7%+ yields! Ought to I purchase these FTSE 100 dividend shares for passive earnings in 2023?

These FTSE 100 shares supply yields comfortably north of the index’s 3.5% ahead common. Ought to I purchase them for my funding portfolio?

British American Tobacco

Firms whose merchandise have sturdy model energy can supply terrific safety for buyers. Such companies can hike costs to offset price pressures and not using a vital lack of earnings.

British American Tobacco (LSE:BATS) is one such inventory whose items will be thought of market leaders. These embrace timeless tobacco merchandise like Fortunate Strike, Camel and Pall Mall. Nonetheless, I don’t intend to put money into the FTSE 100 firm within the close to future.

Not even hovering demand for its non-combustible merchandise is sufficient to tempt me. Gross sales of its next-generation applied sciences like its Vuse e-cigarettes soared 40.9% in 2022 to £2.9bn.

I imagine the unsure outlook for its trade makes British American Tobacco shares a danger too far. Bans or restrictions governing cigarette gross sales, advertising and marketing and utilization proceed to develop in quantity. And legislators are turning their consideration to vapourisers and comparable merchandise.

Final June, for instance, the US Meals and Drug Administration banned all of e-cigarette producer’s Juul’s merchandise from cabinets within the nation. This mirrored the physique’s issues over the rising variety of teenage vapers. Regulators and legislators are additionally getting powerful in different components of the world.

British American Tobacco’s share value stays in a long-term downtrend. And I don’t see any motive to count on it to interrupt out of this slide. Because of this I’m eager to keep away from the enterprise regardless of its 7.8% ahead dividend yield and low price-to-earnings (P/E) ratio of 8.5 occasions.

Taylor Wimpey

Housebuilding is an trade with a safer long-term future. It’s why I maintain Taylor Wimpey (LSE:TW) shares in my portfolio.

The UK properties market is experiencing a painful downturn at current. Newest Nationwide knowledge confirmed common property values fell at their quickest fee for 11 years in February.

But I really feel the outlook for Taylor Wimpey and its friends stays rock strong over a chronic time horizon. Regular inhabitants progress, mixed with a failure of successive governments to ramp up housebuilding exercise, means the enterprise ought to develop earnings strongly when the financial cycle improves.

Does this imply I’ll purchase extra of the inventory to spice up my passive earnings in 2023, although? The reply is not any.

Metropolis analysts count on Taylor Wimpey to chop the annual dividend this yr. But weak dividend cowl and a murky market outlook imply the eventual payout could disappoint buyers.

The enterprise introduced final week that “our reservation fee is considerably decrease than in recent times.” Its ahead ebook dropped by 1 / 4 yr on yr to 7,499 properties as of December 31. Its steadiness sheet stays sturdy but the enterprise could step up money conservation if the market worsens considerably.

I feel there could also be higher high-yield UK shares for me to purchase for dividend earnings this yr. So in the interim, I’ll go away Taylor Wimpey on the shelf alongside British American Tobacco.