11 Basic Material Stocks With Low Debt And Dividend Payout Ratios

Basic material dividend stocks with low dividend payout ratios and small debt figures originally published at long-term-investments.blogspot.com. The basic material sector is not popular at the capital market for the time being. Over the past year, shares from the sector are the worst performing assets class on the market.

But what others hate does not mean that you cannot make money with basic material stocks. If you are a long-term investor, you should definitely find some good stocks with a cheap valuation. But be careful, raw materials are also more cyclic than consumer or healthcare companies.

Today I would like to continue my monthly screen about dividend stocks with low debt ratios and little dividend payments. I observe stocks from the basic material sector with a dividend payout ratio of less than 20 percent of earnings as well as a debt to equity ratio under 0.2.

Exactly eleven stocks fulfilled these criteria of which eight are currently recommended to buy. Agrichemicals and specialty chemical companies are the dominating player on the list.

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Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On October 15, 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, 14 stocks go ex dividend - of which 3 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
Horizon Technology Finance	HRZN	127.77M	36.05	0.90	6.00	10.34%
Harvest Capital Credit	HCAP	62.42M	3.80	0.69	10.23	9.18%
Senior Housing Properties Trust	SNH	4.55B	31.82	1.62	6.26	6.45%
Saul Centers Inc.	BFS	978.91M	219.18	11.11	5.05	2.99%
Xyratex Ltd.	XRTX	300.93M	-	0.96	0.32	2.75%
Camden National Corp.	CAC	317.39M	14.18	1.38	3.52	2.60%
Goldcorp Inc.	GG	19.20B	-	0.92	3.94	2.54%
Center Bancorp Inc.	CNBC	241.47M	12.96	1.61	4.27	2.03%
Franco-Nevada Corporation	FNV	6.02B	78.85	1.96	14.29	1.76%
Quaker Chemical Corporation	KWR	976.68M	18.32	3.22	1.37	1.33%
Zep, Inc.	ZEP	403.42M	20.82	2.23	0.59	1.09%
HB Fuller Co.	FUL	2.28B	23.59	2.72	1.13	0.87%
EOG Resources, Inc.	EOG	48.33B	48.77	3.36	3.67	0.42%

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Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On July 15, 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 July 15, 2013. In total, 15 stocks and preferred shares go ex dividend - of which 5 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 2.98%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
Horizon Technology Finance	HRZN	137.34M	26.57	0.95	6.73	9.62%
Senior Housing Properties Trust	SNH	5.03B	34.49	1.74	7.30	5.72%
Bowl America Inc.	BWL-A	69.55M	43.55	2.30	2.87	4.74%
Bridge Bancorp, Inc.	BDGE	212.81M	16.44	1.75	3.88	3.78%
Saul Centers Inc.	BFS	961.17M	176.70	11.47	5.00	3.02%
Wayne Savings Bancshares	WAYN	28.97M	13.67	0.73	1.94	2.81%
McGrath Rentcorp	MGRC	872.60M	19.94	2.34	2.33	2.75%
Siliconware Precision Industries	SPIL	3.90B	26.42	1.96	1.86	2.68%
US Ecology, Inc.	ECOL	547.95M	20.63	4.64	3.06	2.41%
IDEX Corporation	IEX	4.76B	107.17	3.21	2.43	1.59%
Quaker Chemical Corporation	KWR	853.58M	17.65	2.91	1.21	1.52%
Zep, Inc.	ZEP	287.37M	14.83	1.59	0.42	1.23%
Alamo Group, Inc.	ALG	536.19M	18.53	1.72	0.85	0.63%
EOG Resources, Inc.	EOG	38.67B	52.78	2.81	3.16	0.52%

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