5 Ideal Buys From 14 'Safer' January Dividends On Bloomberg 2025 Watch List Of 50

2025-01-21 13:24:52 ET

Summary

• Bloomberg Intelligence analysts identified 50 watchable firms for 2025, focusing on catalysts like new leadership, asset sales, acquisitions, and new products.
• 14 of 35 dividend-paying companies meet the "safer" criteria with free cash flow yields exceeding dividend yields, inviting closer investor scrutiny.
• Top ten Bloomberg Dividend Focus stocks for 2025 projected net gains between 11.62% and 48.92%, based on analyst target prices and dividend yields.
• Analysts recommend focusing on "safer" stocks like China Hongqiao, Vodacom, ITV, Advanced Info, and Subsea 7, which show positive returns and strong free cash flow yields.
• $5k invested in the lowest-priced five of ten top-yield watchable companies showed 23.11% LESS net gain than from $5k invested in all ten per January 16 YCharts data.

Foreword

This article is from analysts at Bloomberg Intelligence who track 2,000 companies in industries from apparel and autos to finance and food as reported in the December, 2024 Bloomberg Businessweek’s annu al The Year Ahead issue , and repeated in th e January 2025 issue as: 50 Companies to Watch .

How Bloomberg analysts collated their list

"The analysis combines possible catalysts for change in the new year, such as new leadership, asset sales or acquisitions and plans for new products and services. When building the list, BI focused on the potential effects of policies proposed by the incoming US administration, ongoing geopolitical conflicts and rapid changes that include the rise of artificial intelligence and electric vehicles.”— Tim Craighead, Bloomberg Intelligence

Any collection of stocks is more clearly understood when subjected to yield-based (dogcatcher) analysis. These 50 watchable firms are perfect for the dogcatcher process. Here, January 16 data focused on 35 dividend payers. The full list of 50 is posted in the Afterword text of this article....

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