10 Dividend Stocks That Can't Catch a Break

The Current Ratio is a liquidity metric that illustrates a firm’s ability to pay back short-term obligations. The higher this financial ratio the easier it is for a firm to handle its obligations. Now a ratio under 1 indicates that a firm cannot pay off all its obligations if they all came due at once. Although this is a red flag that should be reviewed further this doesn’t mean the firm is doomed for bankruptcy. We ran a screen for dividend stocks that have underperformed the S&P 500 over the last 3-Months. From this narrowed pool we then screened for firms have a Current Ratio of 7 or higher. The 3-Month Return ranks the firms from low to high by performance: 1. Ryland Group, Inc. (RYL) Sector Consumer Cyclical Industry Residential Construction Market Cap $445 million Beta 1.23 The company does mortgage financing and home-building. The firm has fallen 39.11%... Read more