Dividend stocks that reliably increase their payouts year after year have historically outperformed the market over long periods of time.
Even better: Dividend aristocrats are companies in the S&P 500 that have raised their dividends for at least 25 consecutive years.
Throughout their dividend growth streaks, they have faced numerous challenges -- recessions, commodity crashes, wars, and more.
However, they had the strength to continue delivering reliable income growth for investors.
Many of these blue-chip dividend stocks operate strong and steady business models and have created substantial shareholder value over time.
The following dividend aristocrats collectively boast an average dividend yield of 3% and have an average dividend growth streak of 46 years.
These are the results...
It gets harder every day to find quality yield in a world where most people are thinking that the “lower for longer” mantra is starting to become a reality.
They have good reason to think that, because U.S. Treasury rates are among the highest investment grade sovereign debt yields in the world, and the 30-year bond is at a pathetic 2.26%.
Not a very fair return for loaning the government money for 30 years. On this blog we are constantly on the lookout for stocks that pay good dividends, are not horribly overbought and are rated reasonably high by some of the top firms we cover. This week we found four companies that pay at least a 5% yield and are rated Buy.
These are the results...
Today I am sharing with you a few companies, which I believe are attractively valued.
These companies have managed to boost dividends for at least a decade, have a P/E ratio below 20, and a current yield above 2% which is covered by earnings.
These are companies which are good candidates for further research.
Here are the results from the screen...
Only a few types of companies can survive in essential perpetuity, and the ones who can have stocks you'll want to hold for the rest of your life.
Now, granted, the Dow is now 120 years old, and a lot can happen in that amount of time. But it’s worth noting that the S&P 500 — which is less than 60 years old — only has 86 or the original 500 companies still in the index.
That means that 83% of the companies have either gone bankrupt, merged or simply become too small or irrelevant to be included.
Some companies stand the test of time … but most don’t. Today, I’m going to recommend five stocks to buy for the next 50 years.
These are the kinds of stocks you can buy for a secure retirement, because you know that, barring a zombie apocalypse, they’re still going to be around.
Here are five stocks that may be good investments for the next 30 years....
The Dogs of the Dow is an investment strategy that gained popularity in the 1990’s which proposes that an investor buy and hold the 10 stocks from the 30 in the Dow Jones Industrial Average with the highest dividend yields each year.
The reasoning is that because the dividends of Dow stocks don’t vary with the price of the stock and if we believe that a company’s dividend is a good measure of the value of a company then by buying companies with a high dividend yield, we’re systematically buying those companies that are at the bottom of their business cycle and are more likely to see the stock price increase faster than their lower yielding counterparts.
The Dogs of the Dow for July 2016 are :
