I've been working with Portfolio Insight to develop a Dividend Quality Grade for dividend stocks.
We evaluate all dividend-paying stocks and assess the likelihood of a dividend increase in the next twelve months. We also identify stocks at risk of freezing or cutting their dividends. In backtests, our approach accurately predicted a failure to continue dividend increases in more than 98% of cases!
For this article, I used a pre-release version of Dividend Quality Grades to extract Dividend Champions and Dividend Contenders with A+ Dividend Quality Grades. These are Exceptional dividend growth stocks with solid fundamentals and dividend increase streaks of ten years or more.
Additionally, I screened for stocks trading below my fair value estimates. These stocks offer good value and are suitable for immediate investment.
The article presents my top dividend growth pick in each of the GICS sectors. I provide quality indicators, key metrics, and my risk-adjusted Buy Below prices for each stock.
For this article, I focused on dividend growth stocks in Dividend Radar, a weekly automatically generated spreadsheet from Portfolio Insight listing stocks with dividend streaks of five or more years.
Each stock is discounted to my fair value estimate and offers strong income and growth prospects. Moreover, the stocks I picked have Very Safe or Safe dividends according to Simply Safe Dividends.
The Dividend Achievers are companies that have increased their dividends for ten or more consecutive years.
In this article, I highlight three Dividend Achievers with upside potential and forward yield above 5%.
The Dividend Aristocrats list is an elite list of 64 companies in the S&P 500 that have paid higher dividends every year for at least 25 consecutive years.
As a dividend growth investor, I look to invest in high-quality and safe dividend growth [DG] stocks trading at reasonable valuations. My watchlist is Dividend Radar, an automatically generated spreadsheet listing stocks with dividend increase streaks of five or more years. The latest edition (December 24, 2021) contains 731 DG stocks.
I usually consider five stock selection criteria before buying DG stocks for my DivGro portfolio: The criteria are Stock Quality, Stock Valuation, Growth Outlook, Income Outlook, and Dividend Safety.
The article briefly describes these criteria and two additional screens I used to pick my top 7 DG stocks for 2022.
In the December edition of my 7 Dividend Growth Stocks on TheStreet.coms, I used a defensiveness scoring system developed by David Van Knapp [DVK] as my primary screen. The system awards points to stocks based on satisfying common notions of safety rather than for being members of a particular sector.
In that article, I identified the best defensive stocks that traded below my risk-adjusted Buy Below prices.
Today, I want to identify the best defensive dividend growth stocks regardless of their current valuations. While I wouldn’t recommend buying stocks until they trade at more favorable valuations, it is good to have a shortlist of high-quality defensive stocks ready to go!
The Dividend Contenders are companies listed on U.S. exchanges that have dividend increase streaks of 10-24 years. There are 315 Dividend Contenders in my watchlist of dividend growth stocks, Dividend Radar, a free resource for DG investors maintained and published every Friday by Portfolio Insight.
This article wraps up my article series on high-quality stocks in each of the GICS sectors. The series of 11 articles presented the 7 highest-ranked dividend growth stocks [DG] in each GICS sector, for a total of 77 stocks. Today, I’m presenting the top opportunities out of these 77 stocks.
I use DVK Quality Snapshots to assess the quality of dividend growth stocks, assigning 0-5 points to each stock based on how they rate on five widely-used quality indicators. The total of these points is a stock’s quality score out of a maximum of 25 points. I rank stocks by sorting them in descending order of quality score. When stocks have the same quality score, I use tie-breaking metrics to rank them.
This article presents the ten top-ranked stocks out of the 77 DG stocks covered in this series.
Today’s article concludes my article series identifying high-quality stocks in each GICS sector.
My watchlist of dividend growth stocks is Dividend Radar, a list of stocks trading on U.S. Exchanges with dividend increase streaks of five or more years. Dividend Radar is a free resource for dividend growth investors, maintained and published every Friday by Portfolio Insight. The latest edition (dated October 1, 2021) contains 744 stocks, of which 58 fall in the Utilities sector.
I use DVK Quality Snapshots to assess the quality of dividend growth stocks, assigning 0-5 points to each stock based on how they rate on five widely-used quality indicators. The total of these points is a stock’s quality score out of a maximum of 25 points. I rank stocks by sorting them in descending order of quality score. When stocks have the same quality score, I use tie-breaking metrics to rank them.
This article presents the seven top-ranked stocks in the Utilities sector.
One way to diversify your portfolio and mitigate risk is to invest in different sectors. This article series identifies high-quality stocks in the different GICS sector.
