You can now screen for dividend stocks using the Motley Fool’s CAPS rating system as a screening criterion. The new CAPS stock screener includes the CAPS rating along with many of the usual financial metrics, and offers preset configurations for “Value,” “Dividend,” “Small Cap,” and “High Growth.” In today’s article on “5 Dynamic Dividend Stocks,” [...]
Recently, MagicDiligence – a site dedicated to finding investment opportunities using Joel Greenblatt’s Magic Formula investing stock strategy – compiled a list of the top ten Magic Formula dividend stocks, sorted by dividend yield. The strategy, as detailed in Greenblatt’s “The Little Book That Beats the Market” tries to identify good businesses selling at bargain [...]
In an interview in Barron’s this week, Judith Saryan, a co-manager of the Eaton Vance Dividend Income Fund [[EDIAX]] offered a half dozen of her favorite dividend stocks (see below), based on the cash on their balance sheets, cash flow, and the amount and maturity of debt they had coming due. Here’s my quick take [...]
Despite all the recent dividend cuts, it’s easy to find plenty of high-yielding dividend stocks in the current market environment. And Investopedia does just that with its list of five dividend stocks yielding 5% or greater. Here’s my quick take on the five dividend stocks mentioned (the stars represent Dividendinvestor.com’s star ranking system – three [...]
I’ve wanted to add a defense sector stock like General Dynamics [[GD]] to my dividend stocks portfolio for some time, but each time I looked it was simply too expensive – having more than tripled in value in the years following the 2002-2003 market lows. Not any more. Fears over the global recession (specifically relating [...]
