10 Premier Stocks Yielding Over 3%, Worthy of a Place in Your Portfolio or Watchlist

In one of my earlier articles I stated that one of my favorite stocks is commonly known as a ruler stock. That was defined as "equities where earnings, if plotted on a graph, form an upward sloping straight line". These type of companies, the best of the best, are rare and those with attractive yields are few. Every income investor who values stable and growing earnings and dividends should own as many of these as possible and certainly all should be found on their watch lists. For this article we will look at 10 such stocks with current yields averaging over 3.5%. The following table outlines 5 year growth rate estimates from First Call on the growth of each company's revenue, dividend, and earnings. In addition, from Reuter's is the current Graham & Dodd decile ranking of each company from their universe of stocks. Stocks with the lowest price premiums... Read more