17 Cheap Dividend Contenders With Buy Ratings And Double-Digit Growth

Cheap Dividend Contenders with high growth and buy ratings originally published at long-term-investments.blogspot.com. Dividend growth and passive income strategies for normal investors is the core content of this blog. I personally create these articles to share my thoughts about good dividend paying stocks.

The underlying aim is to build a portfolio with high-quality dividend stocks that hike dividends in the future and boost your passive income. If they pay a good dividend and they grow, the share price must follow one day and reflect the corporate success.

Today I would like to present some dividend growth stocks with 10 to 25 years of growing dividends and buy or better ratings. These are my criteria in detail:

- 10 to 25 years of consecutive dividend growth

- Cheap forward P/E of less than 15

- EPS growth for the next five years over 10 percent yearly

- Buy or better rating by brokerage firms

Seventeen stocks fulfilled the above mentioned criteria of which one pays a high yield over five percent. Two companies have a strong buy rating.

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Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On August 19, 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 19, 2013. In total, 45 stocks go ex dividend - of which 12 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 5.23%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
Main Street Capital Corporation	MAIN	1.01B	9.28	1.55	9.88	6.39%
Westpac Banking Corporation	WBK	88.48B	15.60	2.19	2.77	6.11%
Hawaiian Electric Industries Inc.	HE	2.58B	18.92	1.59	0.78	4.75%
Microchip Technology Inc.	MCHP	7.76B	63.56	3.97	4.59	3.60%
Invesco Ltd.	IVZ	14.42B	19.23	1.77	3.29	2.80%
Allegheny Technologies Inc.	ATI	2.95B	50.20	1.18	0.64	2.61%
Target Corp.	TGT	44.36B	16.22	2.68	0.61	2.49%
Autoliv, Inc.	ALV	7.90B	15.26	2.03	0.95	2.42%
Marathon Petroleum Corporation	MPC	22.76B	7.18	1.90	0.25	2.38%
AFLAC Inc.	AFL	28.09B	8.39	2.05	1.10	2.32%
Snyder's-Lance, Inc.	LNCE	1.92B	33.06	2.17	1.14	2.30%
Marathon Oil Corporation	MRO	24.60B	15.61	1.29	1.50	2.19%
Assured Guaranty Ltd.	AGO	4.12B	8.64	0.87	3.56	1.88%
Murphy Oil Corporation	MUR	13.20B	14.43	1.44	0.47	1.79%
DST Systems Inc.	DST	3.15B	11.10	2.70	1.20	1.67%
Littelfuse Inc.	LFUS	1.75B	23.40	2.81	2.54	1.12%
Employers Holdings, Inc.	EIG	849.54M	7.94	1.55	1.38	0.87%
Callaway Golf Co.	ELY	497.07M	-	1.40	0.62	0.57%

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54 Stocks And 4 Funds With A Higher Dividend Payment

Stocks with dividend hikes from last week originally published at long-term-investments.blogspot.com. I like it to see dividends grow. It’s a very good sign from the company to give money back to stockholders and share corporate profits.

For the time being, we are in a bullish market and the Federal Reserve is flooding the market with cheap money. These are the main forces for the strong stock market. But a growing dividend is not only a sign of a technical reaction, it’s much more. A dividend growth shows normally that the operating business runs well. Last week, 54 stocks and 4 additional fundsannounced a higher dividend payment. I published all stocks with dividend growth from the recent week in the attached dividend list. In average, stocks from the list of the latest dividend growth stocks have increased their dividend payments by 17.11 percent.

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20 Technology Dividend Stocks, Most Shorted By Investors

Technology dividend stocks with the highest float short ratio originally published at "long-term-investments.blogspot.com". Activists often sell stocks short. In the second step, they try to scary other investors in order to get the stock price down and to make some profits.

Today I like to show you which of the technology stocks have the highest float short ratio. The ratio shows you how many shares have been sold short. It’s ever interesting to see which companies have some problems and investors like to speculate on a falling stock price. The higher the ratio is, the bigger the problems of the company.

These are my criteria:

- Positive Dividend Yield

- Technology Sector Relationship

- Float Short Ratio over 5 percent

- Market Capitalization above 2 Billion

20 technology dividend stocks have fulfilled these criteria. I recognized that technology stocks with a high float short are also highly priced but I don’t think that it’s the only reason for the short sale. Companies like Nokia have a tough fight to compete with companies like Apple or Samsung within the smart phone market. The market speculates that Nokia will fail to gain market shares.

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Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On May 17, 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 17, 2013. In total, 12 stocks and preferred shares go ex dividend - of which 4 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 2.56%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
Main Street Capital Corporation	MAIN	1.08B	8.75	1.67	11.90	6.00%
PBF Energy Inc.	PBF	2.99B	387.25	1.74	0.15	3.87%
AEGON N.V.	AEG	12.82B	7.47	0.33	0.21	3.85%
Microchip Technology Inc.	MCHP	7.35B	60.69	3.80	4.65	3.75%
Bemis Company, Inc.	BMS	4.18B	23.77	2.56	0.82	2.56%
Walgreen Co.	WAG	47.40B	22.33	2.50	0.67	2.20%
Laporte Bancorp, Inc.	LPSB	60.73M	14.82	1.04	3.07	1.64%
Energizer Holdings Inc.	ENR	6.38B	16.21	2.83	1.40	1.56%
Thomas Properties Group Inc.	TPGI	258.82M	-	1.98	2.78	1.43%
ResMed Inc.	RMD	7.20B	23.84	4.10	4.89	1.35%
Apogee Enterprises, Inc.	APOG	787.47M	42.54	2.36	1.12	1.30%
Callaway Golf Co.	ELY	472.04M	-	1.34	0.56	0.60%

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60 Stocks And 6 Funds Raised Dividend Payments Last Week

Stocks with dividend hikes from last week originally published at “long-term-investments.blogspot.com”. Last week was an interesting one because some of the big players announced a dividend hike, in-line with the expectations of the market. They are still continuing long-term dividend grower. Below the results are IBM, PepsiCo, Costco, American Express or Royal Dutch. 

In total, 60 shares and six ETFs announced a hike, in average a 30.05 percent increase. Eleven of them pay a high yields; 37 have a current buy or better recommendation. 

The markets are at All-Time-Highs and nobody scares this. I hate it when stocks getting more expensive and yields go rapidly down because I must limit my stock purchases. In such an environment, a dividend growth investor can’t build values when a slow growing stock pays a 1.5 percent yield - a value similar to the bond market yields. Let’s hope that earnings and sales grow in the same amount.

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