Stock Picks – High Dividend Stock Screen: 9-18-2015

Stock Dividends

Name Ticker Price Fair Value Margin of Safety Yield % MOS %
Waddell & Reed Financial, Inc. WDR $36.52 $46.00 $9.48 4.46 20.61%
Eaton Vance Corp EV $34.35 $40.00 $5.65 4.04 14.13%

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.

Nothing here – but I just pulled the trigger on Merck, which did not pass the > 4% Yield for this screen.

z - even even smaller

 

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