These Are The 20 Best Performing Dividend Stocks Of The Year 2015 - Can They Repeat Their Success in 2016?

When investing in dividend stocks, the primary goal isn't necessarily to make a boatload of money right away. 

Rather, most of us invest in dividend stocks for a stable, growing income stream that will build wealth over time. Still, dividend stocks do experience some big moves from time to time.

Today I like to give you an overview of the best performing dividend stocks of the year. The Dow Jones is negative year-to-date. It was a really hard year. Only seven stocks gained more than 100%. Around 40 companies had a performance over 50%.

You will see that high yields are not performance drivers.

Attached you can find the 20 best performing dividend paying stocks of the year. I've only selected those companies with a market cap over 300 million. The performance of the 20 top stocks starts at 60.19% and ends at 290.47%.

These were the best large cap dividend stock investments of the year 2015...

19 Cheaply Valuated Stocks With Forces To Become The Next Top Dividend Grower On The Market

Dividend growth stocks on the move to become a real long-term dividend grower originally published at long-term-investments.blogspot.com. Dividend growth is a great and powerful tool for all normal and small investors to participate in a honest and passive way from the economic success of a corporate.

America is definitely the country with the highest amount of stocks that share profits with shareholders fairly. Believe me; I've seen thousands of companies all around the world where investors get robbed by management teams, lead investors or even the government.

My investment focus is on dividend growth stocks but over the recent months and years, we all have seen a significant increase in price multiples. Most of the best long-term dividend growers are valuated with a P/E of 20 or more. If you pay such high ratios, you will definitely not get a good inflation and risk-adjusted return over the long-run if you invest in a slow growing business.

Today, I try to find additional dividend stocks that are near to achieve a consecutive dividend growth history of at least five years.

Around 150 stocks are available with 4 years of dividend growth. With the next hike they could become a real Dividend Challenger. My hope is that some of them are cheaper than the older and well-established stocks.

You can find attached a list of all large capitalized stocks with a low forward price to earnings ratio of less than 15. Only 19 companies fulfilled these criteria of which nearly all (17 shares) are recommended to buy.

15 Large Cap Dividend Stocks With Low Debt I Like In A Low Interest Environment

Large Cap dividend stocks with very low debt and stock beta ratios originally published at long-term-investments.blogspot.com. You know that I also cover stocks with low beta ratios, also mentioned as stocks with a lower correlation to the market.

I’ve published a long list with over 120 stocks about large capitalized stocks with safe haven characteristics. For sure, safe is nothing on an angry sea but I believe these could be some values in my screen.

Today I like to show you the lowest leveraged stocks from the safe haven large cap list with a minimum dividend payout of 1 percent.

That’s not much and the low interest environment also keeps the capital and interest income of the corporates at a low level but I think it’s much easier to boost growth and increase future dividends for a low debt corporation than it would be for a high leveraged company.

Fifteen stocks fulfilled these criteria of which six have a current buy or better rating.

14 Technology Dividend Stocks With Huge Potential To Pay Much Higher Dividends

Technology dividend stocks with low payout ratios and debt figures originally published at long-term-investments.blogspot.com. Today I would like to go forward with my article serial about low leveraged stocks from several sectors with currently small dividend payouts. I will discover some of the greatest low leveraged technology stocks on the market with also low dividend payout ratios.

My criteria are still a low dividend payout ratio of less than 20 percent as well as a debt-to-equity ratio under 0.5. In order to get only higher capitalized stocks, I decided to choose only those companies with a market cap of more than USD 2 billion.

Fourteen shares fulfilled these criteria of which eleven got a buy or better rating.

Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On March 18, 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 March 18, 2013. In total, 22 stocks and preferred shares go ex dividend - of which 13 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 5.25%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
American Capital Agency Corp.	AGNC	13.16B	7.53	1.03	6.24	15.06%
American Capital Mortgage Investment	MTGE	1.55B	3.13	1.02	10.63	13.73%
Navios Maritime Holdings Inc.	NM	452.28M	2.94	0.38	0.73	5.48%
LTC Properties Inc.	LTC	1.22B	25.36	2.63	12.94	4.67%
Electro Rent Corp.	ELRC	431.04M	19.31	1.95	1.71	4.45%
CTC Media, Inc	CTCM	1.91B	605.00	2.75	2.46	4.30%
Ramco-Gershenson Properties	RPT	822.39M	402.50	1.47	6.39	4.16%
EastGroup Properties Inc.	EGP	1.73B	64.38	3.57	9.31	3.66%
Cincinnati Financial Corp.	CINF	7.70B	18.35	1.41	1.87	3.46%
Tupperware Brands Corporation	TUP	4.24B	22.90	9.10	1.64	3.16%
Chesapeake Utilities Corporation	CPK	476.91M	17.82	1.90	1.23	2.94%
Cott Corporation	COT	915.55M	19.20	1.50	0.41	2.40%
Hudson Pacific Properties, Inc.	HPP	1.28B	-	1.50	8.12	2.21%
Tiffany & Co.	TIF	8.76B	21.32	3.57	2.34	1.85%
Noah Holdings Limited	NOAH	429.73M	21.28	2.57	5.65	1.57%
Activision Blizzard, Inc.	ATVI	16.74B	14.88	1.48	3.45	1.26%

