Stock Picks – High Dividend Stock Screen: 10-16-2015

Stock Dividends

Two stocks made the screen this week:

Name Ticker Price Fair Value Margin of Safety Yield % MOS %
Eaton Corp PLC ETN $52.10 $65.00 $12.90 4.11 19.85%
Waddell & Reed Financial, Inc. WDR $33.77 $42.00 $8.23 5.09 19.60%

Here are the screen inputs:

  • High Dividend Stock Screen:
  1. Morningstar analysis available.
  2. Dividend Yield % > = 4.
  3. Dividend Growth % Past 5 Years > = 10.
  4. Payout Ratio Trailing 12 Months < 75
  5. Morningstar rating 4 or more stars.
  6. Financial Health Grade >= B.
  7. Stock Industry not = Asset Management
  8. Forward P/E <= 20.

No interest in either – and I am back to having no trades on.  I was early on my exits from XLE and MRK – but hindsight is always 20/20.

“I never buy at the bottom and I always sell too soon.” ~ Baron Nathan Rothschild

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