9 High-Yield Stocks With Strong Sources of Profitability

It is important to remember that dividends are not a guarantee of future payments; therefore, dividend sustainability should be a part of any analysis into potential income investments. One consideration is the strength of the company’s profitability, which directly funds the dividend. With this in mind, we ran a DuPont analysis of high dividend yield stocks. We last wrote about this screen on April 12, 2011. On that day, the screen produced 9 companies. Since then, 8 out of 9 companies mentioned in that article have outperformed the S&P 500 index (a success rate of 89%). The screen averaged a return of 5.5% vs. an index return of 2.1% (both of which calculated as price-weighted returns). Click here to access a full breakdown of the screen's past performance.click for expanded images With past performance in mind, we decided to run the same screen today, and see which companies show... Read more