13 Dividend Aristocrats With Lowest Payout Ratios To Boost Future Dividends

Dividend Aristocrats with low payout ratios and relatively small debt figures originally published at long-term-investments.blogspot.com. Dividend Aristocrats are stocks with a very long dividend growth history. Those stocks raised their dividends over more than 25 consecutive years and being selected by the credit agency Standard & Poor’s. The index covers 54 companies from the national stock exchanges.

Dividend Aristocrats are nice because they have a huge trust base for long-term orientated investors but a past performance also did not mean that the future performance would be the same. Some Dividend Aristocrats are full of debt and they pay dividends at a very high level.

I started an article serial this month about stocks with low debt and dividend payout ratios. I believe that those companies are much better positioned from the financial perspective to boost future dividends. In addition, they have much more capabilities to grow at a faster pace.

Today I would like to introduce you some of the Dividend Aristocrats with the lowest dividend payout ratios on the market. Half of the results have also acceptable or low debt ratios.

Only thirteen stocks have a dividend payout ratio of less than 30 percent of which seven are currently recommended to buy.

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10 Dividend Champions With Very Low Payout Ratios - The Next Big Dividend Grower?

Dividend Champions with low payout ratios and small debt figures originally published at long-term-investments.blogspot.com. Dividend Champions are stocks with a very long history of consecutive dividend hikes. They have achieved to boost dividends year over year for more than 25 years without an interruption.

Only 105 stocks have managed this very important goal for long-term dividend growth investors. I like those stocks but some of them have a really high dividend payout ratio.

Earlier, I talked about the importance of the dividend growth rate and that it would be better to buy lower yielding stocks with a much higher growth rate than stocks with very big yields. Two main criteria for future dividend growth are the debt ratios and dividend payout figures.

This month, I started an article serial about dividend stocks with potential to boost dividends. Today I would like to present you Dividend Champions with the lowest dividend payouts. Only 10 income growth firms have a payout ratio of less than 20 percent. Seven of them are currently recommended to buy.

Most of them are modestly leveraged. Not low but also not too high but the right leverage ratio is also a question of the business model and the strong cash-flow of a corporate as well as the costs for growth.

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Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On August 23, 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, 18 stocks go ex dividend - of which 3 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 2.14%. Here is a full list of all stocks with ex-dividend date within the upcoming week.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
CPFL Energia S.A.	CPL	7.78B	15.55	2.69	1.21	5.81%
CIFC Corp.	CIFC	162.31M	26.90	0.61	15.46	5.13%
The Scotts Miracle-Gro	SMG	3.34B	23.95	4.50	1.20	3.23%
Johnson & Johnson	JNJ	249.50B	19.73	3.58	3.56	2.97%
Delek US Holdings Inc.	DK	1.56B	5.58	1.61	0.17	2.27%
Rocky Brands, Inc.	RCKY	132.81M	12.53	1.04	0.54	2.26%
Prudential Financial, Inc.	PRU	36.06B	-	1.03	0.45	2.06%
Elbit Systems Ltd.	ESLT	1.92B	10.92	1.84	0.67	1.96%
YPF S.A.	YPF	6.45B	10.12	1.15	0.47	1.95%
McGraw Hill Financial, Inc.	MHFI	16.25B	22.53	13.28	3.40	1.89%
KeyCorp	KEY	11.05B	14.06	1.11	4.12	1.82%
Parker Hannifin Corporation	PH	15.20B	16.36	2.65	1.17	1.77%
John Bean Technologies	JBT	659.34M	17.50	6.07	0.72	1.59%
Barnes Group Inc.	B	1.71B	23.44	1.76	1.47	1.38%
Carpenter Technology	CRS	2.90B	20.11	2.23	1.28	1.31%
Griffon Corporation	GFF	618.62M	95.00	0.98	0.33	0.88%
Nordson Corporation	NDSN	4.48B	19.57	6.09	2.90	0.86%
Marten Transport Ltd.	MRTN	600.44M	20.55	1.75	0.92	0.39%

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16 Dividend Aristocrats With High Beta Ratios

Dividend income growth stocks with highest beta ratios published at long-term-investments.blogspot.com. Dividend Aristocrats are stocks with a very long tradition in dividend growth. Those stocks hiked its dividend payments over a period of more than 25 years in a row and being selected by the credit rating agency Standard & Poor’s. The company selects 54 constituents for the index. All income investors love this index but he has also lacks.

Dividend Aristocrats normally have a lower volatility than other stocks. This could also be an disadvantage because you give up performance in a strong up moving market. The solution is simple: Look at high beta stocks. They can give you a better return when the market is very bullish.

I observed all current 54 Dividend Aristocrats by the highest rate of beta, starting with a value above one. Only 16 of them are more volatile than the overall market. It’s how I told it: Only a few Dividend Aristocrats, around 30 percent, are riskier than the market but they can also deliver you a better performance in return. For the time being, twelve of the High Beta Dividend Aristocrats have a buy or better rating.

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14 Low Priced Dividend Champions

Dividend Champions with low price to earnings ratios originally published at "long-term-investments.blogspot.com". It’s important to have a clear picture of all your price ratios from your stock holdings. If you see that there is one company too high valuated compared to the growth perspective, you should consider to reduce the position.

The same on the long side: If you purchase a stock, you should only buy at reasonable prices. I know, everybody tells you this and sometimes P/E’s of 25 or 30 are still reasonable. It’s a question of believe and trust.

Today, I like to show you all Dividend Champions with a current P/E ratio of less than 15. Only 14 companies (around 14 percent of all champions) are so low valuated. Most of them have a good mid-term growth perspective.

Seven of the results have a current buy or better rating.

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