17 Cheap Dividend Achievers With Very Low P/S Ratios

Cheaply priced stocks traded below its own book values originally published at long-term-investments.blogspot.com. I love it to look for high quality dividend stocks with a proven long-term track record but one thing I often noticed in my research is that the market gets more and more expensive. But if you would like to make a solid return, you definitely need cheap stocks.

With low yields, the valuation rises in an inflationary environment. That's the key premise in our economy. 

Today I would like to try my best to discover some of the best dividend growth stocks with a current cheap valuation. I use two criteria for screening the Dividend Achievers database: A forward P/E below 15 as well as a price to sales ratio below one.

Exactly 17 dividend growth stocks fulfilled the mentioned criteria. Eight of them got a buy or better rating by brokerage firms. The yields are between 0.95 and 2.91 percent. That’s not much in my view but growth forecasts are positive for all of the results.

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Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On September 12, 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, 192 stocks, preferred shares or funds go ex dividend - of which 95 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 6.02%. Here is a full list of all stocks with ex-dividend date within the current week.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
Ares Capital Corporation	ARCC	4.72B	8.33	1.09	5.87	8.57%
Altria Group Inc.	MO	70.03B	15.97	19.65	2.88	5.49%
BCE, Inc.	BCE	33.62B	14.49	3.10	1.74	5.12%
Garmin Ltd.	GRMN	8.34B	15.80	2.48	3.12	4.22%
Equity One Inc.	EQY	2.54B	-	1.78	7.45	4.07%
DTE Energy Co.	DTE	11.61B	16.47	1.54	1.25	3.93%
Extra Space Storage Inc.	EXR	4.82B	33.60	3.15	10.27	3.69%
Northeast Utilities	NU	12.91B	16.58	1.37	1.80	3.59%
Merck & Co. Inc.	MRK	144.42B	28.56	3.04	3.22	3.58%
Rayonier Inc.	RYN	7.12B	21.25	4.56	4.33	3.47%
Dr Pepper Snapple Group, Inc.	DPS	9.09B	15.25	3.95	1.51	3.41%
Prologis, Inc.	PLD	18.12B	-	1.32	9.46	3.00%
UGI Corp.	UGI	4.44B	16.32	1.78	0.63	2.91%
The Coca-Cola Company	KO	171.75B	20.44	5.33	3.61	2.90%
Taubman Centers Inc.	TCO	4.41B	46.12	-	5.80	2.89%
NYSE Euronext, Inc.	NYX	10.26B	23.73	1.68	2.72	2.84%
Owens & Minor Inc.	OMI	2.18B	21.10	2.21	0.24	2.76%
Western Union Co.	WU	10.31B	11.75	11.11	1.86	2.69%
Fidelity National Financial, Inc.	FNF	5.60B	9.21	1.28	0.65	2.57%
Endurance Specialty Holdings	ENH	2.17B	16.19	0.80	0.95	2.52%

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The Best Performing Utilities And Which Of Them Are Still Cheap

Utility dividend stocks with highest performance year-to-date originally published at long-term-investments.blogspot.com. Utilities are often high dividend payers but they also have high debt amounts and their growth abilities are very limited.

Normally, you should not expect higher capital gains due to the slow growth and high investment costs.

It’s surprising that the best performing utilities gained 18 percent to 80 percent within the first six months of the year. I my view, it’s a shift to quality business models with higher yields and stable returns. Investors look for investment alternatives outside the bond sector and utilities are a place to be for the time being.

You can find a small list of the 20 best performing utility dividend stocks. I excluded all companies with a market capitalization below 300 million. They are definitely too risky and some of them have an extraordinary high return. Lower valuated companies dominating the top results. The average market capitalization amounts to 3.6 billion.

Despite the large price increase of the stocks, twelve of them still have a buy or better rating.

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