5 Dogs Of The Dividend Aristocrats Index

The Dogs of the Dow Jones strategy gained a major popularity within the recent years. The strategy is very simple: You only need to invest money into the 10 cheapest stocks of the Dow Jones, measured by expected growth and price to earnings ratios.

This investment rule can also be used for other indices or adjusted by several criteria. 

Toady I've used the formula in order to find the cheapest stocks from the Dividend Aristocrats index. The index has 54 constituents with more than 25 years of consecutive dividend growth.

I selected only those stocks with a forward P/E of less than 15 as well as future earnings growth of 5 percent for the next five years. Only eleven stocks fulfilled these criteria. The top five results by dividend yield ratio are listed below.

In general, I'm a real fan of long-term dividend growth stocks but due to the low interest policy of the Federal Reserve, stock prices also skyrocket and valuations are really high. It's not good to buy highly valuated stocks.

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16 Dividend Aristocrats With Cheap Forward P/E’s

Dividend Aristocrats income growth stocks with low forward P/E’s originally published at long-term-investments.blogspot.com. Dividend growth is one of the core items of my blog. I always screen the market by stocks with a very long dividend payment history and try to discover some opportunities for you.

What we’ve seen over the recent months is that the market get’s more and more expensive due the low interest environment. It’s really hard to find low valuated stocks with a high quality and proven business model.

Today I would highlight some of the cheapest Dividend Aristocrats on the market. Those stocks have a forward P/E of less than 15.

Only sixteen companies from the index have such a low valuation and one of them has a yield over five percent. Ten are currently recommended to buy.
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12 Cheap Dividend Aristocrats With Buy Or Better Rating

Dividend Aristocrats with low P/E’s and buying recommendations originally published at long-term-investments.blogspot.com. We all love a growing dividend and one of the most popular indices that cover the best dividend growth stocks is the S&P 500 Dividend Aristocrats index.

The index has currently 54 constituents. My goal in this article is to show you the currently cheapest stocks from the Dividend Aristocrats Index with current buy or better ratings.

I know, it’s a little bit easy to trust others work but the high-quality dividend stocks are already discovered. The only thing we must do is to screen the current valuations and market opinions.

Only twelve stocks fulfilled both, a forward P/E below 15 combined with a buy or better rating by brokerage firms. Half of the results have a projected double-digit mid-term earnings growth forecast.

I really like Dividend Aristocrats but because of the highly predictable business model and well known asset class, most of them are no longer cheap. Only eighteen stocks have an expected P/E under 15! That’s only one third of the full database and only around 20 percent of all Aristocrats are recommended to buy. 

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15 Cheap High Beta Industrial Dividend Stocks

Industrial dividend stocks with high beta ratios at a cheap valuation originally published at long-term-investments.blogspot.com. I love it to look for cheap stocks but bargains at the market are really hard to find especially because of the hundreds of thousands metrics you can use to identify an undervalued stock.

A major criterion which is often used by many investors is the price to earnings ratio. It tells you how many years do you need to get your investment back in corporate earnings. The lower the ratio, the cheaper your investment is. A P/E of 10 also means that the earnings yield is at 10 percent.
This month, I’ve created an article serial about high beta stocks. Those stocks are stronger correlated than the overall market and tend to outperform the broad S&P 500 in bullish times. They also tend to lose performance when the markets are going down.

Today I would like to screen high beta dividend stocks from the industrial sector with a cheap forward P/E ratio. Only fifteen stocks from the sector fulfilled these criteria and eleven of them are currently recommended to buy.

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13 High Beta Dividend Champions With Cheap Forward P/E’s

Dividend Champions with high beta ratios and low valuation originally published at long-term-investments.blogspot.com. The Dividend Champions list is a compressed compilation of stocks with the longest dividend growth history. Those stocks raised their cash dividend payments over a period of more than 25 years.

In my current article serial, I write about high beta stocks and the possibility to make more money in a bullish market with high beta stocks. High beta stocks are stronger correlated with the market and can result in a higher performance.

