7 Good Stocks With Return Promise

Buying big companies with strong cash flows and competitive advantages is one of my key philosophies when I think about investments. 

I also like such companies that grow and give more and more money back to shareholders.

I believe that each company should work for its owners and give them a good and solid return. 

That's one of the reasons why I'm scouting each week for the latest stocks with dividend growth and share buyback announcements.

Below are seven large caps with shareholder-friendly activities. I've tried to select a good mix from several sectors and industries but you can also find more by looking at the full list of dividend growers at the end of this article. I hope you get some inspirations.

7 good stocks with dividend growth or share buyback announcement are....

54 Stocks And 4 Funds With A Higher Dividend Payment

Stocks with dividend hikes from last week originally published at long-term-investments.blogspot.com. I like it to see dividends grow. It’s a very good sign from the company to give money back to stockholders and share corporate profits.

For the time being, we are in a bullish market and the Federal Reserve is flooding the market with cheap money. These are the main forces for the strong stock market. But a growing dividend is not only a sign of a technical reaction, it’s much more. A dividend growth shows normally that the operating business runs well. Last week, 54 stocks and 4 additional funds announced a higher dividend payment. I published all stocks with dividend growth from the recent week in the attached dividend list. In average, stocks from the list of the latest dividend growth stocks have increased their dividend payments by 17.11 percent.

Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On August 05, 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 August 05, 2013. In total, 36 stocks go ex dividend - of which 23 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 4.95%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
Penn Virginia Resource Partners	PVR	2.51B	-	2.13	2.33	8.41%
Inergy, L.P.	NRGY	2.00B	3.91	1.86	1.28	7.63%
Inergy Midstream LLC	NRGM	2.11B	54.47	2.88	10.01	6.45%
New York Community Bancorp	NYCB	6.90B	14.01	1.21	3.97	6.37%
Atlas Pipeline Partners LP	APL	2.49B	104.05	1.71	1.83	6.13%
Alliance Resource Partners LP	ARLP	2.78B	11.21	3.58	1.28	6.02%
FirstEnergy Corp.	FE	15.99B	24.21	1.23	1.07	5.75%
DCP Midstream Partners LP	DPM	3.52B	21.55	2.45	1.83	5.18%
Access Midstream Partners, L.P.	ACMP	7.99B	42.20	2.24	11.57	3.92%
Intel Corporation	INTC	115.49B	12.54	2.14	2.21	3.88%
Seagate Technology PLC	STX	15.46B	8.69	4.41	1.08	3.64%
Magellan Midstream Partners LP	MMP	12.80B	28.10	8.47	7.48	3.59%
Southern Copper Corp.	SCCO	22.21B	12.28	4.39	3.42	3.05%
Xilinx Inc.	XLNX	12.45B	25.21	4.03	5.75	2.12%
City National Corp.	CYN	3.84B	18.20	1.62	4.39	1.41%
The Cheesecake Factory	CAKE	2.28B	22.91	3.92	1.23	1.11%
Brown & Brown Inc.	BRO	4.75B	25.35	2.55	3.85	1.07%

Basic Material Dividend Stocks With Highest YTD Performance And Which Are Still Cheap

Basic material dividend stocks with highest performance year-to-date originally published at long-term-investments.blogspot.com. The basic material stock category were the real losing sector this year. Stocks from the sector are down 2.6 percent this year while the best performing sector, healthcare stocks, gained 24.3 percent.

But not all basic materials are loser. There are stocks that doubled its price since the beginning of this year. Others are up 50 percent. Below, you can find a small list of the 20 top basic material stocks. I excluded all companies with a market capitalization below USD 300 million and those without a dividend.

The 20 top dividend paying results gained from 44.58 percent to 65.14 percent. Three of the results have a market cap below a billion and additional seven are valuated between one or two billion. Small and mid-cap stocks are the main performance driver of the sector. Despite the strong stock price hikes, fourteen companies still have a buy or better rating.

Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On May 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 May 06, 2013. In total, 39 stocks and preferred shares go ex dividend - of which 20 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 3.98%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
Penn Virginia Resource Partners	PVR	2.41B	-	1.90	2.40	8.72%
Linn Energy, LLC	LINE	9.01B	-	2.03	5.08	7.56%
Atlas Pipeline Partners LP	APL	2.74B	38.67	1.52	2.20	6.38%
Inergy Midstream LLC	NRGM	2.19B	39.78	2.88	11.30	6.13%
Alliance Resource Partners LP	ARLP	2.76B	12.20	3.90	1.36	5.93%
DCP Midstream Partners LP	DPM	3.55B	21.05	2.83	2.06	5.70%
American Realty Capital Prp.	ARCP	2.50B	-	2.21	148.53	5.55%
Inergy, L.P.	NRGY	2.90B	5.18	2.60	1.63	5.27%
Federated Investors, Inc.	FII	2.32B	12.35	3.88	2.46	4.32%
Access Midstream Partners, L.P.	ACMP	4.47B	36.89	1.94	7.35	4.28%
Magellan Midstream Partners LP	MMP	11.81B	27.14	7.78	6.66	3.84%
Sanofi	SNY	140.50B	21.67	1.88	3.00	3.20%
Southern Copper Corp.	SCCO	27.91B	14.48	5.86	4.19	2.42%
Beam, Inc.	BEAM	10.31B	26.03	2.23	4.18	1.40%
Cheesecake Factory	CAKE	2.08B	20.86	3.52	1.13	1.22%
Waste Connections Inc.	WCN	4.61B	27.27	2.45	2.66	1.07%
UBS AG	UBS	67.98B	-	1.35	4.03	0.90%
Companhia Brasileira de Distribuicao	CBD	14.54B	27.54	3.39	0.57	0.33%