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20 Most Profitable Insurers To Consider

Insurers are under pressure due to Hurricane Irma. Let's take a look at the most profitable vertical integrated insurer in order to find some investment opportunities after the big sell-off which is still alive at the moment.

The industry is very broad developed. There are many insurers available on the market and barriers to entry seem very low. But the demand for insurance products is high and rises over years.

Warren Buffett loves insurance stocks and I love them too. Which stocks from the high return insurance stock list do you like?

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Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On September 11, 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, 258 stocks go ex dividend - of which 80 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 5.49%. 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 stocks:


Company
Ticker
Mcap
P/E
P/B
P/S
Yield
Valley National Bancorp
2.04B
14.45
1.34
3.22
6.34%
Digital Realty Trust Inc.
6.76B
36.58
2.37
4.78
5.92%
Golar LNG Ltd.
3.06B
3.25
1.59
10.81
4.73%
Leggett & Platt
4.41B
17.58
3.09
1.18
3.97%
Validus Holdings, Ltd.
3.65B
10.53
1.01
1.73
3.39%
Domtar Corporation
2.20B
28.60
0.83
0.41
3.34%
BRE Properties Inc.
3.88B
43.05
2.28
9.67
3.14%
Packaging Corp. of America
5.24B
23.44
4.99
1.74
2.94%
GATX Corp.
2.19B
15.33
1.80
1.72
2.63%
The Hanover Insurance Group
2.23B
21.95
0.89
0.47
2.60%
XL Group plc
8.75B
10.35
0.88
1.17
1.85%
Airgas Inc.
7.72B
24.30
4.78
1.55
1.82%
Worthington Industries, Inc.
2.36B
17.60
2.84
0.90
1.79%
First Horizon National
2.71B
18.54
1.26
3.53
1.77%
Nasdaq OMX Group Inc.
5.10B
17.13
0.87
1.67
1.70%
URS Corporation
3.74B
11.92
1.04
0.32
1.66%
Comerica Incorporated
7.55B
15.01
1.09
4.18
1.65%
Albemarle Corp.
5.23B
17.52
3.86
1.99
1.54%
Service Corp. International
3.87B
25.03
2.76
1.56
1.53%
Alcoa, Inc.
8.64B
80.80
0.68
0.37
1.49%

13 Safest Foreign Dividend Stocks

The Safest International Dividend Stocks by Dividend Yield - Stock, Capital, Investment. Here is a current sheet of foreign stocks with a beta ratio of less than 0.5. This means if the market changes one percent, the mentioned stock moves only 0.5 percent in the same direction and vice versa. In addition, the dividend yield of the observed companies should above one percent. 13 stocks fulfilled these criteria of which six operate within the gold industry. Three have a buy or better recommendation.

Here are my favorite stocks:
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China Mobile (NYSE:CHL) has a market capitalization of $199.17 billion. The company employs 170,019 people, generates revenues of $76,619.45 million and has a net income of $18,952.16 million. The firm’s earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) amounts to $37,430.29 million. Because of these figures, the EBITDA margin is 48.85 percent (operating margin 31.07 percent and the net profit margin finally 24.74 percent).


Financial Analysis:
The total debt representing 1.16 percent of the company’s assets and the total debt in relation to the equity amounts to 1.74 percent. Due to the financial situation, a return on equity of 22.10 percent was realized. Twelve trailing months earnings per share reached a value of $4.79. Last fiscal year, the company paid $2.05 in form of dividends to shareholders.


Market Valuation:
Here are the price ratios of the company: The P/E ratio is 10.36, Price/Sales 2.59 and Price/Book ratio 2.19. Dividend Yield: 4.11 percent. The beta ratio is 0.48.


Long-Term Stock History Chart Of China Mobile Ltd. (ADR) (Click to enlarge)


Long-Term Dividends History of China Mobile Ltd. (ADR) (CHL) (Click to enlarge)


Long-Term Dividend Yield History of China Mobile Ltd. (ADR) (NYSE: CHL) (Click to enlarge)


Elbit Systems (NASDAQ:ESLT) has a market capitalization of $1.78 billion. The company employs 12,317 people, generates revenues of $2,670.13 million and has a net income of $175.32 million. The firm’s earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) amounts to $339.49 million. Because of these figures, the EBITDA margin is 12.71 percent (operating margin 7.77 percent and the net profit margin finally 6.57 percent).


