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FSK - 71 Ben Graham January Value Stocks 56 Jazzed Buys

2023-12-28 17:40:50 ET

Summary

  • Large Cap Value is a value ranking strategy that looks at the price of a stock relative to measurements of intrinsic firm value.
  • The Ben Graham Formula strategy selects ultra-stable stocks based on a screen in Graham's book, "The Intelligent Investor."
  • 56 out of 71 All-Star-Value Dividend stocks offer annual dividends exceeding their price per share.
  • By yield, TORM PLC now leads the top-ten All-Star-Value field of CIB, OBDC, MPLX, MO, CPAC, DHT, FSK, EURN, PBR, & TRMD. Those ten averaged 12.82% yield. By broker-target-price upside, top-ten leaders were BP, EIG, SU, ET, ASC, MOV, AMRK, ING, SOI, & SSL averaging 38.35%.
  • $5k invested December 26 in the five top yield value stars projected 20.33% more net-gain than from $5k invested all top ten. Little (lower-priced) equities regained the lead of the top-ten January All-Star Value-derived dividend dogs by over two lengths.

Foreword

About Large Cap Value

“A Value ranking for large cap stocks from YCharts puts together complementary strategies found during their stock research. As a value ranking, it looks at the price of a stock relative to a number of measurements that determine intrinsic firm value. Only the largest 10% of companies based on market cap are allowed in this portfolio.

What it is: The Value Score is a composite score. It tells you how much you are getting in terms of profits, cash flows, assets, sales, etc. for the stock price that you pay. It is a relative measurement, so it says nothing about the overall level of the market. Rather, it answers the question: “Given the current market level, which stocks give you the most current value for your dollar of investment?” Tens are the most value, and 1s are the least.

How to use it: Use it to find companies that are selling at a low price relative to their assets and profits.

Limitations of the Value Score: Watch out for companies with a lot of uncertainty or bad prospects for the future (e.g., Pharma companies with expiring patents, industries on the decline, etc.).

About the Ben Graham Formula

The Ben Graham Formula strategy contains ultra-stable stocks that will infrequently lose money if held over a long period of time. It was developed based on a screen in Graham's book, “The Intelligent Investor.” For those who have the book, it is the "Defensive Investor" screen. It selects stocks that are large in terms of sales and total assets, have a strong track record of earnings and dividend payments, have a reasonable current ratio and level of long term debt, and have a low valuation given by PE Ratios and Price to Book Value ratios. “ —YCharts.

While 15 out of this collection of 71 All-Star-Value Dividend stocks are too pricey to justify their skinny dividends, the remaining 56 of them, by yield, live up to the ideal of offering annual dividends (from a $1K investment) exceeding their price per share.

56 Ideal Value Dogs for January

Source: YCharts.com

In the current market, the dividends from $1k investments in 56 of the 71 stocks listed above, met or exceeded their single share prices as of 12/26/23.

As we are now over three-quarters of a year past the third anniversary of the 2020 Ides of March dip, the time to snap up some the 56 top-yield All-Star-Value dogs is now... unless another big bearish drop in price looms ahead. (At which time, your strategy could be to add to your position in any of these you then hold.)

Actionable Conclusions (1-10): Analysts Estimate 24.49% To 36.63% Top Ten All-Star-Value Net Gains To January 2024

Four of the ten top-picks by yield were verified as also being among the top ten gainers for the coming year based on analyst 1-year target prices. (They are tinted gray in the chart below). Thus, this yield-based forecast for All-Star-Value derived dividend dogs (as graded by Brokers) was 40% accurate.

Estimated dividend-returns from $1000 invested in each of the highest-yielding stocks and their aggregate one-year analyst median target-prices, as reported by YCharts, created these 2024-25 data-points. (Note: target prices by lone-analysts were not used.) Ten probable profit-generating trades projected to January, 2025 were:

Source: YCharts.com

Ardmore Shipping Corp ( ASC ) netted $366.27 based on the median of target price estimates from 5 analysts, plus dividends, less broker fees. The Beta number showed this estimate subject to risk/volatility 44% less than the market as a whole.

