Value-oriented investors have faced slim pickings in the U.S. stock market for some time. After more than eight years of gains, few truly cheap stocks remain, at least as measured by price-earnings ratios and other classic yardsticks. That’s true for many other investors, too, including those who seek attractive dividend yields. So we set out to find companies that meet the YARP test—that is, they deliver “yield at a reasonable price.”
Chubb (CB) may not be as well known as Berkshire’s Geico unit, but it has a sterling reputation on Wall Street. Sales are picking up at industrial powerhouse Cummins (CMI). As the nation’s largest home-improvement retailer, Home Depot (HD) has been a huge beneficiary of the recovery in housing since the financial crisis. Intel (INTC) raised its earnings estimate for the full year. As a company and a stock, Johnson & Johnson (JNJ) spent much of the 10-year period that ended in 2012 in the doghouse. Lockheed Martin (LMT) stands to benefit over the long term from the breadth of its operations. When Satya Nadella became CEO in 2014, he promised to accelerate Microsoft’s (MSFT) transition from a PC-centered world to the era of mobile communications and the cloud. Sempra (SRE) is a play on long-term worldwide demand for cleaner fuels, particularly natural gas.
Source: Kiplinger
Related Articles:
- 5 Low-Risk, High-Yielding Dividend Stocks
- 9 Dividend Stocks For A Rainy Day
- 6 Dividend Growth Stocks With Strong Capital Appreciation
- 6 Higher Yielding Basic Materials Stocks With Growing Dividends
- 7 Dividend Growth Stocks That Could Make You Wealthy
________________________________________________________________
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
Popular Posts Last 30 Days
-
There are some dividend aristocrats which have not only maintained but increased their dividends for over half a century. Having survived ev...
-
Showing resilience during a tough week was a group of stocks that has not been heard from much in the past two years. A group that has been ...
-
High dividend yields are harder to find lately, given the long-running stock market rally. But that scarcity doesn't mean investors have...
-
One little-known tax loophole allows Americans to collect large, growing distribution checks from the government. And investors can begin ea...
-
The U.S. boosted tariffs on $200 billion worth of Chinese goods from 10% to 25%. The markets had expected this to be the week that this deal...
-
Every investor needs a security blanket -- that piece of the portfolio that needs no attention and doesn't keep you up at night. Busines...
-
The one knock against this midstream company is its higher risk profile compared with its peers. It has been working to address that issue b...
-
I love buying dollar bills for $0.80. Of course, you don’t find many chances like that in the stock market. Whenever such a great deal arise...
-
Technology is the alchemy of the stock market. It is where companies turn worthless silicon into incredible new and expensive gizmos and dev...
-
Utility stocks were supposed to be yesterday’s favorite investment. The theory regarding utility stocks was simple: Robust economic growth c...
0 comments
Post a Comment
Post a Comment