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The Best Stocks With Dividend Growth From Last Week (February 20-26, 2012)

Stocks With Biggest Dividend Hikes From Last Week by Dividend Yield – Stock, Capital, Investment. Here is a current sheet of companies that have announced a dividend increase within the recent week. In total, 44 stocks and fund vehicles raised dividends of which 26 have had a dividend growth of more than 10 percent. The average dividend growth amounts to 21.19 percent. The biggest hike was announced by Gannett (GCI) who increased its quarter dividends by 150 percent from 8 cents to 20 cents. 10 stocks yielding above 3 percent and 23 have a buy or better rating.

The Best Dividend Stock Buys Of Wallace R. Weitz (Weitz Value Fund)

Wallace R. Weitz - Weitz Value Fund Investing Strategies By Dividend Yield – Stock Capital, Investment. Here is a current overview of the best yielding dividend stock buys of Wallace Weitz, fund manager of Weitz Value. He bought in Q4/2011 four stocks of which tree pay dividends. Accenture (ACN) was his best yielding buy with a current yield of 2.26 percent. The ACN transaction impacted his portfolio by 0.1 percent.

Recently Overbought Dividend Stocks With High Yields

Dividend Stocks With Fast Stock Price Increase By Dividend Yield – Stock, Capital, Investment. Stocks with a strong increase in its share price, especially in the case of unjustifiably pushes, are overbought if the fundamentals don’t support the price change. Here are the best yielding stocks with strong signals to be overbought. Investors should be careful to buy stocks with an overbought signal.

Prem Watsa - Fairfax Financial Holdings Q4/2011 Fund Portfolio

Prem Watsa - Fairfax Financial Holdings Q4/2011 Fund Investing Strategies By Dividend Yield – Stock Capital, Investment. Here is a current portfolio update of Prem Watsa’s - Fairfax Financial Holdings - portfolio movements as of Q4/2011 (December 31, 2011). In total, he held 41 stocks with a total portfolio worth of USD 1,742,545,000.

Ex-Dividend Date Reminder For Next Week (February 27 - March 04, 2012)

Here is a current overview of best yielding stocks with a market capitalization over USD 2 billion that have their ex-dividend date on the next trading week. If your broker settles your trade before the ex-day, you will receive the next dividend. A full list of all stocks with ex-dividend date can be found here: Ex-Dividend Stocks February 27 – March 04, 2012. In total, 230 stocks and preferred shares go ex-dividend of which 85 yielding above 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 3.77 percent.

Five S&P 500 High Yield Stocks With Double Digit Earnings Growth

S&P 500 Stocks With Best Growing Earnings By Dividend Yield - Stock, Capital, Investment. The S&P 500 index is a popular used tool by investors. Professionals like big insurance player or pension funds allocate their portfolio weighting on indices like the Dow Jones Index and Standard & Poor’s 500. The S&P 500 is a free-float capitalization-weighted index published since 1957 by Standard & Poor's, a division of McGraw-Hill Companies. I screened the index with its 500 companies by dividend yields over five percent (high yield). The index has sixteen high yields and the highest yield amounted to 8.62 percent, paid by Frontier Communications (FTR). But earnings of the company are expected to decrease by around eight percent for the next year. No good news for a dividend growth investor. Here are the high yield stocks from the index with an expected earnings per share growth of more than 10 percent for the next year. As result, five stocks remained and all have a low beta ratio (stock to market volatility measure).

The Best Yielding Buys Of David Carr And Larry Coats (RS Capital Appreciation Fund)

David Carr, Larry Coats Q4-2011 Fund Investing Strategies By Dividend Yield – Stock Capital, Investment. Here is a current update of David Carr and Larry Coats’s best dividend stock buys. In total, they bought 21 stocks of which 16 have a positive dividend. The highest yielding buy was Kraft Foods (KFT) followed by insurer Aflac (AFL) and BlackRock (BLX).

Warren Buffett - Berkshire Hathaway Q4/2011 Fund Portfolio

Warren Buffett - Berkshire Hathaway Q4/2011 Fund Investing Strategies By Dividend Yield – Stock Capital, Investment. Here is a current portfolio update of Warren Buffett’s - Berkshire Hathaway - portfolio and his latest movements as of Q4/2011 (December 31, 2011). In total, he has 34 stocks with a total portfolio worth of USD 66,151,587,000. Buffett bought two new companies and added eight additional stocks. The biggest influence had DIRECTV (DTV) and IBM (IBM). Both impacted his portfolio over one percent. He decreased three stocks and closed one of them complete.

Ex-Dividend Date Reminder For February 27, 2012

Here is a current overview of best yielding stocks with a market capitalization over USD 2 billion that have their ex-dividend date on the next trading day. If your broker settles your trade today, you will receive the next dividend. A full list of all stocks with ex-dividend date can be found here: Ex-Dividend Stocks February 27, 2012. In total, 45 stocks and preferred shares go ex-dividend of which 21 yielding above 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 4.88 percent.

