2 More Stocks With Good Yields And Great Businesses

"I'm rational. That's the answer. I'm rational." (Spoken by Charlie Munger when asked at a dinner party, "What one quality accounts for your enormous success?") That's what I call a short-and-direct reply. That's the writing style I'd like to use in this article. I'm offering two stocks with outstanding payout yields and "great businesses" behind them. Period! I also want to be "rational". Higher yields often reflect higher risk. Yet when a sector or industry falls out of favor stock prices fall and the yield-to-price goes higher, even as the risk factors remain constant. A good example of a sector where this is happening is the consumer goods industry. This includes dividend dukes like Colgate-Palmolive (CL) and the Dutch giant Unilever (UN). Here's a telling 1-year price chart of UN with the 50-day and 200-day moving averages. UN is a misunderstood dividend-grower that's knows how to increase profits and... Read more