I use DVK Quality Snapshots to assess the quality of dividend growth stocks and assign quality scores. The system employs five quality indicators and assigns 0-5 points to each quality indicator, for a maximum of 25 points. To rank stocks, I sort them by descending quality scores and using tie-breaking metrics where necessary.
My watch list for dividend growth stocks is Dividend Radar, a free resource for dividend growth investors. Dividend Radar maintains a list of stocks trading on U.S. Exchanges with a streak of at least five years of higher annual dividend payouts. Dividend Radar is updated and published every Friday and is available for download here.
This article presents the seven top-ranked dividend growth stocks in the Real Estate sector.
The Dividend Aristocrats list is an elite list of 65 companies that have paid higher dividends every year for at least 25 consecutive years.
One way to diversify your portfolio is to invest in different sectors. This article series is intended to help investors identify high-quality stocks in each GICS sector.
To assess the quality of dividend growth stocks, I use DVK Quality Snapshots to assign quality scores. The system employs five quality indicators and assigns 0-5 points to each quality indicator, for a maximum of 25 points. To rank stocks, I sort them by descending quality scores and using tie-breaking metrics where necessary.
My watch list for dividend growth stocks is Dividend Radar, a free resource for dividend growth investors. Dividend Radar maintains a list of stocks trading on U.S. Exchanges with a streak of at least five years of higher annual dividend payouts. Dividend Radar is updated and published every Friday and is available for download here.
This article presents the seven top-ranked dividend growth stocks in the Materials sector.
In this article series, I reveal the top-ranked dividend growth stocks in each GICS sector.
My watchlist of dividend growth stocks in Dividend Radar, a list of stocks trading on U.S. Exchanges with increasing annual dividend payouts for five or more consecutive years. We update and publish Dividend Radar every Friday. The latest edition (dated August 27, 2021) contains 754 stocks, 56 of which are in the Information Technology sector.
To rank stocks, I sort them in descending order by quality scores, as determined by DVK Quality Snapshots. When two stocks have the same quality score, I use tie-breaking metrics to rank one stock higher than the other.
This article presents the seven top-ranked dividend growth stocks in the Information Technology sector.
In this article series, I present the top-ranked dividend growth stocks in each GICS sector. Sector diversification is one way to mitigate portfolio risk, as some sectors perform better than others in different economic conditions.
To rank stocks, I sort them in descending order by quality scores, as determined by DVK Quality Snapshots. When two stocks have the same quality score, I use tie-breaking metrics to rank one stock higher than the other.
My watch list for dividend growth stocks is Dividend Radar, a list of stocks trading on U.S. Exchanges with dividend increase streaks of five or more years. Dividend Radar is updated and published every Friday and is available for download here. The latest edition (dated August 20, 2021) contains 755 stocks, 118 of which are in the Industrials sector.
This article presents the seven top-ranked dividend growth stocks in the Industrials sector.
As a dividend growth investor, I look for high-quality dividend growth stocks trading at reasonable valuations. Dividend safety is an important consideration, and I prefer to invest in stocks that have a good chance of delivering solid total returns (dividends plus price appreciation).
Utilities operate in a regulated environment and often as legal monopolies, so they have predictable and stable earnings. This allows some Utilities to pay generous dividends and to increase their dividend payouts over time.
The Chowder Number and 5-year Yield on Cost are measures of a stock’s future total return and dividend income prospects.
One way to diversify your portfolio is to invest in different sectors. Some sectors perform better than others in different economic conditions, and sector diversification helps to mitigate portfolio risk.
In this article series, I present the top-ranked dividend growth stocks in each GICS sector. To rank stocks, I sort them in descending order by quality scores, as determined by DVK Quality Snapshots. When two stocks have the same quality score, I use tie-breaking metrics to rank one stock higher than the other.
My watch list for candidates is Dividend Radar, a list of stocks trading on U.S. Exchanges with at least five consecutive years of higher dividend payouts. The list is updated and published every Friday and is available for download here. The latest edition (dated August 6, 2021) contains 759 stocks, 37 of which are in the Health Care sector.
This article presents the seven top-ranked dividend growth stocks in the Health Care sector.
My watch list for candidates is Dividend Radar, a list of stocks trading on U.S. Exchanges with dividend increase streaks of at least five years. The list is updated and published every Friday and is available for free download here. The latest edition (dated July 23, 2021) contains 762 stocks.
DVK Quality Snapshots provide a simple yet elegant way to assess the quality of dividend stocks. Devised by David Van Knapp, the system assigns 0-5 points to each of five quality indicators for a maximum quality score of 25 points.
Only seven Dividend Radar stocks have perfect quality scores, and I rate these stocks Exceptional.