16 Solid Financed Dividend Stocks With Best Yields

Big Dividend Paying Stocks With Low Debt And Good Yields Researched By Dividend Yield - Stock, Capital, Investment. The level of debt is important for dividend investors. A high leveraged company has problems to finance dividends and growth in the same way. We love stocks with low payout ratios, low debt and strong cash flows. That’s why we made a screen of stocks with very low debt to equity ratios (a value of less than 0.1) with a minimum dividend yield of three percent. Exactly 147 companies fulfilled these criteria but the big part of the results has a small market capitalization and includes a higher risk for a dividend cut. Only 16 stocks have a capitalization over USD 2 billion and, who has known, six are high yields and additional six are recommended with a buy or better rating.

The Best Yielding Stock Buys Of David A. Katz - Matrix Advisors Value Fund

David A. Katz Fund Investing Strategies By Dividend Yield – Stock Capital, Investment. Here is a current portfolio update of David Katz’s best yielding stock buys from the last quarter. In total, he bought four companies and all of them pay good dividends. The highest yielding stock is Teva (TEVA) with a yield of 2.12 percent. The position was increased by 9.43 percent and has a portfolio weighting of 1.54 percent.

Ian Cumming - Leucadia National Q4/2011 Fund Portfolio

Ian Cumming - Leucadia National Q4/2011 Fund Investing Strategies By Dividend Yield – Stock Capital, Investment. Here is a current portfolio update of Ian Cumming’s - Leucadia National - portfolio movements as of Q4/2011 (December 31, 2011). In total, he held 4 stocks with a total portfolio worth of USD 1,238,740,000.

The Cheapest Large Caps With Highest Expected Growth As Of February 2012

Cheapest Large Capitalized Stocks With Highest Earnings Per Share Growth By Dividend Yield – Stock, Capital, Investment. Here is a current sheet of America’s cheapest Large Caps that have the highest expected growth for the upcoming fiscal year. Stocks from the sheet have a market capitalization of more than USD 10 billion and earnings per share are expected to grow for at least 20 percent. Despite the strong growth, they still have a P/E ratio of less than 20 and a P/S ratio of less than 2. Twenty-four stocks fulfilled these criteria of which one company has a double digit yield; seven yielding above 3 percent. Compared to the results from last month, LM Ericsson (ERIC) and Seagate (STX) are new in our results and they cover the second and third rank.

Ex-Dividend Date Reminder For February 24, 2012

Here is a current overview of best yielding stocks that have their ex-dividend date on the next trading day. If your broker settles your trade today, you will receive the next dividend. A full list of all stocks with ex-dividend date can be found here: Ex-Dividend Stocks February 24, 2012. In total, 12 stocks and preferred shares go ex-dividend of which 5 yielding above 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 2.77 percent.

The Best Dividend Stock Buys Of Arnold Van Den Berg - Century Management Advisers

Arnold Van Den Berg Fund Investing Strategies By Dividend Yield – Stock Capital, Investment. Here is a current update of Arnold Van Den Berg’s best dividend stock buys. Last quarter, he bought twenty stocks of which nine have a positive dividend yield. None of his recent buys has a yield over three percent. The best stocks are mixed from the consumer, services, industrial and technology sector.

Ex-Dividend Date Reminder For February 23, 2012

Here is a current overview of best yielding stocks that have their ex-dividend date on the next trading day. If your broker settles your trade today, you will receive the next dividend. A full list of all stocks with ex-dividend date can be found here: Ex-Dividend Stocks February 23, 2012. In total, 15 stocks and preferred shares go ex-dividend of which 5 yielding above 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 2.68 percent.

Stocks With Fastest Dividend Growth February 2012

Shares With Highest Dividend Growth by Dividend Yield – Stock, Capital, Investment. Here is a current sheet of companies with fastest dividend growth compared to the previous dividend declaration. The dividend growth is often a good indicator for the financial health of a stock. Companies with a strong increase in dividends judge the future of their company rosy. They give money back to shareholders that they don’t need for their business. In total, 77 stocks increased dividends of which 46 raised dividends by more than 10 percent.

The average dividend yield amounts to 3.05 percent and the dividend growth is 37.49.

The Best Yielding Dividend Stocks From Tweedy Brown Value Fund

Tweedy Browne Team Fund Investing Strategies By Dividend Yield – Stock Capital, Investment. Here is a current overview of the best yielding dividend stocks in Tweedy Browne Team’s - Tweedy Browne Value – portfolio. The fund has 28 stocks with a positive dividend yield and eleven of them yielding over three percent. Last quarter, the management team bought only two positions of which Novartis (NVS) was the best yielding buy.

