Nowadays, my initial starting point for these types of investigations is the brilliant AIC website, which holds lots of useful metrics for a whole host of Investment Trusts, and so below is a table of IT's in December 2019 with a yield higher than 2.5%, and listed with the tabular data broken down by AIC Sector, and then ranked in descending order of yield per sector.
For anyone wishing to replicate this type of dataset, there's some instructions at the bottom of this post on how to do that.
I've dip-checked the above data, but please do note that it should be used only as a starting-point for further investigation, and it should certainly be the case that you should carry out your own due-diligence on any data that you may use for any subsequent investment decisions that you might wish to make.
A good source to cross-check some of the above data, if anything does look interesting or even suspicious, is the TrustNet website, which also gives yield and discount information for these types of investments - https://www.trustnet.com/
The above data can be re-generated by using the link below to the really useful AIC website -
https://tinyurl.com/yawfc9zy
Here are some instructions to be able to generate up-to-date yield-data in the future, using the above excellent website -
1. Open the AIC website (https://tinyurl.com/yawfc9zy)
2. Select the 'AIC Sector Selection' button, and deselect all 'AIC VCT Sectors'
3. Also in the 'AIC Sector Selection' section, deselect the tick-boxes for 'Include AIC sector weighted averages' and also 'Include industry averages'
4. Select the 'Filters' button, and then set the 'Dividend Yield' option to '2.5%+'
5. You should now have an up-to-date yield table similar to the above, broken down by AIC Sectors.
6. If you want to import that data into a spreadsheet, to perhaps then rank by yield or similar, then you should enable the option to view the data in 'Print Mode' by selecting the 'Save / Print' option, and then selecting the 'Enable Print Mode' button - the data will then be represented on-screen in a way that can be selected and copied into a spreadsheet.
- Please do note that if you don't select the 'Enable Print Mode' option, and you try to copy the data into a spreadsheet, then it's likely to only copy some of the data...
If anyone is interested in looking at any of the underlying investments behind any of the above income IT's, then the following post will help with some instructions on how to do that -
https://www.lemonfool.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=15549&p=191407#p191455
Link to August 2019 data - https://www.lemonfool.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=19097
Cheers,
Itsallaguess