15 Large Cap Dividend Stocks With Low Debt I Like In A Low Interest Environment

Large Cap dividend stocks with very low debt and stock beta ratios originally published at long-term-investments.blogspot.com. You know that I also cover stocks with low beta ratios, also mentioned as stocks with a lower correlation to the market.

I’ve published a long list with over 120 stocksabout large capitalized stocks with safe haven characteristics. For sure, safe is nothing on an angry sea but I believe these could be some values in my screen.

Today I like to show you the lowest leveraged stocks from the safe haven large cap list with a minimum dividend payout of 1 percent.

That’s not much and the low interest environment also keeps the capital and interest income of the corporates at a low level but I think it’s much easier to boost growth and increase future dividends for a low debt corporation than it would be for a high leveraged company.

Fifteen stocks fulfilled these criteria of which six have a current buy or better rating.

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Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On October 23, 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, 18 stocks go ex dividend - of which 9 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 ex-dividend stocks:

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
Government Properties Income Trust	GOV	1.37B	23.17	1.34	6.07	6.87%
Hospitality Properties Trust	HPT	4.19B	37.01	1.59	2.95	6.40%
Franklin Street Properties Corp.	FSP	1.21B	54.88	1.12	6.80	5.77%
Pembina Pipeline Corporation	PBA	10.13B	32.02	2.12	2.21	4.93%
Union Bankshares Inc.	UNB	96.54M	12.52	2.11	3.91	4.62%
Ohio Valley Banc Corp.	OVBC	81.65M	10.35	1.05	2.21	4.16%
CommonWealth REIT	CWH	2.94B	60.51	0.97	2.74	4.03%
HSBC Holdings plc	HBC	205.85B	13.43	1.18	3.89	3.60%
First Busey Corporation	BUSE	455.33M	22.83	1.35	4.06	3.05%
Safe Bulkers, Inc.	SB	560.52M	6.04	1.13	3.13	2.74%
Williams-Sonoma Inc.	WSM	5.15B	19.60	4.22	1.22	2.33%
Lakeland Financial Corp.	LKFN	570.93M	15.73	1.86	5.28	2.19%
Fastenal Company	FAST	14.58B	32.53	8.34	4.46	2.04%
Kaiser Aluminum Corporation	KALU	1.23B	14.02	1.14	0.94	1.82%
Tyco International Ltd.	TYC	16.60B	-	3.53	1.56	1.79%
Barnes Group Inc.	B	2.03B	27.76	2.08	1.74	1.17%
HEICO Corp.	HEI	3.62B	37.92	6.27	3.76	0.21%
SM Energy Company	SM	5.77B	-	3.78	3.09	0.11%

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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 day.

In total, 33 stocks go ex dividend - of which 18 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 stock:

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
Teekay LNG Partners LP.	TGP	2.96B	18.05	2.39	7.57	6.37%
Teekay Offshore Partners LP	TOO	2.75B	19.31	3.46	3.13	6.32%
Hospitality Properties Trust	HPT	4.21B	37.23	1.60	2.97	6.23%
Pembina Pipeline Corporation	PBA	10.15B	32.08	2.12	2.21	4.98%
CommonWealth REIT	CWH	2.96B	60.93	0.97	2.76	4.00%
Royal Bank of Canada	RY	97.53B	12.97	2.34	4.81	3.82%
HSBC Holdings plc	HBC	204.44B	13.34	1.17	3.87	3.62%
Williams-Sonoma Inc.	WSM	5.14B	19.56	4.21	1.22	2.34%
Sinopec Shanghai Petrochemical	SHI	2.81B	177.64	1.04	0.18	2.10%
Fastenal Company	FAST	14.60B	32.58	8.35	4.47	2.03%
Unum Group	UNM	8.48B	9.70	1.01	0.81	1.82%
Tyco International Ltd.	TYC	16.65B	-	3.54	1.57	1.78%
Xylem Inc.	XYL	5.16B	22.26	2.51	1.38	1.69%
Pentair, Inc.	PNR	13.19B	-	2.26	2.08	1.53%
Lowe's Companies Inc.	LOW	50.85B	24.07	3.89	0.98	1.51%
Pier 1 Imports, Inc.	PIR	2.23B	18.30	4.24	1.26	0.95%
West Pharmaceutical Services	WST	3.17B	32.88	4.04	2.42	0.88%
SM Energy Company	SM	5.78B	-	3.78	3.09	0.11%

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Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On July 24, 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 24, 2013. In total, 8 stocks go ex dividend - of which 4 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 4.38%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
Hospitality Properties Trust	HPT	3.65B	38.32	1.37	2.71	6.46%
Government Properties Income Trust	GOV	1.46B	25.47	1.42	6.69	6.43%
Franklin Street Properties Corp.	FSP	1.19B	55.31	1.40	7.07	5.29%
CommonWealth REIT	CWH	2.25B	61.15	0.73	2.15	4.19%
Fastenal Company	FAST	13.92B	31.69	8.16	4.33	2.13%
Williams-Sonoma Inc.	WSM	5.77B	22.37	4.50	1.40	2.10%
Tyco International Ltd.	TYC	16.34B	-	3.46	1.54	1.83%
Pentair, Inc.	PNR	12.38B	-	1.99	2.32	1.52%

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