CNBC Stock Blog
- Greek Exit Could Trigger 50% Fall in Euro Stocks: Analyst
- Big Stock Upside for Hudson City Deal: Analyst
- 5 High-Yield Stocks Ready to Boost Dividends
- Option Bulls Take Another Shot on Idenix
- Top 20 European Stocks for Crisis Time: Strategist
- Hewlett-Packard Faces a ‘Dogfight’ for Talent: Analyst
- DuckDuckGo Cooks Google’s Goose: Analyst
- General Electric’s $4.5 Billion Dividend Slated for Buybacks
ABOUT THE CNBC STOCK BLOG
ART CASHIN
RSS FEED
9 Winning Dividend Stocks: Strategists
Text Size 
CNBC.com Writer
Dividend stocks are slowly making a comeback, so which ones should investors watch for? Michael Farr, president of Farr, Miller & Washington and CNBC contributor, and Jeffrey Kosnett, senior editor at Kiplinger’s Personal Finance, shared their best plays.
“The great opportunity is not only in underpriced stocks, but in underpriced stocks with dividends,” Farr told CNBC.
“But you have to be a little careful, because with tax law changes and Medicare surtax on all types of income coming up, dividends may be a little less attractive in the future.”
However, Farr warned that small investors shouldn’t be focused entirely on dividend stocks.
“In fact, if you see dividends over 10 percent, that’s a real warning sign of risk,” he said. “If you find balance sheets with strong earnings where the dividend is a reasonable part, those companies can hold up longer.”
In the meantime, Kosnett told investors to look for companies with a history of regularly boosting dividends by at least 10 percent annually.
“I think dividends remain a good deal,” he said.
Farr Likes:
Johnson & Johnson [JNJ
Loading...
()
]
ExxonMobil [XOM
Loading...
()
]
Kosnett Likes:
Cardinal Health [CAH
Loading...
()
]
Praxair [PX
Loading...
()
]
Yum Brands [YUM
Loading...
()
]
Activision Blizzard [ATVI
Loading...
()
]
Century Tel [CTL
Loading...
()
]
Texas Instruments [TXN
Loading...
()
]
_____________________________
More Market Views:
- Pisani: Dow Is a Bad Market Indicator
- Take Profits on Citi and Goldman: Alan Lancz
- S&P to Top Pre-Lehman Levels This Year: Darda
______________________________
CNBC Slideshows:
_____________________________
CNBC Data Pages:
______________________________
______________________________
Disclosures:
No immediate information was available for Farr or Kosnett.
______________________________
Data is a real-time snapshot *Data is delayed at least 15 minutes
