The portfolio of stocks I started building on September 8, at a one stock per week pace for the next year, is named Vista.I will select its eighth stock this coming weekend. Vista is the sixth portfolio I've built (at a one dividend dog per-week pace) since 2014. Six portfolios = VI for Vista!

Vista is planned to Look Ahead for Outstanding, Proven, Dividend Winners. (Like Aristocrats)

Today we'll review the third of five industrial sector stock candidates vying to be that eighth selection and second industrial member of the Vista portfolio.

My subject today is a small cap business equipment and supplies company, HNI Corp. Its trading ticker symbol is HNI. This is my first report on HNI Corp for this Vista dog of the week portfolio. I also reported on it for a Volio selection

• HNI Corp is a provider of office furniture and hearth products. The company generates the bulk of its revenue from its office furniture segment, which consists of products such as panel-based and freestanding furniture systems and complementary products. 
• These products are sold primarily through a national system of dealers, wholesalers, and office product distributors but also directly to end-user customers and federal, state, and local governments. 
• The hearth segment consists of products including gas-, wood-, and pellet-burning fireplaces, inserts, stoves, facings, and accessories. 
• The company has operations in the United States, Canada, mainland China, Hong Kong, India, and Taiwan.

HNI Corporation was incorporated in 1944 and is headquartered in Muscatine, Iowa.

I use three key data points to gauge dividend equities or funds like HNI Corp. (HNI):

(1) Price

(2) Dividends

(3) Returns

Those three basic keys best tell whether a company has made, is making, and will make money. 

HNI Price

HNI's price per share closed at $34.21 yesterday. A year ago its price was $38.64. Price fell $4.43 or about 11.5% last year.

If HNI's stock trades in the range of $18 to $48 this next year, its recent $34.21 price might rise by $4.79 to reach $39.00 by October 28, 2021. 

HNI Dividends

HNI's most recently declared quarterly dividend was $0.305 paid September 1st. Dividends are estimated to total $1.22 per share annually and yield 3.57% at yesterday's $34.21 closing price.

HNI Gains?

Adding the $1.22 annual anticipated dividend to my $4.79 optimistic estimate of HNI's price upside shows a $6.01 potential gross gain, per share, to be reduced by any costs to trade the shares.  

Put little under $1,000.00 today in HNI Corp. at $34.21 and we would buy 29 shares of HNI stock.

A $10 broker fee paid half at purchase and half at the sale would cost us about $0.34 per share.

Subtract that $0.34 brokerage cost from my estimated $6.01 gross gain per share results in a net gain of $5.67 X 29 shares = $164.43 for a 16.45% net gain on a $992.09 investment.

So it goes that HNI Corp. (HNI) shows a possible 8.45% net gain including a 3.57% dividend yield. It could be more, it could be less.  

All of the estimates above are speculation based on the past history of HNI Corp. (HNI). Only time and money invested in this stock will determine its worth.