Russell 2000 Dogs With Hard Safe Yields

Dividend investors face a constant battle of choosing between dividend yield and sustainability.

Generally speaking, low yields are often sustainable but may be undesirable for investors looking to pad their portfolio with dividend income or reinvestment opportunities.

On the other end of the spectrum, high yields (let's say 5% and higher) are extremely attractive for income-seeking investors, but they're also often far more dangerous than lower yields due to a possible lack of sustainability.

Remember that dividend yields are a function of payout divided by share price, and if a stock's share price has been tumbling, its yield will rise. Thus, dividend investors have to be diligent to ensure that a yield isn't inflated solely because a company's business model is in trouble.

Attached you will find a list of stocks from the Russell 2000 with high yields. Most of them have free cashflow yield exceeding the dividend yield.

Here are the results...

15 Top Yielding Stocks From The Buyback Achievers Portfolio

Best yielding stocks from the Dividend Buyback Achievers Portfolio originally published at long-term-investments.blogspot.com. I always talk about good dividends that grow over time but receiving big dividends from high quality stocks is only the half truth.

A Dividend payment is only one way to distribute earnings to shareholders. Another very effective way to pay money indirect is to buy own shares back.

Today I started a little screen about stocks that have repurchased at least around 5 percent of its own outstanding shares within the recent twelve months.

You can find a complete list of the top yielding stocks from the Dividend Buyback Achievers Portfolio attached. Only fifteen companies from the list have a current yield of more than 3 percent.

Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On October 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.

In total, 19 stocks go ex dividend - of which 3 yield more than 3 percent. 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 stock:

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
Physicians Realty Trust	DOC	154.20M	-	8.45	11.77	7.00%
Comtech Telecommunications	CMTL	450.48M	28.86	1.11	1.41	4.01%
Bridge Bancorp, Inc.	BDGE	204.44M	15.59	1.74	3.69	3.99%
Friedman Industries Inc.	FRD	68.81M	14.25	1.09	0.54	3.16%
Procter & Gamble Co.	PG	216.24B	20.40	3.23	2.57	3.06%
Cracker Barrel Old Country Store	CBRL	2.53B	21.67	5.22	0.96	2.83%
Foot Locker, Inc.	FL	4.92B	12.14	2.03	0.78	2.43%
US Ecology, Inc.	ECOL	567.30M	20.69	4.66	3.07	2.34%
Luxfer Holdings PLC	LXFR	477.00M	12.02	4.38	0.97	2.25%
Bon-Ton Stores Inc.	BONT	203.14M	151.50	4.09	0.07	1.89%
Resource America, Inc.	REXI	182.67M	-	1.24	2.90	1.78%
Pall Corp.	PLL	8.69B	26.88	4.79	3.28	1.42%
Thor Industries Inc.	THO	3.08B	20.32	3.45	0.95	1.24%
Oxford Industries Inc.	OXM	1.13B	30.16	4.56	1.27	1.05%
PerkinElmer Inc.	PKI	4.15B	59.10	2.23	1.95	0.75%
Core Laboratories NV	CLB	8.04B	36.40	44.41	7.85	0.73%
Acuity Brands, Inc.	AYI	4.20B	33.45	4.23	2.01	0.53%
Lennar Corp.	LEN	6.55B	17.69	1.76	1.22	0.47%

Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On July 17, 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 July 17, 2013. In total, 12 stocks go ex dividend - of which 3 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 4.65%.

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
Himax Technologies, Inc.	HIMX	1.03B	20.07	2.41	1.39	4.15%
Comtech Telecommunications	CMTL	464.29M	26.43	1.15	1.33	3.96%
Friedman Industries Inc.	FRD	67.11M	10.97	1.06	0.49	3.24%
Cracker Barrel Old Country Store	CBRL	2.43B	20.68	5.33	0.91	2.94%
A. Schulman, Inc.	SHLM	831.69M	18.54	1.60	0.39	2.75%
Luxfer Holdings PLC	LXFR	332.00M	7.00	4.09	0.62	2.41%
Foot Locker, Inc.	FL	5.58B	14.00	2.25	0.89	2.16%
Resource America, Inc.	REXI	176.09M	6.78	1.21	2.84	1.37%
Oxford Industries Inc.	OXM	1.12B	41.56	4.76	1.30	1.07%
Bon-Ton Stores Inc.	BONT	383.83M	-	4.53	0.13	0.98%
PerkinElmer Inc.	PKI	3.85B	49.22	2.10	1.83	0.82%

20 Best Yielding Stocks From The Share Buyback Achievers Index

The highest yielding stocks from the Share Buyback Achievers index originally published at "long-term-investments.blogspot.com". I love dividends and dividend growth but most investors are fixed on these themes. Some companies know this and they try to catch investors by paying dividends and let them grow. The problem is that they have only a middle class business model and they burn shareholder value by following the dividend growth approach.

Better variants to give money back to shareholders are share buyback programs. The company buys own stocks and reduces the current amount of outstanding shares. As a result, earnings per share grow at a higher rate and the share price should follow because the P/E goes down and yields are up.
There exists an index that covers the best stocks with share buy backs of at least 5 percent or more for the trailing 12 months. The index is called Buyback Achievers Index. Over 200 companies are constituents but only half of them pay dividends.

Today, I like to introduce the 20 highest yielding stocks from the index. Below results are completely different stocks compared to my regular screens about Dividend Champs and other growth picks. Just take a look and get inspired.

Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On April 17, 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 April 17, 2013. In total, 18 stocks and preferred shares go ex dividend - of which 7 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 4.18%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
PennantPark Floating Rate Capital	PFLT	-	-	-	-	7.48%
Kayne Anderson Energy Development	KED	267.75M	10.99	1.08	24.77	6.77%
Main Street Capital Corporation	MAIN	1.05B	8.49	1.62	11.55	6.19%
Telefonica Brasil, S.A.	VIV	29.18B	12.90	1.31	1.70	5.94%
Vale S.A.	VALE	84.41B	11.88	1.14	1.77	4.76%
Comtech Telecommunications Corp.	CMTL	389.55M	19.79	0.94	1.03	4.75%
Friedman Industries Inc.	FRD	64.53M	9.12	1.04	0.44	3.37%
PNM Resources, Inc.	PNM	1.84B	17.62	1.14	1.37	2.86%
US Ecology, Inc.	ECOL	479.69M	18.62	4.27	2.84	2.76%
Smith & Nephew plc	SNN	10.52B	14.32	2.70	2.54	2.72%
Luxfer Holdings PLC	LXFR	822.53M	6.43	3.75	1.54	2.49%
Cracker Barrel Old Country Store	CBRL	1.91B	17.04	4.40	0.72	2.49%
Foot Locker, Inc.	FL	5.02B	12.97	2.11	0.81	2.39%
Bon-Ton Stores Inc.	BONT	268.38M	-	2.39	0.09	1.52%
Resource America, Inc.	REXI	172.69M	7.52	1.20	2.81	1.40%
Oxford Industries Inc.	OXM	937.40M	29.88	4.08	1.10	1.28%
PerkinElmer Inc.	PKI	3.84B	56.55	2.01	1.82	0.83%
ARM Holdings plc	ARMH	18.81B	76.25	10.08	21.26	0.59%