Whitney R. Tilson - T2 Partners Q4/2011 Fund Portfolio

Whitney R. Tilson - T2 Partners Q4/2011 Fund Investing Strategies By Dividend Yield – Stock Capital, Investment. Here is a current portfolio update of Whitney R. Tilson’s - T2 Partners - portfolio movements as of Q4/2011 (December 31, 2011). In total, he held 45 stocks with a total portfolio worth of USD 169,519,000.

Thomas S. Gayner - Markel Asset Management Q4/2011 Fund Portfolio

Thomas S. Gayner - Markel Asset Management Q4/2011 Fund Investing Strategies By Dividend Yield – Stock Capital, Investment. Here is a current portfolio update of Thomas S. Gayner’s - Markel Asset Management - portfolio movements as of Q4/2011 (December 31, 2011). In total, he held 97 stocks with a total portfolio worth of USD 1,895,525,000.

9 Best Yielding Money Center Banks Below Book Value

The Best Yielding Money Center Banks Under Book Value Researched By Dividend Yield - Stock, Capital, Investment. Stocks from the money center banks industry still have tough times. Three years after the Lehman collapse, there is still pressure on the banking sector. The investment banking divisions are weak, equity efforts are higher and it is harder to make money at low interest rates in struggling economies. The current unattractiveness of the industry can also be an opportunity for cyclic investors.

I screened the money center industry by stocks with the best dividend yield as well as an price to book ratio of less than one. The industry has thirty companies of which eighteen pay dividends. Only nine of them are below their book value and seven of them have a buy or better rating.

Ex-Dividend Date Reminder For February 22, 2012

Here is a current overview of best yielding stocks with a market capitalization over USD 300 million that have their ex-dividend date on the next trading day. If your broker settles your trade today, you will receive the next dividend. A full list of all stocks with ex-dividend date can be found here: Ex-Dividend Stocks February 22, 2012. In total, 32 stocks and preferred shares go ex-dividend of which 14 yielding above 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 3.51 percent.

The Best Dividend Buys Of Richard Pzena - Hancock Classic Value

Richard Pzena’s Best Yielding Dividend Stock Buys By Dividend Yield – Stock Capital, Investment. Here is a current portfolio update of Richard Pzena’s latest stock buys with best dividend yields. In total, he bought 21 companies of which 18 have a positive dividend yield. Only three of them yielding above 3 percent.

An Overview Of The Safest Dividend Aristocrats

Dividend Aristocrats With Lowest Beta Ratio Researched By Dividend Yield - Stock, Capital, Investment. Dividend Aristocrats are stocks that have raised dividends over a period of more than 25 consecutive years and they are part of the S&P 500 Dividend Aristocrats Index. The index measures the performance of large cap, blue chip companies within the S&P 500 that have followed a policy of increasing dividends every year for at least 25 consecutive years. Unfortunately, the index covers only 25 percent of all stocks with such a long dividend payment history. The other stocks can be discovered as Dividend Champions. However, I’ve tried to summarize only stocks with a very low volatility, measured by a low beta ratio (a value of less than 0.5). Fourteen companies remained of which six have a yield of more than 3 percent. Five stocks have a buy or better recommendation.

Ex-Dividend Date Reminder For February 21, 2012

Here is a current overview of best yielding stocks that have their ex-dividend date on the next trading day. If your broker settles your trade today, you will receive the next dividend. A full list of all stocks with ex-dividend date can be found here: Ex-Dividend Stocks February 21, 2012. In total, 14 stocks and preferred shares go ex-dividend of which 5 yielding above 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 3.73 percent.

The Newest Dividend Stocks In Dodge & Cox Fund Portfolio

John A. Gunn - Dodge & Cox Fund Dividend Stock Buys By Dividend Yield – Stock Capital, Investment. Here is a current overview of the best yielding stock buys at Dodge & Cox. The fund is managed by John A. Gunn who bought seven stocks of which three pay dividends. Below are the results of his recent activity.

The Highest Yielding Stock Buys Of William B. Frels Fund

William B. Frels’s Best Dividend Stock Buys By Dividend Yield – Stock Capital, Investment. Here is a current overview of the best yielding stock increasing of the fund portfolio from William Frels. He bought eight companies of which seven pay dividends; two stocks have a yield of more than three percent. His best yielding stock buys came from the industrials and conglomerates sector.

Stocks With Dividend Growth From Last Week 7/2012

Stocks With Biggest Dividend Hikes From Last Week by Dividend Yield – Stock, Capital, Investment. Here is a current sheet of companies that have announced a dividend increase within the recent week. In total, 42 stocks and funds raised dividends of which 18 have a dividend growth of more than 10 percent. The average dividend growth amounts to 29.00 percent. The biggest hike was announced by Associated Banc (ASBC) and Fidelity National (FIS). ASBC raised dividends by 400 percent and FIS by 300 percent. 14 stocks yielding above 3 percent and 28 have a buy or better rating.