Financial Analysis:
The total debt representing 17.27 percent of the company’s assets and the total debt in relation to the equity amounts to 64.51 percent. Due to the financial situation, a return on equity of 20.39 percent was realized. Twelve trailing months earnings per share reached a value of $3.76. Last fiscal year, the company paid $1.44 in form of dividends to shareholders.


Market Valuation:
Here are the price ratios of the company: The P/E ratio is 11.05, Price/Sales 0.67 and Price/Book ratio 1.83. Dividend Yield: 3.47 percent. The beta ratio is 0.96.


Long-Term Stock History Chart Of Elbit Systems Ltd. (ADR) (Click to enlarge)


Long-Term Dividends History of Elbit Systems Ltd. (ADR) (ESLT) (Click to enlarge)


Long-Term Dividend Yield History of Elbit Systems Ltd. (ADR) (NASDAQ: ESLT) (Click to enlarge)


Teva Pharmaceutical Industries (NASDAQ:TEVA) has a market capitalization of $40.56 billion. The company employs 42,000 people, generates revenues of $16,121.00 million and has a net income of $3,363.00 million. The firm’s earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) amounts to $4,744.00 million. Because of these figures, the EBITDA margin is 29.43 percent (operating margin 23.38 percent and the net profit margin finally 20.86 percent).


Financial Analysis:
The total debt representing 18.04 percent of the company’s assets and the total debt in relation to the equity amounts to 31.35 percent. Due to the financial situation, a return on equity of 16.18 percent was realized. Twelve trailing months earnings per share reached a value of $3.36. Last fiscal year, the company paid $0.78 in form of dividends to shareholders.


Market Valuation:
Here are the price ratios of the company: The P/E ratio is 13.62, Price/Sales 2.67 and Price/Book ratio 1.87. Dividend Yield: 1.89 percent. The beta ratio is 0.31.


Long-Term Stock History Chart Of Teva Pharmaceutical In... (Click to enlarge)


Long-Term Dividends History of Teva Pharmaceutical In... (TEVA) (Click to enlarge)


Long-Term Dividend Yield History of Teva Pharmaceutical In... (NASDAQ: TEVA) (Click to enlarge)


Barrick Gold (NYSE:ABX) has a market capitalization of $46.94 billion. The company employs 20,034 people, generates revenues of $10,924.00 million and has a net income of $3,217.00 million. The firm’s earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) amounts to $4,649.15 million. Because of these figures, the EBITDA margin is 42.56 percent (operating margin 42.10 percent and the net profit margin finally 29.45 percent).


Financial Analysis:
The total debt representing 20.08 percent of the company’s assets and the total debt in relation to the equity amounts to 35.10 percent. Due to the financial situation, a return on equity of 18.48 percent was realized. Twelve trailing months earnings per share reached a value of $4.36. Last fiscal year, the company paid $0.44 in form of dividends to shareholders.


Market Valuation:
Here are the price ratios of the company: The P/E ratio is 10.77, Price/Sales 4.30 and Price/Book ratio 2.46. Dividend Yield: 1.28 percent. The beta ratio is 0.42.


Long-Term Stock History Chart Of Barrick Gold Corp. (USA) (Click to enlarge)


Long-Term Dividends History of Barrick Gold Corp. (USA) (ABX) (Click to enlarge)


Long-Term Dividend Yield History of Barrick Gold Corp. (USA) (NYSE: ABX) (Click to enlarge)

Take a closer look at the full table. The average price to earnings ratio (P/E ratio) amounts to 23.34 while the forward price to earnings ratio is 9.88. The dividend yield has a value of 2.59 percent. Price to book ratio is 1.55 and price to sales ratio 2.47. The operating margin amounts to 20.47 percent.

Here is the full table with some fundamentals (TTM):

13 Safest Foreign Dividend Stocks (Click to enlarge)

Related stock ticker symbols:
STB, TGP, CHT, CHL, ESLT, VR, NTT, TEVA, AEM, IAG, DRD, ABX, KGC

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