7 Dividend Development Shares For July 2022

In my month-to-month 7 Dividend Development Shares collection, I current seven dividend progress shares from Dividend Radar for additional evaluation and doable funding. I apply totally different screens each month to search out quite a lot of candidates. For instance, screening for shares with larger yields will curiosity earnings traders, whereas screening for larger dividend progress charges will curiosity growth-oriented traders.
In case you missed earlier articles on this collection, listed here are hyperlinks to them:
Final month, I picked the highest dividend progress [DG] inventory in every of the GICS sectors. I targeted on DG shares with secure dividends and robust earnings and progress prospects buying and selling under my honest worth estimates.
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For this text, I’m utilizing the identical screens, however I’m presenting the seven top-ranked shares no matter sector. To rank candidates, I exploit DVK High quality Snapshots and my rating system.
Screening and Rating
For this month’s article, I used the next screens:
- Funding Grade shares in Dividend Radar
- Shares with Very Protected or Protected Dividend Security Scores
- Shares with 5-year trailing whole returns [TTRs] of no less than 10%
- Shares prone to ship annualized returns of 8%
- Shares prone to have excessive 5-year YOCs after 5 years of possession
- Shares which can be discounted relative to my honest worth estimates.
Dividend Radar is an automatically-generated spreadsheet of DG shares, outlined as shares buying and selling on US exchanges with dividend improve streaks of no less than 5 years. I exploit DVK High quality Snapshots routinely to evaluate the standard of Dividend Radar, assigning high quality scores out of 25 primarily based on varied high quality metrics. I take into account shares with high quality scores within the vary of 15-25, Funding Grade shares.
I exploit the Dividend Security Scores of Merely Protected Dividends. The scoring system predicts dividend threat over a full financial cycle by analyzing an important metrics for dividends.
Dividend Security Scores have prevented 98% of dividend cuts and excelled through the pandemic. Whereas 51% of shares with Unsafe and Very Unsafe scores in the beginning of 2020 went on to chop their dividends, solely 10% and 4% of Very Protected and Protected-rated firms minimize their dividends, respectively.
The Chowder Quantity [C#] sums up a inventory’s ahead yield and its 5-year dividend progress charge. It’s a growth-oriented metric measuring the probability {that a} DG inventory will ship annualized returns of 8% or extra.
The 5-year Yield on Price [YOC] is an income-oriented metric indicating what your YOC can be after shopping for a inventory and holding it for 5 years, assuming the present 5-year dividend progress charge [DGR] is maintained. To calculate the 5-year YoC is straightforward:
- 5-year YOC = Ahead Yield × (1 + 5-year DGR)5
I screened for a 5-year YOC above 4%.
To find out the intrinsic worth of a inventory, I exploit a survey method by gathering honest worth estimates and goal costs from a number of dependable on-line sources, together with CFRA, Finbox, Morningstar, Portfolio Perception, and Merely Wall St. I additionally estimate honest worth utilizing a inventory’s five-year common dividend yield. With as many as 11 obtainable estimates, I ignore the bottom and highest, then common the imply and median of the remaining values to reach at my honest worth [FV] estimate. Averaging the imply (common) and median (center worth) helps modify skewness within the surveyed estimates.
The newest Dividend Radar (dated July 1, 2022) comprises 734 shares. Of those:
- 320 shares are Funding Grade
- 382 shares have Very Protected or Protected Dividend Security Scores
- 288 shares have 5-year trailing whole returns [TTRs] of no less than 10%
- 304 shares are prone to ship annualized returns of 8%
- 393 shares are prone to have a 5-year YOC of no less than 4% after 5 years of possession
- 638 shares are discounted relative to my honest worth estimates
Solely 8 shares handed all these screens!
I ranked the candidates by sorting their DVK High quality Scores in descending order and utilizing tie-breaking metrics for shares with the identical high quality rating.
7 High-Ranked Dividend Development Shares for July
Listed here are the top-ranked DG shares that handed this month’s screens:
I personal all of those shares in my DivGro portfolio.
Beneath, I present a desk with key metrics of curiosity to DG traders:
- Yrs: years of consecutive dividend will increase
- Adj Qual: DVK High quality Snapshots adjusted high quality rating
- Fwd Yield: ahead dividend yield for a current share Worth
- 5-Avg Yield: 5-year common dividend yield
- 5-DGR: 5-year compound annual progress charge of the dividend
- 5-YOC: the projected yield on price after 5 years of funding
- C#: Chowder Quantity, a preferred metric for screening dividend progress shares
- 5-TTR: 5-year compound trailing whole returns (as of the newest quarter)
- VL Security Rank: Worth Line’s Security Rank
- VL Fin Stren: Worth Line’s Monetary Power scores
- MS Econ Moat: Morningstar’s Financial Moat
- S&P Cred Score: S&P International’s Credit score Scores
- SSD Divi Security: Merely Protected Dividends’ Dividend Security Scores
- Purchase Beneath: my risk-adjusted purchase under worth (see under)
- –Disc +Prem: low cost or premium of the current share Worth to my Purchase Beneath worth
- Worth: current share worth
The Fwd Yield column is coloured inexperienced if Fwd Yield ≥ 5-Avg Yield.

Key metrics of the 7 High-Ranked Dividend Development Shares this month (contains information sourced from Dividend Radar).
My risk-adjusted Purchase Beneath costs permit premium valuations for the highest-quality shares however require discounted valuations for lower-quality shares:
Let’s now take a look at every inventory in flip. All information and charts are courtesy of Portfolio-Perception.com.
Texas Devices (TXN)
TXN designs, manufactures, and sells semiconductors to electronics designers and producers globally. The corporate operates in two segments, Analog and Embedded Processing. It markets and sells semiconductor merchandise by means of a direct gross sales drive and thru distributors, in addition to by means of its web site. TXN was based in 1930 and is headquartered in Dallas, Texas.

