Top Yielding Permian Basin Oil and Gas Stocks

Ticker	Company	Market Cap	P/E	P/S	P/B	Dividend	Get the PDF…
PER	SandRidge Permian Trust	146.94M	6.36	5.16	1.23	17.24%	Security Analysis of PER
XOM	Exxon Mobil Corporation	347.30B	23.83	1.44	1.82	4.08%	Security Analysis of XOM
OXY	Occidental Petroleum Corporation	63.94B	33.62	4.74	3.05	3.73%	Security Analysis of OXY
CVX	Chevron Corporation	237.58B	29.37	1.7	1.58	3.57%	Security Analysis of CVX
APA	Apache Corporation	17.44B	12.76	2.91	2.29	2.23%	Security Analysis of APA
COP	ConocoPhillips	84.09B	-	2.73	2.77	1.59%	Security Analysis of COP
NBL	Noble Energy, Inc.	17.20B	-	3.82	1.65	1.25%	Security Analysis of NBL
DVN	Devon Energy Corporation	23.12B	110.89	1.63	2.54	0.74%	Security Analysis of DVN
XEC	Cimarex Energy Co.	9.14B	18.83	4.49	3.28	0.66%	Security Analysis of XEC
EOG	EOG Resources, Inc.	72.25B	73.3	5.84	4.29	0.59%	Security Analysis of EOG
ECA	Encana Corporation	13.62B	15.61	3.05	2.01	0.43%	Security Analysis of ECA
FANG	Diamondback Energy, Inc.	13.34B	22.83	9.2	2.42	0.38%	Security Analysis of FANG
SM	SM Energy Company	3.12B	207.31	2.38	1.11	0.37%	Security Analysis of SM
PXD	Pioneer Natural Resources Company	32.44B	75.98	5.12	2.8	0.17%	Security Analysis of PXD

My 10 Favorite Dividend Stocks To Buy And Hold For The Next Decade

Buy and hold stocks are definitely underrated. Some investors spend copious amounts of time tracking their investments and hoping their value increase.

Then there are dividend investors. Sure, they like watching the value of their stocks rise, but they also like getting free money every three months—money they can either cash or reinvest.

Dividend investing might not be as exciting as trying to find the latest tech stock that is about to soar, but that’s because dividend investing is a long-term sport for patient investors. Dividends are typically paid out by larger, well-established companies and have become increasingly popular in the current near-record-low interest rate environment.

After all, it’s easier to have your money work for you when you invest in a company that provides an annual dividend of four percent and has a long history of increasing its annual dividend than, say, putting your money in the bank or bonds, where the yields are virtually zero.

Dividends are typically by companies that make a lot of money, but don’t need all of the cash to fund growth. Instead of reinvesting all of their money into the company, they pay some of it out to shareholders.

If you’re looking at adding dividend growth stocks to your portfolio, pay particular attention to the price/book (P/B), price/earnings (P/E), return on equity (ROE), payout ratio, and levered free cash flow.

Also, look for stocks with a high barrier to entry. This prevents other companies from entering the fray and taking a bite out of profit margins, which keeps the company making money and the dividend yield safe.

Here are my top 10 stocks to buy and hold for the next decade...

25 Safe High-Yield Dividends From The Russell 2000

Income investors are seeking for growth, high yields and stability in dividend payments.

The major indices like S&P 500 or Dow Jones summarize a lot of high-quality stocks at a high level of safeness.

But most of the stocks are also highly valuated while sales growth is only modest.

If we look at the bigger brother, we come back to Russell 2000. The Russell 3000 Index comprises the companies in the large-cap Russell 1000 Index and the small-cap Russell 2000 names. 

Attached you will find the 100 largest (by market cap) stocks in the Russell 3000 for dividends to find the 25 highest-yielding names. 

Here are the 25 Best Yielding stocks from the Russell 2000...

40 Leaders And Laggards Of EPS Surprise / EPS Revision

A huge number of companies have released their Q4 fiscal figures. Market actors are looking deeply into those numbers in order to compare them with their expectations.

If a company does not meet them, it got punished.

Attached you will find the 10 best and worst stocks that beat expectations in Q4/2015. You will also find a list of the 10 best and worst stocks with the highest EPS revisions for the upcoming quarter.

Sometimes it indicates a clear trend.

Here are the top results...

Stocks With The Highest Annual Dividend Growth Of The Past 3, 5 and 10 Years

Recently, I showed you how your investment portfolio grows over 30 years if you own sustainable long-term dividend growth stocks. 

The key notice from the article was that if you buy high yielding stocks with fast dividend growth, you could maximize your portfolio return. 

It sounds quite easy but it’s hard to find those stocks because no one of us can look into the future or has crystal ball. 

