The article profiles three dividend stocks it considers lower-risk for cautious investors: Procter & Gamble (PG), NextEra Energy (NEE), and Bristol Myers Squibb (BMY). P&G offers a forward dividend yield of 2.7% and has raised its dividend for 70 straight years, while spending $10.2 billion on advertising last year. NextEra, the nation's largest utility by market capitalization at $172 billion, has a forward yield of 3%, with $27.4 billion in revenue and $7.7 billion in net income last year. BMY yields 4.1% and has raised its per-share dividend for 17 consecutive years.
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