David Van Knapp presented a simple and seemingly effective quality scoring system in this article on high-quality, high-yield dividend growth stocks.
The system employs five widely used quality indicators from independent sources and assigns 0-5 points to each quality indicator, for a maximum of 25 points.
In recent articles on the top holdings of dividend ETFs (here and here), I included quality scores along with key metrics of interest to dividend growth investors, including dividend yield and dividend growth rate.
Here, I'm using a slightly modified version of the quality scoring system to