20 Dogs Of The Dividend Champions, Each Yielding Over 4%

The investing strategy which focuses on Dogs of the Dow was popularized by Michael Higgins in his book, "Beating the Dow". The strategy's simplicity is one of its most attractive attributes. The Dogs of the Dow strategy is very simple to implement:

1) Take the 30 stocks that make up the DJIA
2) Rank in yield from highest to lowest on January 1
3) Buy the 10 stocks in equal weight

The premise of this investment style is that the Dow laggards, which are temporarily out-of-favor stocks, are still good companies because they are still included in the DJIA; therefore, holding on to them is a smart idea, in theory.

Once these companies rebound and the market has revalued them properly (or so you hope), you can sell them and replenish your portfolio with other good companies that are temporarily out of favor. 

Companies in the Dow have historically been very stable companies that can weather any market decline with their solid balance sheets and strong fundamentals.

Furthermore, because there is a committee perpetually tinkering with the DJIA's components, you can rest assured that the DJIA is made up of good, solid companies.

Today I like to enlarge this concept by looking at the Dogs of the Dividend Champions as of January 2016.

Attached you can also find a list with more fundamentals of the 20 top yielding Dividend Champions as of January 04, 2016.

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Here are the 10 Dogs of Dividend Achievers in detail...

Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On April 15, 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 April 15, 2013. In total, 9 stocks and preferred shares go ex dividend - of which 3 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 3.60%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
Orchard First Source Capital	OFS	-	-	-	-	9.35%
Senior Housing Properties Trust	SNH	5.18B	34.46	1.84	8.04	5.66%
Bowl America Inc.	BWL-A	81.76M	41.17	2.16	3.38	5.18%
Wayne Savings Bancshares Inc.	WAYN	29.48M	16.88	0.74	1.93	2.81%
West Pharmaceutical Services	WST	2.20B	27.58	2.98	1.73	1.20%
Zep, Inc.	ZEP	350.40M	15.97	1.99	0.53	1.02%
Acuity Brands, Inc.	AYI	3.13B	26.69	3.47	1.59	0.71%
Alamo Group, Inc.	ALG	480.27M	16.58	1.54	0.76	0.70%
EMCOR Group Inc.	EME	2.68B	18.55	1.99	0.42	0.60%

13 Dividend Champions With Very Low Debt To Equity Ratios

Dividend Champions with very low debt to equity ratios originally published at "long-term-investments.blogspot.com". Safe stocks have a higher priority for me. I believe that I don’t need a bigger return when I try to avoid the real big risks of investing. Every cent I don’t lose with my current holdings is also a cent that I don’t need to earn with other stocks. That's my philosophy.

A real problem that affects the stock price is the debt situation. While everybody is only talking about growth and future potential, I do look at these ratios and the possibilities to repay the debt. Remember, you are a shareholder and get your dividends after loan and interest repayments.

Debt overloaded stocks have the problems that they need decades to reduce this debt if they are working in a non growing industry. A stock with a bigger cash amount on banks is in my view a better alternative. The company has more possibilities to grow and if they don’t find a solution for investing the money, the can repurchase own shares or boost the current dividend.

Today, I want to discover some of the best dividend growth stocks with a very long dividend growth history and a very low leverage risk. I selected 109 Dividend Champions and screened them by a debt to equity ratio of less than 0.1. Thirteen stocks remained of which seven have a buy or better ratio.

13 High Quality Dividend Income Stocks

High income growth stocks originally published at "long-term-investments.blogspot.com". Everybody is looking for a growing or high income. If you have reached your limits on the job market you only can boost your earnings on a passive way. One strategy to get a higher income is to increase your passive yield from capital investments, especially from dividend payments. Some call it also “Income Investing”.

A great source for a steadily growing income is dividend growth. The best income growth stocks are Dividend Champions. Those companies raised dividend payments over a period of more than 25 consecutive years and have built a huge trust basis to long-term investors.

Today I like to post some interesting high yielding Champs. Sure, yields go down. That’s a hard cognition I realized over the recent months. Stock prices rose faster than some companies’ hiked dividends. As a result, the yield plunges. As of now, only 13 stocks with a very long dividend growth history have a current yield over 4 percent and only two of them have a current buy or better rating.

The Biggest Ex-Dividend Stocks On October 22, 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 22, 2012. In total, 13 stocks and preferred shares go ex-dividend - of which 8 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 4.37%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
Compass Diversified Holdings	CODI	749.13M	-	1.67	0.84	9.28%
Administradora de Fondos de Pensiones Provida SA	PVD	2.45B	13.13	3.96	7.32	7.48%
Teekay Offshore Partners LP	TOO	2.22B	-	4.84	2.28	7.26%
Teekay LNG Partners LP.	TGP	2.66B	22.17	2.32	6.83	7.04%
Eaton Vance Tax-Advantaged Global Dividend Opportunities Fund	ETO	293.74M	-	-	-	6.92%
Bowl America Inc.	BWL-A	84.74M	45.71	1.96	3.43	5.16%
New Hampshire Thrift Bancshares Inc.	NHTB	76.83M	11.11	0.70	2.10	4.00%
The Clorox Company	CLX	9.83B	18.40	-	1.80	3.38%
Lowe's Companies Inc.	LOW	37.15B	21.57	2.53	0.73	1.96%
Arcos Dorados Holdings Inc. Cla	ARCO	3.30B	32.10	5.01	0.87	1.52%
West Pharmaceutical Services, Inc.	WST	1.83B	23.43	2.68	1.48	1.42%
Embotelladora Andina S.A.	AKO-A	4.05B	21.19	4.62	1.83	1.38%
Embotelladora Andina S.A.	AKO-B	4.94B	26.00	5.67	2.25	1.25%

The Best Stocks With Dividend Growth From Last Week (September 24 – September 30, 2012)

Stocks With Biggest Dividend Hikes From Last Week by Dividend Yield – Stock, Capital, Investment. Here is a current sheet of companies that have announced a dividend increase within the recent week. In total, 12 stocks and funds raised dividends of which 7 have a dividend growth of more than 10 percent. The average dividend growth amounts to 10.47 percent. Exactly 6 stocks have a yield over three percent and 7 are currently recommended to buy.