Common Financial Characteristics Of Top Dividend Stocks

Common Financial Characteristics Of Top Dividend Stocks by Andrew Sather

Financial data can help us paint a picture of the story of a company. In order to know that a company succeeded during a certain time period, we don’t have to be plugged into that industry or even be alive to know that the company did well. All it takes is a cursory look at the financials released at that time.

Because our research is focused on companies in the stock market, the information we seek is freely available online. For official annual reports, sec.gov archives those all the way back until around 1994~1995. For widely used numbers such as net earnings, Wolfram Alpha allows us to search that data...