Potential Investment Targets Of Warren Buffett - Part III

Warren Buffett sits on big cash that is growing each month. I've started an article serial that discovers potential white elephants which could be potential takeover targets for the big guru investor.

The ideas came from Bloomberg. In my view, they are a little bit abstract and far away from that you might think because they were discovered by strict criteria.

Today you can find additional 5 stocks which could be interesting for the institutional investor from Omaha.

Here you can find the first two articles with the criteria:

5 Stocks That Warren Buffett Would Love: Part II
Warren Buffett's Targets Part I

5 stocks that Warren Buffett should like are..

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17 Cheap Large Cap Dividend Contenders Close To New 52-Week Highs

Cheaply valuated dividend growth stocks close to new 52-Week-Highs originally published at long-term-investments.blogspot.com. I published recently a small article about Large Cap stocks close to new one-year highs with a single P/E.

The idea behind is that there could be more room for a higher stock price due to the low valuation and the break-out signal. I know that this kind of method is more technically but it should give you some new ideas from a different perspective of the capital market.

Today I would like to screen my dividend income growth stock database by shares with 10 to 25 years of consecutive dividend growth that are 5 percent or less away from new one-year highs. In addition, the earnings income multiple for the next year should be under 15 and the market capitalization over USD 10 billion.

Only 17 stocks fulfilled these criteria of which ten are currently recommended to buy.

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16 Dividend Aristocrats With Cheap Forward P/E’s

Dividend Aristocrats income growth stocks with low forward P/E’s originally published at long-term-investments.blogspot.com. Dividend growth is one of the core items of my blog. I always screen the market by stocks with a very long dividend payment history and try to discover some opportunities for you.

What we’ve seen over the recent months is that the market get’s more and more expensive due the low interest environment. It’s really hard to find low valuated stocks with a high quality and proven business model.

Today I would highlight some of the cheapest Dividend Aristocrats on the market. Those stocks have a forward P/E of less than 15.

Only sixteen companies from the index have such a low valuation and one of them has a yield over five percent. Ten are currently recommended to buy.
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Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On September 27, 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, 47 stocks go ex dividend - of which 12 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
Annaly Capital Management	NLY	11.46B	3.57	0.93	3.86	13.22%
Realty Income Corp.	O	7.92B	57.06	1.78	13.08	5.38%
Liberty Property Trust	LRY	4.36B	35.96	1.98	6.22	5.23%
Eni SpA	E	84.41B	26.94	1.07	0.50	5.04%
The Bank Of Nova Scotia	BNS	69.24B	11.82	1.86	3.87	4.15%
Republic Services, Inc.	RSG	12.32B	26.95	1.60	1.51	3.06%
Fulton Financial Corporation	FULT	2.27B	14.30	1.12	3.65	2.73%
BankUnited, Inc.	BKU	3.06B	14.81	1.65	4.16	2.73%
Air Products & Chemicals Inc.	APD	22.47B	22.98	3.44	2.20	2.65%
CubeSmart	CUBE	2.38B	-	2.38	7.70	2.47%
Ford Motor Co.	F	67.61B	11.31	3.52	0.47	2.33%
Cardinal Health, Inc.	CAH	17.87B	54.58	2.99	0.18	2.31%
Dell Inc.	DELL	24.35B	18.24	2.26	0.43	2.31%
Axis Capital Holdings Limited	AXS	5.00B	9.00	1.01	1.23	2.30%
Rent-A-Center Inc.	RCII	2.07B	12.43	1.56	0.67	2.22%
HEALTHSOUTH Corp.	HLS	2.95B	11.87	10.75	1.34	2.10%
HCC Insurance Holdings Inc.	HCC	4.36B	10.90	1.24	1.71	2.04%
Arcos Dorados Holdings Inc. Cla	ARCO	2.47B	31.00	3.70	0.63	2.04%
Quest Diagnostics Inc.	DGX	9.50B	18.62	2.43	1.32	1.93%
State Street Corp.	STT	30.17B	14.57	1.54	10.59	1.56%

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Next Week's 20 Top Yielding Ex-Dividend Shares

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 week.

In total, 168 stocks go ex dividend - of which 76 yield more than 3 percent. Here is a full list of all stocks with ex-dividend date within the upcoming week.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
Eni SpA	E	87.85B	28.53	1.12	0.53	4.62%
Canadian Imperial Bank of Comm.	CM	32.18B	10.15	2.10	2.82	4.54%
The Bank Of Nova Scotia	BNS	68.97B	11.85	1.86	3.87	3.98%
TransCanada Corp.	TRP	31.41B	21.89	2.06	3.84	3.94%
Philip Morris International, Inc.	PM	147.56B	17.53	-	1.88	3.76%
The Dow Chemical Company	DOW	47.09B	19.18	2.45	0.83	3.22%
Avalonbay Communities Inc.	AVB	17.19B	84.20	2.01	13.86	3.22%
Republic Services, Inc.	RSG	12.40B	27.13	1.61	1.52	3.04%
Edison International	EIX	15.00B	11.31	1.60	1.20	2.93%
Nucor Corporation	NUE	16.06B	38.75	2.13	0.87	2.92%
Sempra Energy	SRE	21.13B	21.80	1.97	2.02	2.90%
Bancolombia S.A.	CIB	12.14B	14.54	2.02	2.91	2.89%
Deere & Company	DE	32.35B	9.62	3.77	0.85	2.43%
Dell Inc.	DELL	24.39B	18.26	2.26	0.43	2.31%
Xerox Corp.	XRX	12.48B	10.90	1.06	0.57	2.27%
Cardinal Health, Inc.	CAH	18.22B	55.67	3.05	0.18	2.26%
Agrium Inc.	AGU	13.41B	9.87	1.83	0.81	2.22%
Illinois Tool Works Inc.	ITW	34.39B	14.54	3.36	2.03	2.20%
ACE Limited	ACE	32.40B	10.05	1.19	1.72	2.15%
St. Jude Medical Inc.	STJ	15.24B	25.32	3.97	2.80	1.86%

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