2023-06-28 09:00:00 ET
High-dividend stocks can be nice hedges against a stock market downturn. Companies that can deliver supercharged dividends are generally healthy and have strong cash flows. And those regular payouts also make it easier for investors to keep a company's shares in their portfolios even when their prices go through a downturn.
To find supercharged dividend stocks worth buying in a market downturn, I looked for those that met the following criteria: companies that grew their revenue and funds from operations (FFO) in the last quarter and that sport yields at least twice the S&P 500 's 1.6% payout. My reason for these two criteria is to identify above-average payouts that, thanks to company growth, look safe and could even grow.
Two stocks meeting those criteria are cannabis -oriented real estate investment trusts ( REITs ) Innovative Industrial Properties (NYSE: IIPR) and NewLake Capital Partners (OTC: NLCP) , while a third is senior housing REIT National Health Investors (NYSE: NHI) . None of these stocks has performed particularly well this year. National Health Investors' shares are up by a little more than 1% and Innovative and NewLake are down by more than 28% and 21%, respectively.
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3 Supercharged Dividend Stocks to Buy If There's a Stock Market Sell-Off