Today I like to show you those stocks with the highest short, mid and long-term dividend growth of the past 3, 5 and 10 years. 

Over the next upcoming days, I will also deliver a few stocks with the highest 10year dividend growth rate of the most consistent dividend raiser in the market. 

Here the best dividend growers of the past decade....

Here Is How Commodities Performed Over The Past 10 Years

Don't worry about the big decrease of the commodity prices. The main reason in my view is that the world economy is slowing down while commodity producer have spend billions of money to wide their production. They searched and explored new mines and increased their output.

As a result we see a massive price decline. But if you believe in long-term growth, you should know the cyclic of the commodity sector.

Here you can see the price fluctuations of the past decade...

10 Year Commodity Return (click to enlarge)

4 Top Turnaround Income Stocks With 5% Plus Yields

When stock prices plummet, dividends are generally the last thing on investors' minds. But what if you have a set of promising stocks that not only generate robust and sustainable dividend yields of over 5%, but are also turnaround stories in the making?

Income-oriented investors know that through time they get one-third to half of all of their total returns via dividends. Companies that will keep raising those dividends for years into the future are the best ways to generate income today and going forward.

With the following four beaten-down picks, you could enjoy not just dividend income growth, but also see your portfolio appreciate in value. As such, these stocks are ideal for a dividend portfolio designed for steady income.

Here are the results...

13 High-Yield Large Caps From The S&P 500 Stock Index

Despite all the hand-wringing over the beginning of the Federal Reserve interest rate increases, the fact of the matter is they will start small, stay small and happen at a very slow pace. 

In fact, most Wall Street strategists predict that by the end of 2017, the fed funds rate will only be 2% at the very most. It could be even lower if economic growth slows down between now and then. 

With that scenario very likely, solid stocks with a big yield will remain in demand. I screened the S&P 500 index for large cap, blue chip stocks that paid a 5% dividend. 

As of now, 13 stocks pay such a high yield of which 5 have also a low forward P/E and 8 a buy or better rating.

A major worry for many yield-hungry investors is that when the Federal Reserve begins raising the federal funds rate, market prices for any yield-producing investment can come under pressure. 

When interest rates rise, the value of an existing bond or preferred stock must adjust itself lower so it has the same yield as a similarly rated new security.

A good advice from me is to avoid stocks with high debt leverage like REITs. Those stocks are living from an interest margin that could be destroyed.

Here are the large cap high-yields from the S&P 500...

40 Top Yielding Results From My Safe Haven Large Cap Screen

As a long reader of my blog, you might know that I love dividend paying stocks, high cash compensations at low risk.

Everything at all is not possible but I do my best to find great stock ideas each day. Today I like to move forward by taking a look into my safe heaven screen.

I run this screen several times till now. There are more stocks with an inconsistent dividend growth history but this does not mean that they are not high-quality.

Many oil and gas companies jumped into the screen within the recent weeks thanks to the low oil price. In addition, Money Center Banks are also top picks in the higher yield area but take a look by yourself...

The 6 Best Dividend Paying Oil Stocks

If you're an income investor, you most likely will be looking for high-dividend stocks. Those high yields can be found within the energy sector, especially in the oil rector. Some Telecom, REITs and MLPs also pay good dividends.

Dividend investing also requires patience. And the reason for that is fairly simple: Most high-quality dividend payers are very stable and mature companies whose stocks are almost always trading at fair valuations with little-to-no prospect of becoming undervalued. In other words, these are generally boring stocks to own. 

When it comes to investing in dividend-paying oil stocks, here's what I'd be looking for:

- Acceptable Debt-To-Equity Ratios

- Strong Fundamentals

- High Dividends

- Low Payouts

- Cheap Valuation

- Competitive Advantage

Attached is a list of the best dividend paying oil stocks that might fulfill the most of the above mentioned criteria. Which do you like or do you know some oil stocks that might be better? Please let me know.

The top results are....

21 Dividend Growers Go Ex-Dividend Next Week

Dividends are important for income investors. The ex-dividend date is an important date related to the dividend payment. If you buy the stock before the ex-date, you will receive the next dividend.

Today I like to show you the best dividend growers who have their ex-dividend date within the next week. A full list can be found here. I publish there on a weekly basis the dates and yield figures. If you want to know who pays the highest dividend yield, check out this site: 20 Highest Yielding Ex-Dividend Stocks Of The Upcoming Week June 29 – July 05, 2015.

Source: Forbes.com (click to enlarge)

Utilities and REITs are the highest yielding stocks on the list but cheap by forward P/E are only Duke, Crane and Ryder. Those are also high-beta stocks, except Duke.