Energy Transfer LP ( ET ) was projected to net $365.17, based on dividends, plus the median of target price estimates from 18 analysts, less broker fees. The Beta number showed this estimate subject to risk/volatility 63% greater than the market as a whole.

Cementos Pacasmayo SAA ( CPAC ) was projected to net $310.44, based on dividends, plus the median of target price estimates from 5 analysts, less broker fees. The Beta number showed this estimate subject to risk/volatility 45% less than the market as a whole.

DHT Holdings Inc ( DHT ) was projected to net $303.99, based on dividends, plus the median of target price estimates from 7 analysts, less broker fees. The Beta number showed this estimate subject to risk/volatility 20% opposite the market as a whole.

Sociedad Quimica Y Minera De Chile SA ( SQM ) was projected to net $290.90, based on the median of target price estimates from 17 analysts, plus the estimated annual dividend, less broker fees. The Beta number showed this estimate subject to risk/volatility 4% greater than the market as a whole.

Enterprise Products Partners LP ( EPD ) was projected to net $272.41, based on a median of target estimates from 21 analysts, plus dividends, less broker fees. The Beta number showed this estimate subject to risk/volatility 4% greater than the market as a whole.

New York Community Bancorp Inc ( NYCB ) was projected to net $269.59, based on dividends, plus the median of target price estimates from 17 analysts, less broker fees. The Beta number showed this estimate subject to risk/volatility 11% greater than the market as a whole.

Euronav NV ( EURN ) was projected to net $261.01, based on the median of target price estimates from 9 analysts, plus dividends, less broker fees. The Beta number showed this estimate subject to risk/volatility 74% under the market as a whole.

ICL Group Ltd ( ICL ) was projected to net $261.00 based on dividends, plus the median of target price estimates from 5 analysts, less broker fees. The Beta number showed this estimate subject to risk/volatility 14% greater than the market as a whole.

Altria Group Inc ( MO ) was projected to net $244.86, based on the median of target price estimates from 16 analysts, plus dividends, less broker fees. The Beta number showed this estimate subject to risk/volatility 34% less than the market as a whole.

The average net-gain in dividend and price was estimated to be 29.46% on $10k invested as $1k in each of these ten stocks. The average Beta showed these estimates subject to risk/volatility 22% under the market as a whole.

Source: Open source dog art from dividenddogcatcher.com

The Dividend Dogs Rule

Stocks earned the "dog" moniker by exhibiting three traits: (1) paying reliable, repeating dividends, (2) their prices fell to where (3) yield (dividend/price) grew higher than their peers. Thus, the highest yielding stocks in any collection became known as "dogs." More precisely, these are, in fact, best called, "underdogs."

Top 50 All-Star-Value Picks By Broker 1Yr Price Targets

Source: YCharts.com

This scale of broker-estimated upside (or downside) for stock prices provides a scale of market popularity. Note: no broker coverage or 1 broker coverage produced a zero score on the above scale. This scale can be taken as an emotional component as opposed to the strictly monetary and objective dividend/price yield-driven report below. As noted above, these scores may also be taken as contrarian.

Top 50 All-Star-Value Picks By Annual Dividend Yield

Source: YCharts.com

Actionable Conclusions (11-20): Ten Top Stocks By Yield Are The December Dogs of The All-Star-Value Pack

Top ten All-Star-Value stocks selected 12/26/23 by yield represented just four of eleven Morningstar sectors. First place was secured by the first of five energy sector representatives, TORM PLC ( TRMD ) [1]. Four more energy stocks placed second, third, fifth, and eighth: Petroleo Brasileiro SA Petrobras ( PBR ) [2]; Euronav NV ( EURN ) [3], DHT Holdings Inc ( DHT ) [5], and DMPLX LP ( MPLX ) [10].

Thereafter, the first of three financial services sector members placed fourth, FS KKR Capital Corp ( FSK ) [4]. The other two were ninth and tenth, Blue Owl Capital Corp ( OBDC ) [9], and BanColumbia SA ( CIB ) [10].

Finally, one basic materials member placed sixth, Sociedad Quimica Y Minera De Chile SA ( SQM ) [6], and one consumer defensive sector representative placed seventh, Altria Group Inc ( MO ) [7], to complete this All-Star-Value top ten, by yield, for January.

