activity, stressed if conditions remain poor or weakened. Furthermore, Solbara stressed that Chord Energy reaffirmed its return on capital framework, with the goal of returning more than 75% of its free cash flow to shareholders through dividends and opportunistic stock buybacks.

"We reiterate the buy rating of the valuation, which is based on its strong FCF yield, which provides the capability to high returns on capital while maintaining low financial leverage (0.3 times at the end of the first quarter)." the analyst said.

Sorbara ranks 143rd out of the 9,500+ analysts tracked by Tipranks. His ratings are 55% profitable with an average return of 20.4%. See Chord Energy hedge fund trading activity on Tipranks.

We turn to oil and gas giant Herringbone ((CVX) Recently reported first-quarter results reflect the impact of lower oil prices on their earnings. Chevron's outlook shows that its share buybacks slowed compared to the stock buybacks in the previous quarter, while stock buybacks slowed down in tariff dilemma and OPEC+'s decision.

Meanwhile, Chevron returned $6.9 billion in cash to shareholders in the first quarter, with a share buyback of $3.9 billion and a dividend of $3 billion. CVX shares offer a 4.8% dividend yield on a dividend of $1.71 per share ($6.84 per share).

After the first quarter results, Goldman Sachs analyst Neil Mehta raised his target target for Chevron stock from $176 to $174 and reiterated his buy rating. The analyst said he still sees an attractive long-term value proposition in CVX stock, with a dividend yield of about 5%.

“We also highlighted expectations for strong free cash flow generation driven by major projects like Tengiz, Us Gulf and The Permian,” Mehta said.

Regarding the Tengiz (Tengizchevroil or TCO) project, analysts highlighted the management’s comments that it reached the name board ahead of schedule. The company reiterated expectations arising from strong cash flows on TCO projects, including cash allocations and fixed loan repayments. Mehta also noted that CVX remains constructive in its operational outlook in the Gulf of Mexico and expects that the region’s production will increase to 300,000 BOE/D by 2026. Regarding the Permian, he said Chevron increased production by about 12% in the first quarter due to continued efficiency.

Mehta ranks 535th among the more than 9,500 analysts tracked by Tipranks. His ratings are 59% profitable, with an average return of 8.8%. See Herringbone Ownership Structure on Tipranks.

Finally, let's take a look EOG resources ((EOG), a crude oil and gas exploration and production company with proven reserves in the United States and Trinidad. Earlier this month, EOG reported market revenue for the first quarter of 2025.

The company returned $1.3 billion to shareholders, including $538 million in dividends and $788 million in stock buybacks. EOG announced a dividend of $0.975 per share ($3.90 per share) and should be paid on July 31, 2025. EOG stock has a dividend yield of 3.4%.

To cope with the first quarter results, RBC capital analyst Scott Hanold reiterated his buy rating on EOG stock with a target price of $145. Analysts noted that the company announced a dominant plan of its activity with macro uncertainty, reducing its capital budget by 3% and organic oil production by 0.6%. As a result, Hanold increased his free cash flow (FCF) estimate by 6% to 7%.

Analysts stress that EOG can modify its planned activities by reducing activities in larger regions, which will not slow down or reduce its operational efficiency. Hanold observed that a total of 550 wells (net) are now planned, and the core is planned in the U.S. onshore basin, which is a 30 reduction in volume compared to the original guidelines.

Hanold noted that EOG once again returned at least 100% of its free cash flow to 2025 in Q1. He hopes that the trend will continue, with a cash balance of approximately $7 billion, EOG's stock price backed by a company's balance sheet optimization strategy announced last year. “We expect management to buy back to over 100% and believe there is a pathway of more than $1 billion with a total return of ~150% of the 2Q25 FCF,” Hanold said.

Overall, analysts believe EOG is the best position to handle ongoing oil price volatility and backed by its first-class balance sheet, natural gas volume growth and low-cost structure.

Hanold ranks 11th among the more than 9,500 analysts tracked by Tipranks. His ratings succeeded 68% of the time, with an average return of 30%. See EOG resource internal trading activity on tipranks.