9 High-Yielding Dividend Champions With Growth Potential

Income investors are finding it increasingly more difficult to find adequate yield from their investments. 

As of last Friday, the 10-year Treasury rate was at a low 1.46% and the dividend yield of the S&P 500 was 2.09%. 

A look at the charts below shows that through the years, the ability for investors to find safe income has been fleeting. By and large, this has been the case for both the debt and equity markets. 

This should not sit well for risk-adverse investors looking to find safety in their most conservative income components.

Attached you will find a selection of high-yielding stocks from the Dividend Champions League. Those companies managed to raise dividends over a period of at least 25 years without a break.

I focussed only on stocks with a potential to grow earnings in the future.

These are my current high dividend income ideas in the low interest environment...

34 Best Dividend Stocks With A 100 Year Long History

Blue chip stocks are established large-cap businesses that pay reliable dividends. 

They have long corporate histories and provide well-known products and/or services. 

This article examines every business in the S&P 500 with a 3% yield and a 100+ year corporate history. These are my criteria:

- Stocks with yields at or above 3%
- Low P/E ratios
- Strong competitive advantage
- Over 100 Years in Business

These are the best ideas that came into my minds...

10 Stocks With The Highest Amount Of Cash In Bank Accounts

A lot of analysts have been suggesting that investors might want to consider moving to cash, but what if you’re the type of investor who likes to stay long no matter what, knowing that the market always eventually comes back? 

If that’s the case, instead of moving to cash yourself, you can invest in stocks that have large cash positions. Companies that have large cash positions have several advantages. 

That cash can be used for: 

1. Research and development, which then has the potential to lead to innovation and organic growth. 

2. Acquisitions, which has the potential to lead to inorganic growth. 

3. Increasing shareholder returns via share buybacks and dividends. 

This in turn has the potential to buoy stocks when the broader market is volatile, especially if it’s a new buyback announcement or a dividend increase. 

4. Pay off debt. 

With all that in mind, here are the companies in the S&P 500 Index that hold the most cash...

18 Fast Growing Dividend Jewels You Should Consider

The Brexit dominates the market in several ways. He creates massive uncertainty, especially within the foreign exchange market which affects so many businesses around the world. 

The news is that those effects are limited. The big cake is still in America and the rest of the world. That’s also one reason why I want to screen the domestic market by stocks which are less affected by currency fluctuations. 

I like high margin companies that are big enough to finance its own growth without taking debt or issuing shares.

Finally, shareholders should get a decent amount of money as compensation for their risk and rental for their money. 

Today’s stock market screen tries to capture this issue in a special way. 

Here are my criteria: 

- Market Capitalization over USD 2 Billion
- Positive Dividend Yield 
- EPS to Grow By More Than 10% for The Next Half Decade 
- Debt/Equity Under 0.5 
- Operating Margin over 15% 
- Positive Return on Assets 
- Forward P/E under 15 

Exactly eighteen stocks fulfilled the above mentioned criteria of which five paying dividends over 3 percent. 

16 of the results are currently recommended to buy. 

These are my five favorites from the screening results...

10 S&P 500 Companies With The Highest Shareholder Yield

10 S&P 500 Companies With The Highest
Shareholder Yield (click to enlarge); Source: Factset

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