10 'Bad Boy' Dividend Dogs: 28% To 94% Upsides; 39% To 107% Net Gains By August 21, 2016

Sins of the Bad
These were not the worst of the worst. These were "Bad-As" representatives with high yields. The list of fifty "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 the top stocks in each industry of interest by yield narrowed the field to fifty from over 1000 candidates. They may be bad, but they all pay strong dividends! Furthermore, recent market price declines pushed those estimated annual dividends away higher.
Below, Arnold top "Bad-As" dog selections for August by price upsides and net gains are disclosed step by step. Four actionable conclusions are drawn.
Actionable Conclusion (1) Ten "Bad-As" Dogs Averaged 55.74% August Upsides

The charts above used one-year mean target prices set by brokerage analysts matched against the August 21 closing price to compare ten "Bad-As" stocks showing the highest upside price potential into 2016 out of 30 selected. The number of analysts providing price estimates was noted after the name for each stock. Three to nine analysts were considered optimal for a valid mean target... Read more