6 Hedge Fund Dividend Stock Picks With Impressive Profitability

Looking for stocks paying dividend income? If so, here are some ideas to get started on your search.

We ran a screen on dividend stocks seeing significant net institutional purchases over the current quarter, indicating that institutional investors such as hedge fund managers expect these stocks to outperform. We then screened these names for those with impressive profitability, beating their industry peers on gross, operating, and pretax margins.

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We also created a price-weighted index of the stocks mentioned below, and monitored the performance of the list relative to the S&P 500 index over the last month. To access a complete analysis of this list's recent performance, click here.

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