The 'Lucky 13' Dividend Stocks For 2012

Barron's had an article this week highlighting the "Lucky 13" portfolio of the Investment Quality Trends ("IQT") newsletter, which is published by managing editor, Kelley Wright. IQT is a 46-year-old publication with an investment strategy focused on dividends and dividend yield and it is consistently highly rated among investment newsletters. From the article: Writing in IQT's mid-January edition, Wright observes that while stocks are entering 2012 on the rise, unresolved euro-zone problems probably will spawn "some white-knuckle moments in the first half of the year." But, he adds, that "will provide an opportunity to acquire some of the great cyclical and industrial companies at prices and yields that will not be revisited for a considerable period of time." Unfortunately, as occurred in 1975 through 1982, much of the public will miss this opportunity, he opines, by being out of the market. However, this time around, stocks won't "languish in purgatory... Read more