In volatile markets, investors look for both growth and income in their portfolios. This can be achieved by honing in on companies that not only pay dividends but have been consistently increasing their payout.
Stocks that have a history of enhancing shareholder returns through consistent dividend hikes make an investor’s portfolio immune to large swings in stock prices in turbulent times.
Simultaneously, these offer outsized payouts or sizable yields on a regular basis irrespective of the market direction.
Although these stocks do not necessarily have the highest yields, they are proven outperformers over the long term.
In today's screen you will find a couple of stocks with good potential to hike dividends for the next years. Each of the stocks have attractive fundamentals in my view.
You will find the lists attached at the end of this article. The focus from the screen was growth with solid financials.
Here are the best yielding results in detail....
If you like to make money with stocks as long-term investor and you don't want to overpay a company, you must keep an eye on dividend stocks with acceptable P/E, P/B and P/S ratios.
Value investors often use these criteria in order to find cheap stocks.
They also hope that the market will recognize those undervalued asset and buy them until the price reaches the intrinsic value.
Today I like to share a screen of cheap large caps with you. Here are my criteria:
- Positive Dividend Yield
- 5-Year Forward EPS Growth Over 10% Yearly
- Low Forward P/E (Under 15)
- Price To Book Under 2
- Price To Sales Under 1
Fourteen stocks fulfilled the criteria of which two are high-yield stocks. My favorites are Ford, GM, Energy Transfer and CRH. Which stocks do you like?
These are the results from the research...
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...
