18 Industrial Stocks I Love To Buy

I am personally finding plenty of interesting bargains and reasonable valuations in the industrial sector these days, one of the few places they exist.

Dividend investors might be tired of investing in the same old consumer staples or consider those trades too crowded to invest new money into. So where do they go?

 Below I have outlined a few interesting industrial plays that have very cheap or reasonable valuations and competitive yields or future dividend growth prospects if the current yield is very low.

Here are the top yielding results...

These 14 Dividend Champions Could Double Their Dividends

Dividend stocks are often the fundament of a great retirement portfolio. Dividend payments not only put money in your pocket, which can help hedge against any downward move in the stock market, but they're usually a sign of a financially sound company.

Dividend payments also give investors the opportunity to reinvest into more shares of stock, thus boosting future dividend payments and compounding gains over time. Yet not all income stocks live up to their full potential.

Utilizing the payout ratio, or the percentage of profits a company returns in the form of a dividend to its shareholders, we can get a good bead on whether a company has room to increase its dividend. Ideally, we like to see healthy payout ratios between 50% and 75%.

Attached you can find a few  income stocks with a long dividend growth history and payout ratios currently below 40% that could potentially double their dividends over the next years.

Our assumption for such big dividend moves are positive earnings growth and low debt levels. Both are very important for dividend hikes over the next years.

The screen delivered 14 results of which 4 yield over 2 percent. The results can be found in the attached list with some fundamentals.

Here are the best yielding results in detail...

7 Highest Yielding Dividend Champs With Low Payouts And Potential To Increase Cash Distributions

Dividends tend to be paid by companies that are more stable and less volatile than others paying a dividend to shareholders is a commitment that companies don't take lightly, and management will avoid having to reduce or eliminate that payout.

Dividends are generally instituted when management is confident that the company will be able to keep paying (and, ideally, increasing) its dividend, due to fairly predictable earnings. Dividend investing can keep you focused on relatively reliable companies.

We all know how important dividends are for normal investors. We cannot change the corporate strategy and need to live from payouts.

Attached is a quiet overview of long-term dividend growth stocks with the lowest payout ratios. This could mean, there is a potential for further dividend hikes but it could also mean that much money is needed for growth, buybacks or debt pay downs.

However, attached is a sheet of the 20 low payout dividend champions. Insurer are well represented on the list. The cheapest in terms of forward P/E are Franklin Resources, Aflac, Stepan Company, Archer-Daniels Midland, 1st Source and Wal-Mart. 

Do you like any of the results?

Here are the top yielding results in detail...

18 Stocks With Higher Dividend Payments Of The Past Week

Attached is a nice compilation of stocks with dividend growth from the past week. Only a few stocks, in total 18 companies, announced a higher dividend.

The best known stocks are Clarcor, Thor, DineEquity, Masco, LTC Properties, Enterprise Products Partners and Bank or Ozarks.

The biggest hike came from Synnex followed by Riverview Bancorp and American Financial.

Here is the full compilation....

18 Stocks With Higher Dividend Payments Of The Past Week (click to enlarge),
Source: long-term-investments.blogspot.com

7 Top Dividend Growth And Share Buyback Stocks Of The Week

As you might have noticed, my blog covers dividend growth stocks and companies with fresh stock buyback announcements.

It's not a real investment strategy but both are activities for investors.

You can find each week a list of all dividend growth stocks and share buyback companies on this site. It's the only source who compiles this on the internet.

Within the past week, only eight companies raised their dividend payments and additional nine stocks announced a stock buyback program.

Both are shareholder-friendly activities which could be helpful for normal investors like me and you.

You also may like: My 6 Favorite Dividend Growth And Share Buyback Stocks Of The Past Week...

Back to dividend growth: No large-cap stock was in the list of the latest dividend grower. The biggest fish in the pool was the insurer American Financial Group who raised dividends by 13.64 percent.

7 of my favorite dividend growth stocks and share buyback announcements of the past week are...

Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On October 09, 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.

