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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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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Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On August 08, 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 August 08, 2013. In total, 12 stocks go ex dividend - of which 3 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 3.59%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
Alliance Holdings GP, L.P.	AHGP	3.87B	18.14	8.36	1.79	4.86%
PetMed Express Inc.	PETS	326.10M	18.26	4.93	1.40	3.65%
Artisan Partners Asset Managem.	APAM	661.91M	273.68	-	1.01	3.31%
Apple Inc.	AAPL	427.39B	11.62	3.46	2.52	2.62%
Southern National Bancorp of Virg.	SONA	113.47M	20.40	1.08	3.09	2.45%
U.S. Global Investors, Inc.	GROW	40.74M	263.00	1.08	2.05	2.28%
Rockwell Automation Inc.	ROK	13.95B	19.08	6.95	2.21	2.09%
Altera Corp.	ALTR	11.61B	23.37	3.37	6.57	1.66%
Penske Automotive Group, Inc.	PAG	3.50B	16.33	2.58	0.26	1.65%
PPG Industries Inc.	PPG	23.15B	21.58	4.59	1.55	1.51%
National Security Group Inc.	NSEC	17.61M	-	0.58	0.30	1.40%
First Bancshares Inc.	FBMS	40.53M	10.57	0.81	1.54	1.15%

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20 Highly Recommended Dividend Aristocrats And Which Of Them Are The Cheapest

Cheap Dividend Aristocrats with buy or better ratings originally published at long-term-investments.blogspot.com. 

Dividend Aristocrats are some of the best dividend income growth stock you can buy at the market. Those stocks have raised their cash distributions to shareholders over a period of more than 25 years without a break. For sure, it's no guarantee to receive a higher dividend next year but the possibility of a dividend hike is very high.

I wrote recently that high quality stocks are also highly priced and the Dividend Aristocrats are definitely highly priced. It’s very hard to find real bargains and to receive a good long-term total return.

Today I would like to give you an update of the most recommend stocks from the Dividend Aristocrats Index with some fundamentals. 29 of 54 companies from the index have a current buy or better rating and nearly half of the results still have a low forward P/E of less than 15. That’s very interesting because all of the 20 most recommended Dividend Aristocrats have positive earnings per share predictions for the mid-term – in average 10.14 percent.

Below is a list of the 20 highest recommended Aristocrats with a detailed look on the three cheapest results.


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Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On May 08, 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 08, 2013. In total, 49 stocks and preferred shares go ex dividend - of which 16 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 2.65%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
GlaxoSmithKline plc	GSK	125.59B	19.55	12.03	3.07	4.31%
American Electric Power Co.	AEP	24.53B	19.87	1.59	1.62	3.88%
Pfizer Inc.	PFE	206.37B	20.37	2.57	3.58	3.34%
Unilever NV	UN	127.20B	21.16	6.07	1.89	3.29%
Macerich Co.	MAC	9.73B	35.76	3.16	11.04	3.28%
Unilever plc	UL	129.29B	21.51	6.24	1.92	3.24%
Wells Fargo & Company	WFC	200.45B	10.74	1.24	4.19	3.17%
RPC Inc.	RES	2.91B	12.46	3.19	1.56	3.03%
BB&T Corporation	BBT	21.81B	13.04	1.03	3.19	2.95%
Weyerhaeuser Co.	WY	17.00B	34.88	4.00	2.26	2.58%
Wal-Mart Stores Inc.	WMT	259.54B	15.70	3.42	0.55	2.38%
Aspen Insurance Holdings Ltd.	AHL	2.55B	10.82	0.76	1.11	1.87%
Parker Hannifin Corporation	PH	13.70B	13.65	2.57	1.05	1.87%
PPG Industries Inc.	PPG	21.65B	20.34	4.52	1.46	1.61%
Reinsurance Group of America	RGA	4.65B	6.74	0.68	0.46	1.52%
Rollins Inc.	ROL	3.52B	31.68	9.67	2.75	1.50%
CONSOL Energy Inc.	CNX	8.09B	28.09	2.04	1.53	1.41%
The Charles Schwab Corporation	SCHW	22.46B	25.43	2.37	4.51	1.37%
Altera Corp.	ALTR	10.59B	19.24	3.07	5.94	1.21%
Dana Holding Corporation	DAN	2.58B	14.04	1.40	0.37	1.14%

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