Income Ideas: Top 5 High Yield Stocks With Decreasing Payout, Encouraging DuPont

If you are looking to boost your portfolio’s income, then this article will provide you with an interesting group of companies that you may want to keep an eye on. To construct this list we looked for stocks with dividend yields above 2% and: Trailing Twelve Month (TTM) payout ratio < 3-year average payout ratio Expected dividend per share > most recent dividend per share And increasing returns on equity (ROE) Then, for the sake of quality, we then sifted through this universe of stocks and kept only those that had encouraging DuPont breakdowns – which implies: Improving profit margin, i.e. higher Net Income/ Revenues Improving asset turnover, i.e. higher Sales/Assets Decreasing leverage ratio, i.e. lower Assets/Equity Interactive Chart: Press Play to compare changes in analyst ratings over the last two years for the stocks mentioned below. Analyst ratings sourced from Zacks Investment Research. Your browser does not support iframes.... Read more