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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13 Dividend Aristocrats With Lowest Payout Ratios To Boost Future Dividends

Dividend Aristocrats with low payout ratios and relatively small debt figures originally published at long-term-investments.blogspot.com. Dividend Aristocrats are stocks with a very long dividend growth history. Those stocks raised their dividends over more than 25 consecutive years and being selected by the credit agency Standard & Poor’s. The index covers 54 companies from the national stock exchanges.

Dividend Aristocrats are nice because they have a huge trust base for long-term orientated investors but a past performance also did not mean that the future performance would be the same. Some Dividend Aristocrats are full of debt and they pay dividends at a very high level.

I started an article serial this month about stocks with low debt and dividend payout ratios. I believe that those companies are much better positioned from the financial perspective to boost future dividends. In addition, they have much more capabilities to grow at a faster pace.

Today I would like to introduce you some of the Dividend Aristocrats with the lowest dividend payout ratios on the market. Half of the results have also acceptable or low debt ratios.

Only thirteen stocks have a dividend payout ratio of less than 30 percent of which seven are currently recommended to buy.

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10 Dividend Champions With Very Low Payout Ratios - The Next Big Dividend Grower?

Dividend Champions with low payout ratios and small debt figures originally published at long-term-investments.blogspot.com. Dividend Champions are stocks with a very long history of consecutive dividend hikes. They have achieved to boost dividends year over year for more than 25 years without an interruption.

Only 105 stocks have managed this very important goal for long-term dividend growth investors. I like those stocks but some of them have a really high dividend payout ratio.

Earlier, I talked about the importance of the dividend growth rate and that it would be better to buy lower yielding stocks with a much higher growth rate than stocks with very big yields. Two main criteria for future dividend growth are the debt ratios and dividend payout figures.

This month, I started an article serial about dividend stocks with potential to boost dividends. Today I would like to present you Dividend Champions with the lowest dividend payouts. Only 10 income growth firms have a payout ratio of less than 20 percent. Seven of them are currently recommended to buy.

Most of them are modestly leveraged. Not low but also not too high but the right leverage ratio is also a question of the business model and the strong cash-flow of a corporate as well as the costs for growth.

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12 Cheap Dividend Aristocrats With Buy Or Better Rating

Dividend Aristocrats with low P/E’s and buying recommendations originally published at long-term-investments.blogspot.com. We all love a growing dividend and one of the most popular indices that cover the best dividend growth stocks is the S&P 500 Dividend Aristocrats index.

The index has currently 54 constituents. My goal in this article is to show you the currently cheapest stocks from the Dividend Aristocrats Index with current buy or better ratings.

I know, it’s a little bit easy to trust others work but the high-quality dividend stocks are already discovered. The only thing we must do is to screen the current valuations and market opinions.

Only twelve stocks fulfilled both, a forward P/E below 15 combined with a buy or better rating by brokerage firms. Half of the results have a projected double-digit mid-term earnings growth forecast.

I really like Dividend Aristocrats but because of the highly predictable business model and well known asset class, most of them are no longer cheap. Only eighteen stocks have an expected P/E under 15! That’s only one third of the full database and only around 20 percent of all Aristocrats are recommended to buy. 

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20 Dividend Champions With Highest Cash Distribution Growth Rates Over The Short-Run

Dividend Champions with the fastest short-term dividend growth originally published at long-term-investments.blogspot.com. A growing dividend is normally a good sign for investors. The corporate shows two characteristics to their owners: Strength and power of a healthy and growing business.

The rate of dividend growth is in this context a great measure to judge the success of a business. A company with a 20 percent dividend growth rate must have a stronger growing underlying business than a corporate with a 3 percent growing dividend. The future looks rosy and the management team is more optimistic to share profits of the company at a high level.

Firms that hike dividends faster than inflation, deliver accelerated growth or maintain growth at a high level, can pass returns to shareholders.

Today I would like to present you the 20 fastest growing dividends from the Dividend Champions list over the short-run. 105 companies are part of the list which is a compilation of stocks with over 25 years of consecutive dividend growth.

