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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Half-Time Report: The Best Healthcare Dividend Stocks And Which Of Them Are The Cheapest

Healthcare dividend stocks with the highest year-to-date performance originally published at "long-term-investments.blogspot.com". We’ve completed the month June and it’s time to report which stocks have risen most within the first six months of the year. It’s ever good to see which stocks are hot in the market and which of them are still cheap valuated.

That’s the main reason why I like to produce an article serial with performance figures of the best performing stocks from several sectors of the financial market.

Today I like to screen the healthcare sector by dividend stocks with the highest stock performance since the beginning of the year.

The 20 most successful companies have realized a performance between 22.01 percent and 73.98 percent. The average capital gain was 36.24 percent. Despite the strong stock price hike, seventeen of them still have a buy or better rating.

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Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On June 13, 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 13, 2013. In total, 25 stocks and preferred shares go ex dividend - of which 6 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 3.13%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
UIL Holdings Corporation	UIL	1.98B	18.53	1.73	1.26	4.43%
DTE Energy Co.	DTE	11.65B	15.55	1.53	1.29	3.91%
Merck & Co. Inc.	MRK	143.61B	24.27	2.71	3.11	3.62%
Dr Pepper Snapple Group, Inc.	DPS	9.52B	15.55	4.25	1.58	3.26%
Chesapeake Utilities Corporation	CPK	499.47M	15.18	1.86	1.21	2.97%
American Railcar Industries, Inc.	ARII	720.14M	10.31	1.89	0.99	2.96%
H&R Block, Inc.	HRB	8.01B	24.71	12.62	2.96	2.72%
Broadridge Financial Solutions	BR	3.23B	21.00	4.17	1.37	2.70%
Gazit-Globe, Ltd.	GZT	2.26B	8.58	1.13	1.18	2.64%
Huntington Bancshares	HBAN	6.44B	10.82	1.10	3.36	2.60%
CONMED Corporation	CNMD	893.74M	22.54	1.50	1.18	1.86%
American Tower Corporation	AMT	29.99B	51.58	8.17	10.06	1.42%
SEI Investments Co.	SEIC	5.07B	22.62	4.61	4.94	1.36%
Brown Shoe Co. Inc.	BWS	927.71M	33.52	2.14	0.36	1.31%
NewMarket Corp.	NEU	3.70B	15.46	8.84	1.66	1.30%
Chico's FAS Inc.	CHS	2.77B	15.94	2.59	1.06	1.29%
Leucadia National Corp.	LUK	10.33B	11.04	1.02	1.15	0.88%
Thermo Fisher Scientific, Inc.	TMO	30.66B	23.34	1.97	2.42	0.70%
First Citizens Bancshares Inc.	FCNCA	1.90B	12.81	0.99	1.94	0.61%
Air Lease Corporation	AL	2.77B	19.54	1.17	3.87	0.37%

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