The Standard & Poor's 500 Index is the primary benchmark for comparison to portfolios. Over 370 of those five hundred stocks pay dividends. The following is a list of the top six, all of which yield over 6%. Please note, in the interest of full disclosure, that I own two out of the six (the top two).
Frontier Communications Corp (FTR) 8.69% PE ratio: 20
Windstream Corporation (WIN) 8.15% PE ratio: 18
CenturyLink, Inc. (CTL) 7.29% PE ratio: 14
Pitney Bowes Inc. (PBI) 6.62% PE ratio: 13
Altria Group, Inc. (MO)6.19% PE ratio: 15
Reynolds American, Inc. (RAI) 6.09% PE ratio: 14
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Disclosure: Author owned FTR and WIN at the time the article was written.
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Highest Yielding Highest Rated Stocks
Many of the credit rating agencies were criticized for their ratings during the financial collapse of 2007 and 2008, especially with regards to collateralized debt obligation. However, investors still look at ratings for stocks to get some sort of guideline.
If you look at some of the major firms that rate stocks, and you look to see what stocks meet their highest ratings, you can get a good idea of what the major consensus is for which stocks are considered quality investments.
Standard & Poor's highest rating is five stars. The highest ratings for First Call Consensus are Buy and Strong Buy, the same with Jaywalk Consensus. The highest for Market Edge is Long, and for Jim Cramer 's TheStreet.com, the top rating is Buy. If you look to see which stocks meet all those ratings, and yield over 2%, you would come up with half a dozen firms. Here they are:
Windstream (WIN) 9.2%
AT&T Inc. (T) 6.5%
Genuine Parts (GPC) 3.9%
The Travelers Companies (TRV) 2.5%
Wal-Mart Stores (WMT) 2.2%
Tupperware Brands (TUP) 2.1%
If you want to see other high yield stocks, such as high yield electric utilities and stocks that pay dividends monthly, go to WallStreetNewsNetwork.com.
Author owns WIN and T.
By Stockerblog.com
If you look at some of the major firms that rate stocks, and you look to see what stocks meet their highest ratings, you can get a good idea of what the major consensus is for which stocks are considered quality investments.
Standard & Poor's highest rating is five stars. The highest ratings for First Call Consensus are Buy and Strong Buy, the same with Jaywalk Consensus. The highest for Market Edge is Long, and for Jim Cramer 's TheStreet.com, the top rating is Buy. If you look to see which stocks meet all those ratings, and yield over 2%, you would come up with half a dozen firms. Here they are:
Windstream (WIN) 9.2%
AT&T Inc. (T) 6.5%
Genuine Parts (GPC) 3.9%
The Travelers Companies (TRV) 2.5%
Wal-Mart Stores (WMT) 2.2%
Tupperware Brands (TUP) 2.1%
If you want to see other high yield stocks, such as high yield electric utilities and stocks that pay dividends monthly, go to WallStreetNewsNetwork.com.
Author owns WIN and T.
By Stockerblog.com
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