Today I would like to observe those Dividend Champions with a beta ratio above one as well as a forward P/E below 15. It’s very important to make sure that the companies are cheap because only with a high initial earnings yield you can increase the possibility of a good long-term total return. Thirteen stocksfulfilled the above mentioned criteria of which ten are currently recommended to buy.

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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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81 Stocks With A Higher Dividend Payment

Stocks with dividend hikes from last week originally published at long-term-investments.blogspot.com. Dividend growth comes back. Last week, 81 stocks announced a higher dividend payment in the future. Six of them have now a double-digit dividend yield and 38 are low valuated with a forward P/E of less than 15.

It’s good to see that the number of dividend growers have risen within the recent week. It’s a sign that the economy is doing well and companies are more confident about the future.

In average, stocks from the list of the latest dividend growth stocks have increased their dividend payments by 20.73 percent. A value between 5 and 30 is good because your passive income grows faster than the inflation. A too high dividend growth ratio shows that there is something wrong. If not, they have paid very low dividends in the past and let the dividend jump. The most important thing you need to remember is that you receive dividends that are not paid from the substance of the corporate. It means that dividends should be significant lower than the earnings or the corporate. Special dividends are all right but they are only one-time items.

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Latest Dividend Growth Alert: Hershey and Motorola Solutions

Seventeen companies announced yesterday to raise its dividends. The biggest company below the latest dividend growth stocks is the chocolate manufacturer Hershey. HSY announced to boost dividends by 15.48 percent. The current yield amounts to 2.07 percent. Additional large capitalized stocks are Motorola Solutions with a 19.23 percent hike, Hartford Financial Services (50 percent hike), Stanley Black & Decker (2.4 percent dividend hike) as well as the gas utility ONEOK. OKE announced a 5.56 percent higher dividend.

The highest yielding stock is the independent oil & gas company Atlas Resource Partners with 9.34 percent dividend yield. 

These are the latest dividend growth stocks:

Company	Dividend Yield in %	Dividend Growth	Payment Period	Ex-Dividend Date	Dividend Payment Date
Atlas Energy	3.37	41.94%	Quarterly	8/2/2013	8/19/2013
Atlas Resource Ptrs	9.89	5.88%	Quarterly	8/2/2013	8/14/2013
Cheesecake Factory	1.37	16.67%	Quarterly	8/5/2013	8/20/2013
Community Trust Bancorp	3.10	1.59%	Quarterly	9/11/2013	10/1/2013
Eastern Co	2.70	10.00%	Quarterly	8/19/2013	9/16/2013
Hartford Fincl Svcs	1.91	50.00%	Quarterly	8/29/2013	10/1/2013
Hershey	2.07	15.48%	Quarterly	8/21/2013	9/13/2013
Interface Inc.	0.63	20.00%	Quarterly	8/7/2013	8/23/2013
MarkWest	4.97	1.20%	Quarterly	8/2/2013	8/14/2013
Motorola Solutions	2.29	19.23%	Quarterly	9/11/2013	10/15/2013
Oneok Inc	2.83	5.56%	Quarterly	8/1/2013	8/15/2013
PulteGroup	1.21	25.00%	Quarterly	8/1/2013	8/12/2013
Sotherly Hotels Inc.	3.58	14.29%	Quarterly	9/11/2013	10/11/2013
Spectra Engy Ptnr	4.49	1.50%	Quarterly	8/1/2013	8/14/2013
Stanley Black&Decker	2.42	2.04%	Quarterly	9/4/2013	9/17/2013
TAL Intl Grp	6.61	3.03%	Quarterly	8/29/2013	9/24/2013
TC PipeLines LP	6.45	3.85%	Quarterly	8/1/2013	8/14/2013

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10 Cheap Income Growth Stocks From The S&P High-Yield Dividend Aristocrats Index

Stocks from the S&P High Yield Dividend Aristocrats with strong growth at low valuation originally published at long-term-investments.blogspot.com. Is there anybody who don’t loves high dividend paying stocks with a long history of dividend hikes? I don’t think so.

