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 August 27, 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, 10 stocks go ex dividend - of which 5 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 4.41%. 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
Administradora de Fondos de Pens. Provida	PVD	2.02B	6.88	4.29	5.77	11.91%
Dominion Resources Black Warrior Trust	DOM	46.08M	11.29	4.48	8.86	10.05%
ACNB Corp.	ACNB	103.21M	11.38	1.01	2.59	4.39%
Great Plains Energy Incorporated	GXP	3.47B	14.49	1.03	1.46	3.85%
Philippine Long Distance Telephone Co.	PHI	14.34B	16.59	4.16	3.59	3.04%
Cott Corporation	COT	762.22M	22.89	1.28	0.35	2.87%
Tessera Technologies Inc.	TSRA	996.69M	-	1.71	4.95	2.13%
Lender Processing Services, Inc.	LPS	2.75B	19.71	4.51	1.45	1.24%
Fortune Brands Home & Security	FBHS	2.22B	22.83	0.88	0.59	1.06%
Minerals Technologies Inc.	MTX	1.62B	21.09	2.05	1.62	0.43%

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