20 Of The Safest Dividend Challengers On The Market

Dividend Challengers with lowest beta ratios originally published at "long-term-investments.blogspot.com". I love high-quality dividend growth stocks and the stocks with the longest history of consecutive payments are definitely Dividend Kings and Dividend Champions. But the big disadvantage of them is that they are also highly priced.

You cannot make a greater return with stocks that have a P/E ratio of 22 and grows only at 5 percent. You need real bargains to make big profit with your asset.

This problem can be solved when you look into the dividend potentials. Those stocks haven’t yet reached a longer dividend payment history but they can become a great Dividend Champion within the next years. The price ratios are also lower for some companies and you have a better choice to find good investments because out there are around 160 stocks with five or more years of consecutive dividend payments and 207 with a payment between 10 to 25 years.

Today I like to screen the third class of dividend growth stocks by the safest alternatives. The 20 safest dividend growth stocks have a beta ratio between 0.18 and 0.55. All three top picks come from the oil & gas pipeline industry, a branch with very stable sales and future growth perspectives due to the shale gas boom in the United States.

From the 20 safest Dividend Challengers have nine a current buy or better rating.

Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On May 22, 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 22, 2013. In total, 27 stocks and preferred shares go ex dividend - of which 7 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 3.38%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
Medley Capital Corporation	MCC	449.15M	10.79	1.23	6.99	9.20%
Cablevision Systems Corporation	CVC	4.09B	-	-	0.62	3.92%
HSBC Holdings plc	HBC	218.32B	15.88	1.25	3.85	3.41%
Exelis, Inc.	XLS	2.27B	7.51	2.16	0.43	3.39%
Carnival Corporation	CCL	27.39B	18.69	1.16	1.78	2.83%
Guangshen Railway Co. Ltd.	GSH	3.46B	16.50	0.81	1.38	2.83%
Questar Corporation	STR	4.53B	21.72	4.19	3.94	2.79%
Carnival plc	CUK	28.60B	19.51	1.21	1.86	2.71%
The Scotts Miracle-Gro	SMG	3.00B	34.28	4.95	1.12	2.67%
American Water Works Company	AWK	7.59B	19.87	1.68	2.62	2.62%
W&T Offshore Inc.	WTI	1.15B	15.41	2.12	1.28	2.36%
Nu Skin Enterprises Inc.	NUS	3.67B	17.07	5.95	1.62	1.91%
Hershey Co.	HSY	19.87B	28.74	17.87	2.95	1.89%
Robert Half International Inc.	RHI	4.96B	22.81	5.72	1.21	1.80%
Marriott International, Inc.	MAR	13.32B	23.57	-	1.07	1.57%
Heartland Financial USA Inc.	HTLF	465.47M	9.97	1.13	2.47	1.45%
National Interstate Corporation	NATL	596.92M	18.23	1.64	1.15	1.45%
Equifax Inc.	EFX	7.51B	27.08	3.72	3.41	1.41%
Core-Mark Holding Company	CORE	662.51M	20.46	1.66	0.07	1.32%
ITT Corporation	ITT	2.76B	24.15	4.22	1.22	1.30%

51 Shares With A Rising Dividend, Announced Last Week

Stocks with dividend hikes from last week originally published at “long-term-investments.blogspot.com”. I’ve created a screen for my dividend yield hunters about the stocks with a dividend hike from last week. The list shows a full compilation of all dividend growers of the recent week. 51 companies are on the list and eleven of them have a high yield; 35 are currently recommended to buy.

The average growth slows a bit and hits some of the lowest levels this year. The average dividend growth last week was at 16.65 percent.

20 Safest Dividend Income Growth Stocks From The Early Stage

Dividend Challengers with low beta ratios originally published at "long-term-investments.blogspot.com". Some investors are greedy and tend to overlook risks. Others are too anxious and avoid to buy stocks in a larger amount. They could “lose money” or they “can get quick rich” are two psychological factors that investors prevent to make real money with investing. Both are not true and only an illusion.

