Cheapest Dividend Paying Large Caps As of February 2013

Cheapest dividend paying large capitalized stocks with highest earnings per share growth; originally published at “long-term-investments.blogspot.com. 

A cheap stock is the basis for every future returns. Beside cheap fundamentals and pricing ratios of a company, the expected growth is an additional important item for investors.

Most of my readers are looking for high yielding stocks or cheap stocks to buy. It sounds nearly similar because the goal of both is the same. In the end, all want a high return of the invested capital - no matter how they create it.

Every month, I make a screen of America’s cheapest dividend paying large capitalized stocks with highest expected growth for the upcoming fiscal year. 

The stocks from the list have a market capitalization of more than USD 10 billion and earnings per share are expected to grow for at least 10 percent for the next year. Despite the strong growth, they still have a P/E ratio of less than 15 and a P/S and P/B ratio of less than two. Sixteen companies fulfilled the mentioned criteria of which twelve stocks have a buy or better recommendation.

13 Dividend Growth Potentials With Really Cheap Price Ratios

Stocks with dividend growth potential and cheap price ratios originally published at "long-term-investments.blogspot.com". I often publish sheets and lists of dividend growth stocks. Mostly I use Dividend Champions, Achievers or Contender lists. All stocks from the lists have a consecutive dividend growth of more than 10 years.

I ever try to discover the best stocks with the most attractive fundamentals in order to get the best results. But these lists have one big failure: They include also stocks with high debt and low growth. Not enough some of them pay a dividend which is bigger than the earnings per share of the recent quarters.

Those companies are on the edge to cut the dividend payments. If they do so, they would be kicked off the lists and you sit on a low yielding stock and wait for a recovery which could costs you 5 or 10 years to realize a positive return.

I am a dividend growth investor and made most of my money with dividend growth stocks. But if I am honest, the biggest returns I made were with stocks at a lower yield and higher growth. That’s the reason why I always look for stocks with not a perfect dividend growth history but a more attractive debt and growth situation.

Today I like to highlight some dividend potentials, stocks with potential to boost dividends over the next five years or so. My list includes 110 companies and I show you the cheapest stocks measured by a forward P/E ratio of less than 10.

Thirteen companies have such a low P/E ratio of which twelve are currently recommended to buy. This alone shows the quality of my screen compared to the Dividend Champions lists.

Best Dividend Paying Ex-Dividend Shares On January 17, 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 January 17, 2013. In total, 6 stocks and preferred shares go ex dividend - of which 1 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 2.52%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
PennantPark Floating Rate Capital	PFLT	-	-	-	-	7.45%
PNM Resources, Inc.	PNM	1.62B	7.99	0.99	1.19	2.85%
Hormel Foods Corp.	HRL	9.08B	18.52	3.22	1.10	1.97%
Graco Inc.	GGG	3.23B	23.66	7.56	3.32	1.88%
Apache Corp.	APA	31.46B	12.86	1.02	1.85	0.85%
CR Bard Inc.	BCR	8.40B	17.17	4.43	2.85	0.78%

Best Dividend Paying Ex-Dividend Shares Between January 14 - 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 week.

A full list of all stocks with payment dates can be found here: Ex-Dividend Stocks January 14- 20, 2013. In total, 35 stocks and preferred shares go ex dividend - of which 14 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
Teekay Corporation	TK	2.31B	-	1.66	1.18	3.77%
The Clorox Company	CLX	9.87B	18.24	-	1.79	3.38%
Empresa Nacional de Electricidad	EOC	13.54B	19.13	2.60	2.72	3.01%
Enersis S.A.	ENI	12.18B	17.93	1.52	0.87	2.95%
Foot Locker, Inc.	FL	5.06B	13.81	2.21	0.85	2.14%
Hormel Foods Corp.	HRL	9.09B	18.54	3.22	1.10	1.97%
Potash	POT	37.00B	16.03	3.85	4.54	1.96%
Graco Inc.	GGG	3.24B	23.77	7.60	3.33	1.87%
Lowe's Companies Inc.	LOW	40.30B	21.33	2.83	0.79	1.79%
Franco-Nevada Corporation	FNV	8.26B	256.27	2.57	19.15	1.28%
Pier 1 Imports, Inc.	PIR	2.20B	12.45	1.26	1.35	0.96%
Whole Foods Market, Inc.	WFM	16.45B	35.18	4.32	1.41	0.90%
Apache Corp.	APA	31.53B	12.89	1.03	1.86	0.84%
PerkinElmer Inc.	PKI	3.95B	-	2.03	1.90	0.81%
CR Bard Inc.	BCR	8.49B	17.36	4.47	2.88	0.78%
EOG Resources, Inc.	EOG	34.03B	28.42	2.47	2.97	0.54%

The Biggest Ex-Dividend Stocks On October 18, 2012

The Best And Biggest Ex-Dividend Stocks Researched By Dividend Yield - Stock, Capital, Investment. 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-dividend date on the next trading day.

A full list of all stocks with ex-dividend date can be found here: Ex-Dividend Stocks on October 18, 2012. In total, 18 stocks and preferred shares go ex-dividend - of which 8 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 4.76%.

Here is the sheet of the best yielding, higher capitalized Ex-Dividend stocks:

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
Gladstone Commercial Corp.	GOOD	232.06M	234.88	1.63	4.92	7.98%
Gladstone Investment Corporation	GAIN	166.70M	11.27	0.83	7.62	7.95%
Costamare Inc.	CMRE	922.08M	9.51	2.15	2.32	7.94%
Hospitality Properties Trust	HPT	3.00B	23.79	1.02	2.38	7.75%
Government Properties Income Trust	GOV	1.08B	20.54	1.23	5.46	7.48%
Senior Housing Properties Trust	SNH	3.95B	21.73	1.51	7.25	6.97%
Select Income REIT	SIR	772.20M	11.57	1.08	7.07	6.79%
CommonWealth REIT	CWH	1.24B	42.14	0.36	1.25	6.78%
The Washington Post Company	WPO	2.69B	27.59	1.04	0.66	2.71%
Caterpillar Inc.	CAT	55.50B	9.50	3.49	0.84	2.45%
Hormel Foods Corp.	HRL	7.72B	16.32	2.68	0.95	2.04%
Graco Inc.	GGG	2.94B	21.67	7.51	3.11	1.85%
Epoch Investment Partners, Inc.	EPHC	514.78M	20.70	7.76	5.57	1.84%
AAR Corp.	AIR	660.21M	9.72	0.75	0.31	1.81%
CVS Caremark Corporation	CVS	59.67B	16.57	1.57	0.51	1.39%
Home Federal Bancorp, Inc. of Louisiana	HFBL	50.18M	17.73	1.02	3.94	1.35%
CR Bard Inc.	BCR	8.57B	17.33	4.46	2.91	0.78%
Apache Corp.	APA	34.07B	10.43	1.11	1.99	0.78%