In an article just posted at TheStockAdvisors.com, investment advisory service IQ Trends offers a look at its current “Timely Ten” high-quality dividend-paying stocks. According to IQ Trends, these are “undervalued” stocks offering good long-term dividend growth, an S&P dividend and earnings quality rating of A- or better, and low debt and payout ratios, as well [...]
Widely recognized by its AFLAC duck brand icon, this health and life insurance provider has, like most financials, recently seen its stock (AFL: 49.92 -2.00%, yld: 2.20%) badly beaten down in the market on fears of “toxic” assets exposure – in this case hybrid securities issued by European financial institutions – and associated ratings downgrades. [...]
While surveying the investing landscape for worthwhile dividend investments I seem to keep running across certain names more than others. One of those is the 3M Company (MMM: 82.14 -1.61%, yld: 2.50%) – a self-described diversified technology company with businesses in everything from materials and manufacturing to electronics and health care.
But, most important to me, [...]
A list of 10 dividend stocks with 50+ years of consecutive increases has been compiled by Dividends Value. It includes such recognizable names as Procter & Gamble (PG: 60.14 -0.25%, yld: 3.06%) and 3M (MMM: 82.14 -1.61%, yld: 2.50%), as well as some that are less familiar like Dover Corp. (DOV: 48.63 -1.18%, yld: [...]
Few things will cause dividend investors to immediately sell a stock, but a dividend cut is one of them. So when pharmaceutical behemoth Pfizer (PFE: 16.33 -0.79%, yld: 4.25%) recently announced that it was halving its annual dividend to $0.64 to help finance its acquisition of Wyeth (WYE: 50.39 0.00%, yld: 2.38%), the stock was [...]