But Duke has a debt to equity ratio of 1.07. Which stock do you favor?

20 Stocks To Build A Diversified Beginner Portfolio

If you start to invest money, you must build a well diversified portfolio in order to keep the big risks away. One great way to diversify your money is to put it into different sectors.

Today I would like to give you a small overview of top dividend paying growers from several sectors of the economy.

Attached is a small list of 20 top results while a detailed overview is only produced for each sector.

These are the 10 top results....

Warren Buffett's 10 Highest Yielding Dividend Stocks

Warren Buffett is one of the most successful investors of all time. He reached a major track record over the past decades and impressed the whole investment community.

Warren is also famous for living modestly and investing in products that can be easily understood by anyone. What he buys and own catches major attention for investors because it could be a return promise.

Check out Warren Buffett's latest dividend portfolio here: 10 Most Popular Dividend Stocks Bought By Investment Gurus

Today I would like to show you the highest yielding stocks in Warren Buffett's portfolio. As of now, he owns 47 stocks that have a total value of 109.365 billion. Nearly half of his investments have a relationship to the financial sector.

Here are ten of the stocks with the highest dividend yield, 3 percecnt or more, that we should all seriously consider for our portfolios:

9 Most Undervalued Dividend Stocks On The Market

Most investors look for undervalued stocks. They like to buy below the intrinsic value, wait and sell when the market carries the stock far above core price.

Dividend stocks often fall off the radars of investors looking for total returns but dividend paying stocks greatly outperformed non-dividend paying stocks from the period from 1972 through 2013. 

Sure, Dividend Stocks are not a one-way ticket for success. There are also many companies that have underperformed the market in recent years, remember Avon Products.

Dividend paying stocks have been a better investment than non-dividend paying stocks over the past 40 years. Investing in those stocks is not the only strategy that has a long history of outperformance.

Below are 10 stock ideas for investors who look for undervalued stocks with growth perspectives and dividends.

The most underestimated stock are...

These 11 Top Yielding Stocks Have A Nearly Secure Dividend

I started a screen in order to hunt for the most guaranteeing dividend paying stocks.

I wish to concentrate on bigger, more diversified organizations in the U.S. because of their inalienable quality and solidness. Next, I will utilize three profit related criteria to choose several dividend all-stars. 

To start with, I will choose only those organizations with dividend yields of 3 percent or more. By the way, the sustainable of the dividend payments are also in focus of my research. 

It doesn't make sense when a company pays its investor one or two years and then cuts the income stream for the following once – I will screen for companies with a dividend coverage ratio of no less than 250 percent. 

The dividend coverage is characterized as the earnings in relation to the dividend payments. The higher the ratio, the lower the dividend payouts and the higher the dividend coverage should be. 

Good companies, like Dividend Kings, can pay stable dividends or let grow when despite earnings are falling by 50 percent due to high dividend coverage.

At last, I will search for stocks with a reputation of raising their profit payouts over the long haul. I will search for a five-year normal dividend growth rate of not less than 3 percent every year. 

Attached are my 11 results of which five are highlighted in detail. I hope you find some values in my work and the current screen. Thank you for reading.

These are my favorites from the results…

Warren Buffett Buys Surprisingly These 8 Dividend Stocks

Warren Buffett released recently his Portfolio movements via 13F. 

I cover his investment changes and like to share my thoughts about his latest moves with you here on my blog. 

Sure, I like to keep my focus on dividend stocks but you will also get his non-dividend payer stock buys and sells.

During the past quarter, Warren bought 11 stocks of which eight pay a dividend. Four stocks were reduced and one, Deere, were sold out by the investment guru from Omaha.

General Motors and Suncor Energy are his highest yielding stock purchases from the past quarter. Completely new shares in his asset vehicle were Express Scripts Holdings, the health care plans operator.

In addition he added Visa and MasterCard. The trend of paying cash-less is fully intact and gains more and more momentum.

Also Wal-Mart and IBM shares were increased by Buffett. Below is a full list of his latest stock movements.

Here are Warren Buffett's latest dividend paying stock buys:

8 High-Return Creating Stocks

When you invest in dividend stocks you need also look at internal return rates. The most popular ratios are return on equity and return on investment.

A company that has a big return on equity and also low debt ratios means that the high ratio was not created by taking debt and boosting earnings. Great for us investors; we own a piece of a high income generating company.

If the company can scale up its sales by taking more debt and issuing new shares, our return could boost. That's also one reason why I look at low debt with good return on equity ratios. If the company also do stock buybacks and hiked dividends, great!

My experience is that no companies fulfill everything. It's no shame when a company suffers and do not meet every optimum value. Each business is volatile and risky.

