We taken this list of blue chips from the Dividend Stock Tracker (Click to see larger image) This is probably a good list that people look forward to adding.

Competitive Advantages and Clean Balance sheet

As blue chips, they do enjoy some competitive advantages that enable them to earn rather good return on investment. And their balance sheet are rather clean. If you look at the debt to asset about 4 of them are running net cash and the other 2 are rather low leveraged. You will probably expect them to not be a going concern for the next 10 years

Lukewarm Free Cash Flow Yield and Earnings Yield

Except for the 2 leveraged companies Sing Post and SPH, the others have a much lower free cash flow and earnings yield. Dividends get paid out of free cash flow, and if free cash flow remains low, that is the ......