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 06, 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, 50 stocks go ex dividend - of which 16 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 3.70%. 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
Linn Energy, LLC	LINE	5.63B	-	1.33	3.08	12.77%
Pepco Holdings, Inc.	POM	4.61B	-	1.09	1.03	5.83%
Reynolds American Inc.	RAI	26.08B	17.36	5.12	3.16	5.28%
PPL Corporation	PPL	18.12B	12.39	1.66	1.57	4.79%
SCANA Corp.	SCG	6.57B	13.79	1.46	1.46	4.32%
TELUS Corporation	TU	21.39B	17.54	3.01	2.01	3.93%
H&R Block, Inc.	HRB	7.55B	16.69	5.97	2.60	2.89%
Occidental Petroleum	OXY	72.26B	16.38	1.73	2.99	2.85%
Harris Corp.	HRS	6.28B	14.06	4.02	1.23	2.54%
The Travelers Companies, Inc.	TRV	30.47B	10.47	1.22	1.17	2.47%
CME Group Inc.	CME	24.48B	26.30	1.12	8.50	2.44%
Best Buy Co. Inc.	BBY	12.64B	-	3.51	0.30	1.83%
V.F. Corporation	VFC	20.99B	19.10	4.05	1.91	1.81%
WellPoint Inc.	WLP	26.17B	9.51	1.07	0.39	1.72%
Avnet Inc.	AVT	5.44B	12.32	1.27	0.21	1.51%
UMB Financial Corporation	UMBF	2.38B	21.29	1.94	7.01	1.44%
W.R. Berkley Corporation	WRB	5.58B	11.64	1.32	0.91	0.97%
CBS Corporation	CBS	33.25B	19.64	3.46	2.30	0.88%
CNO Financial Group, Inc.	CNO	3.16B	17.89	0.69	0.72	0.84%
Mentor Graphics Corp.	MENT	2.54B	23.65	2.44	2.35	0.80%

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Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On June 07, 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 07, 2013. In total, 12 stocks and preferred shares go ex dividend - of which 2 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 1.99%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
China Petroleum & Chemical	SNP	87.49B	8.74	1.02	0.19	5.73%
Laclede Group Inc.	LG	1.48B	16.70	1.67	1.39	3.61%
Prologis, Inc.	PLD	19.36B	-	1.44	9.60	2.88%
Best Buy Co. Inc.	BBY	9.20B	-	3.14	0.19	2.51%
Firstbank Corporation	FBMI	109.16M	11.69	0.82	1.74	1.77%
Legg Mason Inc.	LM	4.19B	-	0.87	1.60	1.55%
Scorpio Tankers Inc.	STNG	1.44B	-	0.65	10.97	1.13%
Ross Stores Inc.	ROST	14.06B	17.38	7.51	1.42	1.06%
W.R. Berkley Corporation	WRB	5.47B	11.59	1.25	0.92	1.00%
GAMCO Investors, Inc.	GBL	1.42B	19.48	4.02	4.06	0.36%
Gardner Denver Inc.	GDI	3.70B	14.65	2.53	1.64	0.27%
UniFirst Corp.	UNF	1.88B	17.49	1.96	1.44	0.16%

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50 Fastest Growing Dividend Stocks In May 2013

Stocks with highest dividend growth originally researched by Dividend Yield – Stock, Capital, Investment. When a company raises dividends, it’s always a good sign. A firm with a growing dividend let your passive income grow and could put you on the next level of your financial freedom.

But more important than a dividend hike is the intensiveness of the dividend growth. A one percent hike each year is good but it won’t help you over the time. What you need is a stronger growth, something in the range around the 10 percent level.

Today I run my screen of the 50 fastest dividend growers from last month. Below the results are again some pretty good stocks with very good growth rates. All stocks still have a double digit-growth rate. The average dividend growth of the 50 best stocks amounts to 49.42 percent. The average yield is at 3.47 percent.

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41 Stocks And Funds Hiked Dividends Last Week

Stocks with dividend hikes from last week originally published at “long-term-investments.blogspot.com”. Last week, additional 41 stocks and funds announced to raise dividends. The average dividend growth amounts to 34.59 percent. On the list are some big Players from the financial sector like JP Morgan Chase or W.R. Berkley. Also the tech giant Hewlett-Packard raised its dividend by 10 percent despite the operational problems. Twelve companies announced to pay a first dividend ever and ten stocks reduced its payments last week.

The good thing is that dividend growth is definitely stronger established than dividend cuts.

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