14.7% To 43% Yields From 10 'Bad Boy' Dividend Dogs As Of August 21

How Bad Boys Sin
These were not the worst of the worst. These were "Bad-As" representatives with high yields. The list of 50 bad boy stocks below was created by screening for industries populated by public companies that have historically committed acts, made substances, by-products, or devices that maim, kill, tempt, harm, addict, insult, or scam the public. These included corporate members of all nine business sectors: basic materials, consumer goods, financial, technology, conglomerates, health, services, utilities and industrial goods.
Sorting and refining top stocks in each industry of interest by yield narrowed the field to 50 from over 1000 candidates. They may be bad but they all pay strong dividends! Furthermore, recent market price declines pushed those estimated annual dividends way higher.
50 For the Money
Yield (dividend/price) results from here verified by Yahoo Finance for super-sinner "Bad Boy All-Star" ("Bad-As") stocks as of market closing prices 8/21/15 revealed three actionable conclusions discussed below. See Dow 30 article for an 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... Read more