Top 10 Consumer Discretionary Dividend Stocks

Some consumer discretionary stocks may be well positioned to take advantage of a recovering economy while offering an attractive dividend yield. However, many consumer discretionary stocks have been battered over the past couple years as consumers closed their wallets. Analysis The analysis was conducted by screening through stocks within in the sector and limiting the selections to stocks with a greater than 1% dividend yield. There are 512 consumer discretionary companies. Of these companies, only 118 have a dividend yield at .1% or higher. The maximum yield at 11.6% for World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc. (WWE). This analysis is limited by the stock screening tool that I used and one clear issue is that the dividends were not completely current in all cases. Cross referencing the Zacks.com tool against Yahoo!Finance showed discrepancies between some of the smaller stocks. Ticker Name Price Dividend Yield (%) Equity Market Cap $ Millions WWE World... Read more