30 Top Stocks With Dividend Growth From Last Week

Stocks with dividend hikes from last week originally published at long-term-investments.blogspot.com. 30 companies announced a dividend hike within the recent week. Only six of them are large capitalized stocks and five are really cheap in terms of a low forward P/E.

It’s in line with our recognition of rising stock market multiples. Real cheap stocks are very rare. The most dangerous item are growth expectations. Growth let earnings multiples grow but you need low multiples with a solid growing business to make a good return.

The biggest results are Itau Unibanco, Goldman Sachs and Abbott Laboratories as well.

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Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On August 14, 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 August 14, 2013. In total, 57 stocks go ex dividend - of which 15 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 3.18%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
AstraZeneca PLC	AZN	63.85B	13.08	2.75	2.40	7.45%
Royal Dutch Shell plc	RDS-B	212.18B	8.98	1.20	0.47	5.11%
Duke Energy Corporation	DUK	49.96B	25.19	1.25	2.07	4.41%
CenterPoint Energy, Inc.	CNP	10.33B	54.80	2.47	1.27	3.44%
Simon Property Group Inc.	SPG	48.80B	40.64	8.43	9.71	2.92%
Talisman Energy Inc.	TLM	11.41B	-	1.20	2.02	2.44%
Pearson plc	PSO	16.71B	43.15	1.90	2.09	2.37%
Phillips 66	PSX	36.02B	7.88	1.66	0.21	2.15%
The J. M. Smucker Company	SJM	12.07B	22.79	2.34	2.05	2.04%
United Technologies Corp.	UTX	95.10B	19.22	3.52	1.54	2.03%
Amgen Inc.	AMGN	81.37B	18.19	3.95	4.61	1.74%
Diageo plc	DEO	80.77B	21.06	7.57	4.56	1.71%
PACCAR Inc.	PCAR	19.96B	19.71	3.27	1.24	1.42%
Delphi Automotive PLC	DLPH	17.37B	16.82	6.89	1.11	1.22%
The Sherwin-Williams Company	SHW	18.08B	27.49	10.05	1.86	1.12%
CF Industries Holdings, Inc.	CF	11.24B	6.65	2.26	1.91	0.84%
Visa, Inc.	V	141.65B	30.99	5.25	12.28	0.73%
EQT Corporation	EQT	12.58B	47.21	3.30	6.51	0.14%

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15 Stocks From The S&P 500 With Single P/E Ratios

Stocks from the S&P 500 with P/E’s below 10 originally published at long-term-investments.blogspot.com. It’s too easy to say that stocks with a low price-to-earnings ratio are cheap but the figure tells you a lot about the valuation of a company on the first view. 

Stocks with a low valuation are also rare. For instance, the popular S&P 500 index has only 28 members with a P/E below 10. Around 80 percent of them, in total 23, pay dividends. Current P/E’s are great but it’s always good to look at the forward P/E because it uses the future earnings of the company.

Only 16 companies from the S&P 500 have both, a current P/E and forward P/E of less than 10. If you buy those stocks you purchase them for a net income yield of 10 percent. That’s a good value in my view if the business works robust and grows with a pace of 5 to 10 percent yearly. You can find a full list of the 15 dividend paying stocks with a single P/E below. Insurer and oil & gas refining & marketing companies are mostly represented on the screen.

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The Cheapest Basic Material Dividend Stocks | 20 Low Priced Raw Material Shares

Basic material dividend stocks with low forward P/E’s originally published at "long-term-investments.blogspot.com". Yesterday I read an interesting article about the valuation of the market. We got a gaining momentum. This year alone, the market rose around 15 percent and nobody scares this. The analysts from Bloomberg attempted to compare the situation with the second half of the 90ies where stocks started to boost until they burst. Historically we named this burst the technology bubble 2000.

The analyst wrote that the current valuation is still 28 below the mid 90ies. The market is not cheap but not expensive. Other investors talk about a reasonable pricing. They trust the market environment and the FED stimulus and they pay finally the high price.

I’m a long-term growth investor and I’ve also realized that most of the high-quality stocks are too expensive to get a good return. With P/E’s of 20 you will definitely make no greater return. Sure, it could be possible that your investment got a 30 P/E in five years or so but that’s not investing, it’s speculation.

As you might have seen, I started more screens with cheap price ratios as variables. I still try to seek the cheapest opportunities from the market, but there are only a dozen from each sector. Today I like to discover some ideas from the basic material sector. I’m focused on large caps in my screen.

Basic material stocks are still very cheap. The 20 stocks with lowest valuation can be purchased for a multiple between 4 and 9 of expected earnings. That’s very low compared to my other screens. But you should also know that valuation is a question of belief – Do you trust the earnings forecasts?

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