5 Despised Dividend-Payers With Easy 20% Upside

There are two easy ways to make sure your portfolio beats the market averages, and most professionals too. The first you already know: Buy dividend payers, preferably those that boost their payout annually . The second is just as simple… Buy the dividend raisers that analysts hate the most. We see it repeatedly – the highest rated stocks lag the dogs. When every analyst is already bullish, the only possible change in grade is a downgrade! Bespoke Investment Group ran the numbers for the first quarter of 2016. The S&P was roughly flat (up 0.8%), while the biggest dividend payers rolled (soaring 10.2% collectively). And analysts’ darling stocks? Their most dear fell 2.8%, while their most hated rose 4.3% to 7.8%. In this contrarian income... Read more