TXN valuation and key metrics, in addition to a efficiency comparability with SPY over the previous decade
TXN is rated Glorious (high quality rating: 24) and has the best 5-year dividend progress charge of this month’s candidates (18.9%). Portfolio Perception classifies TXN as a slow-growth inventory with a 1-year upside of 18% and a 1-year goal worth of $184.
The corporate’s non-GAAP payout ratio of 54% is just a little excessive and I anticipate dividend will increase will probably be extra modest sooner or later until the corporate manages to develop earnings sooner.
Union Pacific (UNP)
Omaha, Nebraska-based UNP operates the most important public railroad in North America, with 32,000 miles of observe linking 23 states within the western two-thirds of america. UNP hauls coal, industrial merchandise, intermodal containers, agricultural items, chemical compounds, and automotive merchandise. UNP owns 1 / 4 of the Mexican railroad Ferromex. The corporate was based in 1862.

UNP valuation and key metrics, in addition to a efficiency comparability with SPY over the previous decade
UNP is rated Glorious (high quality rating: 24) and Portfolio Perception classifies the inventory as a slow-growth inventory with a 1-year upside of 17% and a 1-year goal worth of $246.
The corporate’s non-GAAP payout ratio of 52% is just a little excessive and I anticipate dividend will increase will probably be extra modest sooner or later until the corporate manages to develop earnings sooner.
Dwelling Depot (HD)
Based in 1978 and primarily based in Atlanta, Georgia, HD is a house enchancment retailer that sells an assortment of constructing supplies, house enchancment merchandise, and garden and backyard merchandise. HD gives set up, house upkeep, {and professional} service applications to do-it-yourself, do-it-for-me, {and professional} prospects.

HD valuation and key metrics, in addition to a efficiency comparability with SPY over the previous decade
HD is rated Glorious (high quality rating: 24). Portfolio Perception classifies HD as a slow-growth inventory with a 1-year upside of 18% and a 1-year goal worth of $338.
With a non-GAAP payout ratio of 49%, the corporate has ample room to proceed paying and elevating its dividend.
Blackrock (BLK)
BLK is an funding administration firm that gives a variety of funding and threat administration companies to institutional and retail purchasers internationally. The corporate’s choices embrace single and multi-asset class portfolios investing in equities, fastened earnings, alternate options, and cash market devices. BLK was based in 1988 and relies in New York Metropolis.
BLK is rated Glorious (high quality rating: 23) and Portfolio Perception classifies the inventory as a slow-growth inventory with a 1-year upside of 18% and a 1-year goal worth of $713.
The corporate’s non-GAAP payout ratio of fifty% is just a little excessive for asset managers, however there may be nonetheless room to proceed paying and elevating its dividend.
Amgen (AMGN)
Based mostly in Thousand Oaks, California, AMGN is a biotechnology firm. The corporate discovers, develops, manufactures, and delivers human therapeutics worldwide. It gives merchandise for the remedy of great diseases within the areas of oncology/hematology, heart problems, irritation, bone well being, nephrology, and neuroscience. AMGN was based in 1980.
AMGN is rated Glorious (high quality rating: 23). Portfolio Perception classifies COST as a slow-growth inventory with a 1-year upside of 6% and a 1-year goal worth of $263.
AMGN’s non-GAAP payout ratio of 45% is just a little excessive for biotech firms, however the firm has some room to proceed paying and elevating its dividend.
T. Rowe Worth (TROW)
Based in 1937, TROW is a monetary companies holding firm that gives world funding administration companies to particular person and institutional traders within the sponsored T. Rowe Worth mutual funds and different funding portfolios, in addition to by means of variable annuity life insurance policy. TROW relies in Baltimore, Maryland.

TROW valuation and key metrics, in addition to a efficiency comparability with SPY over the previous decade
TROW is rated Tremendous (high quality rating: 22) and has the best ahead yield of this month’s candidates. Portfolio Perception classifies TROW as a hypergrowth inventory with a 1-year upside of 19% and a 1-year goal worth of $134.
The corporate’s non-GAAP payout ratio of 38% is a bit excessive for asset managers, however the firm nonetheless has some room to proceed paying and rising its dividend.
Lowe’s (LOW)
LOW is a house enchancment retailer. The corporate gives an entire line of merchandise for upkeep, restore, transforming, and residential adorning. It additionally gives set up companies by means of impartial contractors, in addition to prolonged safety plans and restore companies. LOW was based in 1946 and relies in Mooresville, North Carolina.

LOW valuation and key metrics, in addition to a efficiency comparability with SPY over the previous decade
LOW is rated Tremendous (high quality rating: 22) and has the longest dividend improve of this month’s candidates (60 years). Portfolio Portfolio Perception classifies LOW as a hypergrowth inventory with a 1-year upside of 55% and a 1-year goal worth of $279.
The corporate has ample room to proceed paying and elevating its dividend, given its non-GAAP payout ratio of solely 35%.
Concluding Remarks
On this article, I ranked high-performingdiscounted Funding Grade DG shares with Very Protected or Protected dividends improve streaks and wonderful earnings and progress prospects. I personal all of those shares in my DivGro portfolio. Not solely are the shares discounted to my honest worth estimates, in addition they are discounted no less than 13% to my risk-adjuseted Purchase Beneath costs. So, total, these are wonderful candidates for consideration!
This is a comparative evaluation of an equal-weighted portfolio of this month’s seven DG shares:
From a price-performance perspective, the portfolio would have outperformed the S&P 500 over the past 5 years by a margin of 1.41-to-1. Finbox considers all the shares to be undervalued.
As all the time, I counsel readers to do their due diligence earlier than investing.
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