Disney – An Undervalued Dividend Stock With Growth

Posted on May 25, 2012

By Robert Hauver

Looking for dividend paying stocks with growth at a reasonable price? The Walt Disney Co., (DIS), which is in the fast-growing Diversified Media industry, has bettered its peers in 2012 for share performance. However, Disney still looks undervalued, on a PEG basis, due to its growth prospects:

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Disney is currently cashing in big-time on the huge hit, “The Avengers”, which has grossed $1.18 billion so far in global ticket sales, making it Disney’s biggest grossing movie of all time, even higher than any of its successful “Pirates Of The Caribbean” films – sorry pirates… One of Disney’s major ongoing strengths is its ESPN cable franchise, which is the highest paid cable network around, netting over 4 times what other cable channels get paid. Click here to learn more…

Disclaimer: This article is written for informational purposes only and isn’t intended as investment advice.

High Dividend Stocks Outperforming The Market Pullback

Posted on May 18, 2012

By Robert Hauver

Looking for defensive dividend paying stocks? It makes sense – May is turning out to be one of the worst months in quite some time, with the S&P 500 down over 6%, the DOW down nearly 6%, and the NASDAQ and RUSSELL 2000 Small Caps both down over 7%.

Here are two dividend stocks from our High Dividend Stocks By Sector Tables that have outperformed the market since the start of the spring pullback in April. United-Guardian, (UG), is a NY-based microcap, and Wisconsin Energy, (WEC), is a large cap electric utility:

Performance: Both UG and WEC have beaten the market quite handily in these time periods…

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But things get really interesting, when you look at their performance during rallies and pullbacks over the past 11 months.

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Disclaimer: This article is written for informational purposes only and isn’t intended as investment advice.

3 High Dividend Stocks Bucking The Spring Pullback

Posted on May 11, 2012

By Robert Hauver

The S&P 500 has pulled back approx. 4% since its early April highs, which begs the question, are there any dividend paying stocks that have beaten the market since then? We took 3 dividend stocks from our High Dividend Stocks By Sector tables, and researched how they’ve done in all of the various rallies and pullbacks since last summer.

These 3 stocks have all held up better than the market in pullbacks, and have also participated in rallies. Not surprisingly, these defensive dividend stocks hail from the Healthcare and Utilities sectors: NextEra Energy, (NEE), Xcel Energy, (XEL), and Eli Lilly Co., (LLY):

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Disclosure: Author had no positions in any of the above stocks at the time of this writing.

Disclaimer: This article is written for informational purposes only and isn’t intended as investment advice.

The Top Dow Dividend Stocks For First Quarter 2012 Earnings

Posted on May 4, 2012

By Robert Hauver

25 of the 30 Dow Jones Industrials have reported 1st quarter 2012 earnings so far. 18 firms have reported positive growth, and 7 have reported negative growth, with the range running from Boeing, (BA), with 54% year-over-year 1st quarter growth, down to beleaguered Bank of America, (BAC), with -82%. These 2 Dow dividend stocks reported the best 1st quarter 2012 earnings growth year-over-year:

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Disclaimer: This article is written for informational purposes only and isn’t intended as investment advice.