19 Cheap High-Yield Opportunities From The Financial Sector

Financial stocks can offer great opportunities for dividend investors. Financials will benefit from rising interest rate expectations and a steeper yield curve. 

The sector offers the least expensive valuation of any sector in the S&P 500, trading at a mere 13.5 price/earnings multiple. Financials also benefit from positive loan growth, which should occur this year.

In addition, it is the sector that has the most sensitivity to higher interest rates. While multiples have increased for most of these stocks since the election, many are trading at a substantial discount to the market. Deregulation could create potential earnings per share upside for the entire sector.

Here are my results...

15 High Yielding Cheap Stocks By Price To Free Cashfow

It's no secret that dividend-yielding stocks are the cornerstones of a solid retirement portfolio. Usually, such stocks represent ownership in stalwart businesses that pay shareholders on a quarterly basis. 

Those payments not only offer downside protection, but they can also compound returns over time. Still, one of the dangers of dividend investing is chasing after high yields. 

Case in point: The 10 stocks listed below have the highest yields of all the companies in the S&P 500, but not all of them are worth your investing dollars. In many cases, there's a good reason such stocks have high yields -- because there's a lot of risk involved. If you're a dividend investor, there's nothing more important than free cash flow (FCF). 

This represents the amount of money a company was able to put in its pocket at the end of the year, minus capital expenditures. It is from FCF that dividends are paid, and investors should generally aim for companies that use less than 85% of their FCF to pay dividends. 

Attached you will find a couple of stocks with a low price multiple in relation to its free cash flow. Each of the listed stocks has a dividend yield over 4 percent, a market capitalization over 2 billion and a debt-to-equity ratio below 1.

These are the results...

17 Profitable Growing High-Yielding Stocks

Growth is important for many investment strategies. More important is that the firm has a profitable growth. 

Today I like to come back to my high-yield session. I like to screen companies with a positive return on assets and growing earnings. 

The market cap of each company should be bigger than 2 billion. That's in my view enough to keep the big risks of smaller capitalized stocks away.

In addition, the debt-to-equity ratio should be under one.

Only seventeen stocks fulfilled the above mentioned criteria of which financials and basic materials are dominating the screen.

Here are my favorites of the results...

12 Higher Capitalized Stocks With Yields Over 10% You Might Like...

Puhhh...this interest environment is boring. You need a huge amount of money to receive a low yield. That's crazy but you can Thank Ben Bernanke and the current Fed Chairman Janet Yellen.

Most people don't know it but there are still high yields and stocks that pay double digit dividend yields on your investment. For sure those companies are more risky but you get also compensated by higher cash returns.

Attached is a small list of all mid and large capitalized stocks that offer currently a double-digit dividend yield or a yield over 10 percent yearly. 

Most of the stocks also have a low valuation by forward price to earnings. Nearly all of the results come from the financial and basic material sector.

These are the three companies with a buy or better rating in detail....