BLK - 1 Ideal Buy From 23 Safer April Dividend Dogs In 50 Fortune World's Most Admired Companies (FWMAC)

2025-04-04 13:01:12 ET

Summary

• Fortune and Korn Ferry ranked 50 Most Admired Companies, focusing on investment value, management quality, and social responsibility, with 43 paying dividends.
• Four companies, including Pfizer and Nordstrom, have "safer" dividends, with free cash flow yields exceeding dividend yields, making them attractive to investors.
• Analysts predict net gains of 23.65% to 105.03% for top Fortune 50 WMA companies by April 2026, with American Express leading.
• Dividend Dogs strategy highlights undervalued stocks with high yields, suggesting potential gains from price drops or dividend increases for fair-priced investments.

Foreword

Fortune collaborated with partner Korn Ferry on this survey of corporate reputations. It began with a universe of about 1,500 candidates: the 1,000 largest U.S. companies ranked by revenue, along with non-U.S. companies in Fortune’s Global 500 database that have revenues of $10 billion or more.

We winnowed the assortment to the highest-revenue companies in each industry, a total of 650 in 30 countries. The top-rated companies were picked from that pool of 650; the executives who voted work at the companies in that group.

To determine the best-regarded companies in 51 industries, Korn Ferry asked executives, directors, and analysts to rate enterprises in their own industry on nine criteria, from investment value and quality of management and products to social responsibility and ability to attract talent. A company’s score must rank in the top half of its industry survey to be listed....

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