Dogs of the Dow Each year financial news services such as the Wall Street Journal and others like to talk about the strategy known as Dogs of the Dow. This is a popular and established strategy involving buying the 10 stocks with the highest dividend yields of the 30 Dow components at the first of …
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Finding 20 Dividend Growth Stocks In A Bad Market
Dividend Growth Stocks Starting in 2012, it became more and more difficult for prudent dividend growth stock investors looking for income. The stock market was trading at excessive valuations, and interest rates were at all-time lows. Consequently, there was little to no income to be achieved from fixed income instruments, and the highest quality blue-chip …
Merck & Company (MRK) Blue-Chip Dividend Growth Stock On Sale
Dividend Growth Stock On Sale Merck & Company (MRK) is what I consider to be a very high quality blue-chip dividend growth stock that promises both some good current income and growth of future income, as well as capital appreciation. Most importantly of all, I believe it’s very attractively-valued today. In this video I am …
Why Are These 6 Dow Stocks Fairly Valued?: Part 4 of 5
Introduction Thus far, with the first 3 parts of this five-part series, we’ve examined 60% (18 of 30) of the 30 stocks in the Dow Jones Industrial Average. What we found so far were that the majority of these constituents are currently overvalued or at least fully valued. Finally, with this Part 4, we will …
Dissecting the Dow: 21 of the 30 Dow Stocks are Undervalued, 6 are Fairly Valued, and Only 3 Appear Overvalued
Introduction In this final segment, we will cover the 10 poorest performing DJIA stocks since 1995. In part one which covered the best 10 performing DJIA stocks; we saw a group of companies that could best be described as consistent above-average earnings generators. Consequently, it makes sense that they were the best performers since we …
6 High Yield Pharmaceutical Companies: Do They Justify the Risk?
Introduction Today Investors are keenly focused on income while simultaneously very risk averse.This current behavior brings with it a level of frustration.The appetite for yield is high precisely at a time when yields on the traditionally safest investments like bonds and CDs, etc. are at historic lows.On the other hand, dividend yields on many blue-chip …