The Top Yielding Healthcare Large Cap Dividend Paying Stocks - #GlaxoSmithKline #Novartis #AbbVie #Sanofi #Pfizer #Merck

Dear Reader, find below a list of The Top Yielding Healthcare Large Cap Dividend Paying Stocks. 

Ticker	Company	P/E	Fwd P/E	P/S	P/B	Dividend	Price	Target Price
BDXA	Becton, Dickinson and Company	25.4	-	1.12	0.78	4.9%	61.95	-
GSK	GlaxoSmithKline plc	25.99	13.56	2.51	16.95	4.9%	40.34	44.30
ABBV	AbbVie Inc.	18.01	10.49	4.25	-	4.7%	91.53	101.11
SNY	Sanofi	24.71	12.89	2.78	1.72	4.1%	45.10	48.67
AZN	AstraZeneca PLC	38.55	21.98	2.31	8.15	3.4%	40.67	41.66
NVS	Novartis AG	15.45	15.95	4.25	2.61	3.4%	87.75	98.50
GILD	Gilead Sciences, Inc.	12.82	10.17	4.06	3.92	3.3%	69.20	86.15
PFE	Pfizer Inc.	18.14	14.18	4.79	3.58	3.1%	43.51	43.74
BMY	Bristol-Myers Squibb Company	20.23	13.45	4	6.47	3.0%	54.07	59.47
MRK	Merck & Co., Inc.	34.49	16.16	4.78	6.24	2.9%	76.06	79.12
NVO	Novo Nordisk A/S	18.41	17.39	5.03	14.72	2.9%	44.17	47.20
AMGN	Amgen Inc.	16.01	13.36	5.38	8.73	2.7%	194.18	204.70
CVS	CVS Health Corporation	50.75	10.83	0.43	2.21	2.5%	79.33	91.79
JNJ	Johnson & Johnson	26.32	16.9	4.81	6.06	2.5%	145.99	146.78
GRFS	Grifols, S.A.	35.51	15.53	2.94	6.29	2.2%	21.27	22.63
MDT	Medtronic plc	22.74	16.9	4.24	2.52	2.1%	93.70	103.90
DGX	Quest Diagnostics Incorporated	18.05	13.98	1.72	2.45	2.1%	95.85	110.00
LLY	Eli Lilly and Company	50.06	19.65	4.87	8.88	2.0%	113.83	113.00
AGN	Allergan plc	-	9.62	3.39	0.76	1.8%	157.39	209.44
FMS	Fresenius Medical Care AG & Co. KGaA	11.1	14.23	1.36	1.99	1.6%	40.15	54.52

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10 Cheap Larg Cap Pharma Dividend Stocks

Given global market dynamics, I'm a big fan of investing in pharmaceutical companies right now. The aging western population and growth in developing countries will continue increasing drug demand for the foreseeable future. According to Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, prescription drug spending is projected to grow at an average of 6.3% per year through 2025.

What I also like about pharmaceutical stocks is that an investor doesn't have to choose between growth and income. It's possible to invest in a company that is growing faster than the overall market but also consistently returning a significant amount of capital to shareholders.

Attached, I've compiled stocks from the pharma drug, generic drug and major drug manufacturing industry with a low forward P/E. I like some of them, especially ABBVIE, PFIZER and NOVO NORDISK.

What are your favorites?

20 Cheapest Large Cap Buyback Opportunities

It’s that time of year again — the time of year when companies ramp-up their stock buyback activity as they realize they’ll have enough cash to fund those efforts, and/or just to make sure they reach their internal buyback goals.

When corporations are profitable and established, they tend to return capital to shareholders. This can be achieved via stock buybacks to shrink the float and to support the stock, or it can be done via one-time dividends or by raising their annualized quarterly dividends. Both are activities I do cover on this blog on a regular basis.

Many investors love the cash flow from dividends. After all, dividends can contribute up to 50% of total returns through time. Other investors prefer for companies to buy back their common stock. But a good alternative is to combine both shareholder friendly activities.

When picking out companies that will be buying back the largest number of shares in 2016, several things have to be considered. First and foremost, a company had to be willing to spend billions of dollars to buy its shares. Such companies also have to have a history of conducting stock buybacks, or they had to have a solid reason why they would be so aggressive in buying back stock this year alone.

