10 Large Cap Dividend Stocks Close To New 52-Week Highs And A Single P/E Multiple

Cheaply valuated dividend stocks close to new 52-Week-Highs originally published at long-term-investments.blogspot.com. The markets are at all time highs and the valuations is getting more and more expensive, measured by earnings multiples. Not all stocks are highly priced. Out there are still a lot of opportunities with a single P/E multiple.

Today I would like to show you those stocks that are close to new 52-Week-Highs and having a single earnings multiple at the same time. In order to reduce the results, I observed only companies with a market capitalization over USD 10 billion.

Ten stocksfulfilled my criteria of a very low P/E and a stock price up to 3 percent below new highs. All ten have a current buy or better rating.

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Bruce Berkowitz’s Latest Stock Buys And His Full Portfolio Holdings

Bruce Berkowitz’s Fund Portfolio Strategies originally published at long-term-investments.blogspot.com. Bruce Berkowitz is also a well known guru investor. He is a hedge fund manager who cares about $7.69 billion in his asset management vehicle Fairholme Capital Management.

Within the recent quarter, Bruce made nine asset transactions of which six pay dividends. Four of the stock moves are attributable to the long side and five are on the short side.

In total, Bruce owns now only 13 share positions of which two were completely new (Lincoln National and Hartford Financial). In addition, he sold-out three stocks within the recent quarter. 

Financial stocks dominate his asset strategy. Around 68 percent of his total assets have a relationship to the financial sector.

The biggest position is his portfolio is reasonable to the insurer, AIG who represents around 50 percent of his full portfolio.

Nothing changed much in sum. Bruce made no big changes within the recent quarter. The highest trade impact on the long side had the 4.53 percent position increase of Sears Holdings.

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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%

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15 High Beta Dividend Stocks With Very Low Market Valuation

A high beta dividend share with very low forward P/E’s originally published at long-term-investments.blogspot.com. I often hear from others that they want to make quick and fast money. I can understand this wish from some investors. If you don’t have enough money for your investing goals, you need to speculate in order to get a higher amount of money in a very short time.

This is a very dangerous process. I’m a believer in slow growing dividend growth and I think that if you safe each month a bit, in the end you will definitely have a high amount of money. The stock market could help you to boost your money with a 5 to 10 percent return.

Speculation is not investing. It’s money gambling like casino or poker. Today I would like to introduce you some of the stocks with the highest sentiment on the market. I used the S&P 500 High Beta Index for the stock ideas. The index covers 100 stocks from the broad S&P 500 with the highest sensitivity to market movements over the past 12 months. The beta ratio is the main valuation driver.

Exactly 71 companies from the S&P 500 High Beta Index pay actual a dividend. I wanted to know which of them are really cheap for the time being. Because there are 52 stocks with a low forward P/E, I selected only those high beta stocks with a very low forward price ratio. 15 shares are valuated with a forward P/E of less than 10 and 13 of them are currently recommended to buy. You can find a list of the results below.

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50 Shares With Fastest Dividend Growth In July 2013

Stocks with highest dividend growth researched by Dividend Yield – Stock, Capital, Investment. Dividends are back: The numbers of shares with a solid dividend grow accelerated within the recent weeks to old levels and a few big names are below the fastest growing dividend stocks from the past month. Names like McKesson, Wendy’s or Hershey. You might have noticed the dividend growth if you read some of the latest articles on my blog.

Today would like to give you an update of the 50 fastest dividend growers from the recent month. Below the results are again some pretty good stocks with very good growth rates. The average dividend growth of the 50 best stocks amounts to 45.11 percent. Four of the 50 dividend growers have a double-digit dividend yield and ten a high-yield over 5 percent. Around half of the results still have a buy or better rating.

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81 Stocks With A Higher Dividend Payment

Stocks with dividend hikes from last week originally published at long-term-investments.blogspot.com. Dividend growth comes back. Last week, 81 stocks announced a higher dividend payment in the future. Six of them have now a double-digit dividend yield and 38 are low valuated with a forward P/E of less than 15.

It’s good to see that the number of dividend growers have risen within the recent week. It’s a sign that the economy is doing well and companies are more confident about the future.

In average, stocks from the list of the latest dividend growth stocks have increased their dividend payments by 20.73 percent. A value between 5 and 30 is good because your passive income grows faster than the inflation. A too high dividend growth ratio shows that there is something wrong. If not, they have paid very low dividends in the past and let the dividend jump. The most important thing you need to remember is that you receive dividends that are not paid from the substance of the corporate. It means that dividends should be significant lower than the earnings or the corporate. Special dividends are all right but they are only one-time items.