Standard & Poor’s has created an index family with focus on dividend growth stocks. One member of the index family is the popular S&P High Yield Dividend Aristocrats Index. Around 84 companies are part of the income product. The index is designed to measure the performance of companies within the S&P Composite 1500® that have followed a managed-dividends policy of consistently increasing dividends every year for at least 20 years.

Below is a small list of the cheapest stocks from the index with expected double-digit earnings per share growth for the next five years. In addition to the growth figures, they have a low forward P/E, fewer than 15. Only ten stocks fulfilled these criteria of which nine have a buy or better rating.

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19 Cheap Dividend Aristocrats

Dividend Aristocrats with low forward Price-to-earnings originally published at long-term-investments.blogspot.com. Everybody talks about Dividend Aristocrats when discussing the best dividend growth stocks. Those companies have raised their 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 index has only 54 constituents. Normally, Dividend Aristocrats are highly valuated because of their high quality and low risk business models.

If you pay a big premium on your asset, you will not get a good return in the end. It’s very simple. All you need to do is to scout for attractive bargains at the capital market.

Today I would like to screen the Dividend Aristocrats Index by the cheapest companies in terms of forward P/E. Only 19 stocks have a current forward P/E ratio below 15. Some of them have bigger amounts of debt and others are slow growing. However, nearly 70 percent of the results have a current buy or better rating by brokerage firms.

All members of the Dividend Aristocrats Index generated a positive year-to-date performance. It’s also a sign for the quality of the index. In average, they have a stock price performance of 16.03 percent. 1.02 percent points better than the broader S&P 500.

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20 Industrials With Highest Bets On A Falling Stock Price

Industrial dividend stocks with highest float short ratio originally published at "long-term-investments.blogspot.com". Today I like to discover the industrial goods sector by stocks with the highest float short ratio. The figure shows the amount of short selling transactions. 

In order to exclude stocks with a damaged business model or higher risk, I observe only companies with a market capitalization above the USD 2 billion mark and positive dividend payments. The dividend payments are not necessary but they are focus of my blog. Dividend stocks are less often shorted. 

The 20 top results have a float short ratio between 4.0 and 17.44 percent. Industrials are not popular for short selling compared to stocks from the financial sector. Lennar, the residential construction firm, is the highest shorted company on the list.

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Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On June 03, 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 June 03, 2013. In total, 28 stocks and preferred shares go ex dividend - of which 10 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 3.12%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
France Telecom	FTE	27.76B	27.58	0.88	0.49	14.31%
Enerplus Corporation	ERF	3.14B	-	1.01	2.72	6.82%
Cedar Fair, L.P.	FUN	2.33B	23.28	14.65	2.18	5.97%
Ventas, Inc.	VTR	21.34B	57.31	2.33	8.20	3.68%
Hancock Holding Co.	HBHC	2.45B	13.77	0.99	3.25	3.32%
Avery Dennison Corporation	AVY	4.38B	23.79	2.80	0.72	2.64%
Stanley Black & Decker, Inc.	SWK	12.99B	31.22	1.94	1.27	2.44%
QUALCOMM Incorporated	QCOM	110.89B	18.08	2.95	5.12	2.18%
Brown-Forman Corporation	BF-B	15.15B	26.27	9.97	5.43	1.97%
Flowers Foods, Inc.	FLO	4.65B	22.27	4.92	1.42	1.90%
Nielsen Holdings N.V.	NLSN	12.67B	43.45	2.45	2.24	1.89%
Schlumberger Limited	SLB	99.46B	18.52	2.79	2.31	1.67%
Everest Re Group Ltd.	RE	6.48B	7.41	0.95	1.29	1.48%
HSN, Inc.	HSNI	3.04B	23.03	6.47	0.92	1.27%
Halliburton Company	HAL	39.73B	20.50	2.53	1.39	1.17%
Southwest Airlines Co.	LUV	10.31B	27.98	1.50	0.60	1.12%
Compuware Corporation	CPWR	2.41B	34.48	2.30	2.49	1.10%
Itau Unibanco Holding S.A.	ITUB	76.58B	10.96	1.84	2.62	0.59%

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