Dividend Champion Portfolio July Update

The High Yield Dividend Champion Portfolio is a publicly tracked stock portfolio on Scott’s Investments. Its goal is to capture quality high yield stocks with a history of raising dividends.

The screening process for this portfolio starts with the “Dividend Champions” as compiled by DRIP Investing. The list is comprised of stocks that have increased their dividend payout for at least 25 consecutive years.  Stocks are then ranked on yield, P/E and 3 year dividend growth rate and assigned an overall rank.

Stocks are sold on the re-balance date (generally around the 5th of the month) when they drop out of the top 15 (to limit turnover) and are replaced with the next highest rated stock.

The top 25 stocks are below and displayed in order of their overall ranking (figures are from the end of June):

Name Symbol Yield P/E 3-yr Target Corp. TGT 4.74 10.89 13.7 Altria Group Inc. MO 3.28 10.06 8.6 Archer Daniels Midland ADM 3.09 17.46 16.4 T. Rowe Price Group TROW 3.07 14.49 12.4 AT&T Inc. T 5.19 18.4 2.2 Helmerich & Payne Inc. HP 5.15 999 28.8 Weyco Group Inc. WEYS 3.16 18.34 5.8 Old Republic International ORI 3.89 12.6 1.4 Consolidated Edison ED 3.41 18.62 2.9 People’s United Financial PBCT 3.91 18.99 1.5 Sonoco Products Co. SON 3.03 18.63 5.9 ExxonMobil Corp. XOM 3.82 33.78 6.6 W.W. Grainger Inc. GWW 2.84 18.46 10.4 United Bankshares Inc. UBSI 3.37 19.9 1.8 Coca-Cola Company KO 3.3 31.36 7.7 VF Corp. VFC 2.92 21.33 18.7 National Retail Properties NNN 4.65 34.6 3.6 Emerson Electric EMR 3.22 23.2 4.7 Kimberly-Clark Corp. KMB 3.01 21.31 6.2 Procter & Gamble Co. PG 3.17 24.34 4.1 Genuine Parts Co. GPC 2.91 20.08 6.4 Chevron Corp. CVX 4.14 68.19 3.2 Community Trust Banc. CTBI 2.93 16.39 2.8 Federal Realty Inv. Trust FRT 3.1 40.9 8.6 Universal Health Realty Trust UHT 3.32 24.32 1.6