4 Analyst-Backed Mid-Caps With Discounted Dividends

Dividend investors love consistently strong yields, but especially when they can get them on sale. Today, we focused on dividend stocks in the mid-cap space offering yields at 3% and higher, but that additionally look under-priced by their fundamentals. If they truly are trading below their fair price, it means that now could be the right time to buy. To narrow in on the best stocks in this class, we only selected for stocks that analysts have on average awarded high ratings to, scored as "Buy" or better. If analysts in general favor a stock, it suggests that the company stands on solid financial footing. Under this criteria, we came up with a diverse list of cheap mid-cap investment possibilities.The PEG ratio (price/earnings to growth ratio) is a valuation metric for determining the relative trade-off between the price of a stock, the earnings generated per share (EPS), and the
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