18 Best Dividend Growth Stocks For The Long Term

The best dividend stocks pay rising dividends year after year. These are typically well known businesses with long dividend histories.

But that's not all. You have to look at much more than on consequent paid dividends. You must look at debt ratios, growth figures, valuation levels, and much more.

However, global economic headwinds are leaving investors perplexed about which stocks to bank on. The markets have been on a roller coaster ride in the recent past – either due to the flagging Chinese economy, the Eurozone debt crisis or the U.S. Federal Reserve’s pending decision over the first rate hike. Moreover, weakness in the energy sector and a strong dollar are nagging concerns.

We have to focus on stocks with long-term potential to avoid short-term problems. Today's screen is long-term orientated. I've put my focus on the best 5 year earnings growth forecast.

These are my screening criteria in detail

- Dividend Achiever Member (over 10 year's consecutive dividend growth)
- 5 Year Predicted EPS Growth Over 5%
- Market Cap over 2 Billion
- Forward P/E under 15
- Debt/Equity under 0.5

18 stocks jumped on my screen. The results can be found at the end of this wonderful article.

Here are the 5 top yielding results...

19 Best Insurance Dividend Growth Stocks To Consider Now

If there is one thing every investor can appreciate, it is a growing stream of reliable dividends. Some sectors have more dividend champions than others. The insurance sector is a useful place for investors who want to align their personal risks with their portfolio. 

If insurance companies are able to increase prices and profits, owning the insurance companies should lead to stronger dividends at the same time that insurance costs will be increasing. However, it can be difficult for investors to determine which insurance stocks would be the best fit for their portfolio.

Insurers are big asset managers and depend on the market conditions. But not all insurers are equal. Life insurers suffer more on this weak interest environment than property and casualty insurer.

Attached you can find the best investment opportunities from the industry. I've only listed those stocks with a long dividend growth history. In addition, each of the stocks has a low forward P/E and a positive earnings growth outlook for the next five years. In addition, the debt-to-equity ratio is under 0.5. As a result, 19 stocks joined the list.

Here are the results:

8 Attractively Valued, High-Quality, Higher-Yielding Dividend Growth Stocks

The current market environment is presenting many challenges to the conservative retired investor in need of current income. Interest rates are near all-time lows and the valuations of many blue-chip dividend growth stocks have become extended.

Consequently, it is becoming very difficult to find quality investment opportunities that can provide safety through sound valuation, attractive yield and the potential to fight inflation. Most of my recent work has been focused on presenting attractively valued, high quality, higher yielding dividend growth stocks for consideration by retired investors. Consequently, my primary focus has been on above-average yield, safety and dividend growth. Stated more plainly, my objective was to present high quality income and income growth investments over total return investments.

Attached you can find a few of my latest screening results. I've done a lot in terms of beta, also a measure of market volatility. I believe that the ratio tells investors something about the risk of the stock.

Here are my criteria:

-Low Forward P/E (under 15)
-Low Debt To Equity (under 0.5)
-Earnings Growth over 5% for the next five years
-Market Cap over 2 billion
-Dividends hiked over 10 consecutive years

These are my favorite stocks...

My Yield-Growth Screening Results June 2015 - (RTN, ADM, TRV)

The Yield/Growth stock Report for June 2015 is out. I've compiled the 20 cheapest high yielding dividend growers in a Factbook. You find there also the 20 fastest growing stocks with cheap forward P/E.

The idea is simple. I look for stocks with the most reliable dividend growth on the market. Those stocks have risen dividends over 10 consecutive years.

My favorites on the list are Travellers, ACE Limited, IBM and Qualcomm for yield. Top Picks from the fastest growing list are T. Rowe Price, AmTrust Financial Services, Archer-Daniels Midland and finally Raytheon. Which do you like?

The compilation includes the 20 top yielding stocks with a forward P/E of less than 15 and a dividend growth history of more than 10 years. 

In addition, the factbook includes a list of the 20 fastest growing stocks with a cheap forward price-to-earnings ratio.

