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 | -0.7% | -1.0% | -2.0% | -0.8% | -4.1% | 1.0% | 3.8% | -0.4% |
| 1 month | 3.5% | 1.9% | -1.1% | -3.4% | 2.8% | 5.3% | 5.0% | 2.3% |
| 3 months | 5.4% | 6.3% | 9.2% | 0.7% | 11.7% | 9.3% | -1.5% | 1.8% |
| 6 months | 17.2% | 20.4% | 33.4% | 21.9% | 14.1% | 12.7% | 22.9% | 16.5% |
| 1 year | 49.7% | 50.3% | 34.9% | 24.7% | 31.5% | 32.4% | 63.6% | 18.0% |
| 2 years | -4.1% | 8.5% | -9.8% | -14.4% | 17.6% | 25.3% | 22.9% | -8.0% |
| Annualised | 12.7% | 6.8% | -2.2% | 10.7% | 3.7% | 18.2% | 12.1% | |
| Risks | ||||||||
| Max Drawdown | -56.0% | -54.5% | -61.8% | -52.6% | -48.8% | -21.0% | -47.8% | |
| Avg Holdings | 10.5 | 10.8 | 10.4 | 8.2 | 7.2 | 12.9 | 11.9 | |
| Diversification | Moderate | Moderate | Moderate | Moderate | Low | Moderate | Moderate | |
