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 August):

Name Symbol Yield P/E 3-yr Target Corp. TGT 4.55 11.02 13.7 Altria Group Inc. MO 4.16 8.36 8.6 Helmerich & Payne Inc. HP 6.61 999 28.8 AT&T Inc. T 5.23 17.59 2.2 Archer Daniels Midland ADM 3.1 17.43 16.4 Genuine Parts Co. GPC 3.26 17.93 6.4 W.W. Grainger Inc. GWW 3.15 18.71 10.4 Weyco Group Inc. WEYS 3.19 17.77 5.8 Sonoco Products Co. SON 3.23 18.28 5.9 Old Republic International ORI 3.98 12.24 1.4 ExxonMobil Corp. XOM 4.04 27.56 6.6 United Bankshares Inc. UBSI 3.93 17.66 1.8 T. Rowe Price Group TROW 2.7 14.47 12.4 People’s United Financial PBCT 4.13 18.56 1.5 Kimberly-Clark Corp. KMB 3.15 20.62 6.2 Consolidated Edison ED 3.28 20.36 2.9 Emerson Electric EMR 3.25 23.43 4.7 National Retail Properties NNN 4.54 36.37 3.6 Leggett & Platt Inc. LEG 3.13 18.17 4.1 Computer Services Inc. CSVI 2.7 18.79 20.9 Community Trust Banc. CTBI 3.1 15.94 2.8 Coca-Cola Company KO 3.25 47.45 7.7 Eagle Financial Services EFSI 3 14.87 2.6 Federal Realty Inv. Trust FRT 3.15 40.68 8.6 Chevron Corp. CVX 4.01 34.94 3.2