12 Healthcare Dividend Stocks With High Potential To Boost Growth And Hike Dividends

Healthcare dividend stocks with low payout ratios and small debt figures originally published at long-term-investments.blogspot.com. I love the combination of low debt with little payout ratios. 

The debt situation is one of the most important issues in corporate finance. It also expresses the ability to grow sales and earnings by enlarging the balance sheet with bank loans.

Only a low leveraged corporate has potential to boost sales without taking new investors into the boat that dilute the current earnings per share.

Today I would like to start an article serial about low leveraged stocks from several sectors with currently small dividend payouts. I believe it’s good to see what companies have the biggest potential to give shareholders huge amounts of money back in the near future and believe me, the tech sector is not the only place to be.

My criteria are a low dividend payout ratio of less than 20 percent as well as a debt-to-equity ratio under 0.5. Only twelve stocks fulfilled these very tight defined criteria.

One result is a High-Yield and nine stocks are recommended to buy or better. Most of the results come from the medical appliances & supplies or equipment industry.

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Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On July 22, 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 22, 2013. In total, 13 stocks go ex dividend - of which 5 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 3.23%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
Select Income REIT Common Share	IR	1.09B	13.33	1.21	7.87	6.32%
Costamare Inc.	CMRE	1.37B	16.04	2.55	3.62	5.91%
MVC Capital, Inc.	MVC	308.57M	432.33	0.79	13.36	4.16%
New Hampshire Thrift Bancshares	NHTB	105.41M	12.65	0.81	2.83	3.48%
The Clorox Company	CLX	11.45B	20.38	75.67	2.04	3.26%
Lowe's Companies Inc.	LOW	48.19B	25.45	3.64	0.96	1.63%
Brinks Co.	BCO	1.35B	15.40	2.86	0.35	1.43%
West Pharmaceutical Services	WST	2.54B	30.90	3.40	1.97	1.03%
Pier 1 Imports, Inc.	PIR	2.50B	19.37	4.61	1.44	0.85%
VSE Corp.	VSEC	247.03M	9.52	1.45	0.47	0.77%
The Cooper Companies Inc.	COO	6.14B	21.64	2.65	3.99	0.05%

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