By giving us a small PayPal donation, you get a fresh updated version. Just donate and we send you the Factsheet to your PayPal donation e-mail. Thank you for supporting us. It helps us do keep this site free for everyone. 

Stocks For The Next Decade Each Safe Haven Investor Need To Know

When it comes to times of uncertainty and volatility, nothing beats safe haven stocks. What are they? They are dividend stocks with high yields and minimal risk as compared to other stocks.

You might have noticed that the federal banks flooding the markets with cheap money and investors started to get greedy by taking more and more debt to buy stocks higher and bonds extraordinary higher.

Those times come to an end if rates rise or something else crosses like weak economic data. This time, the strong dollar could bring the rally to an end.

Today I like to show you 13 stocks with cheap price ratios and an extremely stable business model that can resist the greatest market storm. It does not mean that the stock price goes down but with every recession those stocks become stronger and stronger.

These are my ideas. What do you guess?

8 Attractive Looking Dividend Growth Companies

The recent small sell-off gave me an opportunity to look at the current dividend achievers lists; those also include lists of Champions, Contenders and Aristocrats.

I've looked for cheap opportunities with a solid growing business. ACE and TROW were both stocks that cached my thoughts in the recent days. For sure, their yields stand only at 2.54 and 2.67 percent as well but remember that they pay only a small amount of money to shareholders while the business models enables it to pay much more.

ACE also started to buy bigger amounts of own shares. That's fantastic because in the past, they thrown only shares on the market to finance growth.

TROW paid a special dividend earlier this year but still has enough capability to raise dividends in the future. The current payout is only around 40 percent with no debt on balance sheets.

Here are the top picks from my screening results. Which do you like?

11 Oversold Dividend Growth Stocks With Cheap P/E's And Growth Forecast

When a stock price falls, I believe that a high quality company becomes cheaper and more attractive. That is a good thing in my view.

Today I like to share eleven stocks with an oversold label, measured by an RSI-40 level.

I've compiled only stocks with 10 or more years of consecutive dividend growth. In addition, on the list are only stocks with a low forward P/E as well as expected earnings growth of more than 5 percent for the next five years.

These are the results....

20 Solid Dividend Growth Stocks With A Reasonable Pricing

When we look for good investments, we do have a strong focus on stocks with cheap price ratios, solid growth forecasts and solid debt ratios as well.

As a reader of my blog, you might know that I'm creating screens on a regular basis with these input factors. 

Today I've discovered my dividend grower’s lists with the following criteria:

- 5 year earnings growth forecasts over 5 percent yearly

- Debt-to-equity ratio under 0.5

- Low forward P/E

- Market capitalization over 2 billion

20 stocks fulfilled my criteria of which 13 yield over 2 percent. Insurer and banks are dominating the results. Those belong to the financial sector and offer risks due to the link to the financial market who might offer external shocks.

These are my favorite stocks from the list. Attached, you can find my full results with some essential fundamentals. Which do you like? Please let me know.

These are the results:

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:

Warning: Top Dividend Picks From Europe

Europe has a better investing environment as the United States. The ECB currently runs a 60 billion monthly quantitative easing program for the next months and a rising dollar makes European companies much cheaper than years before.

The big risk is still an ongoing decreasing euro due to problems in the Ukraine and debt negotiations in Greece. If the country should leave the Euro zone, other countries could follow but in the end, I believe that makes the area stronger. A bigger risk is to keep overspending countries with high debt in the Euro zone.

Today I run a market screener about European dividend stocks with simple criteria:

- Positive Dividend Yield

- Over 2 Billion Market Cap

- EPS growth for the next half-decade above 5 percent yearly

- Low forward P/E

- Debt-to-equity under 1

13 stocks fulfilled the above mentioned criteria of which two stocks are High-Yields. Below are my 4 favorites with a detailed view on the fundamentals. I hope you have some fun by discovering my results and will leave a few comments. Thank you!

These are my favorites:

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?

13 Cheap S&P 500 Dividend Achievers

Today I like to introduce some dividend growth stocks with the cheapest valuation on the S&P 500. Those stocks have a forward P/E of less than 15.

