5 Dividend Grower With 10%+ Upside Potential

Dividends are essential for income investors but if we are honest, stock price growth is also important for wealth creating. The total return separates the good investors from the bad ones.

A high total return cannot achieve with low dividends and higher dividends are risky.

You need stocks with upside potential to boost your expected return, stocks with rising stock prices.

Today I like to show you some dividend growers that may have upside potential.

These are the results:

Warren Buffett's 10 Highest Yielding Dividend Stocks

Warren Buffett is one of the most successful investors of all time. He reached a major track record over the past decades and impressed the whole investment community.

Warren is also famous for living modestly and investing in products that can be easily understood by anyone. What he buys and own catches major attention for investors because it could be a return promise.

Check out Warren Buffett's latest dividend portfolio here: 10 Most Popular Dividend Stocks Bought By Investment Gurus

Today I would like to show you the highest yielding stocks in Warren Buffett's portfolio. As of now, he owns 47 stocks that have a total value of 109.365 billion. Nearly half of his investments have a relationship to the financial sector.

Here are ten of the stocks with the highest dividend yield, 3 percecnt or more, that we should all seriously consider for our portfolios:

6 Additional High Yielding Stocks For Income Investors

Income investors need high dividend paying stocks. That's difficult because the monetary easing policy lifted stocks into new valuation levels and destroyed all safe yields.

Recently, I've introduced 6 stocks that pay a yield of 5 percent or more. Today I would like to enlarge this selection of stocks by addtion 6 companies.

If you’re looking for individual shares that pay 4% (or slightly more or less, depending on market swings), their list is rich with suggestions. Unlike other dividend-fund managers who emphasize long-term dividend growth, you should take a look at my today's screen.

Today I would continue to present high yielding shares, also a few names from abroad. These are my results. Which do you like?

6 Additional top picks with high yields to consider are....

These 6 Great Dividend Stocks Paying You 5% Or More

Do you remember times when you get 5 percent on your savings? Those were great times but now we receive nothing for putting money into banks but still have a risk.

Dividend stocks rose and yields from the high-quality payer also come down but there are still a few names with solid dividends, cash payments above 5 percent.

When choosing high-dividend stocks over bonds you have a little more volatility to contend with and stock dividends can be cut by a company’s board of directors with no warning and with no legal liability.

Today, I like to show you 6 top dividend stocks with high yields and solid fundamentals. Which do you like?

These are the results...

Maybe The 3 Most Undervalued High-Quality Dividend Stocks

Stock prices go up and down in a very short period of time. A gain of someone is also a loss for a different person or group.

There are times in which investors are greedy and there are times on which they are fearful and sell assets below their fair or intrinsic value.

The stock market is giving opportunistic investors an opportunity to load up on these well-known blue-chip stocks at attractive prices.

There are three high-quality dividend stocks that have seen their share prices fall 10% or more in the last 12 months and are worth buying right now to take advantage of the discount.

 Today I like to show you these top picks which have a bad sentiment but true values to offer. These are my results:

5 Dividend Stocks For Long-Term-Investors

Experts suggest that in order to successfully invest for the long term, you need to focus on quality stocks that are stable and predictable, because what works today may not work years or decades from now.

Dividends play an important role within long-term investing. You get steady growth at low volatility, while also receiving dividends that you can use to reinvest in the company for more stock, or acquire new positions.

High-quality stocks as long-term investments is a great strategy especially when they grow, pay and rise dividends over time. Today I like to present 5 dividend paying stocks that may good long-run stocks for normal investors like me.

These are my favorite results:

These 15 Stocks Could Double Their Dividends

Dividend growth is more important than yield, that's a major issue from the dividend growth investing space.

The reason is simple, a fast growing stock that reinvest all of their generated money, could overtake every higher yielding and slow growing stock in a few years.

Today I like to show you 15 Dividend Achievers, stocks with a history of growing dividends of more than 10 years without a break, that have potential to double their dividends.

My criteria:
- Debt-to-equity of less than 0.2
- Low payout ratio under 30%
- positive earnings growth over 5% yearly

Here are my favorites...

11 Good Yielding Dividend Growth Stocks You Don't Want To Miss In Your Portfolio

If you are a fearful investor who scared about the ups and downs of the stock market, you must consider low volatility stocks with strong and growing cash flows.

In addition, the management team of the company should pay a solid amount of the net income back to shareholders. I talk about dividends and buybacks. Those are very shareholder friendly activities to create value for investors.

Today I like to introduce 11 dividend stocks that combine stable cash flows with high dividend yields above 3% and low stock price volatility. The stocks below reward investors each year with steady or rising dividend payments. Each of these 11 stocks has not reduced its dividend payments in over 25 years.

