Stocks from the S&P High Yield Dividend Aristocrats with strong growth at low valuation originally published at long-term-investments.blogspot.com. Is there anybody who don’t loves high dividend paying stocks with a long history of dividend hikes? I don’t think so.
Standard & Poor’s has created an index family with focus on dividend growth stocks. One member of the index family is the popular S&P High Yield Dividend Aristocrats Index. Around 84 companies are part of the income product. The index is designed to measure the performance of companies within the S&P Composite 1500® that have followed a managed-dividends policy of consistently increasing dividends every year for at least 20 years.
Below is a small list of the cheapest stocks from the index with expected double-digit earnings per share growth for the next five years. In addition to the growth figures, they have a low forward P/E, fewer than 15. Only ten stocks fulfilled these criteria of which nine have a buy or better rating.
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The biggest dividend stocks buys from George Soros originally published at "long-term-investments.blogspot.com". George Soros is well known within the financial industry. He is a hedge fund manager who serves around $8.56 billion in 207 stocks. Last quarter, he added 74 new companies. It’s very interesting to see how big investors act because if they move, the market changes. The amounts are really big when they decide to place a 1 percent stake.
Today I like to look at the biggest dividend stock buys from George Soros. George is a real speculator. His 20 biggest changes had an impact to his portfolio between 0.34 percent and 1.3 percent. Only eight of his 20 biggest stock buys pay dividends.
In total, George Soros has a much diversified fund. His biggest position, the SPDR S&P 500 ETF – Put, has a portfolio weighting of 4.8 percent. The second biggest position is the oil & gas company Pioneer Natural Resources with a 3.4 percent share.Read More »
