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With flu season nearing, it’s time to get flu shots and try your best to avoid germs.
As anyone with a respiratory system will tell you, flu season isn’t fun.
However, as any investor holding pharmacy and flu-related, coughing-sniffling remedy stocks will tell you it’s one of the best times of the year.
For the 2023-2024 season, the CDC estimated 40 million illnesses, 470,000 hospitalizations, and 28,000 deaths. For the 2024-2025 season, the CDC estimated 9.3 million to 41 million illnesses, 120,000 to 710,000 hospitalizations, and 6,300 to 52,000 deaths. For the 2025-2026 season, experts say this flu season will be more moderate.
Unfortunately, no one knows until the flu hits.
It’s just one of the many reasons to consider dividend-paying stocks like Clorox (CLX).
With a yield of 4.54%, oversold shares of CLX are a bargain at $109.22. For one, going back to 2021, CLX tends to run higher around October.
In October 2022, CLX ran from about $141 to just over $158. In 2023, CLX ran from about $114 to $146. In 2024, CLX ran from about $153 to $163. We expect CLX to bounce again this year. All Americans buy cleaning products, such as bleach and disinfectants, ahead of the season. CLX is also about to pay a dividend of $1.24 per share on November 6 to shareholders of record as of October 22.
Another strong flu-season stock to consider is CVS Health (CVS), which also has a history of running ahead of flu season.
In October 2021, for example, CVS ran from about $72 to $93. In 2022, CVS ran from about $78 to $93. In 2023, CVS ran from about $63 to nearly $74. In 2024, it ran from about $58 to just over $64 a share. For 2025, the CVS stock is already climbing, but we expect for it to rocket higher as we get deeper into flu season.
CVS also yields 3.41% and just paid a dividend of just over 66 cents per share on November 3 to shareholders of record as of October 23.
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Written by Ian Cooper