2 Bargain Stocks With Solid Yields for an Oversold Market
The market is rapidly approaching oversold territory so it is probably a good time to get out that shopping list. Here are two stocks that have been beaten down, have low valuations, solid dividend yields and should bounce back once we get past this market turbulence over the summer. Aflac Incorporated (AFL) - Aflac Incorporated, through its subsidiary, American Family Life Assurance Company of Columbus (Aflac), provides supplemental health and life insurance. The company offers cancer plans, general medical indemnity plans, medical/sickness riders, care plans, living benefit life plans, ordinary life insurance plans, and annuities in Japan. It also offers accident/disability plans, cancer plans, short-term disability plans, sickness and hospital indemnity plans, hospital intensive care... more
Unitrin Announces Quarterly Dividend
Unitrin, Inc. (NYSE: UTR) announced today that its Board of Directors has declared a quarterly dividend of $0.24 per share. The dividend is payable on August 26, 2011 to its shareholders of record as of August 12, 2011.... more
Assured Guaranty Ltd. Declares Quarterly Dividend of U.S. $0.045 per Common Share
Assured Guaranty Ltd. (NYSE: AGO) today declared a quarterly dividend of U.S. $0.045 per common share. The dividend is payable on August 31, 2011 to shareholders of record at the close of business on August 17, 2011.... more
This High-Yield Portfolio Will Beat the Market
Movers & shakersOf our stocks, the biggest mover in the portfolio the past week was France Telecom, which fell 5.5% after rising 6.3% in the week prior. Frontier and National Grid also declined, falling 4% and 2%, respectively. Money!There are five upcoming dividends for the portfolio:... more
D&B Declares Quarterly Dividend
D&B (NYSE: DNB), the world's leading source of commercial information and insight on businesses, announced today that its Board of Directors has declared a quarterly cash dividend of $0.36 per share. This quarterly cash dividend is payable on September 15, 2011, to shareholders of record at the close of business on August 31, 2011.... more
The Most Promising Dividends in Metal Fabrication
Yields and growth rates and payout ratios, oh my!Before we get to those companies, though, you should understand just why you'd want to own dividend payers. These stocks can contribute a huge chunk of growth to your portfolio in good times, and bolster it during market downturns. As my colleague Matt Koppenheffer has noted: "Between 2000 and 2009, the average dividend-adjusted return on stocks with market caps above $5 billion and a trailing yield of 2.5% or better was a whopping 114%. Compare that to a 19% drop for the S&P 500."... more
Sleep Easy With 3 Debt-Free Dividend Payers
Taking it a step further, we can even break up dividend stocks into a sexy, high-yielding group, and a less exciting but more sustainable group. Today, I'm going to offer you three stocks from the latter group that can shepherd your retirement portfolio over the coming decades, while helping you sleep better at night.... more
5 'Free' Dividend Stocks
The last decade has been touted as the lost decade for stock investors. The main reason why stock prices have gone nowhere since 2000, is mostly because stocks were overvalued. However, the shareholders of the following dividend champions, who purchased them at the end of 1999, were able to get more in dividends than the amount they paid for the stock. In essence, they received their original investment back in the form of dividends, while still retaining ownership of the shares and the future dividend income stream that comes along with it.In order to come up with this list, I looked for dividend champions, which paid out more in dividends between 2000 and 2010, than the price of their stock on December 31, 1999.Altria Group, Inc. (MO), through its subsidiaries, engages in the... more
Top 30, High Dividend Utilities Stocks
In a recent article, we compiled a list of top 30 S&P 500 Financial Stocks and showed that high dividend yielding financial stocks performed better than low dividend yielding ones since the beginning of this year. In another study, we showed that the average return of high dividend yielding stocks was 13.04% between 1927 and 2009. Dividend stocks beat the overall market by an average of 1.36% per year in that period. We prefer high dividend stocks since they generally perform better and usually increase dividend payments over the next 5-10 years. Some sectors contain many high dividend stocks and may appear attractive to dividend lovers. The utilities sector is one high dividend yielding sector. W e compiled a list of the top 30 US Utilities Stocks by market cap and ranked them... more
Investing in High Dividend Healthcare Stocks, And 10 to Consider
Healthcare is a fast-growing industry in the United States. In our previous article, we provided National Health Expenditures (NHE) projections for the next 10 years and showed that NHE as a share of Gross Domestic Product is expected to be 19.6% by 2019. As healthcare spending and costs are rising, we believe healthcare stocks will continue to be in hedge funds’ portfolios in the future. Although healthcare stocks are promising, we believe investors should be cautious of the upcoming inflationary environment. Like Ray Dalio, we are concerned about the Fed’s inflationary monetary policy, and we think investors should pick defensive stocks with high dividend yields in order to protect themselves against inflation. Defensive investing may not provide the best returns in a bull market... more