18 Services Stocks With Low Debt And Payout Ratios To Boost Future Dividends

Services dividend paying stocks with low payout ratios and relatively small debt figures originally published at long-term-investments.blogspot.com. Today I would like to continue my article serial about low leveraged stocks with small payout ratios. I believe that those stocks can pay higher dividends in the future or they have the ability to grow further without capital increases.

The services sector ha s many corporate stocks with small dividend payouts but the most of the stocks are working with small profit margins or they have a modest capitalization. I decided to look only at stocks with more than $2 billion market capitalization in order to get the best results. My other criteria are still the same: Debt to equity under 0.5 with a dividend payout ratio of less than 20 percent.

Eighteen stocks fulfilled the above mentioned criteria of which ten are currently recommended to buy.

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The Latest Stock Buys And Sells From Bill Gates

Bill Gates and his latest stock buys and sells originally published at long-term-investments.blogspot.com. Today I would like to introduce you the latest stock buys and sells from Bill Gates.

Bill Gates is not only a self made billionaire who got his wealth from Microsoft. He is a much more diversified guy as you might think. A few years earlier, Bill Gates founded the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Trust which has a current portfolio value of around USD 17.8 billion.

The trust owns only 21 stocks of which around half of the value comes from the incurance company led by Warren Buffett, Berkshire Hathaway. 

Financial service is a big theme for Bill Gates. Other important industries he prefers are defensive consumer stocks and industrials. All three sectors combined represent around 80.7 percent of Bill Gates's full asset allocation.

Bill Gates has a similar investment style like his friend Warren Buffett. He is a passive long-term investor but with some different ideas and views about stocks and earnings growth. Why should it be otherwise? He’s a old tech guy.

Last Quarter, Bill Gates made only one stock purchase and sold six companies. Five of them were closed completely. The biggest impact had the reduction of the current Berkshire stake which impacted his portfolio by 3.59 percent.

Five of his seven portfolio moves pay dividends.

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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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Bill Gates’ Best Yielding Dividend Stocks | Biggest Bets Of The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Trust and their highest yielding dividend stock buys originally published at "long-term-investments.blogspot.com". Bill Gates is a self-made billionaire and started to manage his investments by himself. 

He created the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Trust which has assets of USD 18.1 billion under management. The money is distributed on 26 stocks. Bill’s approach is similar to the investment philosophy of Warren Buffett but he has his own investment style and invested money into different stock holdings.

Within the recent quarter, Bill bought no new stocks. Today I like to show you the latest 20 stock picks and the biggest positions of the trust. Bill is a great believer of Warren Buffett and he holds around USD 8.4 billion in Berkshire Hathaway shares. Additional billion stakes are Coca-Cola and Coca-Cola FEMSA.

Of his 20 latest transactions are 16 unique and twelve of them pay dividends.

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Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On May 01, 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 01, 2013. In total, 21 stocks and preferred shares go ex dividend - of which 10 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 3.36%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
PAA Natural Gas Storage, L.P.	PNG	1.34B	22.79	1.53	3.45	6.34%
American Strategic Income P III	CSP	158.49M	-	-	-	6.06%
Barclays PLC	BCS	58.27B	-	0.67	1.72	4.58%
Reed Elsevier NV	ENL	32.78B	14.78	6.79	6.69	4.36%
Reed Elsevier plc	RUK	23.00B	16.41	7.64	4.59	4.26%
National Penn Bancshares Inc.	NPBC	1.41B	26.24	1.24	4.59	4.12%
Plains All American Pipeline, L.P.	PAA	19.15B	23.74	2.88	0.51	4.04%
CMS Energy Corp.	CMS	7.85B	17.31	2.43	1.21	3.47%
Tesoro Logistics LP	TLLP	2.66B	33.86	-	16.95	3.30%
MOCON Inc.	MOCO	78.08M	31.38	2.30	1.76	3.12%
Ford Motor Co.	F	53.71B	9.63	3.36	0.40	2.93%
Credit Suisse Group	CS	43.76B	32.67	0.97	1.87	2.74%
Capitol Federal Financial, Inc.	CFFN	1.81B	25.28	1.08	5.63	2.53%
Boston Private Financial Holdings	BPFH	765.99M	17.62	1.24	3.49	2.06%
Coca-Cola Bottling Co.	COKE	563.69M	25.08	4.16	0.35	1.64%
Ocean Shore Holding Co.	OSHC	102.81M	19.93	0.98	2.79	1.63%
Enersis S.A.	ENI	18.40B	15.75	1.50	1.32	1.07%
PetSmart, Inc.	PETM	6.88B	18.82	6.28	1.02	0.99%
Signet Jewelers Limited	SIG	5.46B	15.44	2.35	1.37	0.89%
Empresa Nacional de Electricidad	EOC	14.31B	28.76	2.68	2.85	0.59%

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