Five stock picks for income seekers

Unilever

Unilever looks attractive to long-term investors. It endeavours to recover costs, expand into emerging markets, focus on profitable volume growth and improve cashflow; all the while delivering strong returns on capital used to grow its dividend. Emerging market operations have delivered 11.4 per cent underlying sales growth representing 55 per cent of Unilever’s turnover. What’s more, the group should see some improvements in margins as some raw material prices have declined and flattened this year.