Six Solid Dividend Stocks Unfairly Punished By Investors

Are you looking for dividend stocks but don’t want to chase performance? It’s not easy to find them, considering so many have risen so much this year. So we’ve identified six possible value dividend stocks in the S&P 500 Index SPX, +0.22% The companies pass some screens for quality — more on that below — yet their shares have declined this year. There has been a pullback for the S&P 500 utilities and telecommunications industries (which feature stocks with high dividend yields) after price-to-earnings valuations rose to very high levels.

So we thought it would be useful to look at which dividend stocks have not risen this year, and then apply a few screening filters to narrow a list of companies for further research and possible investment. Here are the six S&P 500 dividend stocks that are down so far in 2016, ranked by dividend yield: HCP Inc. (HCP), Ford Motor Co. (F), Kohl’s Corp. (KSS), FirstEnergy Corp. (FE), People’s United Financial Inc. (PBCT) and Darden Restaurants Inc. (DRI).

Source: Market Watch

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