5 Stocks That Warren Buffett Would Love: Part II

Yesterday, I wrote about stocks that Warren Buffett would love. 

I introduced five picks that are often mentioned when analysts talk about potential takeover targets by the guru investor from Omaha.

Today I will continue this stock idea spinning by showing you additional companies that fulfill the following criteria:

- Market Capitalization from $15 Billion to $40 Billion

- Capital Expenditures / Net Fixed Assets under 10%

- 5-Year Average Growth in ROIC in Highest 50%

- P/E Ratio Below Average Company Value in Home Market

- Return on Common Equity over 10%

- Excludes Banks, Brokerages, Asset Managers, Technology, Biotechnology Companies

There are a few stocks available on the market that fulfill these restrictions. Some of those stocks are still in his latest portfolio but there are also many fresh ideas as you might have seen in the first part of this article serial.

Additional 5 stocks that Warren Buffett would love are...

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Next Week's 20 Top Yielding Large Cap Ex-Dividend Shares

The best yielding and biggest ex-dividend stocks researched by ”long-term-investments.blogspot.com”. Dividend Investors should have a quiet overview about 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 week.

In total, 175 stocks go ex dividend - of which 89 yield more than 3 percent. Here is a full list of all stocks with ex-dividend date within the current week.

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
Telefonica Brasil, S.A.	VIV	25.37B	13.29	1.29	1.60	6.82%
Energy Transfer Partners LP	ETP	19.09B	30.41	1.60	0.54	6.61%
Kinder Morgan Energy Partners	KMP	34.70B	25.54	2.59	3.30	6.28%
Cheniere Energy Partners LP.	CQP	10.24B	-	5.66	38.30	5.48%
ONEOK Partners, L.P.	OKS	11.99B	21.97	2.80	1.12	5.29%
Southern Company	SO	37.11B	21.44	2.06	2.20	4.78%
Plains All American Pipeline, L.P.	PAA	18.19B	19.17	2.66	0.46	4.49%
Kinder Morgan	KMI	37.80B	37.23	2.77	2.87	4.38%
Telefonica, S.A.	TEF	79.56B	14.72	3.15	0.97	4.28%
Enterprise Products Partners LP	EPD	57.33B	23.28	4.05	1.30	4.22%
Bank of Montreal	BMO	45.16B	11.54	1.57	3.50	4.11%
Energy Transfer Equity, L.P.	ETE	19.23B	51.17	12.99	0.53	3.82%
Paychex, Inc.	PAYX	15.71B	27.22	8.98	6.67	3.26%
The Clorox Company	CLX	11.65B	20.52	79.86	2.07	3.20%
ConAgra Foods, Inc.	CAG	13.36B	20.08	2.49	0.82	3.15%
NiSource Inc.	NI	10.09B	22.92	1.77	1.88	3.09%
Texas Instruments Inc.	TXN	44.37B	22.35	4.01	3.61	2.98%
Weyerhaeuser Co.	WY	17.35B	28.80	2.96	2.21	2.80%
Norfolk Southern Corp.	NSC	27.53B	16.17	2.70	2.52	2.37%
Eaton Corporation	ETN	33.91B	21.64	2.20	1.77	2.35%

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13 Stocks With Fresh New Dividend Hikes

Stocks with dividend hikes from last week originally published at long-term-investments.blogspot.com. 13 stocks and 4 funds announced a dividend hike within the recent week.

I’ve attached a list with all stocks and included a few fundamentals for you. So it would be easier to compare the current valuation.

Two High-Yields are part of the results but they are both very small capitalized. The biggest stocks with the most recent dividend growth are Accenture and Phillips 66. Only four companies have a P/E of less than 15. The market gets more and more expensive, a fact that is also reasonable to the low interest policy of Bernanke.

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Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On July 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 July 31, 2013. In total, 17 stocks go ex dividend - of which 8 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 4.13%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
CCA Industries Inc.	CAW	24.62M	-	1.08	0.51	8.02%
PAA Natural Gas Storage, L.P.	PNG	1.56B	21.73	1.29	3.83	6.51%
Main Street Capital Corporation	MAIN	1.06B	9.18	1.64	11.10	6.08%
Plains All American Pipeline, L.P.	PAA	18.38B	1.82	2.73	0.38	4.30%
CMS Energy Corp.	CMS	7.48B	17.46	2.25	1.14	3.61%
Tesoro Logistics LP	TLLP	2.42B	32.18	6.38	13.41	3.56%
Pfizer Inc.	PFE	212.30B	20.95	2.58	3.69	3.25%
MOCON Inc.	MOCO	78.95M	39.72	2.35	1.43	3.08%
PNM Resources, Inc.	PNM	1.89B	19.22	1.18	1.39	2.79%
Capitol Federal Financial, Inc.	CFFN	1.84B	26.37	1.12	5.89	2.37%
Ford Motor Co.	F	67.00B	11.54	3.80	0.49	2.34%
Ocean Shore Holding Co.	OSHC	96.61M	20.67	0.91	2.68	1.61%
Coca-Cola Bottling Co.	COKE	597.02M	25.35	4.27	0.37	1.55%
SB Financial Group, Inc.	SBFG	38.62M	7.49	0.71	1.49	1.51%
Pall Corp.	PLL	7.81B	25.17	4.50	2.94	1.43%
PetSmart, Inc.	PETM	7.47B	19.60	7.10	1.09	0.91%
Signet Jewelers Limited	SIG	5.81B	15.87	2.48	1.42	0.83%

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