11 Solid Dividend Stocks With Excellent Growth Rates

Many investors, such as Warren Buffett, praise defensive investing. As Buffett’s mentor Benjamin Graham recommended, investing with a margin of safety can be highly preferable in especially inflationary environments. Defensive investors generally pick high dividend yielding stocks as alternatives to 10-year T-Bonds in order to seek protection against inflation. For such investors we prepared a list of 11 large-cap companies with high growth rates that pay fat dividend checks. The market data are sourced from Fidelity. All companies in this list have a market capitalization above $4 billion, five years EPS growth rate higher than 20%, and dividend yield of at least 4%. None of these stocks lost money to their investors during the past 12 months and they returned 37.71% (including dividends) in the same period, beating the government bonds by a large margin. Eli Lilly Co. (LLY): Eli Lilly and Co. is a global pharmaceutical company. LLY has... Read more