18 S&P 500 Dividend Stocks With Strong Corporate Governance

Companies are valued at more than just their buildings and inventories – management teams also go into company valuations, and how well a company is run has big implications to its stock performance. One way to evaluate this is by looking at the corporate governance policies of the company, such as its board composition and shareholder rights. Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS) gives ratings for four areas of corporate governance, on risks related to: the board, the audit committee, the compensation committee, and shareholder rights. We ran a screen on the S&P 500 (SPY) for stocks paying dividend yields above 2% that also received “low risk” ratings on all four corporate governance categories from ISS. ‪Interactive Chart: Press Play to compare changes in analyst ratings over the last two years for the top six stocks mentioned below. Analyst ratings sourced from Zacks Investment Research.‬ ‪... Read more