10 Highest Dividend Stocks on the S&P 500

The average stock on the S&P 500 index pays a dividend yield of 2.41%, but some are paying much more. Here's a chart of the 10 highest-paying dividend stocks on the S&P 500, and which ones might be the best choices to buy and hold for the long term.

Before moving on, it's important to mention that a high dividend doesn't necessarily translate into a good stock to invest in.

For example, Frontier Communications (NASDAQ: FTR), the highest-paying company in the S&P 500, has struggled to turn a profit for several years now. In my opinion, it's at serious risk of a dividend cut in the near future.

With that in mind, there are a few stocks on this list worth buying. Here are my three favorites in no particular order.

These are the results...

7 Stocks With Current Shareholder Yields Of 15% Or More

You know that dividends are essential but buybacks also play a significant role in creating shareholder value.

A low dividend doesn't mean that the corporate pay low amounts of cash to shareholders. Some companies decided to buy back own shares. The shareholder yield (dividend yield plus buyback yield) is essential and tells the truth.

Today I would like to show you those 7 stocks with the highest shareholder yields. I'm not talking about yields of 5 percent or so. I'm taking the extreme of 15 percent or more. The results came from Goldman Sachs latest Total Cash Return to Shareholders list from April 23, 2015.

These are the top results in detail:

The Highest Yielding Picks From Goldman Sachs 40 Cheapest Stocks List

The big guys and professionals must know it better because they spent more time and money on their research. As a result from its work, Goldman Sachs recently announced a list with the cheapest stocks investors should consider.

The firm has analysts who are highly ranked, as well as some who are ranked behind their analyst peers. Still, Goldman Sachs only caters to wealthy individuals and to institutional investors. 

Now the firm has released its list of “cheapest stocks” right now. This list is based solely upon the projected upside to the firm’s price target versus the current share price.

I don't care much of those lists because they are so long that I get tears in my eyes. Below are the highest yielding picks from Goldman's cheapest stocks list. Which do you like?

16 Large Caps With Skyrocket Dividends

Dividend growth is important, no discussion about that. Many analysts and investors say that a fast growing dividend is a result of a rosy business which runs very well.

Others research studies say that high dividend raiser perform better than the market.

However, I like to show you which large capitalized stocks increased their dividends over the past year at the highest rate, more than 50 percent.

Purchasing high growth is better than buying high yielding stocks. A list Dividend Aristocrats with the fastest dividend growth rates can be found here: 10 Dividend Aristocrats With The Highest Possibility To Grow Dividends At The Fastest Pace...

You can find the full list at the end of this post. I hope you get some new inspirations which help you to structure your investments. Thank you for reading and commenting.

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These are my favorite stocks...

30 Top Stocks With Dividend Growth From Last Week

Stocks with dividend hikes from last week originally published at long-term-investments.blogspot.com. 30 companies announced a dividend hike within the recent week. Only six of them are large capitalized stocks and five are really cheap in terms of a low forward P/E.

It’s in line with our recognition of rising stock market multiples. Real cheap stocks are very rare. The most dangerous item are growth expectations. Growth let earnings multiples grow but you need low multiples with a solid growing business to make a good return.

The biggest results are Itau Unibanco, Goldman Sachs and Abbott Laboratories as well.

Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On August 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 day.

A full list of all stocks with payment dates can be found here: Ex-Dividend Stocks August 14, 2013. In total, 57 stocks go ex dividend - of which 15 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 3.18%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
AstraZeneca PLC	AZN	63.85B	13.08	2.75	2.40	7.45%
Royal Dutch Shell plc	RDS-B	212.18B	8.98	1.20	0.47	5.11%
Duke Energy Corporation	DUK	49.96B	25.19	1.25	2.07	4.41%
CenterPoint Energy, Inc.	CNP	10.33B	54.80	2.47	1.27	3.44%
Simon Property Group Inc.	SPG	48.80B	40.64	8.43	9.71	2.92%
Talisman Energy Inc.	TLM	11.41B	-	1.20	2.02	2.44%
Pearson plc	PSO	16.71B	43.15	1.90	2.09	2.37%
Phillips 66	PSX	36.02B	7.88	1.66	0.21	2.15%
The J. M. Smucker Company	SJM	12.07B	22.79	2.34	2.05	2.04%
United Technologies Corp.	UTX	95.10B	19.22	3.52	1.54	2.03%
Amgen Inc.	AMGN	81.37B	18.19	3.95	4.61	1.74%
Diageo plc	DEO	80.77B	21.06	7.57	4.56	1.71%
PACCAR Inc.	PCAR	19.96B	19.71	3.27	1.24	1.42%
Delphi Automotive PLC	DLPH	17.37B	16.82	6.89	1.11	1.22%
The Sherwin-Williams Company	SHW	18.08B	27.49	10.05	1.86	1.12%
CF Industries Holdings, Inc.	CF	11.24B	6.65	2.26	1.91	0.84%
Visa, Inc.	V	141.65B	30.99	5.25	12.28	0.73%
EQT Corporation	EQT	12.58B	47.21	3.30	6.51	0.14%

