15 Dividend Contenders With Over 20% Return on Equity and Return on Investment

Dividend growth stocks with very high returns on equity and returns on investment originally published at long-term-investments.blogspot.com. A solid investment delivers also solid returns over the time. Dividend growth is not the only criteria for a good investment. There are also many dividend growth stocks outside with low or negative return on investments and return on equity ratios.

Today I screened the Dividend Contenders Database by stocks with high return ratios. I fixed the 20 percent level in order to get the best results.

Only 15 companies fulfilled both, a return on equity as well as a return on investment over 20 percent. The difference between those two ratios is that the return on investment does not include the leverage effect. A corporate with high debts will automatically generate high returns on equity. The second ratio is a performance measure that looks only at the investment by dividing the investment return by the costs of the investment.

One High-Yield is below the results and 10 stocks got a buy or better rating by brokerage firms. Leverage is the key for high returns in my screen. As you might see in the attached sheet, the debt ratios are modestly high but in the end, the investor will pay a higher price for a leveraged company.

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Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On May 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 May 15, 2013. In total, 53 stocks and preferred shares go ex dividend - of which 16 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 3.22%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
Veolia Environnement S.A.	VE	7.10B	679.50	0.75	0.19	5.74%
Royal Dutch Shell plc	RDS-B	226.27B	8.63	1.26	0.49	4.82%
AGL Resources Inc.	GAS	5.11B	17.29	1.45	1.21	4.35%
Duke Energy Corporation	DUK	50.63B	21.68	1.24	2.31	4.26%
Sonoco Products Co.	SON	3.59B	18.10	2.35	0.76	3.49%
Chevron Corporation	CVX	238.14B	9.29	1.70	1.00	3.26%
Black Hills Corporation	BKH	2.16B	22.32	1.71	1.82	3.12%
Apartment Investment & Management	AIV	4.70B	-	5.29	4.53	2.98%
Linear Technology Corp.	LLTC	8.83B	22.01	9.23	6.87	2.75%
Invesco Ltd.	IVZ	15.14B	21.82	1.85	3.53	2.64%
L-3 Communications Holdings Inc.	LLL	7.56B	10.11	1.37	0.57	2.62%
Simon Property Group Inc.	SPG	55.81B	51.71	9.62	11.21	2.56%
Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers	RBA	2.16B	27.41	3.31	4.94	2.42%
BOK Financial Corporation	BOKF	4.46B	12.47	1.47	5.70	2.34%
United Technologies Corp.	UTX	87.29B	17.55	3.32	1.46	2.25%
Aqua America Inc.	WTR	4.50B	22.66	3.17	5.81	2.19%
Allison Transmission Holdings, Inc.	ALSN	4.34B	9.00	3.09	2.17	2.05%
The J. M. Smucker Company	SJM	11.17B	22.20	2.15	1.89	2.00%
Murphy Oil Corporation	MUR	12.02B	13.71	1.31	0.42	1.99%
Whirlpool Corp.	WHR	10.08B	18.18	2.25	0.56	1.96%

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