Buying cheap stocks doesn't mean that you could make a quick return. Mostly the cheapness has reasons which you need to discover. 

For the time being, there are only 26 solid stocks but many have a huge debt burden to wear. If we exclude those stocks by implementing a debt-to-equity limit of 0.5, the results shrink to 13 companies. The list is attached. 

It's hard to find good growing stocks especially when the Fed offers money for free. But what should we do elsewhere? Compared to fixed income assets, equities are quiet cheap and they offer an inflation hedge.

Are you investing money into stocks too? Please share your thoughts related to my ideas here on my blog. Thank you so much.

Here are my 5 favorites, sorted from highest to lowest yield....

19 Safe And Top Yielding Stock Ideas From Abroad

When I discover the news about stock markets, I can see a big trend of money which is moving into the U.S. investing space.

P/E multiples are rising and the dollar is gaining nearly on a daily basis but this trend should not work for years, it’s a technical driven reaction.

What I see is that more and more investors look oversea for new investment targets. Europe is one of the favorite investment areas if you believe that the problem of the 28 nation currency is recovering and the economy gets more grips.

Today I like to show you the best ADR dividend stocks on the American Capital market with a solid earnings growth prediction.

You also may like: 41 UK Dividend Growth Kings You Must Know

These are my criteria:

- U.S. listed stock with headquarter abroad (ADR)

- Large capitalized stock

- Expected 5-year earnings growth over 5 percent yearly

- Low forward P/E (under 20)

- Dividend over 2 percent

- Low Volatility

19 stocks fulfilled these ambitious criteria of which one stock has a double-digit dividend yield. These are my 5 favorites from the screen.

Believe me, there are a lot more top stocks but not all are included in my screening criteria because of the ADR restriction. You can also check out my latest articles about foreign dividend stocks.

My 5 top results from the screen are…

8 Top Stocks With Recent Dividend Growth Or Stock Buyback Announcements

Below are the latest dividend growers and stocks with a fresh buyback announcement. I hope you have some fun by reading and discovering new stock ideas.

18 companies have raised their dividend payments during the past week. The biggest stocks are Merck, Aetna and Becton, Dickinson and Company. You can discover more results at the end of this post.

In addition, 13 companies announced a new or refreshed share buyback program. The biggest stocks are ACE Limited, Westlake Chemical and The Vasper Corporation as well. The full list of buyback companies is also attached.

Please donate if you find some values in my screens. Thank you so much for reading and supporting my work.

These are some of the biggest results from the past week:

6 Cheapest Stocks With Dividend Yields Over 2%

I always scout for stocks with cheap price ratios. Benjamin Graham was a great teacher about identifying fundamentally cheap stocks and one of his most popular students were billionaire Warren Buffett itself.

I love to buy stocks that are not far away from its fundamentally reasonable price. Three good indicators are Price-to-Book, Price-to-Sales and Price-to-Earnings.

Growth and a better than anticipated business environment are the main driver for wealth which let the stock price skyrocket.

Integrate both in your trading strategy and you will get a better investment return.

Yesterday, I wrote about stocks that have tenfold their sales over the past decade. It is very impressive so see how strong can companies grow but if you look at Facebook, you pay a high price for that growth.

I'm not sure if your investment in twitter and facebook will pay-off as long-term investor. You must be carefully look at the P-Ratios.

I've created a small sheet of cheap dividend stocks with a dividend yield hitting the 2% yield mark. These are my criteria in detail:

- Dividend Yield over 2%

- P/B under 2

- P/S below 2

- Forward P/E under 15

- Market Cap over 2 billion

- Dividend Payout ratio under 60%

Eighteen stocks fulfilled my criteria of which one yields over five percent. Below are my six favorites. Which do you like?

4 Hot Dividend Growing Incurance Stocks You Must Know (ACE, AFL, TRV, UNH)

During the past week I've visited my girlfriend and came back home with some ideas about investing. 

Earlier this year, I've noticed that insurance stocks are great cash flow producer and some of them have a really low dividend payout ratio. They invest a huge amount of money to buy back own shares and they are really cheap valuated.