And the winners are: Services and industrials. No other sectors have more constituents on the list. It was the best place to be in the past to gain a higher dividend. This is not equal to return or profits.

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Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On August 28, 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, 154 stocks go ex dividend - of which 59 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 4.49%. 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
Lorillard, Inc.	LO	16.35B	13.51	-	2.42	5.06%
Eni SpA	E	83.52B	28.46	1.01	0.49	4.86%
CRH plc	CRH	15.88B	30.32	1.17	0.66	4.17%
NextEra Energy, Inc.	NEE	33.98B	22.19	2.05	2.37	3.28%
Weyerhaeuser Co.	WY	15.46B	25.65	2.64	1.97	3.15%
Analog Devices Inc.	ADI	14.60B	22.59	3.14	5.51	2.88%
Corning Inc.	GLW	21.67B	11.35	1.01	2.72	2.71%
Ford Motor Co.	F	64.54B	10.80	3.36	0.45	2.44%
Time Warner Cable Inc.	TWC	31.33B	14.97	4.67	1.43	2.40%
CSX Corp.	CSX	26.01B	13.83	2.70	2.20	2.36%
The Allstate Corporation	ALL	22.83B	10.42	1.17	0.67	2.05%
Union Pacific Corporation	UNP	72.83B	17.81	3.55	3.41	2.02%
TE Connectivity Ltd.	TEL	20.72B	16.48	2.63	1.57	2.00%
Whirlpool Corp.	WHR	10.62B	16.62	2.34	0.58	1.88%
Time Warner Inc.	TWX	57.66B	17.01	1.94	1.96	1.85%
Broadcom Corp.	BRCM	14.46B	35.73	1.83	1.74	1.76%
Dover Corp.	DOV	14.90B	16.37	2.99	1.78	1.72%
Magna International, Inc.	MGA	18.57B	12.41	1.97	0.57	1.59%
Silver Wheaton Corp.	SLW	10.08B	20.16	3.13	12.28	1.41%
Barclays PLC	BCS	56.31B	23.69	0.71	0.93	1.35%

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15 Cheap High Beta Industrial Dividend Stocks

Industrial dividend stocks with high beta ratios at a cheap valuation originally published at long-term-investments.blogspot.com. I love it to look for cheap stocks but bargains at the market are really hard to find especially because of the hundreds of thousands metrics you can use to identify an undervalued stock.

A major criterion which is often used by many investors is the price to earnings ratio. It tells you how many years do you need to get your investment back in corporate earnings. The lower the ratio, the cheaper your investment is. A P/E of 10 also means that the earnings yield is at 10 percent.
This month, I’ve created an article serial about high beta stocks. Those stocks are stronger correlated than the overall market and tend to outperform the broad S&P 500 in bullish times. They also tend to lose performance when the markets are going down.

Today I would like to screen high beta dividend stocks from the industrial sector with a cheap forward P/E ratio. Only fifteen stocks from the sector fulfilled these criteria and eleven of them are currently recommended to buy.

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13 High Beta Dividend Champions With Cheap Forward P/E’s

Dividend Champions with high beta ratios and low valuation originally published at long-term-investments.blogspot.com. The Dividend Champions list is a compressed compilation of stocks with the longest dividend growth history. Those stocks raised their cash dividend payments over a period of more than 25 years.

In my current article serial, I write about high beta stocks and the possibility to make more money in a bullish market with high beta stocks. High beta stocks are stronger correlated with the market and can result in a higher performance.

Today I would like to observe those Dividend Champions with a beta ratio above one as well as a forward P/E below 15. It’s very important to make sure that the companies are cheap because only with a high initial earnings yield you can increase the possibility of a good long-term total return. Thirteen stocksfulfilled the above mentioned criteria of which ten are currently recommended to buy.

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16 Dividend Aristocrats With High Beta Ratios

Dividend income growth stocks with highest beta ratios published at long-term-investments.blogspot.com. Dividend Aristocrats are stocks with a very long tradition in dividend growth. Those stocks hiked its dividend payments over a period of more than 25 years in a row and being selected by the credit rating agency Standard & Poor’s. The company selects 54 constituents for the index. All income investors love this index but he has also lacks.