Dividend Growth: 63 Stocks and Funds Boosted Dividend Payments To The Next Level

Stocks with dividend hikes from last week originally published at “long-term-investments.blogspot.com”. Last week was a great week with some attractive dividend hikes. In total, 63 stocks and funds raised dividends of which 41 have a dividend growth of more than 10 percent. The average dividend growth amounts to 32.31 percent. Below is a current list of all companies and funds with a dividend increase within the recent week.

On the list are some favorites of me. MMM is one of the companies. I owned some shares of the company a few years before but I sold the stake in expectation of a recession. MMM has some cyclic products and is a supplier for the industrial sector.

What I have learned from this asset sale was that it wasn’t necessary. I didn’t need the money and my view about the future perspectives was false. If you are a long-term investor, you shouldn’t be so anxious like I was. If the recession comes, you only need money to increase your stakes very wise and smart. Cash is king in the investment scene.

20 Hottest Technology Stocks | Best Stock Buy Rating List

Technology stocks with highest buy ratings originally published at "long-term-investments.blogspot.com". Technology fascinates us all also if we are not real techies who wants the latest stuff whatever it costs.

Technology stocks also made many people very rich. Some of the wealthiest and youngest persons in this world made their wealth on the internet or in related industries. I don’t talk about the Page brothers from Google, Facebook's Zuckerberg or Bill Gates.

This alone is a reason why we should observe the technology sector because there is a huge potential of growth at limited cots. Today, I like to proceed with my January research of the most recommended stocks and I do this at the technology sector.

Below is a small list with some fundamentals about tech stocks with the highest buy rating. I excluded stocks with a market capitalization below USD 2 billion because I think the risk should be much higher as for mid-capitalized stocks.

These are the results: Eleven of the best to buy rated stocks pay dividends; nine have a strong buy rating.

9 Solid Dividend Stocks From The Technology Sector | High Growth With Great Dividends

Technology Companies With High Growth And Positive Dividend Payments Researched By “long-term-investments.blogspot.com”. I often hear that technology stocks are high growth investments but they pay low dividends or no dividends. They sit on tons of cash and search for the next big IT revolution. If they don’t do this, they could lose their current competitive advantage and disappear from the market within the next ten years. We have seen this formation process at Nokia (NOK) or Research In Motion (RIM). If you think longer about the requirements and risks of the sector, investors should rewarded by a higher return or discount in the stock price to increase the margin of safety. 

I made a screen of all dividend stocks within the technology sector (from 879 technology companies pay 201 dividends). But who are the stocks with the highest growth at adequate risks? To get an answer, I selected only stocks with a market capitalization over USD 10 billion, a beta ratio of less than one as well as earnings per share growth of more than ten percent yearly. Nine really solid stocks remained. You find the list at the end of this post.

15 Higher Capitalized Dividend Stocks Close To New 52-Week Lows

New Breakout Stocks By Dividend Yield – Stock, Capital, Investment. Sometimes it makes sense to observe stocks with an ongoing sell-off. The background is to find stocks with a possible turnaround story and to bet on a strong bull race. Oversold stocks are often traded at new lows but they could recover in a fast way. If the company pays stable dividends, it should increase the expected total return for an investor. However, here is a current screen of high-yield stocks that are close to their 52-Week Lows (up to 3 percent). In order to eliminate stocks with higher risk, I screened only companies with a market capitalization over USD 2 billion. As a result, 15 stocks are near to their 52-Week Lows of which six have a yield over three percent and eleven are recommended to buy.

David Winters - Wintergreen Advisers Q4/2011 Fund Portfolio

David Winters - Wintergreen Advisers Q4/2011 Fund Investing Strategies By Dividend Yield – Stock Capital, Investment. Here is a current portfolio update of David Winters - Wintergreen Advisers - portfolio movements as of Q4/2011 (December 31, 2011). In total, he held 14 stocks with a total portfolio worth of USD 579,185,000.

