Cheapest Dividend Paying Large Caps As of October 2013

Cheap large capitalized stocks with high growth originally published at “long-term-investments.blogspot.com. I always look for stocks with a cheap valuation and modest growth perspectives.

While the interest environment is low, the market valuation is extraordinary high and it’s more important to take care about a solid price in order to ensure not to overpay a stocks.

Each month I create a quick list that allows me to observe the market by the cheapest growth picks. You can find my criteria below.

These are the criteria for my cheapest dividend paying large cap screen:

- Market Capitalization over USD 10 billion

- Expected Earnings per share growth over 10 percent for the next five years

- Forward P/E ratio under 15

- P/S under 1 and P/B ratio under 2

- Positive Dividends

Only fourteen stocks fulfilled these criteria of which twelve have a current buy or better rating by brokerage firms.

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18 Services Stocks With Low Debt And Payout Ratios To Boost Future Dividends

Services dividend paying stocks with low payout ratios and relatively small debt figures originally published at long-term-investments.blogspot.com. Today I would like to continue my article serial about low leveraged stocks with small payout ratios. I believe that those stocks can pay higher dividends in the future or they have the ability to grow further without capital increases.

The services sector ha s many corporate stocks with small dividend payouts but the most of the stocks are working with small profit margins or they have a modest capitalization. I decided to look only at stocks with more than $2 billion market capitalization in order to get the best results. My other criteria are still the same: Debt to equity under 0.5 with a dividend payout ratio of less than 20 percent.

Eighteen stocks fulfilled the above mentioned criteria of which ten are currently recommended to buy.

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Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On August 06, 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 August 06, 2013. In total, 24 stocks go ex dividend - of which 6 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 2.75%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
Navios Maritime Partners L.P.	NMM	1.02B	9.82	1.54	4.90	11.70%
Entergy Corporation	ETR	12.15B	12.67	1.32	1.13	4.87%
Sunoco Logistics Partners L.P.	SXL	6.33B	13.38	1.21	0.48	3.93%
Computer Programs & Systems	CPSI	638.87M	20.30	10.30	3.26	3.54%
Federated Investors, Inc.	FII	2.96B	16.41	5.53	3.16	3.27%
United Financial Bancorp	UBNK	308.77M	43.50	1.03	3.63	2.81%
Berkshire Hills Bancorp Inc.	BHLB	656.15M	15.22	0.97	3.36	2.72%
Boston Private Financial Holdings	BPFH	876.03M	23.14	1.56	4.09	2.47%
S&T Bancorp Inc.	STBA	737.58M	15.13	1.35	4.79	2.42%
Peabody Energy Corp.	BTU	4.31B	-	0.95	0.57	2.11%
Sensient Technologies	SXT	2.20B	19.36	1.89	1.49	2.08%
Discover Financial Services	DFS	25.00B	9.97	2.53	3.36	1.56%
Cardinal Financial Corp.	CFNL	502.66M	11.23	1.59	4.56	1.46%
Starbucks Corporation	SBUX	55.65B	35.52	9.69	3.85	1.13%
Southwest Airlines Co.	LUV	10.13B	27.29	1.49	0.59	1.13%
MarketAxess Holdings Inc.	MKTX	1.95B	29.10	7.22	8.88	0.98%
Wintrust Financial Corporation	WTFC	1.56B	16.27	0.94	2.50	0.86%
Franklin Electric Co. Inc.	FELE	1.84B	23.41	3.36	1.98	0.81%
Arkansas Best Corporation	ABFS	583.52M	73.42	1.30	0.27	0.53%

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The Latest Big Dividend Stock Buys From James Barrow

James Barrow’s latest dividend stock buys and his portfolio originally published at long-term-investments.blogspot.com. 

James Barrow is a relatively unknown fund managers but he has big influence on Wall-Street. His assets under management exceeded the 55 billion mark in his investment firm Barrow, Hanley, Mewhinney & Strauss. This money was spread on 159 stocks of which 7 were completely new. James follows a value-oriented investment strategy.

James is a real dividend large cap lover. Nearly all of his latest 20 big stock acquisitions pay dividends. In addition, James is a much diversified guy. None of his stakes is extremely overweighed. The biggest position is the tobacco company Philip Morris and has a portfolio share of 3.5 percent while the 10th biggest stock holding weights only at 1.8 percent.

Compared to other fund managers, his performance is also weak in the short term. Over the past three years, the excess return was only 3.3 percent in total. His five-year advance is a bit better with 14 percent excess gain but over 10 years, his performance is 27.8 percent weaker than the S&P 500. Over a very long period of 15 years, he beat the market by 49.4 percent excess gain.

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Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On June 03, 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 03, 2013. In total, 28 stocks and preferred shares go ex dividend - of which 10 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 3.12%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
France Telecom	FTE	27.76B	27.58	0.88	0.49	14.31%
Enerplus Corporation	ERF	3.14B	-	1.01	2.72	6.82%
Cedar Fair, L.P.	FUN	2.33B	23.28	14.65	2.18	5.97%
Ventas, Inc.	VTR	21.34B	57.31	2.33	8.20	3.68%
Hancock Holding Co.	HBHC	2.45B	13.77	0.99	3.25	3.32%
Avery Dennison Corporation	AVY	4.38B	23.79	2.80	0.72	2.64%
Stanley Black & Decker, Inc.	SWK	12.99B	31.22	1.94	1.27	2.44%
QUALCOMM Incorporated	QCOM	110.89B	18.08	2.95	5.12	2.18%
Brown-Forman Corporation	BF-B	15.15B	26.27	9.97	5.43	1.97%
Flowers Foods, Inc.	FLO	4.65B	22.27	4.92	1.42	1.90%
Nielsen Holdings N.V.	NLSN	12.67B	43.45	2.45	2.24	1.89%
Schlumberger Limited	SLB	99.46B	18.52	2.79	2.31	1.67%
Everest Re Group Ltd.	RE	6.48B	7.41	0.95	1.29	1.48%
HSN, Inc.	HSNI	3.04B	23.03	6.47	0.92	1.27%
Halliburton Company	HAL	39.73B	20.50	2.53	1.39	1.17%
Southwest Airlines Co.	LUV	10.31B	27.98	1.50	0.60	1.12%
Compuware Corporation	CPWR	2.41B	34.48	2.30	2.49	1.10%
Itau Unibanco Holding S.A.	ITUB	76.58B	10.96	1.84	2.62	0.59%

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