Benjamin Graham, the father of value investing, liked bargains.
In The Intelligent Investor, he told investors to look for stock prices at or below 15-times earnings, and at or below 1.5-times book value.
I like to adjust this rule in order to limit the results from my screen.
Here are more restrictions of my screen:
- Dividend Achiever
- Forward P/E under 15
- P/B under 2
- 5 Year Future EPS Forecasted Growth Over 5% yearly
- Debt to equity under 0.5
Exactly 20 stocks fulfilled the above mentioned criteria of which 6 yield over 3%.
Attached I've tried to compile a few stocks that might match these criteria within the Dividend Achievers space. You will also find the best yielding stocks from the screen as a detailed snapshot.
Banks and insurer are dominating the screening results.
Here are the results...
While the market was in nearly nonstop rally mode for most of the past six years, investors didn't need to look far to uncover an abundance of growth stocks. But not all growth stocks are created equal.
While some look poised to deliver extraordinary gains going forward, the recent market turbulence has crushed some that were overvalued, burdening their shareholders with hefty losses.
What exactly is a growth stock? I'll define it as any company forecast to grow profits by an average of 10% or more annually during the next five years -- although that's an arbitrary number.
To gauge what's "cheap," I'll use the PEG ratio, which compares a company's price-to-earnings ratio to its forecast future growth rate. A PEG of around one or less could signal a cheap stock.
Attached I've compiled the results of my screen about the cheapest dividend growth stocks in terms of price to growth.
Here are the results...
Fewer than 20 companies have paid higher dividends for at least 50 straight years, and only five offer safe, high-yield dividends of at least 3%.
Each of the five high-yield dividend stocks below is a member of the dividend kings list and pays a safe dividend with continued dividend growth extremely likely.
Companies that have managed to pay and grow dividends for such a long time typically have strong competitive advantages, generate consistent free cash flow, maintain conservative balance sheets and put shareholders first.
Attached I've compiled a number of long-term dividend growth stocks with currently high yields. Let's take a look at these high-yield dividend stocks that have rewarded investors with at least 50 consecutive years of dividend growth.
Here are the results in detail...
Every month, I run a screen to find value stocks with high dividends. Well, it's not easy to find a bargain and if you found a stock that looks like one, you could also wait years until the market detects the value.
Today I like to share a list of 20 stocks with a low beta ratio and yields over 2.77%. You will find the complete list at the end of this article. Below is also a detail view of the top yielding stocks. I hope you will find some values in it.
In addition to the screening criteria, each stock from the screen had a positive sales growth over the past five years while earnings are expected to grow by more than 5% for the next five years.
The debt-to-equity ratio is also under one and the market capitalization over 10 billion USD.
Here are the top yielding results...
Today, we’re focusing on precisely seven of those companies — a group of high-quality dividend stocks that have reliably paid investors since the 19th century.
Paying dividends for such a long period of time is a clear signal of financial strength and indicates that a company has numerous competitive advantages that have withstood the test of time.
All of these businesses have created massive value for shareholders.
In fact, over the last 20 years, each of these blue-chip dividend stocks has delivered a total return greater than 550% — easily outpacing the S&P 500 index’s total return of about 360%.
Here are the results...
