14 Technology Dividend Stocks With Huge Potential To Pay Much Higher Dividends

Technology dividend stocks with low payout ratios and debt figures originally published at long-term-investments.blogspot.com. Today I would like to go forward with my article serial about low leveraged stocks from several sectors with currently small dividend payouts. I will discover some of the greatest low leveraged technology stocks on the market with also low dividend payout ratios.

My criteria are still a low dividend payout ratio of less than 20 percent as well as a debt-to-equity ratio under 0.5. In order to get only higher capitalized stocks, I decided to choose only those companies with a market cap of more than USD 2 billion.

Fourteen shares fulfilled these criteria of which eleven got a buy or better rating.

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Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On August 22, 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.

In total, 16 stocks go ex dividend - of which 3 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 2.68%. Here is a full list of all stocks with ex-dividend date within the upcoming week.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
Intersections Inc.	INTX	177.93M	17.00	1.72	0.53	8.11%
Pan American Silver Corp.	PAAS	2.07B	-	0.77	2.26	3.66%
Atmos Energy Corporation	ATO	3.77B	17.07	1.46	1.01	3.36%
FirstMerit Corporation	FMER	3.63B	17.81	1.42	6.16	2.79%
HollyFrontier Corporation	HFC	9.25B	5.91	1.48	0.45	2.62%
Symantec Corporation	SYMC	18.30B	24.77	3.33	2.63	2.28%
Assurant Inc.	AIZ	4.27B	11.04	0.89	0.49	1.82%
Dunkin' Brands Group, Inc.	DNKN	4.66B	36.83	13.14	6.88	1.76%
Robert Half International Inc.	RHI	5.13B	22.14	5.95	1.24	1.70%
Old Line Bancshares Inc.	OLBK	89.93M	12.87	1.20	2.37	1.22%
Apollo Global Management, LLC	APO	3.91B	8.00	3.70	1.06	0.98%
Guaranty Bancorp	GBNK	240.52M	19.88	1.30	3.49	0.87%
LSB Financial Corp.	LSBI	37.58M	13.88	0.95	2.47	0.83%
Haverty Furniture Companies	HVT	574.87M	28.18	2.11	0.81	0.62%
Hecla Mining Co.	HL	1.13B	-	0.85	3.49	0.27%
Radian Group Inc.	RDN	2.26B	-	2.51	3.10	0.08%

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Next Week's 20 Top Yielding Large Cap Ex-Dividend Stocks

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 Between August 19 - 25, 2013. In total, 95 stocks go ex dividend - of which 30 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 3.93%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
British American Tobacco plc	BTI	101.88B	16.87	9.55	4.29	5.40%
Transocean Ltd.	RIG	16.92B	10.26	1.08	1.82	4.77%
Thomson Reuters Corporation	TRI	28.88B	29.00	1.73	2.24	3.74%
HSBC Holdings plc	HBC	204.96B	13.37	1.18	3.87	3.61%
CA Technologies	CA	13.75B	13.28	2.44	2.97	3.27%
Johnson & Johnson	JNJ	251.10B	19.86	3.61	3.59	2.95%
Intercontinental Hotels Group	IHG	10.16B	15.87	32.96	5.54	2.84%
Invesco Ltd.	IVZ	14.39B	19.19	1.76	3.28	2.81%
Carnival Corporation	CCL	28.30B	18.92	1.22	1.85	2.74%
Carnival plc	CUK	29.64B	19.81	1.27	1.93	2.62%
Applied Materials Inc.	AMAT	18.79B	-	2.73	2.49	2.56%
Target Corp.	TGT	44.04B	16.10	2.67	0.60	2.51%
Marathon Petroleum	MPC	22.54B	7.11	1.88	0.25	2.40%
AFLAC Inc.	AFL	28.16B	8.41	2.06	1.11	2.31%
Symantec Corporation	SYMC	18.29B	24.75	3.33	2.63	2.29%
Marathon Oil Corporation	MRO	24.32B	15.43	1.28	1.48	2.22%
Archer Daniels Midland	ADM	24.70B	20.36	1.30	0.27	2.04%
Hershey Co.	HSY	21.31B	29.74	19.15	3.12	2.04%
Limited Brands, Inc.	LTD	17.07B	22.72	-	1.61	2.03%
Cummins Inc.	CMI	23.46B	16.64	3.50	1.39	2.00%

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Dodge & Cox's Latest Dividend Stock Buys And Income Holdings

Dodge & Cox fund investing strategies originally published at long-term-investments.blogspot.com. The Dodge & Cox fund is a real equity based investment vehicle with around USD 81.3 billion in assets under management.

The investment firm was founded in 1930, by Van Duyn Dodge and E. Morris Cox. With this long history in background, there is also a long performance review available. 

Over the recent years, the fund’s performance suffered a bit. There was a small underperformance of 2.7 percent over the recent three years and 9.2 percent over the past five years. The excess gain to the S&P 500 over the longer term was also small with up to 2.9 percent at the peak (15 years).

They own in total 163 companies of which two were recently new in the fund. Kraft Foods Group and Abbvie are the two names.

Dodge & Cox have a real focus on financial, healthcare and technology stocks. More than half of their funds (59.9 percent) are invested in these three stock categories. The biggest impact on the buy side had the technology sector which is now net 0.7 percentage points bigger compared to the previous quarter.

Dodge & Cox have a dividend focus and they like large capitalized stocks. From their 20 biggest stock buys and sells in Q1/13 pay 17 a solid dividend and 17 have a valuation over USD 10 billion. Hewlett Packard is the biggest holding, worth around USD 4 billion. The latest big stock increases are up 26.03 percent year-to-date.

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