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Kelley Wright entered the financial services industry in 1984 as a stock broker, first with a private investment boutique in La Jolla and later with Dean Witter Reynolds. In 1990, he left the retail side of the industry for private portfolio management. In 2002, Mr. Wright succeeded Geraldine Weiss as the managing editor of the Investment Quality Trends newsletter as well as the chief investment officer and portfolio manager for IQ Trends Private Client. His commentaries have been published in Barron's, Forbes, BusinessWeek, Dow Jones MarketWatch, The Economist, and many other business and financial periodicals. Mr. Wright is an active speaker at trade shows and investment conferences, and is a frequent guest and contributor to radio and CNBC. He is the author of Dividends Still Don't Lie, which was published in February, 2010, by John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Kelley's Articles
Founded in 1944 and headquartered in New York, Omnicom Group Inc. (OMC) is a leading global advertising and marketing communications company providing a comprehensive range of services. It can be a long-term total return opportunity, especially given OMC’s long-term track record for increasing dividends, which raises the Overvalue price/yield area, outlines Kelley Wright, editor of IQ Trends.
Kelley Wright
CONSUMER DISCRETIONARY
Tickers: OMC
Becton, Dickinson & Co. (BDX) is a global medical technology company that develops, manufactures, and sells a wide range of medical supplies, devices, laboratory equipment, and diagnostic products. It represents an attractive total return opportunity for 2026, suggests Kelley Wright, editor of IQ Trends.
Kelley Wright
HEALTHCARE
Tickers: BDX
Fifth Third Bancorp (FITB) operates as a diversified financial services company, providing a wide range of financial products and services across three main segments: Commercial Banking, Consumer and Small Business Banking, and Wealth & Asset Management, highlights Kelley Wright, editor of IQ Trends.
Kelley Wright
FINANCIALS
Tickers: FITB
Founded in 1929, American States Water Co. (AWR) is a utility company that operates primarily through two regulated subsidiaries, Golden State Water Co. and Bear Valley Electric Service, providing water and electric services in California. The company is benefiting from recent rate case approvals and policy tailwinds, supporting growth, notes Kelley Wright, editor of IQ Trends.
Kelley Wright
UTILITIES
Tickers: AWR
Kelley's Videos
Stocks that pay dividends have specific repeatable patterns that can be exploited. When the yield is large enough dividend-paying stocks tend to attract buying.
Kelley Wright
STOCKS
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At MoneyShow Dallas, Kelley Wright on dividend opportunities: Philip Morris has a yield in excess of 5. Public Storage, a REIT, around 4.5%, Whirlpool, classic Consumer Discretionary, is interesting.
Kelley Wright
STOCKS
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At mid-year, Kelley Wright highlights some of the best performers and their current outlook on these Top Picks: Philip Morris (PM).
Kelley Wright
STOCKS
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Among the stocks and mutuals that he likes: American Express (AXP), Franklin Resources (BEN), T. Rowe Price (TROW), Cummins (CMI), Fluor (FLR), Union Pacific (UNP). He tells Nancy Zambell why.
Kelley Wright
STOCKS
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Kelley Wright
Dividends Still Don't Lie
Written by Kelley Wright, Managing Editor of Investment Quality Trends, with a new Foreword by Geraldine Weiss, this book teaches a value-based strategy to investing, one that uses a stock's dividend yield as the primary measure of value. Rather than
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Investment Quality Trends
One of the most long-lived of all investment newsletters, Investment Quality Trends has been making money for its subscribers since 1966, following the wonderfully old-fashioned idea that one should purchase the top dividend-paying stocks when the dividend yield is historically high, sell when the dividend yield declines to historic lows and completely avoid stocks which pay no dividend at all.
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