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 20, 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, 38 stocks go ex dividend - of which 12 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 4,46%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
Northern Tier Energy LP	NTI	2.08B	8.05	4.69	0.44	21.76%
Pengrowth Energy Corporation	PGH	2.95B	-	0.76	2.41	8.06%
Thomson Reuters Corporation	TRI	28.88B	29.00	1.73	2.24	3.74%
Maxim Integrated Products	MXIM	8.12B	18.46	3.24	3.32	3.73%
CA Technologies	CA	13.75B	13.28	2.44	2.97	3.27%
Applied Materials Inc.	AMAT	18.79B	-	2.70	2.62	2.56%
Archer Daniels Midland	ADM	24.62B	20.81	1.30	0.27	2.04%
Cummins Inc.	CMI	23.46B	16.64	3.50	1.39	2.00%
NVIDIA Corporation	NVDA	8.89B	16.88	2.13	2.10	1.98%
Wyndham Worldwide Corp.	WYN	8.01B	20.81	4.88	1.69	1.96%
Goldcorp Inc.	GG	25.23B	-	1.21	5.17	1.93%
Marriott International, Inc.	MAR	12.39B	20.30	-	0.96	1.71%
NICE Systems Ltd.	NICE	2.32B	28.29	1.93	2.56	1.40%
Zions Bancorp.	ZION	5.30B	22.03	1.03	2.67	0.55%
Allergan Inc.	AGN	26.03B	22.26	4.55	4.44	0.23%

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20 Cheap Dividend Contenders With Real Low Debt Figures

Dividend Contenders with low debt and cheap price ratios originally published at long-term-investments.blogspot.com. Dividend Contenders have raised their dividend payments over 10 years in a row but not more than 25 consecutive years. There are over 200 stocks with such an impressive dividend growth history but not all of them are really good. Every stock has a something that an investor loves and hates. The perfect stock does not exist.

Today I would like to screen the Dividend Contenders category by cheap stocks (forward P/E below 15) with the lowest debt ratios. For passive investors, it's very important to own low leveraged growth stocks because they can expect further dividend hikes. If you purchase them at reasonable prices, you can increase the possibility for a good return.

Twelve of the 20 cheap Contenders with very low debt to equity ratios have a buy or better rating and four yield over three percent. Many insurer and banks are on the list. The financial sector is very strong.

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Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On May 20, 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 20, 2013. In total, 22 stocks and preferred shares go ex dividend - of which 8 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 2.79%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
Park National Corp.	PRK	1.10B	16.73	1.69	3.98	5.25%
Eni SpA	E	88.27B	30.75	1.10	0.54	4.61%
Hawaiian Electric Industries Inc.	HE	2.75B	19.55	1.72	0.82	4.43%
Highwoods Properties Inc.	HIW	3.26B	64.97	2.77	6.16	4.29%
Regency Centers Corporation	REG	5.28B	-	3.69	10.63	3.21%
Maxim Integrated Products Inc.	MXIM	9.11B	21.14	3.49	3.74	3.07%
AFLAC Inc.	AFL	25.33B	8.58	1.63	1.00	2.58%
Autoliv, Inc.	ALV	7.48B	14.78	1.97	0.91	2.56%
Allegheny Technologies Inc.	ATI	3.08B	28.28	1.24	0.63	2.52%
Snyder's-Lance, Inc.	LNCE	1.84B	28.60	2.09	1.12	2.41%
Valero Energy Corporation	VLO	21.60B	6.97	1.21	0.16	2.02%
Assured Guaranty Ltd.	AGO	4.64B	46.08	0.93	4.77	1.67%
Xylem Inc.	XYL	5.31B	19.35	2.60	1.42	1.64%
Tenaris SA	TS	25.53B	15.18	2.18	2.34	1.20%
Employers Holdings, Inc.	EIG	788.30M	7.47	1.44	1.36	0.94%
Luxottica Group SpA	LUX	25.83B	34.34	4.58	2.78	0.90%
Gerdau S.A.	GGB	11.47B	16.27	0.84	0.61	0.60%

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