12 Healthcare Dividend Stocks With High Potential To Boost Growth And Hike Dividends

Healthcare dividend stocks with low payout ratios and small debt figures originally published at long-term-investments.blogspot.com. I love the combination of low debt with little payout ratios. 

The debt situation is one of the most important issues in corporate finance. It also expresses the ability to grow sales and earnings by enlarging the balance sheet with bank loans.

Only a low leveraged corporate has potential to boost sales without taking new investors into the boat that dilute the current earnings per share.

Today I would like to start an article serial about low leveraged stocks from several sectors with currently small dividend payouts. I believe it’s good to see what companies have the biggest potential to give shareholders huge amounts of money back in the near future and believe me, the tech sector is not the only place to be.

My criteria are a low dividend payout ratio of less than 20 percent as well as a debt-to-equity ratio under 0.5. Only twelve stocks fulfilled these very tight defined criteria.

One result is a High-Yield and nine stocks are recommended to buy or better. Most of the results come from the medical appliances & supplies or equipment industry.

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Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On August 16, 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 16, 2013. In total, 28 stocks go ex dividend - of which 6 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 3.31%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
Macerich Co.	MAC	8.25B	33.89	2.73	8.83	3.87%
Manulife Financial Corporation	MFC	32.88B	22.00	1.44	1.64	2.99%
Teva Pharmaceutical Industries	TEVA	33.83B	83.02	1.57	1.69	2.74%
Bemis Company, Inc.	BMS	4.28B	22.85	2.69	0.84	2.50%
Walgreen Co.	WAG	47.82B	22.23	2.52	0.67	2.50%
ResMed Inc.	RMD	6.95B	23.20	4.32	4.59	2.05%
Energizer Holdings Inc.	ENR	6.21B	15.02	2.69	1.37	2.01%
Honeywell International Inc.	HON	65.65B	20.79	4.77	1.73	1.97%
Spectrum Brands Holdings, Inc.	SPB	3.33B	-	3.71	0.88	1.56%
Bunge Limited	BG	11.51B	39.31	1.19	0.18	1.53%
Timken Co.	TKR	5.75B	18.56	2.49	1.30	1.53%
Moody's Corp.	MCO	14.56B	19.61	32.59	4.97	1.22%
The Babcock & Wilcox Company	BWC	3.45B	15.13	3.56	1.03	1.04%
Woodward, Inc.	WWD	2.87B	21.00	2.70	1.51	0.76%
QEP Resources, Inc.	QEP	5.22B	35.49	1.53	1.94	0.27%

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13 Highly Shorted Healthcare Dividend Stocks

Healthcare dividend stocks with the highest float short ratio originally published at "long-term-investments.blogspot.com". Selling a stock short is a popular method by investors to make a capital gain in a falling market. If investors believe that the stock price should fall, they borrow shares of the company and sell them on the market in order to hope that the stock price falls much more and that he can buy back the borrowed shares for a cheaper price.

Activists often sell stocks short. They try to scary other investors. Today I like to show you which of the healthcare stocks have the highest float short ratio. The ratio shows you how many shares have been sold short. It’s ever interesting to see which companies have some problems and investors like to speculate on a falling stock price. The higher the ratio is, the bigger the problems of the company.

These are my criteria:

- Positive Dividend Yield

- Healthcare Sector Relationship

- Float Short Ratio over 5 percent

Thirteen healthcare dividend stocks have fulfilled these criteria. Eight of them have a current buy or better rating.

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Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On May 17, 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 17, 2013. In total, 12 stocks and preferred shares go ex dividend - of which 4 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 2.56%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
Main Street Capital Corporation	MAIN	1.08B	8.75	1.67	11.90	6.00%
PBF Energy Inc.	PBF	2.99B	387.25	1.74	0.15	3.87%
AEGON N.V.	AEG	12.82B	7.47	0.33	0.21	3.85%
Microchip Technology Inc.	MCHP	7.35B	60.69	3.80	4.65	3.75%
Bemis Company, Inc.	BMS	4.18B	23.77	2.56	0.82	2.56%
Walgreen Co.	WAG	47.40B	22.33	2.50	0.67	2.20%
Laporte Bancorp, Inc.	LPSB	60.73M	14.82	1.04	3.07	1.64%
Energizer Holdings Inc.	ENR	6.38B	16.21	2.83	1.40	1.56%
Thomas Properties Group Inc.	TPGI	258.82M	-	1.98	2.78	1.43%
ResMed Inc.	RMD	7.20B	23.84	4.10	4.89	1.35%
Apogee Enterprises, Inc.	APOG	787.47M	42.54	2.36	1.12	1.30%
Callaway Golf Co.	ELY	472.04M	-	1.34	0.56	0.60%

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