Key Trends for 3 Big Stocks

As earnings season continues, more and more insurers are set to report their third-quarter results. With Travelers Companies (NYSE: TRV  )  as one of the first to do so.

It's easy for investors to glean some larger marketwide trends from its results. Though each company will have specific challenges ahead of it, American International Group (NYSE: AIG  ) and Markel (NYSE: MKL  ) will likely be facing similar pressures seen in Travelers' report. Read more About TRV.

Good-Yielding, Lower Risk Dividend Portfolio That Has Outperformed The Market

In order to create a dividend stock portfolio that can outperform the market by a big margin, I have used the following screen. It is based on an attempt to search for very profitable companies that pay rich dividends and that have raised their payouts at a high rate for the last five years. 

Furthermore, in order to decrease the maximum expected drawdown to a lower level than that of the benchmark I had to be satisfied with a bit lower return, but still much better than the benchmark.

In many of my previous screens, the demand was to rebalance the portfolio every four weeks and replace the stocks that no longer comply with the screening requirement with other stocks that comply with the requirement. TRV