Falling interest rates can become a tailwind for dividend-paying stocks, including banks but also nonfinancial companies like Delta and United Health.

Here are four well-known companies that recently had hefty dividend yields. You might want to consider some for your portfolio or your watch list.

Ford is one of the many stocks on this list of the best dividend stocks in the S&P 500 that have seen shares slump lately. Its struggles to enter the electric vehicle market are pretty well known, but the recent news that it was canceling its EV SUV plans – and writing off $1.9 billion to do it – went over like a lead balloon in August.