12 Consumer Goods Stocks With Big Dividend Potential

Consumer stocks with low debt and dividend payout ratios to boost current yields originally published at long-term-investments.blogspot.com. You know that I love stocks form the consumer goods sector because there are so many companies with a high quality and low cyclic business model. Around 3/4 of my investments have a deep relationship to the consumer sector.

Today I would like to finish my monthly screen about low debt stocks with small dividend payouts. I’ve tried to compile the top picks from the major capital sectors with high potential of a growing dividend.

Here you can find the links to the articles:

· 13 Industrials With Low Dividend Payouts And Little Debt To Boost Shareholder Values

· 11 Basic Material Stocks With Low Debt And Dividend Payout Ratios

· 13 Large Cap Financials With High Potential To Boost Dividends

· 18 Services Stocks With Low Debt And Payout Ratios To Boost Future Dividends

· 10 Utilities With The Most Solid Debt And Payout Figures To Boost Future Dividends

· 14 Top Technology Dividend Stocks With Potential To Pay Bigger Dividends

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

The consumer sector offers 12 stocks with a low dividend payout of less than 20 percent combined with a debt to equity ratio below 0.2. Nine of them have a current buy or better rating by brokerage firms.

I own none of the mentioned stocks. This could be reasonable to the fact that most of the results have a very small market capitalization. I do love big companies with strong cash flows and high market entry barriers but those have also high debt burdens.

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Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On May 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 May 14, 2013. In total, 29 stocks and preferred shares go ex dividend - of which 10 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 4.25%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
Portugal Telecom SGPS SA	PT	4.71B	16.41	1.49	0.55	13.52%
Buckeye Partners LP	BPL	7.09B	28.93	2.78	1.63	6.18%
Westpac Banking Corporation	WBK	102.55B	17.35	2.20	2.78	5.99%
Healthcare Realty Trust Inc.	HR	2.69B	270.18	2.34	8.32	4.04%
Duke Realty Corp.	DRE	5.91B	-	1.99	5.31	3.70%
CenterPoint Energy, Inc.	CNP	10.37B	24.96	2.37	1.34	3.43%
American Campus Communities	ACC	4.72B	78.95	1.79	8.57	3.00%
Microsoft Corporation	MSFT	273.00B	16.85	3.56	3.59	2.81%
Archer Daniels Midland Company	ADM	22.45B	18.12	1.18	0.25	2.23%
Marathon Oil Corporation	MRO	24.32B	15.40	1.33	1.50	1.98%
Marathon Petroleum Corporation	MPC	25.13B	7.45	2.11	0.29	1.81%
Amgen Inc.	AMGN	80.04B	18.06	4.10	4.59	1.76%
Franco-Nevada Corporation	FNV	6.25B	60.03	1.99	14.65	1.69%
Columbia Sportswear Company	COLM	2.04B	19.20	1.74	1.21	1.48%
The TJX Companies, Inc.	TJX	36.73B	19.98	10.07	1.42	1.14%
Gildan Activewear Inc.	GIL	5.13B	18.75	3.38	2.44	0.85%
Cabot Oil & Gas Corporation	COG	14.09B	90.32	6.62	10.79	0.12%

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