Dividend Aristocrats normally have a lower volatility than other stocks. This could also be an disadvantage because you give up performance in a strong up moving market. The solution is simple: Look at high beta stocks. They can give you a better return when the market is very bullish.

I observed all current 54 Dividend Aristocrats by the highest rate of beta, starting with a value above one. Only 16 of them are more volatile than the overall market. It’s how I told it: Only a few Dividend Aristocrats, around 30 percent, are riskier than the market but they can also deliver you a better performance in return. For the time being, twelve of the High Beta Dividend Aristocrats have a buy or better rating.

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54 Stocks And 4 Funds With A Higher Dividend Payment

Stocks with dividend hikes from last week originally published at long-term-investments.blogspot.com. I like it to see dividends grow. It’s a very good sign from the company to give money back to stockholders and share corporate profits.

For the time being, we are in a bullish market and the Federal Reserve is flooding the market with cheap money. These are the main forces for the strong stock market. But a growing dividend is not only a sign of a technical reaction, it’s much more. A dividend growth shows normally that the operating business runs well. Last week, 54 stocks and 4 additional fundsannounced a higher dividend payment. I published all stocks with dividend growth from the recent week in the attached dividend list. In average, stocks from the list of the latest dividend growth stocks have increased their dividend payments by 17.11 percent.

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10 Cheap Income Growth Stocks From The S&P High-Yield Dividend Aristocrats Index

Stocks from the S&P High Yield Dividend Aristocrats with strong growth at low valuation originally published at long-term-investments.blogspot.com. Is there anybody who don’t loves high dividend paying stocks with a long history of dividend hikes? I don’t think so.

Standard & Poor’s has created an index family with focus on dividend growth stocks. One member of the index family is the popular S&P High Yield Dividend Aristocrats Index. Around 84 companies are part of the income product. The index is designed to measure the performance of companies within the S&P Composite 1500® that have followed a managed-dividends policy of consistently increasing dividends every year for at least 20 years.

Below is a small list of the cheapest stocks from the index with expected double-digit earnings per share growth for the next five years. In addition to the growth figures, they have a low forward P/E, fewer than 15. Only ten stocks fulfilled these criteria of which nine have a buy or better rating.

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54 Large Cap Dividend Stocks At All-Time Highs And Which To Buy

High capitalized dividend stocks at All-Time-High prices originally published at long-term-investments.blogspot.com. Only a rising stocks is a good stock if you are invested. The markets are really bullish after FED chairman Bernanke has flooded the market with cheap money over the recent years. As a result, the many stock markets all over the world hit all-time highs. But not all stocks are winners.

I’ve screened the market by large capitalized stocks at All-Time-Highs. 76 companies have reached this goal and 54 of them pay good dividends. It looks like stocks at new highs are also highly priced. That’s not true. 30 of the top results still have a forward P/E below 15.

Below is a small list of the dividend stocks at new All-Time-Highs with forward P/E’s fewer than 15 as well as double-digit earnings growth predictions for the next five years. Eleven companies fulfilled these criteria.

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20 Highly Recommended Dividend Aristocrats And Which Of Them Are The Cheapest

Cheap Dividend Aristocrats with buy or better ratings originally published at long-term-investments.blogspot.com. 

Dividend Aristocrats are some of the best dividend income growth stock you can buy at the market. Those stocks have raised their cash distributions to shareholders over a period of more than 25 years without a break. For sure, it's no guarantee to receive a higher dividend next year but the possibility of a dividend hike is very high.

I wrote recently that high quality stocks are also highly priced and the Dividend Aristocrats are definitely highly priced. It’s very hard to find real bargains and to receive a good long-term total return.

Today I would like to give you an update of the most recommend stocks from the Dividend Aristocrats Index with some fundamentals. 29 of 54 companies from the index have a current buy or better rating and nearly half of the results still have a low forward P/E of less than 15. That’s very interesting because all of the 20 most recommended Dividend Aristocrats have positive earnings per share predictions for the mid-term – in average 10.14 percent.

