33 Dividend Stocks Fit For COVID-19 Times: A September Update

Summary

• Kiplinger listed five sets of dividend stocks qualified to survive the Covid-19 pandemic. Barron's weekly added one more. Those six "our-times" articles include 33 dividend stocks out of 65 listed.
• Kiplinger article titles were, '15 best Nasdaq stocks'; '20 Best Stocks To Invest In During A Recession'; '11 Best-Stocks to Ride-Out the Coronavirus-Outbreak'; '11 best E-Commerce Stocks'; '10 Health and Pharmaceutical Companies Fighting the COVID-19 Coronavirus.' Barron's posted 'Payout Protection Picks.'
• The 65 select stocks ranged 0.00% to 6.91% in annual yield and ranged -19.76% to 270.93% in one-year price-target upsides per brokers 9/3/20.
• Top Ten Fit Stocks For Our-Times boasted net gains from 13.84% to 29.96%.
• $5k invested in the lowest-priced five of ten top-yield Fit Stocks For Our Times dogs showed 8.84% more net gain than from $5k invested in all ten. Smaller, lower-priced, stocks led the Covid-19 fit times pack again this month.
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Foreword

This article is based on five Kiplinger investing articles, plus one from Barron's Weekly, aimed at survival qualities endemic to our Covid-19 locked down recovery times:

Pros' Picks: The 15 Best Nasdaq Stocks, by Dan Burrows, published 5/13/20, "screened the Nasdaq Composite for stocks followed by a minimum of 10 analysts [and]... stocks with an average broker recommendation of Buy or better [to find]...the top-scoring names. The process gave us a host of stocks, from small biotechnology plays to some of the biggest, best-known companies in the world."

20 Best Stocks to Invest In During a Recession, by Will Ashworth, published 2/25/20, "The International Monetary Fund believes the world economy will remain in a weakened state all year, with GDP contracting 3% – before rebounding with 5.8% growth in 2021. The companies best suited to survive, if not thrive, in this kind of environment, are defensive stocks that provide products and services people simply can't live without."

11 Best Stocks to Ride Out the Coronavirus Outbreak, by Charles Lewis Sizemore, CFA, published 4/16/20 "We'll get through this. But in the meantime, we have to deal with a stock market that could suffer considerably at the hands of this worldwide health scare.”

11 Best E-Commerce Stocks for Electrifying Returns, by Patrick Sanders, published 5/5/20, "E-commerce giants have risen to the challenge and largely met consumer expectations," says Jeremie Capron, director of research at New York-based index, advisory, and research company Robo Global. "As a result, we expect an increase in adoption, not only during this crisis but also on the other side of it."

10 Health and Pharmaceutical Companies Fighting the COVID-19 Coronavirus, by Lisa Springer, published 3/12/20 updated 5/18/20, "Here are 10 health and pharmaceutical companies playing a role in the fight to control the COVID-19 coronavirus. Stocks for each of

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