Kiplinger 'Most Reliable Dividend Stocks On Earth' Persist Despite Covid-19 Losses By May Reckoning
Published May 3, 2020 on Seeking Alpha

Kiplinger Investing, offering "insights for investors" online, compiled a "World's Most Reliable" list of 99 in October 2018. Data updated 5/1/20 showed eight lost to Covid-19.
These most-reliable dividend stocks on earth, also known as International “Dividend Aristocrats,” have raised dividends at least 5 straight years (Canadian firms), 10 years (E.U.-based firms), or 25 years (U.S. companies).
91 select dividend stocks ranged 0.67-16.54% in annual yield and ranged -16.88% to 141.24% in annual price-target upsides per broker calculations 5/1/20.
Top 10 Kiplinger most reliable, long-term dividend stocks on earth boasted net gains from 21.34% to 42.86% for May.
$5k invested in the lowest-priced five of ten top-yield Kiplinger most reliable dividend dogs showed 23.7% LESS net gain than from $5k invested in all ten. Bigger, high-price Kiplinger reliable dividend dogs again lead this pack.
Foreword
Any collection of stocks is more clearly understood when subjected to yield-based (dog catcher) analysis. These Kiplinger world's most reliable dividend stocks are perfect for the dogcatcher process. Here is the May 1 data for 91 dividend-paying stocks in the Kiplinger-documented collection. Missing now are eight dearly departed former dividend payers felled by their board of directors' reaction to Covid-19 stresses.
Now departed are: BAE Systems (OTCPK: BAESY), Bunzl (OTCPK: BZLFY), Groupe Bruxelles Lambert (OTCPK: GBLBF), L'Oreal (OTCPK: LRLCY), Micro Focus International (MFGP), Paddy Power Betfair (OTCPK: PDYPY), Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken (OTCPK: SKVKY), and WPP PLC (WPP).
The post-Ides-of-March plunge in the stock market took an 8% toll on the 99 international aristocrats. The Scandinavian bank was the first of the eight to suspend dividend payouts. However, the drop in prices of 20 of the top 30 (listed by yield) most reliable dividend payers in the world has made the possibility of owning productive dividend shares from... Read more