Analysts Tag Stein Mart Top 'Safe' Sector Leader Dividend Dog For February

The Dividend Dogs Rule
The "dog" moniker was earned by stocks exhibiting three traits: (1) paying reliable, repeating dividends, (2) their prices fell to where (3) yield (dividend/price) grew higher than their peers. Thus, the highest yielding stocks in any collection became known as "dogs." More precisely, these are, in fact, "underdogs". In other words, the higher the yield, the lower the dog.
These 85 "Safe" Dividend Dogs Were Ranked By Yield in Eleven Sectors


Broker one-year target results from Yahoo! Finance based on market closing prices on February 17 for forty-four stocks as four each from all eleven Morningstar sectors passed the screen test for cash flow to cover dividend. Their yields ranged 2.51% to 16.73% and they revealed the actionable conclusions discussed below.
See my most recent 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 desired.
Dog Metrics Extracted Bargains

The four highest "safe" yield dividend dogs were arranged by yield in each sector. Thereafter, the sectors were arranged by yield. The resulting rank shows: (1)... Read more