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Dividends are also a big help when the market declines.
That gave me a list of 31 stocks. And only one, Kelly Services , passed all eight steps of the Weiss Blue-Chip Value Strategy with flying colors. The company provides temporary staffing to 200,000 companies worldwide in just about every major industry. I know that's a growing business, but high-yields can signal a depressed stock price. So I checked in with Greg Weiss, who along with his mother Geraldine, follows a high-yield strategy in their newsletter, Investment Quality Trends .