Last Saturday in my article "You Can't Beat the Herd by Following the Herd", I promised to share a MSN Stock Screen that helped me identify some exceptional stocks, and got me into some trouble.
The D4L High Yield Stocks is a screen that I have used in the past to find some real jewels Note: You will likely not be able to view this screen unless you are using Internet Explorer. Here are the criteria used in this screen:
As you can see this screen is geared toward finding stocks with a yield higher than its historical yield. In other words, a distressed stock. It is then our job dig deeper and understand why the stock is distressed and try to answer the tough questions.
Is this a temporary situation? Is the stock being unfairly penalized? Is the dividend at risk of being cut? If you can get to the right and desirable answers to these questions, then you have found a jewel in the rough. Some past jewels I have found with this screen include American Capital Strategies, Ltd. (ACAS), Commercial Net Lease Realty, Inc. (NNN) and Health Care Property Investors Inc. (HCP).
As indicated in the title to this article, this sword has two edges and can just as easily cut you if extreme caution is not exercised. It is easy to convince yourself that you are smarter than you actually are when things are going right. If you get sloppy or just make a bad decision stocks from this screen can go south very fast. Some of my past failures from this screen include Newcastle Investment Corp. (NCT), NovaStar Financial Inc. (NFI), and American Mortgage Acceptance Company (AMC).
Though the above failed purchases are long-gone, I look them each time I open my portfolio. As described in "How To Increase Your Portfolio's Return", keeping the sales/losses in my portfolio is a reality check for me and is really the only correct way of calculating a portfolios total return. You should have definite limits on the amount of risky stock in your portfolio. Greed and a downturn can hit you quickly. I learned my lesson the hard way, hopefully you won't have to.
It is important to note: This screen is NOT a buy list. It provides a list of stocks to evaluate further. It is not unusual for most, if not all, stocks on from this screen to be rejected for one reason or another.
At the time of this writing, I owned the following stocks ACAS, NNN and HCP.
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Thanks for sharing this screen with us. I see several companies of interest to me there ( TPP and KMP). But I really doubt that MO pays a 13% dividend :-)
Dividend Growth Investor: I am aways looking for the diamond in the rough. There is another one out there and I'm going to find it. :)
Best Wishes,
D4L
With direct stock purchase plans (DSPP) I have built up over 279 shares in the following companies (BAC, CVS, DBD, GE, K, LBY, PEP, PFE, WMT, and XOM) while all of these might not have been great picks it sure is diversified.
All of these companies offer DRIP accounts also but they do have different ranges from .10 a share per year for LBY to $2.56 a share per year for BAC so it does pay to shop around and do your research.
Thanks for the tool.