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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15 Dividend Contenders With Over 20% Return on Equity and Return on Investment

Dividend growth stocks with very high returns on equity and returns on investment originally published at long-term-investments.blogspot.com. A solid investment delivers also solid returns over the time. Dividend growth is not the only criteria for a good investment. There are also many dividend growth stocks outside with low or negative return on investments and return on equity ratios.

Today I screened the Dividend Contenders Database by stocks with high return ratios. I fixed the 20 percent level in order to get the best results.

Only 15 companies fulfilled both, a return on equity as well as a return on investment over 20 percent. The difference between those two ratios is that the return on investment does not include the leverage effect. A corporate with high debts will automatically generate high returns on equity. The second ratio is a performance measure that looks only at the investment by dividing the investment return by the costs of the investment.

One High-Yield is below the results and 10 stocks got a buy or better rating by brokerage firms. Leverage is the key for high returns in my screen. As you might see in the attached sheet, the debt ratios are modestly high but in the end, the investor will pay a higher price for a leveraged company.

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Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On May 14, 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 14, 2013. In total, 29 stocks and preferred shares go ex dividend - of which 10 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 4.25%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
Portugal Telecom SGPS SA	PT	4.71B	16.41	1.49	0.55	13.52%
Buckeye Partners LP	BPL	7.09B	28.93	2.78	1.63	6.18%
Westpac Banking Corporation	WBK	102.55B	17.35	2.20	2.78	5.99%
Healthcare Realty Trust Inc.	HR	2.69B	270.18	2.34	8.32	4.04%
Duke Realty Corp.	DRE	5.91B	-	1.99	5.31	3.70%
CenterPoint Energy, Inc.	CNP	10.37B	24.96	2.37	1.34	3.43%
American Campus Communities	ACC	4.72B	78.95	1.79	8.57	3.00%
Microsoft Corporation	MSFT	273.00B	16.85	3.56	3.59	2.81%
Archer Daniels Midland Company	ADM	22.45B	18.12	1.18	0.25	2.23%
Marathon Oil Corporation	MRO	24.32B	15.40	1.33	1.50	1.98%
Marathon Petroleum Corporation	MPC	25.13B	7.45	2.11	0.29	1.81%
Amgen Inc.	AMGN	80.04B	18.06	4.10	4.59	1.76%
Franco-Nevada Corporation	FNV	6.25B	60.03	1.99	14.65	1.69%
Columbia Sportswear Company	COLM	2.04B	19.20	1.74	1.21	1.48%
The TJX Companies, Inc.	TJX	36.73B	19.98	10.07	1.42	1.14%
Gildan Activewear Inc.	GIL	5.13B	18.75	3.38	2.44	0.85%
Cabot Oil & Gas Corporation	COG	14.09B	90.32	6.62	10.79	0.12%

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