{"id":20724,"date":"2023-09-15T22:43:27","date_gmt":"2023-09-15T22:43:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thinkadvisor.com\/2023\/09\/15\/10-cheap-stocks-with-reliable-dividends-morningstar\/"},"modified":"2023-09-15T22:43:27","modified_gmt":"2023-09-15T22:43:27","slug":"10-cheap-stocks-with-reliable-dividends-morningstar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/2023\/09\/15\/10-cheap-stocks-with-reliable-dividends-morningstar\/","title":{"rendered":"10 Cheap Stocks With Reliable Dividends: Morningstar"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/feeds.feedblitz.com\/-\/793625507\/0\/thinkadvisor\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.thinkadvisor.com\/contrib\/content\/uploads\/sites\/415\/2023\/06\/02_Businessman_Happy_Stock_Trader_Adobe_640x640.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p><button id=\"start-slideshow-top\" data-toggle=\"modal\" data-target=\"#slideshowModal\" class=\"start-slideshow carousel-control slideshow-btn portfolio \">Start Slideshow <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thinkadvisor.com\/assets\/master-template\/images\/market-images\/tasr\/rightarrow.svg\" class=\"prevbtn-img\"><\/button> <\/p>\n<p id=\"first-para\">Investors looking for the best dividend stocks during this period of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thinkadvisor.com\/2023\/07\/28\/most-pro-investors-see-low-risk-of-recession-in-2023-survey\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">economic uncertainty<\/a> and market volatility might consider adding undervalued, quality dividend stocks to their portfolios, suggests <a href=\"https:\/\/www.morningstar.com\/authors\/12\/susan-dziubinski\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Susan Dziubinski<\/a>, a Morningstar investment specialist.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cQuality companies have the financial stability to maintain their dividends during questionable economic periods, and price risk is reduced when investors can buy the stocks of these companies on the cheap,\u201d Dziubinski writes in a new blog post.<\/p>\n<p>Dziubinski\u2019s colleague David Harrell, editor of <a href=\"https:\/\/mdi.morningstar.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Morningstar DividendInvestor<\/a>, suggests that investors focus on companies with management teams that are supportive of their dividend strategies and favor those with competitive advantages, or economic moats.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA <a href=\"https:\/\/www.morningstar.com\/investing-definitions\/morningstar-economic-moat-rating\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">moat rating<\/a> does not guarantee dividends, of course, but we have seen some very strong correlations between economic moats and dividend durability,\u201d Harrell says.<\/p>\n<p>To find the best dividend stocks, Morningstar analysts turned to the firm\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.morningstar.com\/indexes\/ixus\/mdyft\/quote\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dividend Yield Focus Index<\/a>. The dividend stocks on this list are among the index\u2019s top constituents, and they were also undervalued, with Morningstar Ratings of 4 and 5 stars as of Sept. 13.<\/p>\n<p>See the gallery for the 10 best dividend stocks, according to Morningstar. Year-to-date performance is as of Sept. 15.<\/p>\n<p> <button data-toggle=\"modal\" data-target=\"#slideshowModal\" class=\"start-slideshow carousel-control slideshow-btn portfolio\">Start Slideshow <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thinkadvisor.com\/assets\/master-template\/images\/market-images\/tasr\/rightarrow.svg\" class=\"prevbtn-img\"><\/button><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Start Slideshow Investors looking for the best dividend stocks during this period of economic uncertainty and market volatility might consider adding undervalued, quality dividend stocks to their portfolios, suggests Susan Dziubinski, a Morningstar investment&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[1],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20724"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20724\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}