What Are the Best U.S.-Listed Dividend Plays?

Following my recent post on the relationship between higher payout ratio and higher future earnings growth, Pierre-Olivier of www.jourly.com asked me who I thought were the best U.S. dividend plays. And while I had some ideas based on stocks I have reviewed since creating Margin of Safety Investing, I thought I should try and answer the question based on the entire U.S. stock universe, not just the stocks I have analyzed so far.To do so, I first generated a list of U.S. companies using Morningstar’s stock screener using the following criteria:... Read more