- Barron’s fifth-annual (2/11/2022) ranking of most-sustainable (M-S) companies "started with 1,000 largest publicly-traded companies by market-value, then ranked each by performance for five key-constituencies: shareholders, employees, customers, community, and the planet.
- Intel sprang to first from forty-seventh, last year, having set 2030 sustainability-targets to run 100% on renewable-energy, to be waste-positive (by conserving water and funding water-projects) and achieve zero-waste from operations.
- As of 3/14/22 data from YCharts, the top-ten of 78 M-S dividend-paying companies ranged 3.55%-4.88% by annual yield, and ranged 50.48%-102.24% per broker-estimated target-price-upsides.
- Top ten March M-S dividend dogs, PNC, CMI, C, BBY, EMN, BLK, GPS, STT, VFC, and APD ranged 23.65% to 43.27% in one-year broker-estimated net gains.
- $5K invested in the lowest-priced five of ten top-yield M-S company holdings showed 27.2% more net gain than from $5K invested in all ten. Little (lower-priced) stocks led the M-S dividend pack per March 14 data.
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3 Ideal Dividend Dogs Lead Barron's 100 Most Sustainable Companies In March