These are the results in detail:

7 Attractive Dividend Growth Stocks With Solid Yields And Low Price Ratios

Recently the Federal Reserve downgraded its expectations for inflation going forward, Fed watchers concluded that September would be the earliest that hiking would begin, and even then it would proceed at a much slower pace than previously feared.

Investors care much about the activities of the Fed, more than doing own research, reading annual reports and thinking in worst and best cases of their portfolio allocation.

Also check out this article: 3 Unbelievable Dividend Champions With Zero Debt And Promising Payout Growth

I can nothing change in the Fed policy which will ever be offensive because the aim is to simulate the economy. Yes, markets could be overvalued due to low manipulated interest rates but even in a broadly overpriced U.S. market, we can still find solid deals on dividend stocks. If bought at a reasonable price, a good dividend stock offers both a competitive current yield and a strong probability of dividend growth.

Here are seven Dividend Achievers, stocks with a history of growing dividends of more than 10 consecutive years, with attractive fundamentals. The forward P/E is under 15 while earnings are expected to grow by more than 5 percent over the next five years. Sales also grew by more than 5 percent yearly in the past years.

If you are looking for more stocks with an attractive valuation, you should real my articles from this category.

Top 10 S&P 500 Companies By Dividend Growth

Dividend growth is better than dividend yield because over the long-term, each investor could receive a higher return due to the growing business of a corporate.

Today I like to show you those stocks from the popular S&P 500 that have the fastest twelve trailing months dividend growth.

The screen excludes companies with current dividend yield of less than 2%. The growth rate methodology is based on trailing twelve-month DPS compared to the value one year ago.

You may also like my older articles about dividend growth stocks with solid yields and growth persectives.

These are the results, sorted by dividend growth....

War Stocks: 8 Interesting Military, Aerospace & Defense Dividend Stocks Income Investors Need

Military expenditure shrunk in 2013 by 1.9% but not all countries are spending less. 

Military spending in North America and in Western and Central European countries has continued to decline, while other countries such as Brazil and Russia have increased their arms investments. 

 I'm not a military guy but my guess is that it could be possible to come back to cold war times. Maybe Europe is creating an own army to fight against Russia. There is a lot of rumor in the market. 

Who might benefit? Defense and Aerospace stocks. Today, I've created a small overview of defense stocks with good dividends that might catch a good part of military budget. 

You can also get more dividend ideas from the military and defense industry in my recent articles.

Which stocks do you like? 

These are the highlights....

6 Cheap Dividend Aristocrats Everybody Must Love

Dividend Aristocrats are popular on the market because they have achieved to hike dividends over more than 25 years.

A rising income is an important issue for cash-flow orientated investors. I’m such a person and put my eyes also on this category of stocks.

Today, I like to introduce some of the cheapest stocks from the index which is organized by Standard & Poor’s.

As of the time of writing, only eleven stocks have a low forward P/E of which four yield over three percent.

If you are looking for more cheap stocks with solid income growth, you should discover my articles from the category.

These are my main favorites:

5 High-Quality European Dividend Payers

When I read all these articles about investing strategies and look at the moves from big gurus, I see Europe as a dominant investing target.

As you might know, the ECB plans to embark on a bond-buying stimulus program totaling upwards of $1 trillion that will run through September 2016. 

Improving growth prospects and upcoming stimulus efforts should investors consider European stocks; more specifically, we want to focus on high-quality, dividend-paying stocks that conservative investors may want to gain exposure to in an effort to geographically diversify their portfolios.

Buying abroad make sense in some way. I've published some interesting articles around this topic in the past.

Below are five fundamentally-sound sound European dividend stocks that can help beef up your portfolio’s overall yield:

4 Dividend Income Stocks For Long-Term Orientated Investors

Conservative investors should be looking for predictability and stability above all else.

While you should also be mindful of valuation and try not to purchase income at overzealous market pricing, if the payout/yield at which you are purchasing is acceptable and sustainable, that should be a priority as well.

Below are four stock ideas for conservative investors with a long investment horizon. I'm a big believer in long-term value creation. Only over a long period of time, companies can unlock values, grow and finally create the maximun of return for investors and stakeholders.

The 5 Highest Yield Dividend Aristocrats

This is a guest post by Ben Reynolds with Sure Dividend. Sure Dividend uses The 8 Rules of Dividend Investing to identify and rank high quality dividend stocks suitable for long-term investors.

The Dividend Aristocrats Index has outperformed the S&P 500 by 2.76 percentage points a year over the last decade, according to S&P. Simply put, the Dividend Aristocrats Index is an excellent place to look for high quality dividend stocks. 

