FYI: Selecting the right dividend stocks can be tricky.
For one thing, it is hard to strike a proper balance between stocks with faster-growing dividends and those with higher yields.
Bespoke Investment Group, an investment and market research firm, took a stab at it beginning 5 years ago. Its Bespoke Dividend Model Portfolio looks for stocks with above-average dividend payout ratios versus their sector peers and a history of consistently increasing those disbursements.
The Bespoke model aims for stocks with payout ratios—the percentage of earnings paid out as dividends—of less than about 65% and tries to weed out high-yielding names with poor performance relative to the overall market.
Regards,
Ted
https://www.barrons.com/articles/bespoke-dividend-model-portfpolio-balanced-high-yield-growth-returns-51566419642?refsec=income-investing
