3 Best And Worst Performing Dividend Champions In 2013

We're coming to the year-end and I would like to review the performance of the best and worst stocks from the Dividend Champions list.

The best performing stocks increased by 60.77 percent over the whole year while the worst performer declined by 17.34 percent.

In total, we can summarize that the year 2013 was a good year for all investors. Big money came in due to the monetary policy and helped to boost stocks at all-time highs.

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17 High Yielding Dividend Achievers | Cheap Income Growth Stocks

Dividend income growth stocks with high yields and low price-to-earnings ratios originally published at long-term-investments.blogspot.com. High yielding stocks in a low interest environment is the only solution to hedge your assets against inflation.

But high yielding stocks are rare when the Fed keeps its leading interest rates close to zero percent and pull the market loan rates via bond purchases to the ground. But the inflation risk is still aware and you will get poorer over the time.

I stopped purchasing stocks for my own accounts since the beginning of the year. It was a wrong decision because equities are now more expensive. I don’t believe that they are still cheap, more likely fair valuated or slightly overpriced. 

It’s very hard to discover good stocks with solid dividend growth and high yields. I talk about yields over 3 percent and not the big risk including stocks with yields far above 5 percent.

Today I would like to screen the High-Dividend Achievers Index by stocks with inflation adequate yields and low price-to-earnings ratios. I prefer a ratio of the forward P/E below 15. Only 17 of 50 index members fulfilled these criteria. You can find a detailed list of these stocks attached.

Two High-Yields are part of the results and five received a current buy or better rating. Banks and utilities are the dominating industries on the list.

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Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On September 04, 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, 75 stocks go ex dividend - of which 24 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 3.08%. 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
American Realty Capital Propert.	ARCP	2.18B	-	1.52	22.78	6.79%
CenturyLink, Inc.	CTL	20.01B	19.14	1.09	1.10	6.52%
China Petroleum & Chemical	SNP	81.24B	8.09	0.97	0.18	6.18%
Old Republic International Corp.	ORI	3.65B	19.72	1.02	0.69	5.07%
Public Service Enterprise Group	PEG	16.40B	13.45	1.48	1.66	4.44%
BHP Billiton plc	BBL	154.58B	14.27	2.19	2.34	4.06%
Dominion Resources, Inc.	D	33.73B	104.20	3.07	2.58	3.86%
China Mobile Limited	CHL	216.97B	10.32	1.75	2.22	3.82%
BHP Billiton Ltd.	BHP	168.42B	15.55	2.38	2.55	3.73%
Waste Management, Inc.	WM	18.92B	22.22	2.91	1.38	3.61%
PetroChina Co. Ltd.	PTR	199.13B	10.25	1.11	0.54	3.47%
Kimberly-Clark Corporation	KMB	35.96B	19.89	8.22	1.70	3.47%
Gannett Co., Inc.	GCI	5.51B	12.42	2.24	1.03	3.32%
American National Insurance	ANAT	2.81B	11.59	0.72	0.93	2.93%
Pepsico, Inc.	PEP	123.42B	18.80	5.45	1.87	2.85%
Baxter International Inc.	BAX	37.77B	17.30	5.19	2.63	2.82%
Genuine Parts Company	GPC	11.94B	17.31	3.88	0.89	2.79%
HollyFrontier Corporation	HFC	8.96B	5.73	1.43	0.44	2.70%
SLM Corporation	SLM	10.56B	8.00	2.17	1.59	2.50%
CH Robinson Worldwide Inc.	CHRW	9.09B	15.58	6.06	0.75	2.46%

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11 Cheapest Stocks From The High-Yield Equity Dividend Achievers Index

Stocks from the High-Yield Equity Dividend Achievers Index with low forward P/E’s originally published at long-term-investments.blogspot.com. As you might have known, the research of high quality equities is very expensive and hard work. There is a good way to find high-quality dividend stocks with less work and cost. You discover only indices which cover the best dividend stocks.

Bang, that’s a very good solution for lazy investors like me. The Dividend Aristocrats Index is a well known index, created by the credit rating agency Standard & Poor’s. For advanced investors, Dividend Aristocrats are very boring and it’s real annoying to read every time the same stuff from the same companies.

Today I would like to introduce you some of the cheapest dividend paying stocks from the High-Yield Equity Dividend Achievers Index. 50 members are part of the index which is based on the NASDAQ Dividend Achievers 50 Index. The Index is comprised of 50 stocks selected principally on the basis of dividend yield and consistent growth in dividends. If you are interested in a detailed list of all constituents with some major price ratios, you can purchase a current updated factsheet of the 50 index members here.

Back to my screen: Only eleven companies from the index have a forward P/E below 15 and three of them are currently recommended to buy.

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20 Dividend Champions With Highest YTD Performance And Still Low P/E’s

Dividend Champions with highest performance year-to-date originally published at "long-term-investments.blogspot.com". Around 104 stocks from the American capital market have raised their dividend payments over a period of more than 25 years without a break. They are real dividend champions. Today I like to show you which of them have realized the highest performance since the start of the year. You can also find a detail stock picture of the Dividend Champions with the cheapest price-to-earnings ratio.

The top 20 performing dividend Champions had a return between 20.16 percent and 37.25 percent. It’s a very mixed picture of stocks.

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Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On May 31, 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 31, 2013. In total, 14 stocks and preferred shares go ex dividend - of which 6 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 2.85%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
TAL International Group, Inc.	TAL	1.50B	11.08	2.37	2.47	5.96%
Old Republic International Corp.	ORI	3.60B	-	0.97	0.71	5.19%
REGAL ENTERTAINMENT GROUP	RGC	2.89B	23.81	-	1.04	4.52%
NV Energy, Inc.	NVE	4.54B	13.87	1.28	1.54	3.94%
China Mobile Limited	CHL	213.07B	10.23	1.81	2.33	3.89%
Arthur J Gallagher & Co.	AJG	5.64B	26.62	3.39	2.13	3.15%
Suncor Energy Inc.	SU	47.38B	20.81	1.23	1.26	2.51%
China Telecom Corp. Ltd.	CHA	39.36B	16.16	0.91	0.85	2.04%
Interval Leisure Group, Inc.	IILG	1.25B	24.76	4.22	2.59	2.02%
Tidewater Inc.	TDW	2.78B	20.43	1.09	2.31	1.78%
Mainsource Financial Group	MSFG	281.86M	11.82	0.91	2.65	1.74%
Steris Corp.	STE	2.67B	16.81	2.82	1.78	1.66%
Cass Information Systems Inc.	CASS	516.25M	22.02	2.93	11.42	1.60%
Westlake Chemical Corp.	WLK	6.21B	14.81	3.13	1.83	0.81%

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