This is because a company must increase its dividend payments for 25+ consecutive years to be eligible for inclusion in the exclusive Dividend Aristocrats Index. A business must have a strong competitive advantage to raise its dividend payments for 25+ consecutive years.

Of course, not all stocks in the Dividend Aristocrats Index are the same.  Some have better growth prospects and higher dividend yields than others.  This article takes a look at the 5 highest yielding stocks in the exclusive Dividend Aristocrats Index.

#5 – Cincinnati Financial (CINF)

Cincinnati Financial has a dividend yield of 3.5%. The company has paid increasing dividends for an amazing 55 consecutive years. Cincinnati Financial is a property and casualty insurer with an $8.6 billion market cap.

The company operates in 5 main segments:

·         Commercial Insurance

·         Personal Insurance

·         Excess & Surplus Insurance

·         Life Insurance

·         Investment operations

The insurance industry is highly competitive.  Cincinnati Financial has taken an underwriting loss on the sum of its insurance operations each year since 2008. The company has managed to raise its dividend payments year after year thanks to the investment income it earns on the insurance float the company invests.

Cincinnati Financial invests differently than most insurers. The company invests more of its float in blue chip stocks than most insurers. This helps the company realize higher earnings during bull markets, and lower earnings during bear markets. 

The strategy of losing money on underwriting to make it back in investments has not worked well for Cincinnati Financial over the last decade. The company has seen week revenue-per-share growth of under 2% a year.  Despite its high dividend yield and long history of dividend increases, Cincinnati Financial does not have solid growth prospects moving forward.

#4 – Chevron (CVX)

Chevron has a 4.1% dividend yield. The company has paid increasing dividends for 27 consecutive years. Chevron has a market cap of $197 billion, making it the 4^th largest publicly traded oil corporation in the world. 

The company’s stock has fallen 16.5% over the last 6 months due to the precipitous fall in oil prices. The decline in Chevron’s stock price gives investors an opportunity to pick up this high quality shareholder friendly business for cheap. Chevron is currently trading at a price-to-earnings ratio of just 10.3.  Additionally, the company has not traded for a dividend yield over 4% since the depths of the last bear market in 2009.

Some investors worry that Chevron is at risk of cutting its dividend due to low oil prices. The company’s dividend appears safe, however. Chevron currently has a payout ratio of just 41%. Additionally, the company has very little debt. Chevron has over $7 per share in cash and currently pays $4.28 per share per year in dividends. The company is expected to generate about $4.50 in earnings per share this year by analysts. Despite low oil prices, Chevron is still expected to generate enough cash to more than cover its dividend payments.

#3 – Consolidated Edison (ED)

Consolidated Edison has a 4.2% dividend yield and has increased its dividend payments for 40 consecutive years. The company provides electricity to over 3 million people in New York state, and gas to over 1 million people in New York state. 

Consolidated Edison is a utility, and has an exceptionally low stock price standard deviation. In fact, it has the second lowest stock price standard deviation in the Dividend Aristocrats Index, behind only Johnson & Johnson.

As a utility, Consolidated Edison is a slow grower. The company has actually seen its revenue per share decline by about 1.5% a year over the last decade. This slow decline is not a good sign for long-term investors.  Earnings-per-share and dividends-per-share have shown modest growth, but the company is relatively stagnant. Consolidated Edison is a good choice for income oriented investors who cannot stand stock price volatility but require little growth. 

#2 – HCP, Inc. (HCP)

HCP currently has a 5.4% dividend yield and has increased its dividend payments for 30 consecutive years.  HCP is the third largest publicly traded health care REIT; the company has a market cap of over $19 billion.

HCP specializes in senior housing and post acute care facilities. The company has grown its dividends per share at about 3.3% a year over the last decade.  If HCP can continue to grow at 3.3% a year, investors will see total returns of 8.7% a year from both growth and dividend income. 

I believe it is very likely that HCP continues to grow by at least its historical 10 year growth rate (if not faster).  Demand for the company’s senior housing facilities will pick up as ever-greater numbers of baby boomers retire and reach old age.  This combined with longer life expectancies will increase the need for HCP’s senior housing facilities, which will drive the company’s growth.

#1 – AT&T (T)

The highest yielding Dividend Aristocrat is AT&T. AT&T currently has a 5.5% dividend yield.  The company has increased its dividend payments for 31 consecutive years. AT&T is the 2^nd largest telecommunications company in the U.S.; AT&T has a market cap of more than $176 billion.

AT&T has managed to grow at about 4% a year over the last decade. The company has transitioned from a traditional telephone company (long ago) to becoming one of the two most dominant wireless carriers in the U.S.

