Winning Growth & Income is a dividend investing strategy inspired by an approach used by American investment analyst Kevin Matras in his book, Finding #1 Stocks. It combines growth and dividend factors by sorting the market for high yielding companies with strong growth characteristics. Apart from a high yield, this strategy looks for companies with an above average return on equity, a below average price-to-earnings ratio and where analysts have been upgrading their earnings forecasts. It also looks for companies with a low beta (the sensitivity of a share price to the movement of the market). Kevin Matras says the screen works for investors that are "looking for good companies with solid revenues that pay a good dividend". In some respects, this strategy is a small cap version of the Large Cap Dividend Attraction strategy. In Matra's original strategy criteria he uses Zacks Rank, which is a metric for analysing analyst forecasts.
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Finding #1 Stocks: Screening, Backtesting and Time-Proven Strategies
by Kevin Matras
Kevin's backtesting found that his version of this strategy had an average annual compounded return of 20.6% (that's while taking on about 40% less risk than the S&P 500).
This screen uses the following criteria:
Results are sorted by:
And limited to the first 14 Results
| Returns |  |
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FTSE 100 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 week | 0.4% | 3.1% | -1.3% | -1.1% | 1.8% | 5.7% | 3.4% | -0.2% |
| 1 month | 0.5% | 1.1% | -7.6% | 9.1% | -1.5% | 6.1% | 3.9% | 0.4% |
| 3 months | 12.7% | 5.0% | 2.4% | -10.2% | 12.0% | 14.3% | 3.9% | 7.2% |
| 6 months | -8.7% | -5.2% | -10.5% | -10.8% | -10.0% | 9.6% | -5.2% | -3.8% |
| 1 year | -9.4% | -18.6% | -1.7% | -10.2% | -15.7% | 4.9% | 3.2% | 3.7% |
| 2 years | -12.6% | -32.4% | -27.5% | 17.9% | -21.7% | 23.0% | -5.6% | -1.6% |
| Annualised | 16.1% | 6.9% | -2.2% | 25.0% | 0.2% | 19.8% | 14.0% | |
| Risks | ||||||||
| Max Drawdown | -27.2% | -36.6% | -32.4% | -26.7% | -32.9% | -18.4% | -17.1% | |
| Avg Holdings | 11.4 | 10.9 | 11.4 | 9.2 | 10.2 | 13.1 | 13.3 | |
| Diversification | Moderate | Moderate | Moderate | Moderate | Moderate | Moderate | Moderate | |
