Utilities Divi-Dogs: 15% November Edge For 5 Lowest-Priced, High-Yield Stocks
Top Ten For the Money
This article refines and distinguishes an earlier report that revealed Small, Mid, & Large cap utilities bargain stocks to buy and hold from November to May, or perhaps as long as one year. Small cap firms were valued at $200M(illion) to $2B(illion); Mid cap firms were worth $2B to $10B; Large caps were valued above $10B.See Dow 30 article for explanation of the term "dogs" for stocks reported based on Michael B. O'Higgins' book "Beating The Dow" (HarperCollins, 1991), now named Dogs of the Dow. O'Higgins' system works to find bargains in any collection of dividend-paying stocks. Utilizing analyst price upside estimates expanded the stock universe to include popular growth equities, as desired.Dog Metrics Extracted BargainsTen small, mid, and large cap utilities equities were culled by yield from 50 choices from here. Yield (dividend/price) results verified by Yahoo Finance did the ranking.Ten utilities sector stocks that showed the biggest dividend yields into November, per Yahoo Finance data, represented four industries: diversified; gas; foreign; electric.Tops by yield was the most downtrodden of four diversified firms, Just Energy Group, Inc. [Canada] (NYSE: JE) [1]. The three other diversified firms placed second, fourth, and ninth: Southcross Energy Partners, L.P. (NYSE: SXE) [2]; TransAlta Corp. (NYSE: TAC) [4]; Brookfield Renewable Energy Partners LP (NYSE: BEP) [9].Two gas firms placed third and fifth: Suburban... Read more