The Best Yielding Life Insurer By Dividend Yield

Ticker	Company	Market Cap	P/E	P/S	P/B	Dividend
AEG	Aegon N.V.	13.61B	5.03	0.2	0.46	5.07%
ING	ING Groep N.V.	58.44B	9.9	1.44	1	4.86%
PUK	Prudential plc	60.06B	15.81	0.53	2.79	4.53%
MFC	Manulife Financial Corporation	36.16B	18.98	0.88	1.18	3.75%
MET	MetLife, Inc.	47.11B	9.66	0.69	0.85	3.65%
PRU	Prudential Financial, Inc.	42.60B	8.92	0.71	0.82	3.59%
PFG	Principal Financial Group, Inc.	16.27B	8.63	1.16	1.39	3.53%
LFC	China Life Insurance Company Limited	87.97B	14.54	0.93	1.46	2.64%
FFG	FBL Financial Group, Inc.	2.01B	19.67	2.71	1.69	2.22%
TIPT	Tiptree Inc.	259.58M	-	0.44	0.62	2.12%
LNC	Lincoln National Corporation	14.90B	21.8	1.01	0.96	1.97%
RGA	Reinsurance Group of America, Incorporated	9.20B	13.16	0.72	1.02	1.40%
PRI	Primerica, Inc.	5.04B	19.77	2.89	3.64	0.86%
IHC	Independence Holding Company	539.31M	10.87	1.6	1.28	0.80%
AAME	Atlantic American Corporation	49.73M	-	0.28	0.5	0.80%
TMK	Torchmark Corporation	9.98B	4.27	2.34	1.72	0.73%
AEL	American Equity Investment Life Holding Company	3.29B	11.08	1.06	1.28	0.72%
NWLI	National Western Life Group, Inc.	1.22B	12.55	1.1	0.66	0.11%

16 Cheap Dividend Stocks With Low Debt To Boost Share Repurchases

Dividend paying stocks with low debt ratios and big share repurchases originally published at long-term-investments.blogspot.com. I love dividend growth stocks and dividend paying companies in general but it’s also important to see that the corporate buys its own shares back.

The process of share repurchases is a special way to give shareholder’s money back in a very tax-optimized way. 

A low yielding stock with a 2 percent yield can lift the total yield via stock repurchases to 4 percent or so. For sure, share buybacks are no cash yields on your trading account; it’s an indirect way to reduce the current shares and lift the potential share price.

There is an index outside that covers some of the best stocks with share repurchases that bought at least 5 percent of its outstanding shares within the past 12 months.

Today I would like to screen the Buyback Achievers index by the best yielding stocks with a low forward P/E as well as a very low debt-to-equity ratio. Low debt is a good indicator for potential growth or additional share buybacks.

These are my criteria in detail:

- Positive Dividend Yield

- Forward P/E under 15

- Long-Term Debt-To-Equity below 0.2

- Member of the Buyback Achievers Index

In total, sixteen Buyback Achievers Index stocks fulfilled the above mentioned restrictions of which ten have a current buy or better rating.

Latest Dividend Growth: 19 Stocks With A Higher Dividend Payment

Stocks with dividend hikes from last week originally published at long-term-investments.blogspot.com. Dividend growth slows a little bit. Last week, only 19 companies announced a higher dividend. I’ve published all stocks with dividend growth from the recent week in the attached dividend list for you.

You can also find a compilation of price and yield ratios in this post. In average, stocks from the list of the latest dividend growth stocks have increased their dividend payments by 30.57 percent. Big companies are on the list: Royal Bank of Canada, Altria, Toronto-Dominion Bank and Seadrill are well known stocks with recent dividend hikes from last week.

I have no special preference when I buy stocks. I like it to get diversified but my focus is also on cheaply priced stocks. Only 11 stocks of the recent dividend growers still have a forward P/E of less than 11.

Four of the results have a high yield of more than five percent and one stock yields over 10%. Analysts and brokerage firms recommend 10 of stocks with recent dividend boosts.