12 Dividend Aristocrats Consumer Goods Portfolio Generated Yearly 11.10% Return

The Dividend Aristocrats make up a select group of stocks in the S&P 500 index that have raised shareholder dividends for at least 25 consecutive years. 

The S&P 500 Dividend Aristocrats index, which tracks these stocks, has outperformed the S&P 500 index by an average of 3.2 percentage points a year over the last decade on a total return basis, according to S&P.

Besides its amazing performance, there's something else that stands out about the Dividend Aristocrats index. It is heavily weighted toward consumer-staples stocks. In fact, 26% of the Dividend Aristocrats index is allocated to consumer-staples stocks. Click here to see a list of all 50 Dividend Aristocrats.

Consumer staples has an advantage over most other industries: longevity. Some industries change quickly. Google (now Alphabet) didn't even exist 20 years ago. Facebook didn't exist 15 years ago. The technology industry changes rapidly. This is bad news for established businesses, which have to constantly reinvent themselves to keep pace.

Consumer-staples stocks tend to be extremely stable. Here are four that have rewarded shareholders with increased dividends for at least 25 years.

The following table includes 12 Dividend Aristocrats that are in consumer goods (apparel, beverages, cleaning, food and personal care) businesses.

These are the results...

7 Dividend Aristocrats With 20% Return On Investment

Many conservative dividend investors like to review the Dividend Aristocrats and Dividend Kings lists for investment ideas, but most of these dividend stocks don't offer high yields. 

High-yield stocks usually come with high risks. However, the 7 companies identified from the Dividend Aristocrats list here have all a return on investment of at least 20%. 

Finding such a combination of capital efficiency and capital appreciation is rare, but each of these companies has been successful and offers a dividend yield ranging from 1.22% to 3.25%. 

Let's take a look at these high dividend stocks that have a return on invetment of at least 20%.

These are the results...

Money Raiser Of The Week: 7 Top Stocks With Fresh Dividend Growth Or Share Buybacks

Dividend growth and share buybacks are two main activities to increase the potential shareholder value and give money back to their owners. 

I like those transactions because it's a clear signal to investors which get rewarded by taking risk and borrowing money.

There is no free lunch and you might agree with me that each good managed company should raise dividends in order to satisfy investors. 

For sure some companies have no possibility to give money back to the financial market because of slipping sales and margin pressure. My answer: Those stocks are not in focus of my research!

Today I like to highlight stocks that gave investors more money via dividend growth or share buybacks within the recent week. These are some of the biggest companies:

19 Consumer Dividend Stocks With Highest Sector Growth

Consumer dividend stocks with highest expected growth originally published at "long-term-investments.blogspot.com". Growth, that’s the most important factor when you trade stocks and like to make money over the long-run.

Growth is a must have but with rising growth rates, price ratios also go up. You should be careful with stocks that have a P/E ratio over 20 and a huge load of debt.

Today, I like to screen stocks from the consumer goods sector, one of my favorite investment fields. 2/3 of my personal stock holdings have a relation to the consumer area. I love those stocks especially when they are well managed and pay great dividends.

Consumer stocks are normally characterized by low cyclic stocks which produce solid returns on the invested capital. My screening criteria are:

- Positive Dividend Yield

- Market Capitalization over 10 billion

- Relationship to the Consumer Goods Sector

- EPS Growth over 10 Percent for the next 5 Years

Nineteen stocks matched my criteria of which fifteen have a current buy or better ratio. Car maker and supplier of them are dominating the results. Those are also stocks with the highest beta ratios.

19 Dividend Aristocrats With Over 10% EPS Forecasts

The best growing Dividend Aristocrats originally published at "long-term-investments.blogspot.com". Dividend Aristocrats are stocks with a very long dividend growth history. They raised cash distributions to shareholders over a period over more than 25 years in a row and being selected by the well-known credit rating agency Standard & Poor’s. Out there are 105 stocks with such a long-term dividend growth buy only 54 are named by S&P.

As you might know, past performance does not mean a great future performance. You shouldn’t think that if your company had a 20 percent growth in the past, your future growth will be in the same range.
It’s more important that you make your own research. Sure it’s very hard to discover future growth rates especially if you are not familiar with the company and industry - You only make a desk research.

But there are also some useful tools like analysts’ predictions. I personally look at the demand and supply developments: If there are big entry barriers for new competitors in a market with steady growing consumer demand, there will be a slowing supply growth which will result in rising prices. That’s a great perspective for an investor like me.

However, today I like to highlight all Dividend Aristocrats with a double-digit earnings forecast for the next five years. Nineteen stocks fulfilled these criteria of which two are yielding over the three percent mark; fifteen are currently recommended to buy.

The 20 Best Performing Dividend Aristocrats And Possible Year-End-Rally Winners 2012

Dividend Aristocrats With Best Year-To-Date Performance Researched By “long-term-investments.blogspot.com”. Stocks with a very long history of rising dividends have a solid business model and possess a huge reliability. Dividend Aristocrats are 52 stocks that have raised dividends over a period of more than 25 consecutive years and be selected by Standard & Poor’s for the S&P 500 Dividend Aristocrats Index. They are the Kings below the Dividend Champions. But which one could be the possible year-end-rally gainers?

I reviewed the performance of all stocks within the current trading year and listed 20 stocks with a strong year-to-date stock performance. Nearly all (49 stocks) have a positive performance. The best performing stocks could be the top performing stocks for the rest of the year due to window dressing effects by institutional investors. This means that investors will sell bad performing stocks and buy the good ones in order to show their clients a good worksheet of stocks they own at year-end.

Below the 20 best Aristocrats are four with a yield over three percent. Eleven are recommended to buy.