16 Dividend Aristocrats With High Beta Ratios

Dividend income growth stocks with highest beta ratios published at long-term-investments.blogspot.com. Dividend Aristocrats are stocks with a very long tradition in dividend growth. Those stocks hiked its dividend payments over a period of more than 25 years in a row and being selected by the credit rating agency Standard & Poor’s. The company selects 54 constituents for the index. All income investors love this index but he has also lacks.

Dividend Aristocrats normally have a lower volatility than other stocks. This could also be an disadvantage because you give up performance in a strong up moving market. The solution is simple: Look at high beta stocks. They can give you a better return when the market is very bullish.

I observed all current 54 Dividend Aristocrats by the highest rate of beta, starting with a value above one. Only 16 of them are more volatile than the overall market. It’s how I told it: Only a few Dividend Aristocrats, around 30 percent, are riskier than the market but they can also deliver you a better performance in return. For the time being, twelve of the High Beta Dividend Aristocrats have a buy or better rating.

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19 Cheap Dividend Aristocrats

Dividend Aristocrats with low forward Price-to-earnings originally published at long-term-investments.blogspot.com. Everybody talks about Dividend Aristocrats when discussing the best dividend growth stocks. Those companies have raised their dividend payments over a period of more than 25 years in a row and being selected by the credit rating agency Standard & Poor’s. The index has only 54 constituents. Normally, Dividend Aristocrats are highly valuated because of their high quality and low risk business models.

If you pay a big premium on your asset, you will not get a good return in the end. It’s very simple. All you need to do is to scout for attractive bargains at the capital market.

Today I would like to screen the Dividend Aristocrats Index by the cheapest companies in terms of forward P/E. Only 19 stocks have a current forward P/E ratio below 15. Some of them have bigger amounts of debt and others are slow growing. However, nearly 70 percent of the results have a current buy or better rating by brokerage firms.

All members of the Dividend Aristocrats Index generated a positive year-to-date performance. It’s also a sign for the quality of the index. In average, they have a stock price performance of 16.03 percent. 1.02 percent points better than the broader S&P 500.

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