As for which stocks are particularly well-positioned to be the beneficiaries of corporate buyback efforts, investors may want to put the following names on their radar. Attached you will find a selection of the 20 cheapest large cap stocks with a buyback announcement during the past 12 month.

These are the results...

14 Attractively Valued Healthcare Sector Dividend Growth Stocks

Healthcare stocks have generally been poor performers in calendar year 2016. I suggest that this weak performance, especially relative to high-quality, fundamentally sound healthcare stocks, can be somewhat attributable to political uncertainty regarding the future of healthcare.

On the other hand, political uncertainty manifesting in 2016 could also be looked at as the catalyst that is bringing healthcare stocks that were overvalued in 2015 down to fundamentally justified levels.

Below are 14 examples that I consider worthy of current consideration and a more comprehensive research and due diligence effort.

These 14 dividend growth healthcare stocks are currently trading at very attractive fundamental valuations. As a result, they all reflect high earnings and cash flow yields. 

This implies that their valuations are attractive relative to their fundamental values. The following portfolio review lists them in order of highest current dividend yield to lowest.

Each of the results has a low forward P/E under 15 with solid earnings growth perspectives.

Here are the results...

The Biggest Stock Buybacks With At Least One Billion Firepower

Stock buybacks, also known as share repurchases, occur when companies buy shares of their own stock to reduce the number of shares outstanding.

Stock buybacks can be used to offset stock issued to employees as compensation, or to improve earnings per share by reducing the number of shares by which earnings are divided. Sometimes, companies repurchase stock simply because they believe their shares are undervalued.

Buyback proponents say they reward these long-term shareholders by effectively increasing their ownership of the company, and they help boost the value of a stock by raising the company's earnings per share. And when there's no other compelling use for a company's cash, this is a better alternative than risky spending on takeovers or other big investments.

But the other view on buybacks is that — like the restaurant removing tables — their only impact is in making things look better than they seem. Yes, earnings per share rise, but that's not because earnings are growing. Even their fiercest proponents — somewhat hypocritically — say they're overused.

With that in mind, I've compiled all stocks with a billion dollar buyback announcement during the year 2016. In total, there are exactly 82 companies with such a big share buyback volume.

Here are the results...

The 20 Worst Performing Dividend Paying Stocks for 2016

Sometimes, when we try to have our cake and eat it, too, life comes back to bite us. Or, in this case, the market comes back to bite us. Such was the case this year for investors who bought growth stocks that also offered up dividends. 

 We are looking for the Worst Stocks for 2016. In these times of market turbulence, it’s our job to watch out for the worst investments that can sink your portfolio. Our search is not merely limited to the worst stock in the Dow or S&P. 

Below you will find the 20 worst performing dividend paying stocks for the year 2016. Sometimes you will find there really attractive bargains. Oversold companies with a big group of short seller. 

Those could be really great investing opportunities. Heathcare stocks is the worst performing group. I like GILD, AMGN, NVO and AZN. Which do you like from the list?

 These are the 20 worst performing large cap dividend paying stocks....

Super Investors Love These 10 Stocks Mostly By Betting On Rising Stock Prices

Today I like to introduce 10 of the top buys from the past quarter by super investors like Warren Buffett or George Soros.

I've posted an article related to the activities of Warren Buffett recently on this blog. Warren is one of the investors I watch closer. I like to stay informed by with most of his decisions, I don't agree.

I like the idea of dividend growth with accent on growth. Growth is more important than yield but you must find a great balance from both.

Google and Berkshire are two top picks on the list who don't pay dividends but generated phenomenal growth in the past. It shows that creating values don't depend on paying dividends or buying back own shares.

The truth is that normal investors like me or maybe you too, need a bigger part of shareholder friendly presents. We don't have the ability to reduce working capital or boost free cash flows by combining several businesses. That's only possible for big investors.

