At close to 6%, the recent victor in the Anadarko wars sports its highest dividend yield in more than 16 years – more than in the energy-sector panic of early 2016 or the financial crisis. That is also roughly 2.5 percentage points higher than the average for its peers. To be fair, Oxy's yield has been higher than average for years. But things have definitely changed since that battle for Anadarko Petroleum Corp. got going.