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Latest Dividend Growth Alert: Hershey and Motorola Solutions

Seventeen companies announced yesterday to raise its dividends. The biggest company below the latest dividend growth stocks is the chocolate manufacturer Hershey. HSY announced to boost dividends by 15.48 percent. The current yield amounts to 2.07 percent. Additional large capitalized stocks are Motorola Solutions with a 19.23 percent hike, Hartford Financial Services (50 percent hike), Stanley Black & Decker (2.4 percent dividend hike) as well as the gas utility ONEOK. OKE announced a 5.56 percent higher dividend.

The highest yielding stock is the independent oil & gas company Atlas Resource Partners with 9.34 percent dividend yield. 

These are the latest dividend growth stocks:

Company	Dividend Yield in %	Dividend Growth	Payment Period	Ex-Dividend Date	Dividend Payment Date
Atlas Energy	3.37	41.94%	Quarterly	8/2/2013	8/19/2013
Atlas Resource Ptrs	9.89	5.88%	Quarterly	8/2/2013	8/14/2013
Cheesecake Factory	1.37	16.67%	Quarterly	8/5/2013	8/20/2013
Community Trust Bancorp	3.10	1.59%	Quarterly	9/11/2013	10/1/2013
Eastern Co	2.70	10.00%	Quarterly	8/19/2013	9/16/2013
Hartford Fincl Svcs	1.91	50.00%	Quarterly	8/29/2013	10/1/2013
Hershey	2.07	15.48%	Quarterly	8/21/2013	9/13/2013
Interface Inc.	0.63	20.00%	Quarterly	8/7/2013	8/23/2013
MarkWest	4.97	1.20%	Quarterly	8/2/2013	8/14/2013
Motorola Solutions	2.29	19.23%	Quarterly	9/11/2013	10/15/2013
Oneok Inc	2.83	5.56%	Quarterly	8/1/2013	8/15/2013
PulteGroup	1.21	25.00%	Quarterly	8/1/2013	8/12/2013
Sotherly Hotels Inc.	3.58	14.29%	Quarterly	9/11/2013	10/11/2013
Spectra Engy Ptnr	4.49	1.50%	Quarterly	8/1/2013	8/14/2013
Stanley Black&Decker	2.42	2.04%	Quarterly	9/4/2013	9/17/2013
TAL Intl Grp	6.61	3.03%	Quarterly	8/29/2013	9/24/2013
TC PipeLines LP	6.45	3.85%	Quarterly	8/1/2013	8/14/2013

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Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On May 30, 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 30, 2013. In total, 49 stocks and preferred shares go ex dividend - of which 16 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 3.21%.

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	9.57B	68.72	1.70	17.90	4.45%
Lockheed Martin Corporation	LMT	34.52B	12.43	114.63	0.74	4.27%
Agnico-Eagle Mines Ltd.	AEM	4.94B	19.19	1.43	2.65	3.08%
Kellogg Company	K	23.80B	25.58	8.42	1.63	2.72%
The Wendy's Company	WEN	2.40B	-	1.22	0.96	2.62%
Principal Financial Group Inc.	PFG	11.15B	15.14	1.15	1.21	2.42%
Associated Banc-Corp	ASBC	2.60B	14.93	0.89	3.65	2.06%
Polaris Industries, Inc.	PII	6.40B	20.16	8.73	1.95	1.80%
ITC Holdings Corp.	ITC	4.66B	24.25	3.20	5.47	1.70%
ManpowerGroup	MAN	4.43B	25.22	1.77	0.22	1.60%
Expeditors International of Washington	EXPD	8.18B	24.74	3.89	1.37	1.52%
Hillshire Brands Company	HSH	4.36B	55.31	10.32	1.09	1.41%
Nike Inc.	NKE	56.55B	25.11	5.30	2.25	1.33%
Alliant Techsystems Inc.	ATK	2.58B	9.46	1.70	0.59	1.32%
Hartford Financial Services Group	HIG	13.96B	-	0.64	0.50	1.31%
Imperial Oil Ltd.	IMO	33.27B	9.69	2.01	1.08	1.20%
Silgan Holdings Inc.	SLGN	3.03B	22.88	5.93	0.84	1.18%
Ball Corporation	BLL	6.62B	17.87	6.16	0.76	1.17%
Fluor Corporation	FLR	10.47B	22.95	3.00	0.37	1.00%
Lufkin Industries Inc.	LUFK	2.99B	33.19	3.64	2.27	0.57%

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