5 Stocks Warren Buffett Keeps An Eye On...

Attached are five more stocks with fundamentals that meet Warren Buffett target criteria. 

I've introduced a few more stocks in this blog earlier this month and I believe that it's a good tool to get new stock ideas in a hot market.

The markets are not cheap for the time being and high-quality stocks have a much higher premium rate. But the good thing is that this should not make it impossible to find new investment targets.

You must have patience to get the right investments at the right prices. Only the disciplined investor makes the better return.

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27 Stocks With Bigger Dividends (Full Compilation)

Stocks with dividend hikes from last week originally published at long-term-investments.blogspot.com. 27 companies increased their dividends within the recent week. You can find the full list attached and some of my favorites in the article below.

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Cheapest Dividend Paying Large Caps As of October 2013

Cheap large capitalized stocks with high growth originally published at “long-term-investments.blogspot.com. I always look for stocks with a cheap valuation and modest growth perspectives.

While the interest environment is low, the market valuation is extraordinary high and it’s more important to take care about a solid price in order to ensure not to overpay a stocks.

Each month I create a quick list that allows me to observe the market by the cheapest growth picks. You can find my criteria below.

These are the criteria for my cheapest dividend paying large cap screen:

- Market Capitalization over USD 10 billion

- Expected Earnings per share growth over 10 percent for the next five years

- Forward P/E ratio under 15

- P/S under 1 and P/B ratio under 2

- Positive Dividends

Only fourteen stocks fulfilled these criteria of which twelve have a current buy or better rating by brokerage firms.

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Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On October 08, 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.

In total, 22 stocks go ex dividend - of which 8 yield more than 3 percent. Here is a full list of all stocks with ex-dividend date within the current week.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
Anworth Mortgage Asset Corp.	ANH	669.33M	7.73	0.78	3.70	10.34%
AT&T, Inc.	T	181.61B	25.57	2.11	1.42	5.33%
Darden Restaurants, Inc.	DRI	6.08B	16.57	2.94	0.70	4.71%
Verizon Communications Inc.	VZ	134.94B	87.22	3.96	1.14	4.50%
WGL Holdings Inc.	WGL	2.16B	15.50	1.61	0.87	4.01%
UDR, Inc.	UDR	5.90B	-	2.09	7.85	3.98%
General Mills, Inc.	GIS	30.83B	18.03	4.52	1.70	3.17%
E. I. du Pont de Nemours	DD	54.12B	23.09	4.14	1.53	3.07%
Brady Corp.	BRC	1.54B	-	1.86	1.34	2.61%
Ingles Markets Inc.	IMKTA	659.00M	53.37	1.65	0.17	2.42%
OGE Energy Corp.	OGE	7.13B	21.02	2.53	1.97	2.34%
Covidien plc	COV	28.04B	16.80	2.90	2.63	2.12%
Choice Hotels International Inc.	CHH	2.50B	22.43	-	3.52	1.72%
Kadant Inc.	KAI	360.38M	13.00	1.43	1.12	1.55%
Raven Industries Inc.	RAVN	1.14B	25.92	4.82	2.98	1.53%
Ethan Allen Interiors Inc.	ETH	776.42M	24.20	2.32	1.06	1.49%
Barnes Group Inc.	B	1.91B	26.12	1.96	1.64	1.24%
Aetna Inc.	AET	23.67B	13.26	1.76	0.59	1.20%
Intuit Inc.	INTU	19.76B	24.20	5.59	4.74	1.15%
Lincoln National Corp.	LNC	11.48B	9.39	0.86	0.98	1.11%

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Cheapest Dividend Paying Large Caps As of September 2013

Cheap large capitalized stocks with high growth originally published at “long-term-investments.blogspot.com. Cheap stocks, bargains or undervalued companies can promise you good returns if you believe that they receive a better valuation within the next months or years. It’s very difficult to discover those stocks because of the hundreds of thousands technical and fundamental measures.

I often used my static ratios like earnings multiples or book ratios to identify cheaply valuated stocks. Today I like to change my recent criteria about cheapest dividend paying large caps a little bit. I tighten the restriction Price-To-Sales to a value of less than one and look at forward P/E’s. In the past, I’ve looked at current earnings multiples.

These are the criteria for my cheapest dividend paying large cap screen:

- Market Capitalization over USD 10 billion

- Expected Earnings per share growth over 10 percent for the next five years

- Forward P/E ratio under 15

- P/S under 1 and P/B ratio under 2

- Positive Dividends

The number of my results rose. Eighteen stocks fulfilled these criteria of which one pays a high yield of more than five percent. Nearly all, fourteen in total, got a buy or better rating by brokerage firms.

