16 Cheap Dividend Stocks With Low Debt To Boost Share Repurchases

Dividend paying stocks with low debt ratios and big share repurchases originally published at long-term-investments.blogspot.com. I love dividend growth stocks and dividend paying companies in general but it’s also important to see that the corporate buys its own shares back.

The process of share repurchases is a special way to give shareholder’s money back in a very tax-optimized way. 

A low yielding stock with a 2 percent yield can lift the total yield via stock repurchases to 4 percent or so. For sure, share buybacks are no cash yields on your trading account; it’s an indirect way to reduce the current shares and lift the potential share price.

There is an index outside that covers some of the best stocks with share repurchases that bought at least 5 percent of its outstanding shares within the past 12 months.

Today I would like to screen the Buyback Achievers index by the best yielding stocks with a low forward P/E as well as a very low debt-to-equity ratio. Low debt is a good indicator for potential growth or additional share buybacks.

These are my criteria in detail:

- Positive Dividend Yield

- Forward P/E under 15

- Long-Term Debt-To-Equity below 0.2

- Member of the Buyback Achievers Index

In total, sixteen Buyback Achievers Index stocks fulfilled the above mentioned restrictions of which ten have a current buy or better rating.

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Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On September 09, 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, 24 stocks go ex dividend - of which 10 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 4.85%. 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
Calamos Convertible & High Income Fund	CHY	879.48M	7.26	0.90	11.54	8.37%
Triangle Capital Corporation	TCAP	812.21M	11.20	1.88	8.04	7.33%
Ameren Corporation	AEE	7.97B	-	1.25	1.25	4.87%
Compuware Corporation	CPWR	2.31B	-	2.31	2.45	4.62%
Gold Resource Corp	GORO	432.04M	20.27	5.07	3.23	4.44%
Univest Corp. of Pennsylvania	UVSP	318.56M	15.14	1.14	4.04	4.19%
Laclede Group Inc.	LG	1.13B	16.07	1.04	1.09	3.93%
Parkway Properties Inc.	PKY	1.10B	-	1.53	4.10	3.73%
Kohl's Corp.	KSS	11.61B	12.36	1.92	0.60	2.65%
Hewlett-Packard Company	HPQ	42.67B	-	1.73	0.38	2.62%
Guess' Inc.	GES	2.61B	16.43	2.43	0.99	2.58%
Rockwood Holdings, Inc.	ROC	4.93B	53.75	3.60	1.49	2.50%
State Auto Financial Corp.	STFC	732.24M	17.90	1.03	0.63	2.21%
Texas Roadhouse Inc.	TXRH	1.74B	22.62	3.05	1.31	1.93%
Amphenol Corporation	APH	12.08B	20.72	4.67	2.71	1.06%
Twenty-First Century Fox, Inc.	FOXA	74.16B	11.02	4.36	2.68	0.78%
Anadarko Petroleum Corporation	APC	46.56B	27.44	2.10	3.29	0.78%
DaVita, Inc.	DVA	11.70B	20.17	2.84	1.16	-

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20 Most Hated Dividend Stocks From The Services Sector

Most sold short services dividend stocks originally published at "long-term-investments.blogspot.com". The services sector is a big part of the economy and the financial markets. Roughly 850 companies have a relationship to the sector – That’s around 13.3 percent of the overall market by number of constituents.

Today I like to show you which services dividend stocks are most hated within the financial industry. Investors hate such stocks by selling them short. They believe in a falling stock price and want to profit from it.

My screen includes only mid- and large capitalized companies with a float short ratio of more than 5 percent.

The 20 most hated stocks have a float short ratio between 8.79 and 29.31 percent. Gamestop is the most sold company. Seven of the results have a current buy or better rating by brokerage firms.

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Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On June 10, 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 June 10, 2013. In total, 21 stocks and preferred shares go ex dividend - of which 9 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 3.69%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
Triangle Capital Corporation	TCAP	793.73M	11.95	1.88	8.29	7.50%
Ameren Corporation	AEE	8.30B	-	1.30	1.25	4.68%
Univest Corp. of Pennsylvania	UVSP	306.76M	14.70	1.08	3.85	4.35%
Newmont Mining Corp.	NEM	17.21B	10.79	1.24	1.84	4.01%
Parkway Properties Inc.	PKY	1.20B	-	1.38	4.84	3.44%
Public Storage	PSA	26.45B	38.19	3.03	14.24	3.25%
Kohl's Corp.	KSS	11.40B	12.11	1.89	0.59	2.73%
Guess' Inc.	GES	2.65B	15.00	2.45	1.00	2.56%
HollyFrontier Corporation	HFC	9.71B	5.38	1.55	0.49	2.51%
Hewlett-Packard Company	HPQ	47.14B	-	2.00	0.41	2.39%
PS Business Parks Inc.	PSB	1.82B	76.48	1.17	5.20	2.35%
State Auto Financial Corp.	STFC	759.75M	23.44	0.99	0.66	2.13%
Texas Roadhouse Inc.	TXRH	1.67B	21.68	2.99	1.28	2.01%
Amerisafe, Inc.	AMSF	622.13M	21.97	1.60	1.89	0.95%
OfficeMax Incorporated	OMX	1.11B	2.41	1.02	0.16	0.63%
Amphenol Corporation	APH	12.35B	21.71	4.94	2.81	0.54%
Anadarko Petroleum Corporation	APC	43.58B	63.43	2.07	3.14	0.41%

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