18 Services Stocks With Low Debt And Payout Ratios To Boost Future Dividends

Services dividend paying stocks with low payout ratios and relatively small debt figures originally published at long-term-investments.blogspot.com. Today I would like to continue my article serial about low leveraged stocks with small payout ratios. I believe that those stocks can pay higher dividends in the future or they have the ability to grow further without capital increases.

The services sector ha s many corporate stocks with small dividend payouts but the most of the stocks are working with small profit margins or they have a modest capitalization. I decided to look only at stocks with more than $2 billion market capitalization in order to get the best results. My other criteria are still the same: Debt to equity under 0.5 with a dividend payout ratio of less than 20 percent.

Eighteen stocks fulfilled the above mentioned criteria of which ten are currently recommended to buy.

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20 Cheap Dividend Contenders With Real Low Debt Figures

Dividend Contenders with low debt and cheap price ratios originally published at long-term-investments.blogspot.com. Dividend Contenders have raised their dividend payments over 10 years in a row but not more than 25 consecutive years. There are over 200 stocks with such an impressive dividend growth history but not all of them are really good. Every stock has a something that an investor loves and hates. The perfect stock does not exist.

Today I would like to screen the Dividend Contenders category by cheap stocks (forward P/E below 15) with the lowest debt ratios. For passive investors, it's very important to own low leveraged growth stocks because they can expect further dividend hikes. If you purchase them at reasonable prices, you can increase the possibility for a good return.

Twelve of the 20 cheap Contenders with very low debt to equity ratios have a buy or better rating and four yield over three percent. Many insurer and banks are on the list. The financial sector is very strong.

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Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On June 04, 2013

The best yielding and biggest ex-dividend stocks researched by ”long-term-investments.blogspot.com”. Dividend Investors should have a quiet overview of stocks with upcoming ex dividend dates.

The ex dividend date is the final date on which the new stock buyer couldn’t receive the next dividend. If you like to receive the dividend, you need to buy the stock before the ex dividend date. I made a little screen of the best yielding stocks with a higher capitalization that have their ex date on the next trading day.

A full list of all stocks with payment dates can be found here: Ex-Dividend Stocks June 04, 2013. In total, 12 stocks and preferred shares go ex dividend - of which one yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 2.46%.

Here is the sheet of the best yielding, higher capitalized ex-dividend stocks:

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
Weingarten Realty Investors	WRI	3.88B	66.42	2.58	7.52	3.83%
Cinemark Holdings Inc.	CNK	3.38B	21.26	3.08	1.39	2.86%
Northrim Bancorp Inc.	NRIM	144.98M	11.25	1.05	3.24	2.69%
Amcol International Corp.	ACO	1.03B	16.65	2.25	1.05	2.50%
Banco Bradesco S.A.	BBD	67.86B	12.60	1.99	3.04	2.48%
CEC Entertainment Inc.	CEC	712.09M	15.71	4.43	0.88	2.40%
Banco Bradesco S.A.	BBDO	67.20B	11.94	1.97	2.69	2.31%
Perceptron, Inc.	PRCP	60.59M	21.42	1.13	1.06	2.12%
The Home Depot, Inc.	HD	114.91B	24.89	7.13	1.51	1.98%
Bebe Stores, Inc.	BEBE	431.01M	-	1.53	0.87	1.83%
FXCM Inc.	FXCM	514.16M	31.52	2.61	1.17	1.73%
Aaron's, Inc.	AAN	2.13B	14.12	1.79	0.95	0.25%

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