Whitney R. Tilson - T2 Partners Q4/2011 Fund Portfolio

Whitney R. Tilson - T2 Partners Q4/2011 Fund Investing Strategies By Dividend Yield – Stock Capital, Investment. Here is a current portfolio update of Whitney R. Tilson’s - T2 Partners - portfolio movements as of Q4/2011 (December 31, 2011). In total, he held 45 stocks with a total portfolio worth of USD 169,519,000.

Three Of The Next Big Dividend Stocks?

I've searched around Fooldom and dug up three potential candidates for the next great dividend stock. Let me just say now that dedicated income investors probably won't be too impressed with the yields I've collected here. Normally, I look for yields above or at least approaching 3%. For the purposes of this exercise, I've put a greater emphasis on growth, so I'm willing to settle for a smaller dividend. In theory, as the company grows, so should the dividend yield.

Here are the results:

Activision Blizzard (NASDAQ: ATVI) has a market capitalization of $14.01 billion. The company employs 7,600 people, generates revenues of $4,447.00 million and has a net income of $418.00 million. The firm’s earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) amounts to $667.00 million. Because of these figures, the EBITDA margin is 15.00 percent (operating margin 10.55 percent and the net profit margin finally 9.40 percent).

The total debt representing 0.00 percent of the company’s assets and the total debt in relation to the equity amounts to 0.00 percent. Due to the financial situation, a return on equity of 3.95 percent was realized. Twelve trailing months earnings per share reached a value of $0.64. Last fiscal year, the company paid $0.15 in form of dividends to shareholders.

Here are the price ratios of the company: The P/E ratio is 19.12, Price/Sales 3.15 and Price/Book ratio 1.42. Dividend Yield: 1.35 percent. The beta ratio is 0.60.

Long-Term Stock History Chart Of Activision Blizzard, Inc. (Click to enlarge)

Long-Term History of Dividends from Activision Blizzard, Inc. (NASDAQ: ATVI) (Click to enlarge)

Long-Term Dividend Yield History of Activision Blizzard, Inc. (NASDAQ: ATVI) (Click to enlarge)

Kennametal (NYSE: KMT) has a market capitalization of $3.28 billion. The company employs 11,612 people, generates revenues of $2,403.49 million and has a net income of $232.28 million. The firm’s earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) amounts to $415.14 million. Because of these figures, the EBITDA margin is 17.27 percent (operating margin 13.38 percent and the net profit margin finally 9.66 percent).

The total debt representing 11.36 percent of the company’s assets and the total debt in relation to the equity amounts to 19.10 percent. Due to the financial situation, a return on equity of 15.56 percent was realized. Twelve trailing months earnings per share reached a value of $3.22. Last fiscal year, the company paid $0.48 in form of dividends to shareholders.

Here are the price ratios of the company: The P/E ratio is 12.81, Price/Sales 1.36 and Price/Book ratio 2.04. Dividend Yield: 1.36 percent. The beta ratio is 1.64.

Long-Term Stock History Chart Of Kennametal Inc. (Click to enlarge)

Long-Term History of Dividends from Kennametal Inc. (NYSE: KMT) (Click to enlarge)

Long-Term Dividend Yield History of Kennametal Inc. (NYSE: KMT) (Click to enlarge)

BEAM Inc (NYSE: BEAM) has a market capitalization of $7.99 billion. The company employs 24,600 people, generates revenues of $7,141.50 million and has a net income of $496.00 million. The firm’s earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) amounts to $1,006.30 million. Because of these figures, the EBITDA margin is 14.09 percent (operating margin 10.70 percent and the net profit margin finally 6.95 percent).

The total debt representing 33.77 percent of the company’s assets and the total debt in relation to the equity amounts to 75.49 percent. Due to the financial situation, a return on equity of 9.06 percent was realized. Twelve trailing months earnings per share reached a value of $1.10. Last fiscal year, the company paid $0.76 in form of dividends to shareholders.

Here are the price ratios of the company: The P/E ratio is 46.52, Price/Sales 1.12 and Price/Book ratio 1.39. Dividend Yield: 1.48 percent. The beta ratio is 1.56.

Long-Term Stock History Chart Of BEAM Inc (Click to enlarge)

Long-Term History of Dividends from BEAM Inc (NYSE: BEAM) (Click to enlarge)

Long-Term Dividend Yield History of BEAM Inc (NYSE: BEAM) (Click to enlarge)

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