AT&T may very well grow faster over the next several years than it has over the last decade. The company is acquiring DirecTV. The DirecTV acquisition could spur growth for the company as DirecTV has a strong presence in Latin America which AT&T could leverage. Additionally, AT&T stands to benefit from the trend of using ever greater amounts of wireless data. Smart phone data usage is quickly growing.  As data usage grows, so does the demand and necessity of AT&T’s services.

Final Thoughts

Of the 5 highest yielding Dividend Aristocrats, only Chevron and AT&T rank highly using The 8 Rules of Dividend Investing. Both AT&T and Chevron have low price-to-earnings ratios, high dividend yields, and solid-if-unspectacular growth prospects. 

11 Canadian Dividend Stocks You Should Consider For Your Dividend Growth Portfolio

I'm a big fan of dividend growth stocks because they delivered me solid returns and a growing passive income over the recent years.

My main focus was on U.S. stocks, which is generally good because the American capitalism works fine but outside the US are also good stocks with a predictable business and stable growing dividends.

This week, I look at companies in Canada that have had a history of growing dividends, but more important have the capacity to continue to grow these dividends in the future.

You may like: Top Dividend Picks From Europe

A key measure of this sustainability can be observed through the payout ratio, which is the ratio of dividends paid to either cash flows or earnings.

A company paying out too high of a percentage in dividends is likely unable to continue to do so in the future. Attached are 11 of my top picks from the results.

I hope you can find there some new ideas. Please share your thoughts about the results. Thank you.

Here are some of my results...

Why You Should Look At These 16 Stocks With Cheap Free Cash Flows

When you put money into the market, you should be aware of the market valuation. One of the major problems in valuation is definitely to predict future cash-flows.

Nobody of us has a crystal-ball and no one can predict the future.

The second problem is that there are companies that must invest massively into the business model in order to boost growth or to replace old machines or buildings.

Investors often calculate with free cash flows. Those are the real income of the company, available for dividends, buybacks or mergers and acquisitions.

Today I like to introduce the cheapest Dividend Achievers with a low price to free cash flow of less than 15.

16 companies fulfilled my criteria of which four have a dividend yield over 3 percent. The most of the results come from the property and casualty insurance industry.

Insurer generates massive cash but they have also big problems with decreasing premiums and increasing competition. There are always good reasons why some companies are cheap.

You may also like my article about the best dividend stocks from the title insurance industry. I still prefer, like Warren Buffett, the fastest growing companies from the insurance sector. Those are ACE, UNH and TRV.

What do you think about the screen?

3 Unbelievable Dividend Champions With Zero Debt And Promising Payout Growth

Investors should be careful while investing in stocks under different sectors. You might be tempted to invest in stocks that pay out high dividends, but what you also need to check is whether these companies have any debts or not.

If a company has huge debts, you must strictly stay away from it, however high its dividends are. Such companies cannot be trusted upon to pay out high dividends in the future as the cash flow that they generate would be used for settling debts.

A company that pays out a reasonable rate of dividend and has very little debts is still a better choice. However the best choice would be a company with absolutely no debt at all. Are there any companies like these? If yes, which ones are best in terms of growth?

Today I show you the fastest growing Dividend Champions with zero debt. Those stocks have a double-digit earnings growth forecast for the next five years as well as a low debt to equity ratio of less than 0.1.

Here are the results...

5 Cheap Dividend Grower With Buy or Better Rating

I've recently focused my thoughts on dividend growth stocks with a longer history of consecutive dividend hikes.

Today I like to show you those stocks with 5-10 years of dividend growth that are currently recommended to buy. In addition, the stocks should have an estimated earnings growth for the next five years of more than 5 percent as well as a low forward P/E.

20 stocks met my criteria. Attached is a full list of the results. In addition, I've highlighted my five favorites below. Which stocks do you like from the selection?

Here are my 5 favorites...

10 Sustainable Dividend Growth Stocks With High Yields And Low Payouts

If you're looking for income in retirement, a classic source of that are dividend payments.

Dividend income may not guaranteed but they can easily deliver a sustainable income source. And while not guaranteed, many dividend payouts are exceedingly reliable.

Even better, dividends from healthy, growing companies tend to be increased over time, while the stock price should grow in tandem.

For safe and steady dividend income, seek out companies that: Pay reasonably generous dividends, such as 2.5% or more.

By the way, you may also like my article about the 20 safest Dividend Champions. Always good to know what stocks have the lowest beta ratio.

--- Have a track record of hiking their payouts regularly.

--- Have low payout ratios -- no more than 30%.

--- Are stable, growing, and easy for you to understand.

Below are 10 stock ideas from the dividend growth investing space that fulfills some of these criteria. Which from the results do you like? Please share your thoughts by leaving a comment. Thank you.

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These are my 5 highlights...