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

Healthcare dividend stocks with low payout ratios and small debt figures originally published at long-term-investments.blogspot.com. I love the combination of low debt with little payout ratios. 

The debt situation is one of the most important issues in corporate finance. It also expresses the ability to grow sales and earnings by enlarging the balance sheet with bank loans.

Only a low leveraged corporate has potential to boost sales without taking new investors into the boat that dilute the current earnings per share.

Today I would like to start an article serial about low leveraged stocks from several sectors with currently small dividend payouts. I believe it’s good to see what companies have the biggest potential to give shareholders huge amounts of money back in the near future and believe me, the tech sector is not the only place to be.

My criteria are a low dividend payout ratio of less than 20 percent as well as a debt-to-equity ratio under 0.5. Only twelve stocks fulfilled these very tight defined criteria.

One result is a High-Yield and nine stocks are recommended to buy or better. Most of the results come from the medical appliances & supplies or equipment industry.

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Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On September 26, 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, 155 stocks go ex dividend - of which 86 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 stocks:

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
PG&E Corp.	PCG	18.65B	20.09	1.34	1.22	4.31%
TransCanada Corp.	TRP	31.26B	21.68	2.05	3.80	4.03%
Avalonbay Communities Inc.	AVB	16.74B	82.01	1.96	13.50	3.30%
The Dow Chemical Company	DOW	46.39B	18.89	2.41	0.82	3.27%
Edison International	EIX	15.32B	11.55	1.64	1.23	2.87%
Fifth Third Bancorp	FITB	15.48B	9.39	1.17	3.85	2.66%
U.S. Bancorp	USB	68.01B	12.55	1.95	5.41	2.49%
Host Hotels & Resorts Inc.	HST	13.25B	94.32	1.85	2.34	2.46%
Boston Properties Inc.	BXP	16.29B	27.14	3.00	8.31	2.43%
Deere & Company	DE	32.52B	9.67	3.79	0.85	2.42%
Agrium Inc.	AGU	12.86B	9.47	1.76	0.78	2.32%
Xerox Corp.	XRX	12.69B	11.09	1.08	0.58	2.23%
Illinois Tool Works Inc.	ITW	35.07B	14.83	3.43	2.07	2.15%
St. Jude Medical Inc.	STJ	15.18B	25.22	3.95	2.79	1.87%
Mondelez International, Inc.	MDLZ	57.31B	29.96	1.82	1.63	1.75%
Western Digital Corp.	WDC	15.39B	16.58	1.95	1.00	1.55%
Stryker Corp.	SYK	26.77B	23.77	3.11	3.05	1.50%
Humana Inc.	HUM	15.17B	10.21	1.62	0.38	1.13%
Agilent Technologies Inc.	A	17.49B	19.25	3.65	2.56	0.93%
Morgan Stanley	MS	52.02B	38.96	0.84	1.52	0.73%

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17 High Momentum Healthcare Dividend Stocks

Healthcare dividend stocks with highest beta ratios originally published at long-term-investments.blogspot.com. You know that I am a conservative investor and try to minimize my risk.

This strategy is necessary if you have a larger amount of money to take care of or you begin to cry when you lose 10 percent on your book value. The second disadvantage is that you lose performance in a strong up moving market. 

Since 2009, there were nearly no bigger corrections at the market but with low beta and safe haven stocks, your performance would be only half of the return from the markets. What you need to get a push for your portfolio is a high beta stock. I don’t recommend buying them because it’s a definitely riskier strategy and nobody knows when the market turns into a bearish mood.

However, let’s take a look at the high fly momentum stocks from the healthcare sector. Those are stocks with the highest beta ratio from the sector. They have a beta between 1 and 2. With focus on the dividend paying stocks, only 17 stocks from the healthcare sector pay a dividend and being correlated with the market by a factor of up to 2.

One High-Yield is below the results and 16 have a current buy or better rating by brokerage firms.

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Half-Time Report: The Best Healthcare Dividend Stocks And Which Of Them Are The Cheapest

Healthcare dividend stocks with the highest year-to-date performance originally published at "long-term-investments.blogspot.com". We’ve completed the month June and it’s time to report which stocks have risen most within the first six months of the year. It’s ever good to see which stocks are hot in the market and which of them are still cheap valuated.

That’s the main reason why I like to produce an article serial with performance figures of the best performing stocks from several sectors of the financial market.

Today I like to screen the healthcare sector by dividend stocks with the highest stock performance since the beginning of the year.

The 20 most successful companies have realized a performance between 22.01 percent and 73.98 percent. The average capital gain was 36.24 percent. Despite the strong stock price hike, seventeen of them still have a buy or better rating.

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Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On June 26, 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 26, 2013. In total, 117 stocks and preferred shares go ex dividend - of which 59 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 4.64%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce	CM	28.82B	9.35	1.88	2.54	5.25%
TransCanada Corp.	TRP	30.19B	22.74	1.96	3.80	4.23%
The Dow Chemical Company	DOW	38.21B	39.94	2.25	0.68	3.96%
Kraft Foods Group, Inc.	KRFT	31.86B	23.50	8.52	1.73	3.72%
Nucor Corporation	NUE	13.74B	31.03	1.82	0.73	3.41%
Avalonbay Communities Inc.	AVB	15.98B	62.40	1.85	14.47	3.21%
Staples, Inc.	SPLS	10.10B	-	1.66	0.42	3.12%
Edison International	EIX	15.05B	9.64	1.58	1.25	2.92%
Xerox Corp.	XRX	10.97B	9.73	0.95	0.49	2.57%
Wipro Ltd.	WIT	19.38B	18.53	3.96	3.07	2.56%
Deere & Company	DE	31.53B	9.96	3.81	0.84	2.52%
Agrium Inc.	AGU	12.58B	8.86	1.81	0.77	2.37%
Illinois Tool Works Inc.	ITW	30.33B	12.57	2.95	1.74	2.26%
St. Jude Medical Inc.	STJ	12.79B	18.01	3.42	2.35	2.23%
Western Digital Corp.	WDC	13.99B	7.43	1.66	0.85	1.71%
Stryker Corp.	SYK	24.59B	19.80	2.91	2.83	1.64%
Humana Inc.	HUM	13.44B	9.47	1.47	0.34	1.28%
Canadian Pacific Railway Limited	CP	20.36B	38.05	3.80	3.66	1.18%
Zimmer Holdings, Inc.	ZMH	12.70B	17.18	2.22	2.84	1.06%
Danaher Corp.	DHR	42.67B	17.72	2.17	2.32	0.16%

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