7 Stocks To Buy And Hold For The Next Quarter Century

The challenge with investing in such competitively advantaged businesses is that they often trade at a premium. 

Sometimes, however, a stock-market downturn can present investors with the opportunity to buy these top stocks at bargain prices.

My thoughts went around, trying to find some names that could be worth to buy and hold for the next 25 years. What you need to do is to buy when the market is in panic. It will be the best guarantee to beat the street.

However, back to my stocks in my mind. These are the stocks I would like to hold over the next 25 years when prices come down.

These are the results...

6 Defensive Dividend Stocks To Beat The Market In Crash Times

It seems hard to imagine that investors would get excited about very much at all when the market has slid this far south of late. Still, many investors are treating this as a pullback, because the trend for four years now is to buy every market sell-off.

Some investors are looking at value stocks, and others are going defensive. The stocks that have limited business cycles are a great focus for investors in a time of worry. These are six of the very defensive stocks we monitor that are either ignoring the market sell-off or are not down anywhere near as much as the broad market.

Here are the results...

12 Faster Growing Dividend Stocks With An Attractive Pricing

The current market environment is presenting many challenges to the conservative retired investor in need of current income. Interest rates are near all-time lows and the valuations of many blue-chip dividend growth stocks have become extended.

It is becoming very difficult to find quality investment opportunities that can provide safety through sound valuation, attractive yield and the potential to fight inflation. Most of my recent work has been focused on presenting attractively valued, high quality, higher yielding dividend growth stocks for consideration by retired investors.

Consequently, my primary focus has been on above-average yield, safety and dividend growth. Stated more plainly, my objective was to present high quality income and income growth investments over total return investments.

My quest to find 10 faster growing dividend stocks that were also attractively valued proved challenging. As I screened the universe, I did come up with just over 30 stocks that I initially found attractive based solely on valuation.

However, as I begin looking for above-average earnings growth, my choices dwindled rapidly. Nevertheless, my screens produced 12 stocks that I felt met the above reader's requirements, and more importantly, that also met some important considerations of my own.

These are the top results...

17 Dividend Kings And Which To Own Now

Many investors are familiar with the Dividend Aristocrats Index that consists of companies in the S&P 500 Index that have increased their dividend payouts to shareholders every year for the last 25 years. 

A smaller elite group of these companies have come to be known as “Dividend Kings”, generally used to describe stocks that have had 50 years of consecutive dividend increases. 

A business that can not only adapt to ever-changing business and economic conditions, but also manage to continue to grow its dividend payment for 50 consecutive years may imply a durable competitive advantage and management that is committed to returning capital to shareholders. Today, there are just 16 Dividend Kings. Attached is a nice list of them, check it out.

There are a fair number of studies showing that Dividend Kings have historically held up better during market downturns, riding out bear markets better than other stocks and also have recovered faster. It's important to care for you adequate share of Dividend Kings in your portfolio, especially in volatile times.

My favorite picks are Procter, Genuine Parts, 3M, Dover, Nordson and Lowe's. Those stocks should grow earnings while the forward P/E is not too far away from normal. Do you agree with me?

Here are the Dividend Kings....

13 Stocks With Higher Dividends

Attached is a list of all stocks with higher dividends, announced during the past week. I've also included a sheet of price fundamentals. I hope you find some values in the lists.

13 Stocks With Higher Dividends (click to enlarge)

3 Stocks With Higher Dividends (click to enlarge)