GNTX - The 'Other' A+ Companies: Part 3 And Recommendations

For stock investors, the effectiveness of management in generating long-term per share earnings and dividend growth is critical to achieving adequate total returns. While credit ratings are important and a good proxy of management’s ability to balance leverage with profits, a history of generating above average earnings and dividends over the previous 10 years should have a higher impact over share price. CFRA offers its SPGMI rating as a benchmark for comparing management’s ability to generate total returns to shareholders.

These ratings are readily available in the CFRA stock reports and could be available from