11 High-Yield Stocks With Decreasing Payout Ratios and Improving Cash Flows

Are you looking for candidates to boost your portfolio’s income? If so, you may find this article to be an interesting starting point for your own research. With that in mind, we looked for all the companies with market caps above $300M and dividend yields above 2%. Consequently, we looked for each of these names’ payout ratios, operating cash flows and revenues. Ultimately, we kept those companies with the following three characteristics: - TTM payout ratio < 3-year average payout ratio - TTM Operating cash flow/revenue > 3-year average operating cash flow/revenue - Expected dividend per share > most recent dividend per shareYour browser does not support iframes.Your browser does not support iframes. We also created a price-weighted index of the stocks mentioned below, and monitored the performance of the list relative to the S&P 500 index over the last year. To access a complete analysis of... Read more