Source: YCharts.com

Actionable Conclusions: (21-30) Ten All-Star-Value Dividend Stocks Showed 17.63% To 29.62% Upsides To January, 2025, With (31) Five -3.55% to -15.25% Losers

To quantify top-yield rankings, analyst median-price target estimates provided a "market sentiment" gauge of upside potential. Added to the simple high-yield metrics, analyst median price target estimates became another tool to dig-out bargains.

Analysts Estimated A 20.33% Advantage For 5 Highest Yield, Lowest Priced of Top-Ten All-Star-Value Dogs To January 2025

Ten top All-Star-Value stocks were culled by yield for this monthly update. Those (dividend/price) results provided by YCharts did the ranking.

Source: YCharts.com

As noted above, top-ten All-Star-Value Dogs selected 12/26/23, showing the highest dividend yields, represented just four of eleven sectors in the Morningstar scheme.

Actionable Conclusions: Analysts Estimated 5 Lowest-Priced Of Ten Highest-Yield All-Star-Value Dividend Stocks (33) Delivering 24.18% Vs. (34) 20.10% Net Gains by All Ten by January, 2025

Source: YCharts.com

$5000 invested as $1k in each of the five lowest-priced stocks in the top ten All-Star-Value dividend pack, by yield, were predicted by analyst 1-year targets to deliver 24.18% more gain than $5,000 invested as $.5k in all ten. The very lowest-priced All-Star-Value top-yield stock, Cemento Pacasmayo SAA, was projected to deliver the best net gain of 31.04%.

Source: YCharts.com

The five lowest-priced top-yield All-Star-Value dividend stocks for December were: Cemento Pacasmayo SAA; DHT Holdings Inc; Blue Owl Capital Corp; Petroleo Brasileiro SA Petrobras; Euronav NV, with prices ranging from $5.10 to $17.60

The five higher-priced top-yield All-December were: FSK KKR Capital Corp; Bancolunbia SA; TORM PLC; TORM PLC; MPLX LP; Altria Group Inc, whose prices ranged from $20.05 to $40.34.

This distinction between five low-priced dividend dogs and the general field of ten reflected Michael B. O'Higgins' "basic method" for beating the Dow. The scale of projected gains based on analyst targets added a unique element of "market sentiment" gauging upside potential. It provided a here-and-now equivalent of waiting a year to find out what might happen in the market. Caution is advised, since analysts are historically only 15% to 85% accurate on the direction of change and just 0% to 15% accurate on the degree of change.

Afterword

If somehow you missed the suggestion of the 51 stocks ripe for picking at the start of the article, here is a repeat of the list at the end:

56 Ideal Value Star Dogs

Source: YCharts.com

In the current market bounce, dividends from $1K invested in the fifty-six stocks listed above met or exceeded their single share prices as of 12/26/23.

As we are over three-quarters of a year past three years since the 2020 Ides of March dip, the time to snap up some top-yield All-Star-Value dogs is now... unless another big bearish drop in price looms ahead. (At which time your strategy would be to add to your holdings.)

Recent vs. Break-Even Top-Ten All-Star-Value Stock Prices

Since all of the top-ten All-Star-Value Dividend shares are now priced less than the annual dividends paid out from a $1K investment, the following top chart shows the dollar and percent variants to all ten top dogs conforming to (but not exceeding) the dogcatcher ideal.

Those at recent prices are the subject of the middle chart, with the breakeven pricing of all ten delivered in the bottom chart.

Source: YCharts.com

You could look at the top chart as an indicator of how high each stock might rise in the coming year or two. However, it also shows how much the price could rise (in either dollars or percentage) before it exactly conforms the standard of dividends from $1K invested equaling the current single share price.

Net gain/loss estimates above did not factor in any foreign or domestic tax problems resulting from distributions. Consult your tax advisor regarding the source and consequences of "dividends" from any investment.

Stocks listed above were suggested only as possible reference points for your All-Star-Value Dividend dog stock purchase or sale research process. These were not recommendations.

For further details see:

71 Ben Graham January Value Stocks, 56 Jazzed Buys
Stock Information

Company Name: FS KKR Capital Corp.
Stock Symbol: FSK
Market: NYSE
Website: fskkradvisor.com

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