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 August 29, 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, 64 stocks go ex dividend - of which 18 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 3.69%. 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
Realty Income Corp.	O	7.83B	56.38	1.76	12.93	5.45%
Lockheed Martin Corporation	LMT	39.50B	13.79	57.01	0.85	3.74%
McDonald's Corp.	MCD	94.97B	17.37	6.26	3.42	3.25%
NV Energy, Inc.	NVE	5.59B	17.32	1.57	1.90	3.20%
Kellogg Company	K	22.43B	23.26	8.77	1.51	2.99%
Agnico-Eagle Mines Ltd.	AEM	5.38B	28.34	1.57	3.09	2.82%
The Wendy's Company	WEN	2.98B	253.00	1.52	1.18	2.64%
Northrop Grumman Corporation	NOC	21.75B	11.54	2.27	0.86	2.63%
BlackRock, Inc.	BLK	44.19B	16.82	1.73	4.51	2.59%
M&T Bank Corporation	MTB	14.67B	12.91	1.49	4.94	2.45%
GameStop Corp.	GME	5.82B	-	2.70	0.68	2.23%
Abercrombie & Fitch Co.	ANF	2.78B	13.13	1.65	0.63	2.22%
Hillshire Brands Company	HSH	3.98B	21.74	8.24	1.02	2.16%
Nordstrom Inc.	JWN	11.07B	15.02	5.45	0.89	2.12%
Hartford Financial Services	HIG	13.39B	-	0.70	0.47	2.02%
Associated Banc-Corp	ASBC	2.69B	15.09	0.96	3.79	1.98%
The Interpublic Group of Comp.	IPG	6.66B	20.08	3.14	0.95	1.92%
ITC Holdings Corp.	ITC	4.62B	23.83	3.07	5.23	1.91%
Martin Marietta Materials Inc.	MLM	4.44B	45.36	3.16	2.17	1.66%
Dun & Bradstreet Corp.	DNB	3.97B	15.07	-	2.42	1.59%

Find more stocks with ex-dividend date on August 29, 2013 here.

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Services Dividend Stocks With Highest Stock Performance - And Which Of Them Are Still Cheap

Services dividend stocks with highest year-to-date performance originally published at long-term-investments.blogspot.com. The more I discover the best performing stocks from the recent half year, the better the performance gets. 

Today I would like to discover stocks from the services sector with the highest year-to-date performance. The sector is the second best performer behind the healthcare segment but the performance is more unequal distributed: The best dividend stocks on the top 20 list have a price performance between 60 percent and 247 percent. Service is a place to be for investors.

In order to reduce some extraordinary companies and to get better results, I decided to exclude all stocks with a lower market capitalization (below USD 300 million). Small cap stocks have normally a higher performance ratio, also in this screen: More than half of the results have a market cap below a billion dollars. The average market cap of the top 20 stocks after my limit rule amounts to USD 2.6 billion.

Despite the strong stock price growth; twelve shares still have a buy or better rating. Broadcasting and TV companies are very hot and dominating the screening results. There is some rumor in the market about takeovers and mergers.

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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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20 Best Yielding Stocks From The Share Buyback Achievers Index

The highest yielding stocks from the Share Buyback Achievers index originally published at "long-term-investments.blogspot.com". I love dividends and dividend growth but most investors are fixed on these themes. Some companies know this and they try to catch investors by paying dividends and let them grow. The problem is that they have only a middle class business model and they burn shareholder value by following the dividend growth approach.

Better variants to give money back to shareholders are share buyback programs. The company buys own stocks and reduces the current amount of outstanding shares. As a result, earnings per share grow at a higher rate and the share price should follow because the P/E goes down and yields are up.
There exists an index that covers the best stocks with share buy backs of at least 5 percent or more for the trailing 12 months. The index is called Buyback Achievers Index. Over 200 companies are constituents but only half of them pay dividends.

Today, I like to introduce the 20 highest yielding stocks from the index. Below results are completely different stocks compared to my regular screens about Dividend Champs and other growth picks. Just take a look and get inspired.

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