In total, 33 stocks go ex dividend - of which 10 yield more than 3 percent. Here is a full list of all stocks with ex-dividend date within the current week.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
MFA Financial, Inc.	MFA	2.72B	9.52	0.86	5.51	11.70%
Linn Energy, LLC	LINE	6.23B	-	1.47	3.41	11.54%
Sasol Ltd.	SSL	29.88B	11.40	1.98	1.64	4.61%
Kraft Foods Group, Inc.	KRFT	31.99B	17.37	7.44	1.74	3.90%
Sovran Self Storage Inc.	SSS	2.35B	38.31	2.94	9.18	2.82%
General Dynamics Corp.	GD	30.26B	-	2.57	0.97	2.60%
Accenture plc	ACN	46.47B	14.86	9.37	1.53	2.57%
Aviva plc	AV	20.04B	-	1.29	0.36	2.57%
Marsh & McLennan Companies	MMC	23.68B	18.44	3.49	1.96	2.33%
Waddell & Reed Financial Inc.	WDR	4.51B	21.44	8.01	3.62	2.13%
Yum! Brands, Inc.	YUM	32.43B	23.42	14.58	2.46	2.07%
Smith & Nephew plc	SNN	11.11B	20.25	2.85	2.66	1.69%
WPP plc	WPPGY	25.41B	20.36	2.04	1.48	1.64%
Patterson Companies Inc.	PDCO	4.03B	19.66	2.89	1.11	1.60%
Masco Corporation	MAS	7.15B	93.09	20.08	0.91	1.46%
Kyocera Corp.	KYO	36.17B	42.68	1.00	2.68	1.36%
Coty Inc.	COTY	6.13B	38.10	4.10	1.32	1.25%
CLARCOR Inc.	CLC	2.76B	28.39	2.83	2.45	1.23%
Morningstar Inc.	MORN	3.56B	31.42	4.97	5.26	0.65%
Roper Industries Inc.	ROP	12.88B	26.16	3.31	4.18	0.51%

13 Stocks With Fresh New Dividend Hikes

Stocks with dividend hikes from last week originally published at long-term-investments.blogspot.com. 13 stocks and 4 funds announced a dividend hike within the recent week.

I’ve attached a list with all stocks and included a few fundamentals for you. So it would be easier to compare the current valuation.

Two High-Yields are part of the results but they are both very small capitalized. The biggest stocks with the most recent dividend growth are Accenture and Phillips 66. Only four companies have a P/E of less than 15. The market gets more and more expensive, a fact that is also reasonable to the low interest policy of Bernanke.

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.

Best Dividend Paying Ex-Dividend Shares On January 02, 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 January 02, 2013. In total, 27 stocks and preferred shares go ex dividend - of which 9 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 2.70%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
Enerplus Corporation	ERF	2.57B	-	0.79	2.43	8.44%
Mack-Cali Realty Corp.	CLI	2.28B	36.77	1.26	3.20	6.89%
Bristol-Myers Squibb Company	BMY	53.80B	29.90	3.87	2.85	4.30%
The Toronto-Dominion Bank	TD	77.44B	12.42	1.61	3.47	3.65%
Sysco Corp.	SYY	18.61B	16.84	3.80	0.43	3.54%
BB&T Corporation	BBT	20.37B	11.46	0.99	2.93	2.75%
JPMorgan Chase & Co.	JPM	167.14B	9.34	0.84	2.91	2.73%
Masco Corporation	MAS	5.95B	-	12.53	0.78	1.80%
Monsanto Co.	MON	50.63B	25.11	4.28	3.75	1.58%
American Express Company	AXP	64.32B	13.31	3.31	1.92	1.39%
Torchmark Corp.	TMK	4.91B	10.17	1.14	1.40	1.16%
CLARCOR Inc.	CLC	2.39B	19.66	2.67	2.10	1.13%
Royal Gold, Inc.	RGLD	5.24B	50.22	2.60	18.94	0.98%
Itau Unibanco Holding S.A.	ITUB	75.24B	11.35	2.03	2.58	0.53%
BRF - Brasil Foods S.A.	BRFS	18.42B	100.52	2.70	1.37	-
Banco Bradesco S.A.	BBDO	62.08B	11.36	1.91	2.61	0.67%
Banco Bradesco S.A.	BBD	65.71B	12.18	2.02	3.28	0.62%
Itau Unibanco Holding S.A.	ITUB	74.19B	11.19	2.00	2.54	0.55%
BRF - Brasil Foods S.A.	BRFS	18.01B	98.29	2.58	1.36	-