The Blue Harbinger Weekly — Blue Harbinger Investment Research

These Preferred Stock Shares Are Worth Considering

If you like yield, but you’re not comfortable with a lot of volatility, then you may want to consider the preferred shares of this healthy company. They trade at a slightly lower price than the common shares, they offer a slightly higher yield (5.3% versus 5.1%), and the share price is significantly less volatile and safer. But before you go diving in headfirst on the preferreds, here are a few things you need to know.

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A Penny Saved Is A Penny Earned

All Blue Harbinger strategies continue to deliver strong positive returns without any of the full-service brokerage fees that “do-it-yourself investors” are trying to avoid. Our Disciplined Growth portfolio beat the S&P 500 during May, and our Income Equity strategy finished the month with a 5.4% yield, nearly 3.5% higher than the S&P 500. We’ve seen value stocks underperform growth stocks this year, and as contrarians we like value stocks even more now.

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Consider Nibbling at this Disciplined Dividend Growth Stock

Income investors love to own big dividend stocks, but sometimes it’s worthwhile to diversify into companies with smaller albeit growing dividends that also offer significant price appreciation potential. This article reviews one such opportunity that we believe has the opportunity to grow dramatically over time both its dividend and especially its price.

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