SYY - 53 July Dividend Kings: Buy 8 Watch 8 More

2024-07-10 17:23:49 ET

Summary

• "What is a Dividend King? A stock with 50 or more consecutive years of dividend increases."—suredividend.com.
• The 53 Dividend Kings, screened as of July 8, represented 8 of 11 Morningstar Sectors. Broker-targeted top-ten net-gains ranged 18.24%-30.31% topped-by Kenvue, and Genuine Parts.
• By yield, Altria tops-all. Top-ten July listings: SWK, FRT, KVUE, FTS, UBSI, BKH, NWN, CDUAF, UVV, MMM, & MO averaged 5.37% in yield.
• The Kings showed top-ten broker-estimated target-price upsides from: NWN, GRC, NFG, ABT, PPG, NUE, KVUE, BDX, GPC, and TNC, averaging 24.83%.
• $5k invested July 8 in the five top-yield, lowest-priced, Kings showed 9.48% more net-gain than from $5k invested in all top ten. Little (lower-priced) equities led these Dividend Kings by near one length in July.

Foreword

As a supplement to this article, please note that The Motley Fool , which sourced this latest list, and SureDividend both update their lists periodically.

While most of this July collection of 53 Kings is too pricey to justify their skinny dividends, seven of the top-ten, by yield, and one more outside those ten, live up to the ideal. They offer annual dividends (from a $1K investment) exceeding their single share prices, and this month there are eight more to watch. Note that two Kings failed to increase dividends in the past year and so departed from the list, Leggett and Platt (LEG), and 3M Co (MMM)....

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