Warren Buffet likes insurer but he prefers today stocks from the cable business. I also see that those companies have a very attractive Price-to-Ebitda ratio.

However, I bought two German insurers last Friday. They yield over 3 percent and I like to increase my positions over the next time if they become cheaper.

The American stock market also has great insurer to look at. Aflac and Travelers are my two favorites followed by Chubb Corp. Those are also long-term dividend grower and part of David Fish's CCC List.

Below I've highlighted a few large cap insurer from the accident & health insurance industry as well as stocks from the property & casualty insurance industry. In addition, I've added large caps from the health care plans industry. From there came only one stock, the United Health Group.

All of the selected stocks have raised dividends by more than five consecutive years. Just dare a glace at my thoughts. I know that those stocks are not very popular but they are very attractive in terms of price for cash.

8 Top Dividend Stocks I Like In This Capital Market Environment

While I made my daily research, there came a lot of interesting stocks on my screen.

Most of them offer a great opportunity but they still have a risk.

I personally look for stocks with a 10+ billion market cap as well as a P/E ratio of less than 20 combined with a 5+ percent mid-term earnings growth.

Below are eight stocks with solid fundamentals and a good long-term dividend growth history that could be helpful for your own asset allocation. My favorite industries are telecoms and insurer.

8 top long-term dividend grower....

17 Cheap Large Cap Dividend Contenders Close To New 52-Week Highs

Cheaply valuated dividend growth stocks close to new 52-Week-Highs originally published at long-term-investments.blogspot.com. I published recently a small article about Large Cap stocks close to new one-year highs with a single P/E.

The idea behind is that there could be more room for a higher stock price due to the low valuation and the break-out signal. I know that this kind of method is more technically but it should give you some new ideas from a different perspective of the capital market.

Today I would like to screen my dividend income growth stock database by shares with 10 to 25 years of consecutive dividend growth that are 5 percent or less away from new one-year highs. In addition, the earnings income multiple for the next year should be under 15 and the market capitalization over USD 10 billion.

Only 17 stocks fulfilled these criteria of which ten are currently recommended to buy.

Next Week's 20 Top Yielding Ex-Dividend Shares

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 week.

In total, 168 stocks go ex dividend - of which 76 yield more than 3 percent. Here is a full list of all stocks with ex-dividend date within the upcoming week.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
Eni SpA	E	87.85B	28.53	1.12	0.53	4.62%
Canadian Imperial Bank of Comm.	CM	32.18B	10.15	2.10	2.82	4.54%
The Bank Of Nova Scotia	BNS	68.97B	11.85	1.86	3.87	3.98%
TransCanada Corp.	TRP	31.41B	21.89	2.06	3.84	3.94%
Philip Morris International, Inc.	PM	147.56B	17.53	-	1.88	3.76%
The Dow Chemical Company	DOW	47.09B	19.18	2.45	0.83	3.22%
Avalonbay Communities Inc.	AVB	17.19B	84.20	2.01	13.86	3.22%
Republic Services, Inc.	RSG	12.40B	27.13	1.61	1.52	3.04%
Edison International	EIX	15.00B	11.31	1.60	1.20	2.93%
Nucor Corporation	NUE	16.06B	38.75	2.13	0.87	2.92%
Sempra Energy	SRE	21.13B	21.80	1.97	2.02	2.90%
Bancolombia S.A.	CIB	12.14B	14.54	2.02	2.91	2.89%
Deere & Company	DE	32.35B	9.62	3.77	0.85	2.43%
Dell Inc.	DELL	24.39B	18.26	2.26	0.43	2.31%
Xerox Corp.	XRX	12.48B	10.90	1.06	0.57	2.27%
Cardinal Health, Inc.	CAH	18.22B	55.67	3.05	0.18	2.26%
Agrium Inc.	AGU	13.41B	9.87	1.83	0.81	2.22%
Illinois Tool Works Inc.	ITW	34.39B	14.54	3.36	2.03	2.20%
ACE Limited	ACE	32.40B	10.05	1.19	1.72	2.15%
St. Jude Medical Inc.	STJ	15.24B	25.32	3.97	2.80	1.86%