They confuse a buy-and-hold strategy with day trading with a longer duration. A true implementation of buy-and-hold includes a focus on blue-chip stocks with a sustainable advantage, along with a reasonable asset allocation framework.
One sign of a blue-chip stock is a long string of dividend increases. Below all companies that have recently raised the bar by increasing their cash dividends
In total, 71 stocks announced a higher dividend of which 14 have a high yield (over 5%) and 40 a cheap forward P/E (less than 15).
Attached you will also find my 19 favorite stocks from the list. Each stock has solid fundamentals and earnings growth potenital while the debt situation is acceptable.
Here are the stocks:
Ticker
|
Company
|
New Dividend
|
New Yield in %
|
Dividend Growth
|
Bank Of Hawaii
|
0.48
|
2.75
|
6.67%
|
|
Home Bancorp
|
0.1
|
1.43
|
11.11%
|
|
Regal Beloit
|
0.24
|
1.43
|
4.35%
|
|
Sunoco
|
0.8173
|
9.1
|
2.00%
|
|
United Technologies
|
0.66
|
2.52
|
3.13%
|
|
Webster Financial
|
0.25
|
2.66
|
8.70%
|
|
Western Refining Logistic
|
0.4025
|
6.45
|
2.55%
|
|
American Water Works
|
0.375
|
2.12
|
10.29%
|
|
Delek Logistics Partners
|
0.61
|
7.57
|
3.39%
|
|
Holly Energy Partners
|
0.575
|
6.52
|
1.77%
|
|
Home BancShares
|
0.175
|
1.62
|
16.67%
|
|
Opus Bank
|
0.18
|
2.12
|
20.00%
|
|
Rice Midstream Partners
|
0.21
|
5.19
|
6.87%
|
|
Sonoco Products
|
0.37
|
3.14
|
5.71%
|
|
South State Corp.
|
0.3
|
1.72
|
7.14%
|
|
Western Gas Equity Ptrs
|
0.42375
|
4.19
|
4.95%
|
|
Western Gas Partners
|
0.815
|
6.67
|
1.87%
|
|
Apple
|
0.57
|
2.33
|
9.62%
|
|
BB&T Corp
|
0.28
|
3.1
|
3.70%
|
|
Comerica Inc
|
0.22
|
1.93
|
4.76%
|
|
EQT GP Holdings
|
0.134
|
2.03
|
9.84%
|
|
EQT Midstream Partners
|
0.745
|
3.84
|
4.93%
|
|
Exelon
|
0.318
|
3.6
|
2.58%
|
|
Extended Stay America
|
0.19
|
4.82
|
11.76%
|
|
First Fincl Bankshares
|
0.18
|
2.19
|
12.50%
|
|
Georgetown Bancorp
|
0.05
|
0.99
|
5.26%
|
|
IBM
|
1.4
|
3.72
|
7.69%
|
|
Janus Capital Group
|
0.11
|
2.85
|
22.22%
|
|
Jones Lang LaSalle
|
0.31
|
0.5
|
6.90%
|
|
Lakeland Bancorp
|
0.095
|
3.35
|
11.76%
|
|
MetLife
|
0.4
|
3.42
|
6.67%
|
|
Public Storage
|
1.8
|
2.9
|
5.88%
|
|
Renasant
|
0.18
|
2.09
|
5.88%
|
|
SB Financial Group
|
0.06
|
2.23
|
9.09%
|
|
Sprague Resources
|
0.5325
|
9.23
|
2.90%
|
|
Wells Fargo
|
0.38
|
2.98
|
1.33%
|
|
Allegiant Travel
|
0.7
|
1.69
|
133.33%
|
|
Ameriprise Fncl
|
0.75
|
3.06
|
11.94%
|
|
BGC Partners Cl A
|
0.16
|
6.95
|
14.29%
|
|
Columbia Banking System
|
0.19
|
2.53
|
5.56%
|
|
Comfort Systems USA
|
0.07
|
0.91
|
7.69%
|
|
ExxonMobil
|
0.75
|
3.41
|
2.74%
|
|
Natural Health Trends
|
0.06
|
0.66
|
20.00%
|
|
Northfield Bancorp
|
0.08
|
2.01
|
14.29%
|
|
Tetra Tech
|
0.09
|
1.17
|
12.50%
|
|
Westlake Chem Partners
|
0.3168
|
6.94
|
2.86%
|
|
Winmark
|
0.1
|
0.41
|
42.86%
|
|
WW Grainger
|
1.22
|
2.07
|
4.27%
|
|
Xilinx
|
0.33
|
3.05
|
6.45%
|
|
Abaxis
|
0.12
|
1.06
|
9.09%
|
|
AmeriGas Partners
|
0.94
|
8.67
|
2.17%
|
|
Avery Dennison
|
0.41
|
2.26
|
10.81%
|
|
Cullen/Frost Bankers
|
0.54
|
3.38
|
1.89%
|
|
Enterprise Fincl Services
|
0.1
|
1.46
|
11.11%
|
|
FS Bancorp
|
0.1
|
1.59
|
42.86%
|
|
Gilead Sciences
|
0.47
|
2.13
|
9.30%
|
|
Inteliquent
|
0.16
|
3.86
|
6.67%
|
|
Johnson&Johnson
|
0.8
|
2.86
|
6.67%
|
|
NextEra Energy Partners
|
0.31875
|
4.41
|
3.66%
|
|
North Eur Oil
Royalty Tr
|
0.24
|
10.26
|
50.00%
|
|
Oaktree Capital Group
|
0.55
|
4.55
|
17.02%
|
|
Orrstown Financial
|
0.09
|
2.02
|
12.50%
|
|
PBF Logistics
|
0.42
|
7.8
|
2.44%
|
|
Peoples Bancorp (Ohio)
|
0.16
|
2.98
|
6.67%
|
|
Portland General Electric
|
0.32
|
3.22
|
6.67%
|
|
Principal Financial Group
|
0.39
|
3.66
|
2.63%
|
|
SLM Float. Rate
pfd Ser B
|
0.59788
|
5.44
|
6.65%
|
|
Sotherly Hotels
|
0.09
|
6.77
|
5.88%
|
|
Sunoco Logistics Partners
|
0.489
|
6.68
|
2.09%
|
|
UGI
|
0.2375
|
2.36
|
4.40%
|
|
USD Partners
|
0.3075
|
11.99
|
2.50%
|
|
West Bancorp
|
0.17
|
3.65
|
6.25%
|
