20 Stocks With Yields Over 10% And Highest Buy Ratings

Most recommended stocks with very high yields originally published at "long-term-investments.blogspot.com". I love stocks with high dividend yields but there are only a few with sustainable payments. I think about Altria or Lorillard. Other stocks have a huge potential for a dividend cut, also if they are a Dividend Champion or a stock with a very long dividend growth history. I made this investment mistake with Avon Products. The company was highly leveraged and became some operations problems. Finally they reduced the dividend dramatically.

Most of the people need stocks with very high yields. I don’t because my private wealth is high enough to catch the dividend payments and live off it. In the past, I often thought it would be the only solution to put all my money into the highest yielding stocks with the most attractive fundamentals. This strategy failed and I lost much money within the closed-end shipping industry. That was a big mistake from which I learned and I like to share this with you.

Please don’t put all your money into one stock or make a single bet on a high-yield stock. This is very risky. That’s all I can say. Make a good research and try to avoid an overweighting of a stock or asset theme.

Each month, I made a regular screen about the stocks with the highest dividend yields because I believe there is a lot of value information in it for my readers. This month, I like to show you the 20 most recommended stocks with a double-digit dividend yield and a higher market capitalization (over USD 300 million). Out there are 95 companies with a very high yield but only 35 have a buy or better recommendation. The REIT industry is still a big player on my screen with 6 representatives.

13 Cheap High Yielding Stocks With Low Volatility

High yielding large capitalized stocks with low beta and cheap price ratios originally published at "long-term-investments.blogspot.com". I often look for higher capitalized stocks which give me a margin of safety. I don’t talk about a discount to the fair value or cheap prices. I mean a low volatility stocks. Stocks with a low beta ratio have a lower volatility than the whole market but they also have a lower upside potential if the market goes up. I love low volatility stocks because I am like everybody else an anxious investor when I invest big money on a single bet.

If the low beta stocks also have a low valuation, it could be interesting for me. You can find a full list of higher capitalized high-yield stocks with low beta ratios below. In total, there are 13 companies with a market capitalization over USD 2 billion and a yield above the 5 percent mark that have beta ratios of less than 0.5 and a forward P/E of less than 15.

The results are dominated by residential REITS. I personally don’t like this investment category. Sure you can make money with it but growth is very capital expensive. You sit on your investment and wait for rental price increases or decreasing vacancy rates. That’s not very funny for a long-term growth investor like me. As you see, there is also a huge debt burden on the stocks which exceeds the amount of equity by a few factors. Gas utilities and my favorites from the cigarettes industry are much more interesting.

Five of the results have a very high yield of more than 10 percent and seven have a current buy or better recommendation. What do you think about the screening results? Do you own some of the mentioned stocks? Let me know and discuss the pros and cons in the box below.

Best Dividend Paying Ex-Dividend Shares On January 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.

A full list of all stocks with payment dates can be found here: Ex-Dividend Stocks January 11, 2013. In total, 22 stocks and preferred shares go ex dividend - of which 15 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 5.54%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
ARMOUR Residential REIT, Inc.	ARR	2.16B	7.69	0.89	11.19	13.71%
Fifth Street Finance Corp.	FSC	591.87M	11.30	1.09	3.58	10.60%
Consolidated Communications	CNSL	684.23M	42.85	4.34	1.57	9.04%
Associated Estates Realty Corp.	AEC	807.68M	-	2.00	4.73	4.66%
Shaw Communications, Inc.	SJR	10.25B	14.04	2.71	2.03	4.24%
Mid-America Apartment Communities	MAA	2.78B	48.69	3.07	5.76	4.23%
SAIC, Inc.	SAI	4.13B	23.67	1.68	0.38	3.98%
Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold	FCX	33.44B	11.44	1.95	1.89	3.55%
Harsco Corporation	HSC	2.00B	-	1.75	0.65	3.30%
Chesapeake Energy Corporation	CHK	11.35B	-	0.74	0.99	2.05%
Abbott Laboratories	ABT	53.06B	8.17	1.96	1.35	1.67%
Trinity Industries Inc.	TRN	2.89B	12.26	1.44	0.76	1.20%
Ryland Group Inc.	RYL	1.74B	132.93	3.68	1.54	0.31%

Monthly Dividend Paying Stocks | 7 High-Yield REITs To Consider

Best monthly dividend paying real estate investment trusts originally published at "long-term-investments.blogspot.com". Most of us love the idea of investing money into dividend stocks and getting paid by the investments. 

