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Foreword
While half of this collection of Barron’s Better Bets [BBB] is too pricey, or reveals somewhat skinny dividends, five of the ten lowest priced Dogs of the BBB are ready to buy along with one more outside
Buy 5 'Safer' Dividend Dogs Of 23 February Barron's Better Bets Than T-Bills
Summary
- Long-term bond yields continue to rise. But investors looking for income can still find plenty of attractive opportunities with dividend-paying stocks that have healthy yields.
- “23 stocks pay huge dividends. They should be a better bet than treasuries.” - Barron’s Weekly.
- In a Barron’s interview, Steven Wieting, strategist at Citi Wealth, noted that a growing dividend is a tangible benefit for shareholders and a hallmark of companies with strong balance sheets. "Nobody can fake a dividend," he said.
- Barron’s ran a stock screen on FactSet to find top dividend stocks, looking for companies paying a yield over 4.2% (right around the 10-Year Treasury bond’s current yield) and growing dividends.
- The results below include blue-chip stocks, banks, real estate investment trusts, gas pipeline companies, and consumer firms.
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Fredrik Arnold is a retired quality service analyst sharing investment ideas with a primary focus on dividend yields by utilizing free cash flow and one-year total returns as trading indicators.
He is the leader of the investing group The Dividend Dog Catcher, where he shares a minimum of one new dividend stock idea per week with focus on yield or extraordinary financial circumstances. All ideas are archived and available after weekly announcement. Learn more.Analyst’s Disclosure:I/we have no stock, option or similar derivative position in any of the companies mentioned, and no plans to initiate any such positions within the next 72 hours. I wrote this article myself, and it expresses my own opinions. I am not receiving compensation for it (other than from Seeking Alpha). I have no business relationship with any company whose stock is mentioned in this article.
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