There’s loads to be mentioned for corporations that dish out extra passive earnings to buyers as annually passes, even when their dividend yields stay pretty common.

Any enterprise that may do that exhibits the kind of reliability that many higher-yielding shares lack, making the previous an arguably much less dangerous proposition.

With this in thoughts, I’ve picked out three examples from the FTSE 250 for Fools to ponder shopping for.

Uninterrupted progress

As a enterprise, meat provider Cranswick (LSE: CWK) isn’t remotely attractive. However it’s been a beautiful supply of rising and uninterrupted dividends through the years. Even a world pandemic couldn’t cease administration from returning more money to shareholders.

A “record Christmas trading period” suggests this kind exhibits no signal of ending. I additionally like how Cranswick’s vertically built-in enterprise mannequin provides it a big quantity of management over its provide chain.

So what are the downsides? Properly, Cranswick shares yield simply 2%. A valuation of 18 instances forecast FY25 earnings, whereas not precisely frothy, might additionally come again to hang-out new consumers. That’s if inflation bounces for longer than anticipated or there are any sudden operational disruptions.

Nonetheless, I see no cause why it may’t proceed to outperform its index over the long run. The shares are up nearly 47% in 5 years in comparison with a near-6% rise within the FTSE 250. And that’s not together with the earnings buyers could have compounded over that interval.

Earnings (and dividends) bounce

Wealth supervisor Rathbones (LSE: RAT) is one other dividend-growth celebrity. Out of curiosity, it introduced some analyst-beating full-year numbers yesterday (26 February).

Underlying pre-tax revenue hit £227.6m in 2024. That’s an increase of 79% in comparison with 2023 — no imply feat contemplating the a number of headwinds it confronted final yr, together with a change of UK authorities and armed battle within the Center East.

A whole lot of this uplift is down to what seems to be a really profitable integration of Investec Wealth and Funding (UK) with solely 0.3% of the latter’s purchasers declining to maneuver to Rathbones.

However it’s the 6.9% uplift to the ultimate dividend that caught my eye, bringing the total payout to 93p per share. That provides a yield of 5.6% on the present share price.

Dividends can by no means be assured, particularly in the event that they function in a cyclical sectors similar to finance. However Rathbones has proven itself to be extra dependable than most of its friends.

Trading forward

A ultimate FTSE 250 inventory to think about is delivery companies supplier Clarkson (LSE: CKN). The two.5% forecast yield isn’t big. Nevertheless, at the least a few of that is down to the share price having fun with some nice optimistic momentum. It’s up 14% in 2025 to this point, considerably outperforming the index.

A lot of this motion has come due to an encouraging, if exceptionally transient, latest replace. Again on 10 January, the agency introduced that full-year numbers for 2024 would now be “slightly ahead of current market expectations” with underlying pre-tax revenue coming in at “not lower than £115m“.

One key threat right here can be a rise in world commerce tensions. Nevertheless, realizing that Clarkson managed to climate the storm throughout President Trump’s first time period within the White Home bodes nicely. The truth is, it lately registered 21 years of consecutive dividend progress!