Top Monthly Paying Dividend Stocks And Funds, Your Mid-May Update
Published May 19, 2020 on Seeking Alpha

Here are your mid-May U.S. exchange-traded monthly-paid (MoPay) dividends, upsides, and net gains. Stocks by-yield (78), stocks by price-upside (30), and closed-end investments, exchange-traded funds and notes (CEICs/ETFs/ETNs) by yield >9.2% (80).
U.S. MoPay equities are neither bigger nor better. Canadian MoPays are omitted but many Canadian firms are U.S. listed OTC. CEICs/ETFs/ETNs are combined US/Canadian and limited to yields over 9%.
Items: Top MoPay stock gains, overall best MoPay gainers, funds vs. equities, and fund risks/rewards. All per prices as of 5/15/20.
Analyst annual targets revealed that investing $5k in the lowest priced five of ten top yield MoPay US exchange equities produced 16.70% less gain than $5k invested in all ten.
Actionable Conclusions (1-10): Brokers Estimated Top Ten MoPay Equities To Net 34% to 63% Gains By Mid-May 2021 Five of the ten top-yield MoPay stocks (shaded in the chart below) were verified as being among the top ten gainers for the coming year based on analyst one-year target prices. Thus, the yield-based strategy for this MoPay group, as graded by broker estimates for this month, proved 50% accurate.
Projections based on estimated dividend amounts from $1,000 invested in each of the ten highest yielding stocks and the one-year analyst median target prices for those stocks, as reported by YCharts, produced the data points. Note: one-year target prices from single analysts were not applied (n/a). Ten probable profit-generating trades to mid-May 2021 were:
Source: YCharts

ARMOUR Residential REIT (ARR) netted $629.84 based on dividends plus the median of annual price estimates from four analysts less broker fees. The Beta number showed this estimate subject to risk/volatility 11% more than the market as a whole.
Ellington Financial Inc. (EFC) netted $603.77 based on dividend, plus the median of target prices estimated by seven analysts, less broker fees. The Beta number showed this estimate subject... Read more