Here are the top dividend results:

10 Cheaply Valuated Stocks Boosting Earnings For The Next Years

Companies delivering superior growth in sales and earnings tend to be winning names over the long term. However, these companies rarely sell for low valuations, so you generally need to pay premium prices for top-growth stocks. With this in mind, it makes sense to look for strong-growth companies going through temporary challenges and trading at convenient valuations.

I've created a screen of dividend paying stocks with a solid growth momentum. Those stocks have shown investors increasing sales over years while analysts predicting a rosy future. Earnings should grow for the mid-term at double-digit rates.

In addition, my focus is on higher capitalized stocks with a lower beta and debt. Twelve stocks fulfilled my criteria of which one has a yield of more than 3 percent and ten are recommended to buy.

These are the highest yielding results:

These 6 Dividend Stocks Start To Take-Off

After I've published a few articles about safe dividend stocks and stocks with high cash and low debt ratios, I come back to growth.

Growth is good because it grows the value of your assets too. I ever told that only a growing stock is good but you can only make money with growth stocks if you pay reasonable prices for them.

The market is highly valuated, that's news from the recent quarters and more than true. With P/E multiples above 20, you need high growth to justify this values.

Today, I've created a screen for you that are based on momentum growth. I've discovered stocks with double digit earnings and sales growth.

These are my main criteria:

- Market Cap over $10 billion
- Positive Dividend Yield
- Debt-To-Equity Ratio under 0.5
- 5Y Forecasted Earnings Growth over 5%
- Quarter over Quarter Sales Growth over 10%
- Quarter over Quarter Earnings Growth over 10%
- Only US Home Base

Nineteen stocks fulfilled these criteria of which none yield over 2.5 percent in dividend. That's not much but for growth you can waive a small part of your yield.

Green money should come into your portfolio

6 Top Dividend Momentum Stocks are...

12 Healthcare Dividend Stocks With High Potential To Boost Growth And Hike Dividends

Healthcare dividend stocks with low payout ratios and small debt figures originally published at long-term-investments.blogspot.com. I love the combination of low debt with little payout ratios. 

The debt situation is one of the most important issues in corporate finance. It also expresses the ability to grow sales and earnings by enlarging the balance sheet with bank loans.

Only a low leveraged corporate has potential to boost sales without taking new investors into the boat that dilute the current earnings per share.

Today I would like to start an article serial about low leveraged stocks from several sectors with currently small dividend payouts. I believe it’s good to see what companies have the biggest potential to give shareholders huge amounts of money back in the near future and believe me, the tech sector is not the only place to be.

My criteria are a low dividend payout ratio of less than 20 percent as well as a debt-to-equity ratio under 0.5. Only twelve stocks fulfilled these very tight defined criteria.

One result is a High-Yield and nine stocks are recommended to buy or better. Most of the results come from the medical appliances & supplies or equipment industry.

Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On August 20, 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, 38 stocks go ex dividend - of which 12 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 4,46%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
Northern Tier Energy LP	NTI	2.08B	8.05	4.69	0.44	21.76%
Pengrowth Energy Corporation	PGH	2.95B	-	0.76	2.41	8.06%
Thomson Reuters Corporation	TRI	28.88B	29.00	1.73	2.24	3.74%
Maxim Integrated Products	MXIM	8.12B	18.46	3.24	3.32	3.73%
CA Technologies	CA	13.75B	13.28	2.44	2.97	3.27%
Applied Materials Inc.	AMAT	18.79B	-	2.70	2.62	2.56%
Archer Daniels Midland	ADM	24.62B	20.81	1.30	0.27	2.04%
Cummins Inc.	CMI	23.46B	16.64	3.50	1.39	2.00%
NVIDIA Corporation	NVDA	8.89B	16.88	2.13	2.10	1.98%
Wyndham Worldwide Corp.	WYN	8.01B	20.81	4.88	1.69	1.96%
Goldcorp Inc.	GG	25.23B	-	1.21	5.17	1.93%
Marriott International, Inc.	MAR	12.39B	20.30	-	0.96	1.71%
NICE Systems Ltd.	NICE	2.32B	28.29	1.93	2.56	1.40%
Zions Bancorp.	ZION	5.30B	22.03	1.03	2.67	0.55%
Allergan Inc.	AGN	26.03B	22.26	4.55	4.44	0.23%