If you invest money into the stock market and you do it wisely and diversified, you should only count with a return close to the performance of the broad market. I believe that a return of 8 percent is realistic and good enough to beat inflation and grow wealth.

Today I like to screen a category of stocks with a longer dividend growth history, the Dividend Challengers. Those stocks have achieved to raise dividends over a period of more than five years in a row but less than 10 years. 167 companies have fulfilled these dividend growth criteria. 

Below is a list of the safest stocks from the investment category "Challengers". They have a beta ratio of less than 0.5 as well as a market capitalization over USD 2.0 billion.

20 Dividend Challengers are on the list of the safest dividend income growth stocks and six of them have a high yield; Nine are recommended to buy.

20 Stocks To Buy | The Most Recommended Utilities At The Market

Utilities with a buy or better rating originally published at "long-term-investments.blogspot.com". Some investors love utilities, others hate them. I am somewhere in the middle. I never invested money into the utility sector because I know that strong growth is nearly impossible at low investment cots. So you should not get a quick big return.

The only chance to make a little money is with time optimized stock trading. But that's to complicated for me and means hard work. I love it to buy some high-quality growth stocks to receive the dividends without keeping an eye on anything and having fun with my live.

The good thing on utilities is that they generate stable cash flows and they can use the incoming money to pay high dividends and repurchase own shares. I believe that it makes more sense to buy bonds of those companies because if the company jumps into trouble the dividend payments and share buyback programs will be reduced as first. The bondholders suffer at the end.

However, I like to show you today which utilities are the most recommended at the market. I made a small list of the 20 best stocks which excludes stocks with a market capitalization below USD 2 billion because I personally think the risk should be much higher as for mid-capitalized stocks.

Below the 20 hottest utilities are sixteen with a dividend; two are high-yields.

Best Dividend Paying Ex-Dividend Shares On December 18, 2012

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 December 18, 2012. In total, 19 stocks and preferred shares go ex dividend - of which 8 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 5.07%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
BlackRock Kelso Capital Corporation	BKCC	733.13M	11.68	1.04	5.04	10.47%
Solar Capital Ltd.	SLRC	894.13M	5.87	1.02	6.05	10.39%
Ship Finance International Limited	SFL	1.38B	7.76	1.41	4.32	9.67%
Horizon Technology Finance	HRZN	136.99M	12.46	0.87	5.50	9.63%
Solar Senior Capital Ltd	SUNS	171.19M	9.85	0.97	9.54	7.82%
Main Street Capital Corporation	MAIN	915.29M	8.10	1.65	10.89	6.23%
Ramco-Gershenson Properties Trust	RPT	625.00M	-	1.19	5.00	5.14%
Evolving Systems Inc.	EVOL	69.18M	15.23	2.24	2.85	3.28%
Atlantic Tele-Network, Inc.	ATNI	560.36M	14.06	1.74	0.76	2.78%
American Water Works Company	AWK	6.62B	17.42	1.49	2.35	2.67%
Embotelladora Andina S.A.	AKO	3.86B	20.30	4.44	1.75	2.26%
Tiffany & Co.	TIF	7.36B	17.93	3.00	1.97	2.20%
Las Vegas Sands Corp.	LVS	38.18B	26.96	4.21	3.60	2.16%
Sypris Solutions Inc.	SYPR	79.87M	6.60	1.24	0.22	2.02%
Embotelladora Andina S.A.	AKO	4.90B	27.80	5.62	2.18	1.96%
Arcos Dorados Holdings	ARCO	2.62B	22.32	3.74	0.70	1.91%
Tower Financial Corporation	TOFC	59.15M	7.92	0.88	2.21	1.82%
CNH Global NV	CNH	11.93B	10.48	1.32	0.59	-
Embraer SA	ERJ	4.56B	33.77	1.40	0.72	-