Showing posts with label RF. Show all posts
Showing posts with label RF. Show all posts

Thursday, October 10, 2013

13 Large Cap Financials With High Potential To Boost Dividends

Financial dividend stocks with low payout ratios and relatively small debt figures originally published at long-term-investments.blogspot.com. I started an article serial about stocks with low dividend payout ratios and small debt figures this month.

I believe that these two ratios have a big impact to judge the ability of a corporate to grow at a faster pace and hike dividends in the future.

Today I would like to discover the financial sector by stocks with a less than 20 percent dividend payout ratio and a debt to equity leverage of less than one. Because of the huge amount of results, I will only look at those stocks with a market capitalization over USD 10 billion.

Exactly thirteen financial stocks fulfilled these criteria of which one is a High-Yield.

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Thursday, June 13, 2013

Bruce Berkowitz Biggest Dividend Stock Buys

The latest dividend stock buys from Bruce Berkowitz and his biggest portfolio holdings originally published at "long-term-investments.blogspot.com". Bruce Berkowitz is a successful asset manager. He manages around USD 7.9 billion in assets in his management company Fairholme Capital Management. Within the recent quarter, Bruce had only 21 stocks of which 3 are new.

Today I like to show you the top stock holdings from Bruce Berkowitz as well as his latest and most influential dividend stock buys.

His biggest acquisition was Chesapeake Energy. The company was completely new in his portfolio and had an impact of 3.5 percent. The current yield of CHK is 1.66 percent. Only seven of his 20 biggest stock acquisitions pay dividends. Berkowitz is no classical dividend investors. He loves the financial sector. Around 64.3 percent of his portfolio stock holdings have a relationship to financials.

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Monday, April 29, 2013

50 Shares With Fastest Dividend Growth In April 2013

Shares with highest dividend growth researched by Dividend Yield – Stock, Capital, Investment. Only a growing business is a good business; that’s a major rule in economics. But growth is not all. Investors want a part of the company’s success; they want growing dividends at high rates.

Sometimes, predatory investors and some activists try to steal some of the company’s assets and force a dividend payment which is much higher than the current earnings. Those activities are bad for the stock price.

Good dividend hikes are such ones that are in-line with a healthy growing operational business. They reflect a solid growing business with a trustful management who wants to share the company’s success with the ownership.

It’s easy to discover good and bad dividend growth. All you need is to look at the earnings developments and debt changes.

Today I run my screen of the 50 fastest dividend growers from the recent month. Below the results are again some pretty good stocks with very good growth rates. All stocks have a double-digit growth rate. The average dividend growth of the 50 best stocks amounts to 73.26 percent. The average yield is still at 3.77 percent.

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