If you have enough money like me you can live from your dividend payments alone. Great second irregular incomes are capital gains which are nearly twice of the amount of my dividend income.

I also wasn’t born rich but I ever tried to find the best investments, the best places to put my money in order to realize a good return. A high yield is not the only rule you need to consider. You also must be disciplined by saving money. In your first years of investing, savings will be your number one source for reinvestment because your dividend cash is not high enough to grow.

Today, I like to show you some of the best yielding stocks with a yield of more than five percent that pay dividends on a monthly basis. Some of them are very risky and offer a double-digit yield. But if you like to see a monthly dividend check, you should take a look at the list below. Three of the results are currently recommended to buy.

Best Dividend Paying Ex-Dividend Shares Between January 07-14, 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 between January 07-14, 2013. In total, 52 stocks and preferred shares go ex dividend - of which 28 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 4.43%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
ARMOUR Residential REIT, Inc.	ARR	2.16B	7.69	0.89	11.19	13.71%
Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria	BBVA	52.15B	16.22	0.95	2.68	5.60%
AT&T, Inc.	T	200.11B	45.75	1.99	1.57	5.11%
Verizon Communications Inc.	VZ	126.43B	41.40	3.36	1.11	4.65%
Darden Restaurants, Inc.	DRI	5.98B	13.24	3.21	0.73	4.30%
Mid-America Apartment Communities	MAA	2.78B	48.67	3.07	5.76	4.23%
Shaw Communications, Inc.	SJR	10.31B	14.28	2.73	2.06	4.22%
SAIC, Inc.	SAI	4.04B	23.18	1.65	0.37	4.06%
WGL Holdings Inc.	WGL	2.09B	14.93	1.61	0.86	3.95%
UDR, Inc.	UDR	6.00B	-	1.97	8.37	3.67%
Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold	FCX	33.69B	11.52	1.83	1.91	3.52%
General Mills, Inc.	GIS	27.01B	15.41	3.86	1.58	3.16%
Waddell & Reed Financial Inc.	WDR	3.14B	17.48	5.54	2.74	3.05%
OGE Energy Corp.	OGE	5.71B	16.24	2.06	1.54	2.89%
Quest Diagnostics Inc.	DGX	9.22B	13.49	2.21	1.22	2.07%
Chesapeake Energy Corporation	CHK	11.60B	-	0.76	1.01	2.01%
Yum! Brands, Inc.	YUM	30.87B	20.09	14.06	2.27	1.96%
Aetna Inc.	AET	15.21B	8.66	1.40	0.43	1.76%
Lincoln National Corp.	LNC	7.73B	19.52	0.51	0.69	1.71%
Abbott Laboratories	ABT	52.27B	8.05	1.94	1.33	1.69%

18 Stocks With Very High Yields (+10%) And Earnings Growth

+10% yielding shares with strong earnings per share growth originally published at "long-term-investments.blogspot.com" Some of my friends search regular for stocks with very high yield. I don’t talk about high-yields, stocks with yields between 5-10 percent. I mean stocks with annualized dividend yields of more than 10 percent.

It sounds a bit unserious and I personally would never buy such stocks but I can understand my friends because they have only a low net worth and they try to boost their passive income from dividends.

Let me say one thing: It could not sustainable for any kind of business to pay such a high amount of money to shareholders at a normal valuation. Something must be wrong. But if find an attractive investment, you can boost your dividend income and in ten years your investment paid-off.

Out there are 148 stocks with a yield over 10 percent. I’ve tried to figure out some interesting stocks.

These are my criteria:

- Dividend Yield above 10%

- Earnings per share growth for the next 5Y over 5%

- Market Capitalization over 300 million

Eighteen shares fulfilled these criteria. Seven of them have a current buy or better recommendation.