Dividend Strategists Rewind: Top 7 Dividend Growth Stock Picks For 2022
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Top 7 Dividend Growth Stock Picks For 2022
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. I’ll briefly describe these criteria and a few additional screens I used to pick my top 7 DG stocks for 2022. READ MORE
8 Best Defensive Dividend Growth Stocks
In the December edition of my 7 Dividend Growth Stocks series, 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. READ MORE
4 High Yield Closed-End Funds For Your Portfolio
Many investors have heard of mutual funds and exchange-traded funds (ETFs) but aren't familiar with Closed-End Funds (CEFs). CEFs are a well-kept secret in the income community even though some of the largest investment houses from Blackrock to Fidelity offer CEF investment vehicles. READ MORE
18 Dividend Stocks To Consider For The Next Decade
Today, I’m going to provide you with my thoughts on some sectors and identify potential winners and losers for the next 10 years. This is a result of my own thinking which has evolved from research I’ve done and analyses I have read. This is obviously an exercise of mental gymnastics that could have led to a completely different conclusion if it was done by someone else. This article is not written with the intention of changing your entire portfolio or the way you think but rather to give you some thoughts and ideas to consider. READ MORE
Hybrid Funds To Complement High Yield Portfolios
There are all types of income investors. Some are focused solely on generating high yields from their deployed capital, while others build out portfolio’s trying to replicate similar returns that the market produces while squeezing out more than 1.37% in annual yields. When looking for income, many investments such as Alphabet (GOOGL), Amazon (AMZN), Tesla (TSLA), and Facebook (FB) are off the table as they don’t generate dividends. Without exposure to high-growth companies, income investors will have difficulty replicating average market returns in a bull market. I like using the SPDR S&P 500 Trust (SPY) as my barometer for comparing different investments to the market as it’s the most recognized S&P 500 index fund. READ MORE
5 Discounted Dividend Contenders
This article presents five high-quality Dividend Contenders that are discounted and offer generous and safe dividends and strong total return prospects.
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. READ MORE
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