15 Stocks From The S&P 500 With Single P/E Ratios

Stocks from the S&P 500 with P/E’s below 10 originally published at long-term-investments.blogspot.com. It’s too easy to say that stocks with a low price-to-earnings ratio are cheap but the figure tells you a lot about the valuation of a company on the first view. 

Stocks with a low valuation are also rare. For instance, the popular S&P 500 index has only 28 members with a P/E below 10. Around 80 percent of them, in total 23, pay dividends. Current P/E’s are great but it’s always good to look at the forward P/E because it uses the future earnings of the company.

Only 16 companies from the S&P 500 have both, a current P/E and forward P/E of less than 10. If you buy those stocks you purchase them for a net income yield of 10 percent. That’s a good value in my view if the business works robust and grows with a pace of 5 to 10 percent yearly. You can find a full list of the 15 dividend paying stocks with a single P/E below. Insurer and oil & gas refining & marketing companies are mostly represented on the screen.

The Cheapest Basic Material Dividend Stocks | 20 Low Priced Raw Material Shares

Basic material dividend stocks with low forward P/E’s originally published at "long-term-investments.blogspot.com". Yesterday I read an interesting article about the valuation of the market. We got a gaining momentum. This year alone, the market rose around 15 percent and nobody scares this. The analysts from Bloomberg attempted to compare the situation with the second half of the 90ies where stocks started to boost until they burst. Historically we named this burst the technology bubble 2000.

The analyst wrote that the current valuation is still 28 below the mid 90ies. The market is not cheap but not expensive. Other investors talk about a reasonable pricing. They trust the market environment and the FED stimulus and they pay finally the high price.

I’m a long-term growth investor and I’ve also realized that most of the high-quality stocks are too expensive to get a good return. With P/E’s of 20 you will definitely make no greater return. Sure, it could be possible that your investment got a 30 P/E in five years or so but that’s not investing, it’s speculation.

As you might have seen, I started more screens with cheap price ratios as variables. I still try to seek the cheapest opportunities from the market, but there are only a dozen from each sector. Today I like to discover some ideas from the basic material sector. I’m focused on large caps in my screen.

Basic material stocks are still very cheap. The 20 stocks with lowest valuation can be purchased for a multiple between 4 and 9 of expected earnings. That’s very low compared to my other screens. But you should also know that valuation is a question of belief – Do you trust the earnings forecasts?

George Soros's Biggest Dividend Stock Holdings

George Soros’s Quantum Fund Portfolio Summary Originally published at “long-term-investments.blogspot.com”. Warren Buffett is a very popular and famous investor which I cover on my blog. Another big investment guru with a proven track record is George Soros.

George Soros is the founder of Soros Fund Management. In 1970 he co-founded the Quantum Fund with Jim Rogers and Christoper Ink, which created the bulk of the Soros fortune. Legendary was his currency speculation against the British Bank of England:

On September 16, 1992, Soros's fund sold short more than USD 10 billion worth of pounds sterling, profiting from the Bank of England's reluctance to either raise its interest rates to levels comparable to those of other European Exchange Rate Mechanism countries or to float its currency. Finally, the Bank of England withdrew the currency from the European Exchange Rate Mechanism, devaluing the pound sterling. Soros earned an estimated worth of USD 1.1 billion in the process. He was dubbed "the man who broke the Bank of England." UK Treasury estimated the total costs of Black Wednesday at GBP 3.4 billion in 1997.