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David Einhorn's Latest Portfolio Dividend Stock Changes | Greenlight Capital

Latest stock purchases and sales from David Einhorn, Greenlight Capital originally published at long-term-investments.blogspot.com. David Einhorn has around USD 5.3 billion in assets under management in his asset management company Greenlight Capital. Last Quarter he made 28 transactions and bought 7 new stakes. His portfolio has only 30 stock holdings.

In this article I would like to present you the best dividend stocks, bought and sold by David Einhorn. From his nine stock and ETF purchases pay six a dividend. All of the latest dividend buys from David Einhorn yielding between .13 percent and 1.92 percent. David is no long-term dividend player. He wants a quick total return. The most important buys were ING US, Liberty Global and Market Vectors Gold Miners ETF.

On the short side, he reduced or sold out 19 stocks. 15 of them pay a dividend. The biggest impact had Cigna, Seagate Technology and Microsoft with around 3 percent impact to his portfolio.

Apple remains the biggest stock holding bet. The stake has a value of around one billion dollar. The second biggest position of David Einhorn is the car company General Motors which represents around 10.7 percent of his total portfolio. The third biggest company is the technology stock Marvell with a 9.7 percent share. Both are worth over USD 500 million.

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17 High Momentum Healthcare Dividend Stocks

Healthcare dividend stocks with highest beta ratios originally published at long-term-investments.blogspot.com. You know that I am a conservative investor and try to minimize my risk.

This strategy is necessary if you have a larger amount of money to take care of or you begin to cry when you lose 10 percent on your book value. The second disadvantage is that you lose performance in a strong up moving market. 

Since 2009, there were nearly no bigger corrections at the market but with low beta and safe haven stocks, your performance would be only half of the return from the markets. What you need to get a push for your portfolio is a high beta stock. I don’t recommend buying them because it’s a definitely riskier strategy and nobody knows when the market turns into a bearish mood.

However, let’s take a look at the high fly momentum stocks from the healthcare sector. Those are stocks with the highest beta ratio from the sector. They have a beta between 1 and 2. With focus on the dividend paying stocks, only 17 stocks from the healthcare sector pay a dividend and being correlated with the market by a factor of up to 2.

One High-Yield is below the results and 16 have a current buy or better rating by brokerage firms.

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Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On July 09, 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 July 09, 2013. In total, 10 stocks and preferred shares go ex dividend - of which 2 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 2.89%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
Huntingdon Capital Corp	HCAP	166.59M	-	0.95	2.76	8.88%
Gold Resource Corp	GORO	440.40M	17.06	4.92	3.21	4.31%
Waddell & Reed Financial Inc.	WDR	3.87B	19.39	7.00	3.22	2.48%
OGE Energy Corp.	OGE	6.79B	19.97	2.47	1.82	2.45%
Marsh & McLennan	MMC	22.44B	18.45	3.38	1.87	2.44%
Franco-Nevada Corporation	FNV	5.01B	54.14	1.60	11.62	2.11%
Patterson Companies Inc.	PDCO	3.84B	18.70	2.76	1.06	1.69%
Kadant Inc.	KAI	357.10M	12.64	1.44	1.10	1.56%
NetApp, Inc.	NTAP	13.90B	28.09	2.95	2.19	1.55%
Aetna Inc.	AET	20.50B	12.93	1.92	0.55	1.28%

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Half-Time Report: The Best Healthcare Dividend Stocks And Which Of Them Are The Cheapest

Healthcare dividend stocks with the highest year-to-date performance originally published at "long-term-investments.blogspot.com". We’ve completed the month June and it’s time to report which stocks have risen most within the first six months of the year. It’s ever good to see which stocks are hot in the market and which of them are still cheap valuated.

That’s the main reason why I like to produce an article serial with performance figures of the best performing stocks from several sectors of the financial market.

Today I like to screen the healthcare sector by dividend stocks with the highest stock performance since the beginning of the year.

The 20 most successful companies have realized a performance between 22.01 percent and 73.98 percent. The average capital gain was 36.24 percent. Despite the strong stock price hike, seventeen of them still have a buy or better rating.

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David Einhorn’s Best Yielding Dividend Stock Buys

David Einhorn and his highest yielding dividend stock buys originally published at "long-term-investments.blogspot.com". On May 15, a full range of professional fund managers released its quarter statements. Today I like to look at the best dividend stock buys of David Einhorn. He is the head of Greenlight Capital and serves around 6.5 billion in assets. In total he has 38 stocks of which six were bought within the recent quarter. Below is a list of his 20 biggest transaction within the recent quarters.

His biggest move was related to Apple. He added the position by 83.45%, a change to his portfolio of 7.37%.

15 of his 20 largest stock buys from the recent quarters are dividend stocks. Apple is his biggest bet with a value above a billion dollar.

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