3 Best And Worst Performing Dividend Champions In 2013

We're coming to the year-end and I would like to review the performance of the best and worst stocks from the Dividend Champions list.

The best performing stocks increased by 60.77 percent over the whole year while the worst performer declined by 17.34 percent.

In total, we can summarize that the year 2013 was a good year for all investors. Big money came in due to the monetary policy and helped to boost stocks at all-time highs.

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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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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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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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20 Dividend Champions With Highest Cash Distribution Growth Rates Over The Short-Run

Dividend Champions with the fastest short-term dividend growth originally published at long-term-investments.blogspot.com. A growing dividend is normally a good sign for investors. The corporate shows two characteristics to their owners: Strength and power of a healthy and growing business.

The rate of dividend growth is in this context a great measure to judge the success of a business. A company with a 20 percent dividend growth rate must have a stronger growing underlying business than a corporate with a 3 percent growing dividend. The future looks rosy and the management team is more optimistic to share profits of the company at a high level.

Firms that hike dividends faster than inflation, deliver accelerated growth or maintain growth at a high level, can pass returns to shareholders.

Today I would like to present you the 20 fastest growing dividends from the Dividend Champions list over the short-run. 105 companies are part of the list which is a compilation of stocks with over 25 years of consecutive dividend growth.

And the winners are: Services and industrials. No other sectors have more constituents on the list. It was the best place to be in the past to gain a higher dividend. This is not equal to return or profits.

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Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On August 16, 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 August 16, 2013. In total, 28 stocks go ex dividend - of which 6 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 3.31%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
Macerich Co.	MAC	8.25B	33.89	2.73	8.83	3.87%
Manulife Financial Corporation	MFC	32.88B	22.00	1.44	1.64	2.99%
Teva Pharmaceutical Industries	TEVA	33.83B	83.02	1.57	1.69	2.74%
Bemis Company, Inc.	BMS	4.28B	22.85	2.69	0.84	2.50%
Walgreen Co.	WAG	47.82B	22.23	2.52	0.67	2.50%
ResMed Inc.	RMD	6.95B	23.20	4.32	4.59	2.05%
Energizer Holdings Inc.	ENR	6.21B	15.02	2.69	1.37	2.01%
Honeywell International Inc.	HON	65.65B	20.79	4.77	1.73	1.97%
Spectrum Brands Holdings, Inc.	SPB	3.33B	-	3.71	0.88	1.56%
Bunge Limited	BG	11.51B	39.31	1.19	0.18	1.53%
Timken Co.	TKR	5.75B	18.56	2.49	1.30	1.53%
Moody's Corp.	MCO	14.56B	19.61	32.59	4.97	1.22%
The Babcock & Wilcox Company	BWC	3.45B	15.13	3.56	1.03	1.04%
Woodward, Inc.	WWD	2.87B	21.00	2.70	1.51	0.76%
QEP Resources, Inc.	QEP	5.22B	35.49	1.53	1.94	0.27%

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Next Week's Best 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 week.

A full list of all stocks with payment dates can be found here: Ex-Dividend Stocks Between August 12 - 18, 2013. In total, 182 stocks go ex dividend - of which 61 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 4.28%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
AstraZeneca PLC	AZN	63.54B	13.01	2.74	2.39	7.49%
Royal Dutch Shell plc	RDS-B	214.51B	8.18	1.19	0.47	5.08%
Duke Energy Corporation	DUK	49.89B	21.38	1.22	2.28	4.41%
Pearson plc	PSO	16.79B	44.28	1.91	2.13	4.37%
Consolidated Edison Inc.	ED	17.66B	16.89	1.49	1.43	4.08%
Exelon Corporation	EXC	26.73B	27.91	1.27	1.07	3.97%
Shaw Communications, Inc.	SJR	11.26B	15.57	2.99	2.29	3.95%
Eli Lilly & Co.	LLY	58.53B	12.15	3.84	2.55	3.62%
CenterPoint Energy, Inc.	CNP	10.39B	55.11	2.48	1.28	3.42%
Chevron Corporation	CVX	235.37B	9.93	1.68	1.01	3.27%
E. I. du Pont de Nemours	DD	55.12B	23.52	4.22	1.56	3.01%
Simon Property Group Inc.	SPG	49.01B	40.81	8.46	9.75	2.91%
Enbridge Inc.	ENB	33.97B	59.81	5.16	1.32	2.88%
Microsoft Corporation	MSFT	272.88B	12.63	3.46	3.51	2.81%
Teva Pharmaceutical Industries	TEVA	34.57B	20.22	1.52	1.72	2.70%
Walgreen Co.	WAG	47.02B	21.85	2.48	0.66	2.54%
International Paper Co.	IP	21.54B	21.93	3.21	0.75	2.50%
Talisman Energy Inc.	TLM	11.57B	-	1.21	2.05	2.40%
Valero Energy Corporation	VLO	20.16B	7.38	1.10	0.15	2.15%
Phillips 66	PSX	36.48B	7.98	1.68	0.21	2.12%

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