Linked is a top 20 list of his investment top positions as of December 31, 2012. Soros Fund Management LLC were valued at $5.37 billion. Below his 20 top positions are eleven with dividend payments.

During the quarter George Soros had 179 positions; 61 of them were new. Top New Stocks: C, MS, PXD, JPM, CTXS, EQT, APC, AAPL, PXP, DAL, F, IVZ, COST, CTSH, COF, NWL, ADT, ABT, AXP, PNC

George Soros Top 30 Stock Holdings | A Portfolio Overview

George Soros is the founder of Soros Fund Management. In 1970 he co-founded the Quantum Fund with Jim Rogers and Christoper Ink, which created the bulk of the Soros fortune. Legendary was his currency speculation against the British Bank of England:

On September 16, 1992, Soros's fund sold short more than USD 10 billion worth of pounds sterling, profiting from the Bank of England's reluctance to either raise its interest rates to levels comparable to those of other European Exchange Rate Mechanism countries or to float its currency. Finally, the Bank of England withdrew the currency from the European Exchange Rate Mechanism, devaluing the pound sterling. Soros earned an estimated worth of USD 1.1 billion in the process. He was dubbed "the man who broke the Bank of England." UK Treasury estimated the total costs of Black Wednesday at GBP 3.4 billion in 1997.

Below is a top 30 list of his investment positions as of September 30, 2012. Soros Fund Management LLC was valued at $3.8 billion. Top New Buys: AIG, PXD, PNKD, GOOG, WAG, BTU, TGT, DNR, AMZN

During the quarter George Soros had 66 total positions.

Here are his 3 top positions:

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18 Best Dividend Paying Basic Material Stocks (High Growth With Low Debt)

Best Dividend Paying Basic Material Stocks Researched By “long-term-investments.blogspot.com”. The basic material sector is a great investment field with fantastic growth potential if the economy starts to recover. The whole sector has a total market capitalization of USD 210.91 trillion and summarizes 604 companies. The average dividend yield amounts to 3.23 percent and the P/E ratio is 13.51.

In order to find the best dividend paying stocks within the sector, I screened all companies with a positive dividend yield, great earnings per share growth of more than 15 percent and an operating margin over 20 percent. To get the best results in terms of low debt and high cash, the debt to equity ratio should be under 0.4. Eighteen basic material companies remained of which three yielding over three percent and sixteen are currently recommended to buy.

11 Basic Material Dividend Stocks Starting To Boom

Basic Material Dividend Stocks With Improved Earnings Growth Researched By Dividend Yield - Stock, Capital, Investment. Basic material stocks are elementary for the economy. What they mine will be processed by downstream companies. The price of commodities leads to growth of the economy; stimulating or slowing down. Basic material stocks can only become to an unbeatable asset at high prices of raw materials.

In order to find some opportunities, I screened the sector by stocks with an earnings and sales growth of more than fifteen percent over the past five years. In order to catch up only those stocks with a gaining earnings momentum, I observed only those stocks with a quarter over quarter sales and earnings per share growth of more than twenty-five percent. Exactly eleven companies fulfilled these criteria of which one is a high yield; nine are recommended to buy.

The Best Dividends From Agricultural Chemical Companies

The Best Yielding Agricultural Chemical Companies Researched By Dividend Yield - Stock, Capital, Investment. The chemical industry is a cyclic and growing sector of the economy. A specialized industry with lower volatility is the agricultural chemical industry. Sixteen companies are classifiable to the sector. They all have a total market capitalization of around USD 200 billion. The average P/E ratio of the agri-chemicals amounts to 19.3 and they have a dividend yield of 1.8 percent. Only eight of them pay dividends but half of the dividend stocks are recommended to buy.

David Tepper - Appaloosa Management Q4/2011 Fund Portfolio

David Tepper - Appaloosa Management Q4/2011 Fund Investing Strategies By Dividend Yield – Stock Capital, Investment. Here is a current portfolio update of David Tepper’s - Appaloosa Management - portfolio movements as of Q4/2011 (December 31, 2011). In total, he has 19 stocks with a total portfolio worth of USD 589,458,000. He is mainly focussed on basic material, technology and consumer stocks. These three sectors alone representing 65 percent of his asset allocation.