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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15 Growing Dividend Stocks That Buffett/Munger Would Choose

Dividend stocks from the Buffett/Munger screener originally published at long-term-investments.blogspot.com. Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger are the two investment heads of Berkshire Hathaway. If they decide to put money into a business, they usually have a good nose for their investment which will be paid-off.

With a long-term annual return wide above 20 percent, they definitely have done the most things right. 

Today I would like to present you the best dividend stocks from the gurufocus Buffett/Munger screener. The tool searches the market by good companies at fair or even undervalued prices. The screener take only stocks with a high predicable business into account. 

These are some of the criteria:

- Rising Margin

- Growing Business

- Little Debt

- Fair or Undervalued

The Buffett/Munger screener gives you over 200 results but I like to focus on the U.S. stock market. 

From 77 American stocks are only 15 shares that pay dividends. Buffett and Munger will definitely love some of these results. 

The good thing is that the screener don’t show results of stocks in which they are already invested. For a closer overview about the latest stock purchases from Warren Buffett and his latest portfolio, please look here: Warren Buffet’s Latest Stock Picks And His Biggest Portfolio Holdings.

On High-Yield is below the results and nine got a buy or better rating by brokerage firms.

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Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On June 19, 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 19, 2013. In total, 13 stocks and preferred shares go ex dividend - of which 6 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 4.75%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
PennantPark Investment Corporation	PNNT	785.52M	9.78	1.13	6.32	9.47%
Ship Finance International Limited	SFL	1.48B	7.90	1.39	4.91	9.01%
PennantPark Floating Rate Capital	PFLT	-	-	-	-	7.09%
Total SA	TOT	115.65B	10.15	1.20	0.48	4.24%
Nicholas Financial Inc.	NICK	180.24M	9.14	1.41	2.55	3.20%
Republic Bancorp Inc.	RBCAA	475.70M	9.50	0.88	3.44	3.07%
Federal Realty Investment Trust	FRT	6.81B	47.65	5.24	11.00	2.77%
Cohu, Inc.	COHU	286.02M	-	1.08	1.28	2.07%
The Chubb Corporation	CB	23.02B	13.83	1.44	1.68	2.01%
Convergys Corporation	CVG	1.93B	53.76	1.43	0.97	1.31%
QCR Holdings Inc.	QCRH	74.86M	8.17	0.53	0.98	0.53%
World Fuel Services Corp.	INT	2.84B	14.94	1.82	0.07	0.38%
Advance Auto Parts Inc.	AAP	6.04B	16.27	4.75	0.96	0.29%

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