3 Discounted Dividend Aristocrats

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 These high-quality, discounted dividend growth stocks have increased their dividend payouts every year for at least 25 years.     The annual rebalancing and subsequent changes to the S&P 500 Dividend Aristocrats Index have produced a new list of 64 Dividend Aristocrats. These elite companies in the S&P 500 have paid higher dividends every year for at least 25 consecutive years. S&P Dow Jones Indices maintains the index and updates it annually in January.   Recently, I ranked the 64 Dividend Aristocrats by quality scores according to DVK Quality Snapshots. Follow the link to download a spreadsheet with fundamental and added value data of all 64 Dividend Aristocrats, courtesy of Portfolio Insight.   This article looks at three Dividend Aristocrats trading well below my risk-adjusted Buy Below prices. Two stocks are rated Excellent with quality scores of 23 and 24 (out of 25), respectively, while the other stock is rated Fine with quality scores of 19. The three stocks are discounted by at least 16% relative to my Buy Below prices.   I use a survey approach to estimate fair value by collecting fair value estimates and price targets from several online sources, including Portfolio Insight, Morningstar, and Finbox. Additionally, I estimate fair value by dividing each stock’s annualized dividend by its historical 5-year average dividend yield. With as many as 11 available estimates per stock, I ignore the outliers (the lowest and highest values) and use the average of the median and mean of the remaining values as my fair value estimate. Averaging the mean (average) and median (middle value) helps to adjust for skewness in the surveyed estimates.     Continue reading …