'Bad Boy' Dogs Net 12.4% More From 5 Highest-Yield, Lowest-Priced As Of August 21, 2016
Top Ten for the Money
This article was written to reveal bargain stocks to buy and hold for one year, and followed up a previous article describing the lineage by yield of the "Bad-As" kennel of dogs. See the 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 Bargains
Ten dividend-paying stocks as of market closing on August 21 were culled from the equities that constitute the "Bad Boy All-Star" ("Bad-As") kennel. Yield (dividend / price) results verified by Yahoo Finance did the ranking.
Ten "Bad-As" dogs that promised the biggest dividend yields for July included firms from four of nine market sectors listed here.
Actionable Conclusion: (1) Analysts Asserted 5 Lowest-Priced of the Top Ten Highest-Yield "Bad-As" Dogs Will Deliver 71.13% Vs. (2) 63.28% Net Gains for All Ten by August 21, 2016
$5000 invested as $1k in each of the five lowest-priced stocks in the top ten "Bad-As" kennel by yield were predicted by analyst 1-year targets to deliver 12.40% more net gain than $5,000 invested as $.5k in each of all ten. The... Read more