13 Unleveraged Dividend Challengers With Yields Over 2% | Dividend Income Growth

Dividend Challengers with very low debt to equity ratios and great initial dividend yields originally published at long-term-investments.blogspot.com. 

If you read my blog for a longer time you should have noticed that dividend growth is one of the most important wealth drivers for long-term dividend investors.

I also talked about the difference between high dividend yields at a low growth and low yielding stocks with a high dividend growth.

The answer of this question is a between solution: Look at good initial yields with growing dividends over the longer period. I talk about mentionable yields and growth rates above the inflation level.

Today I would like to combine both, good growth with an acceptable initial dividend yield. In addition I love it to find stocks with low or no long-term debt. This increases the chance for further big dividend hikes or an accelerated growth.

Only a low leveraged company has more flexibility to grow sales and income much easier. Let’s take a look into the third dividend growth stock category - Dividend Challengers.

Thirteen stocks from the Dividend Challengers list (stocks with dividend growth between 5 to 10 consecutive years) fulfilled my above mentioned criteria. One stock has a high yield close to the double-digit yield ratio and five got a buy or better rating by brokerage firms. Most of the companies from the screening results are low capitalized; eight of them have a market capitalization under USD 2 billion.

Best Dividend Paying Ex-Dividend Shares On February 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.

A full list of all stocks with payment dates can be found here: Ex-Dividend Stocks February 06, 2013. In total, 39 stocks and preferred shares go ex dividend - of which 15 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 3.33%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
Navios Maritime Partners L.P.	NMM	880.23M	8.97	1.39	4.28	12.33%
Capital Product Partners L.P.	CPLP	603.11M	74.36	0.92	3.78	11.37%
First Potomac Realty Trust	FPO	689.45M	-	1.03	3.66	4.44%
American Electric Power	AEP	21.83B	15.10	1.43	1.48	4.18%
Federated Investors, Inc.	FII	2.45B	12.86	4.86	2.59	4.08%
CMS Energy Corp.	CMS	6.83B	19.82	2.13	1.10	3.96%
Oritani Financial Corp.	ORIT	688.41M	18.73	1.36	5.50	3.96%
Belo Corp.	BLC	801.73M	9.48	2.87	1.16	3.75%
Sunoco Logistics Partners L.P.	SXL	6.32B	16.35	4.94	0.47	3.57%
Cedar Realty Trust, Inc.	CDR	402.02M	-	0.64	2.88	3.57%
Unilever plc	UL	120.50B	19.14	5.58	1.72	3.21%
First Community Bancshares	FCBC	317.02M	11.86	0.90	2.89	3.04%
BB&T Corporation	BBT	21.36B	11.30	1.01	3.09	3.01%
Unilever NV	UN	119.33B	18.95	5.46	1.70	2.76%
RPC Inc.	RES	3.35B	12.01	3.73	1.72	2.62%
East West Bancorp, Inc.	EWBC	3.31B	12.55	1.39	3.15	2.54%
Sensient Technologies	SXT	1.89B	15.16	37.66	1.31	2.31%
Cousins Properties Inc.	CUZ	932.92M	-	1.57	5.86	2.01%
Parker Hannifin Corporation	PH	13.80B	13.75	2.59	1.05	1.86%
Pall Corp.	PLL	7.54B	25.71	4.28	2.85	1.47%

The Highest Yielding Stocks With Strong Overbought Signals

Dividend Stocks With Fast Stock Price Increase By Dividend Yield – Stock, Capital, Investment. Stocks with a strong increase in 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. Short-term, investors should be careful to buy stocks with such a warning signal. On the other hand, it could be a sign for better future perspectives.