The Brexit vote pushed U.S. Treasury rates to record lows and the S&P 500 Index to new record highs, creating a sort of dash for stocks with a modicum of safety.
It's hard to discover nearly safe stocks. The truth is that you will not find any safeness at the stock market.
There are companies with a more risky growth strategy and companies with lower risk exposure.
Today I will share a couple of stocks with high dividends that might offer a bit safeness for you.
Here are the results...
Earnings for Standard & Poor’s 500 companies appear to have fallen for a fifth consecutive quarter in the three months through June, but earnings grew in half of the sectors, including industrials, health care, technology, and consumer discretionary, and would have grown overall without the downward pull of the energy sector.
The six companies that follow have steadily grown their earnings in recent years and are expected to do so in coming ones. They pay dividends and trade at discounts to the market. They don’t sell packaged food, tobacco, booze, or power, but their statistical profiles resemble companies that do.
These are the results....
Long term dividend growth investing is a popular investing strategy. Investors are looking for stocks with a long dividend history and keep an eye on those companies with raising dividends.
There’s an elite sub-group of S&P 1500 stocks known as “Dividend Aristocrats” which have a distinguishing factor that income growth investors find very attractive: a history of consistently increasing dividends every year for at least 20 consecutive years.
And interestingly enough, for the last 10 years, this elite group has out-performed both the S&P 1500 and the benchmark S&P 500.
The lag of current Dividend Aristocrats is that they have shown a good past performance but this does not mean that they will perform in the future well.
In addition Dividend Aristocrats are very expensive due to the high quality they offer. That's in my view a good reason for looking into the second level.
Attached you will find 10 companies identified as “future dividend aristocrats contenders,” these being members of the S&P 1500 and not that many years away from showing the required two decades of dividend growth.
These are the results...
Growth is important for many investment strategies. More important is that the firm has a profitable growth.
Today I like to come back to my high-yield session. I like to screen companies with a positive return on assets and growing earnings.
The market cap of each company should be bigger than 2 billion. That's in my view enough to keep the big risks of smaller capitalized stocks away.
In addition, the debt-to-equity ratio should be under one.
Only seventeen stocks fulfilled the above mentioned criteria of which financials and basic materials are dominating the screen.
Here are my favorites of the results...
There is one thing that has become desperately clear to most everybody on Wall Street, rates are going nowhere any time soon, and possibly not until next year if any bad economic numbers start hitting the tape.
With 30% of all sovereign debt around the world with negative yields, and the rest just barely over the breakeven level, many people are looking far and wide for any sort of reasonable yield.
We screened the market for stocks that were rated with a strong buy and had a yield of more than 5%, and we found four that make good sense for investors with a touch more risk tolerance.
Only 20 stocks with a higher capitalization are available for high income investors. Most of the results come from the basic material sector.
Here are the results...