Below is a list of the 20 highest recommended Aristocrats with a detailed look on the three cheapest results.


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19 Cheap Dividend Aristocrats

Dividend Aristocrats with low forward Price-to-earnings originally published at long-term-investments.blogspot.com. Everybody talks about Dividend Aristocrats when discussing the best dividend growth stocks. Those companies have raised their dividend payments over a period of more than 25 years in a row and being selected by the credit rating agency Standard & Poor’s. The index has only 54 constituents. Normally, Dividend Aristocrats are highly valuated because of their high quality and low risk business models.

If you pay a big premium on your asset, you will not get a good return in the end. It’s very simple. All you need to do is to scout for attractive bargains at the capital market.

Today I would like to screen the Dividend Aristocrats Index by the cheapest companies in terms of forward P/E. Only 19 stocks have a current forward P/E ratio below 15. Some of them have bigger amounts of debt and others are slow growing. However, nearly 70 percent of the results have a current buy or better rating by brokerage firms.

All members of the Dividend Aristocrats Index generated a positive year-to-date performance. It’s also a sign for the quality of the index. In average, they have a stock price performance of 16.03 percent. 1.02 percent points better than the broader S&P 500.

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100 Stocks At All-Time-Highs

List of stocks at All-Time-Highs originally published at "long-term-investments.blogspot.com". We are still in a bull market and have seen a small correction since 5/21. The trend is still intact which could be also checked by the number of stocks at All-Time-Highs. They came back recently to a big number.

Below is a list of the 100 best performing stocks at All-Time-Highs. The biggest players on the list are 3M, Danaher, Precision Castparts or Illinois Tool Works. Half of the results pay dividends and 81 have a current buy or better rating.

It’s good to see how fast some stocks recover, a very healthy sign from the market. But the risk increases with every percentage point. You need to take care about the valuation of the stocks. Only 18 percent of the top 100 companies at All-Time-Highs are valuated with a P/E below 15.

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Next Week's 20 Best Yielding Ex-Dividend Stocks

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.

A full list of all stocks with payment dates can be found here: Ex-Dividend Stocks Between May 27 - June 02,2013. In total, 148 stocks and preferred shares go ex dividend - of which 63 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 3.71%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
Lorillard, Inc.	LO	16.58B	14.11	-	2.48	5.01%
Lockheed Martin Corporation	LMT	34.30B	12.35	113.89	0.73	4.30%
Barrick Gold Corporation	ABX	19.18B	-	0.85	1.34	4.18%
CNOOC Ltd.	CEO	79.93B	7.73	1.58	1.98	4.14%
China Mobile Limited	CHL	213.95B	10.29	1.82	2.34	3.87%
Northeast Utilities	NU	13.48B	24.76	1.44	1.88	3.43%
Perusahaan Perseroan	TLK	25.07B	18.09	4.16	3.17	3.06%
Time Warner Cable Inc.	TWC	27.65B	3.80	4.01	1.02	2.74%
Kellogg Company	K	23.70B	25.47	8.38	1.62	2.73%
Corning Inc.	GLW	23.10B	13.27	1.08	2.92	2.55%
Suncor Energy Inc.	SU	46.66B	17.89	1.15	1.24	2.55%
Principal Financial Group Inc.	PFG	10.92B	14.83	1.12	1.19	2.47%
CSX Corp.	CSX	26.06B	14.09	2.80	2.22	2.35%
Infosys Ltd.	INFY	23.88B	13.84	3.26	3.23	2.30%
Nordstrom Inc.	JWN	11.72B	16.77	6.17	0.96	2.00%
China Telecom Corp. Ltd.	CHA	40.39B	16.64	0.94	0.88	1.98%
Magna International, Inc.	MGA	15.18B	10.51	1.59	0.48	1.96%
Time Warner Inc.	TWX	55.26B	18.30	1.84	1.93	1.94%
TE Connectivity Ltd.	TEL	18.81B	15.94	2.44	1.42	1.86%
Dover Corp.	DOV	13.55B	16.74	2.91	1.65	1.77%

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