Contender Dogs Show A High-Energy April Dividend Portfolio

Top 30 Contender Dogs Gathered From 6 Sectors For March/April
Yield (dividend / price) results from here April 5 verified by YCharts for thirty stocks from eight of eleven Morningstar sectors revealed the actionable conclusions discussed below.
The U.S. Dividend Contenders are maintained by Dave Fish of Moneypaper's DirectInvesting.com, whose articles appear at Seeking Alpha. They are selected based on "10-24 straight years of higher dividends."

The Dividend Dogs Rule
Stocks earned the "dog" moniker by 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, best called, "underdogs".
Top 30 Dividend Contenders

U.S. Dividend Contenders were selected based on "10-24 straight years of higher dividends."
Actionable Conclusion (1) Dividend Dog Metrics Selected 10 Top Contender Stocks By Yield
Top ten Contender Dividend dogs selected 3/31/17 showing top yields 4/5/17, represented just three sectors in the Morningstar eleven sector scheme: (1) energy [7 listed]; (2) utilities [1 listed]; (3) real estate [2 listed].
Top Contender stock by yield: Enbridge Energy Partners (EEP) [1] was the tops of the seven Energy firms listed. The remaining energy firms placed second, third, sixth,... Read more