I've tried to create a screen, based on some return figures. Below are my 8 favorites. At the end of this article, you can find a list with 16 additional stocks.

These are my main criteria:
- Midcap+
- Forward P/E under 15
- Operating Margin over 15 percent
- Debt-to-equity under 1
- Return on Equity 15%+
- Payout half of profits
- Mid-digit Earnigns growth forecasts

8 high return creating stocks, low debt and price ratios included are...

5 Cash-Hoarding Stocks With Top Yields And Strong Cash Flows (PFE, COP, CVX, LLY, MRK)

While I made my daily research on several stock market screeners, one question came deeply into my mind. When the markets are so expensive, who are the cheapest stocks, not by P/E but in terms of cash flow or Ebitda. I also included the Cash and debt of the company.

So, the good thing is that you can buy stocks in every market cycle but you must be careful with your investment spending.

Your final return depends in the end on your inital investment cost and if you buy at a high price, your return will fall into a low or negative area.

Good to know that dividends can upper your yield but my experience is that it could be very painful for an investor to look at a suffering return over years.

These are my criteria:

- Market Cap over 15 Billion

- Dividend Yield in the higher yield space over 3 percent

- Cheapest Enterprise-To-Ebitda Ratio on the market

My screen delivered some interesting results in the large cap area: Oil companies are top. 

COP, CVX are the best results in terms of EV/EBITDA. Both have a ratio of around 5 which is very comfortable in the current situation but what about Russia and the Middle East crises?

My second best results came from the technology space: Intel and Verizon. Warren Buffett added his VZ stake by one third on the past quarter and he might be right because VZ is much cheaper than rival AT&T. The EV/EBITDA ratio is only at 6.35 while T has a ratio of 9.66.

Healthcare is also good positioned with Merck, Pfizer and Eli Lilly but those are suffering on the patent cliff.

I believe that it does not make sense to look at stocks with a higher ratio. For sure cash flows can come down and the full sheet becomes trash but most of the companies serve values. What are your thoughts about my current screen? How are you invested?

These are the best results in terms of lowest debt-to-equity ratio:

How to Retire At The Age Of 40 With Dividends - 10 Helpful Investing Tips From "All About Interest"

I'm passionate about dividends and share my thoughts about stocks on my blog but there are also many other bloggers with good ideas.

Most of them share their personal journey to financial freedom on the internet and educate people how they grow their passive income with dividend stocks. Their plan: Retire at the age of 40.

I love those stories and the hard work they do. I'm also a guy who worked hard for his success. That's the reason why I want to support them and like to distribute their thoughts to a wider audience.

I share fresh articles from them on my Twitter and Facebook account. If you like you can join the conversation there. It’s always great.

Today I'd like to interview a great Blogger who has a nice dividend investing space on the internet, a site calling All About Interest.

Tom: AA Interest, you are a dividend investor and publishing your journey to a financial independence at the age of 40 on the web. On your blog, you show people your asset structure with a net worth of $725,000. What are your main growth drivers for your financial freedom goal?

AA Interest: My main growth driver is my savings each month that I plow back into investments that offer passive income streams. These passive income streams are real estate (rental properties) and dividend growth stocks. 

This passive income is then added to my savings the following month and put right back to work for me, causing a compounding, or snowball effect. 

Tom: Out there are so many people who have the dream to retiree with a high passive dividend income stream. Can you give them three important tips to follow in order to achieve this aim?

AA Interest: My advice is simple:

1.) Start investing as soon as possible

2.) Save as much as you can each month

3.) Research your investments

These are the three biggest factors that will produce your desired retirement amounts: time, money and rate of return.  You need to know the time you have available for compounding to work its magic.  You need to know the amount of money you have available to invest.  You also need to do your research so you have a good return on your investments.

 

Tom: Back to stock market financials. What are the best places to be when you think about putting money into stocks now; can you tell us something about your recent trades or your current ideas.

AA Interest: Whether the market is in a bull or bear cycle, I believe there are always companies that offer a fair value or better. Currently, I have a large portion of my portfolio in the energy sector.  

I'm invested in big names like Chevron, Conoco Phillips, British Petroleum and Kinder Morgan to name a few. From a p/e standpoint, a lot of these energy companies offer some of the best values in the market.

They also happen to pay a generous and growing dividend, usually in excess of 3.5%. 

I'm also a fan of companies that generate large amounts of free cash flow and have little or no debt. A company like this that I've recently been investing in is Visa.  

I also look for short-term, negative catalysts that can suppress a stock's price. One such company I've been investing in lately is Target.

Shares are trailing the S&P significantly since the credit card breach and lackluster Canadian results.

However, Target is a dividend champion, having increased their dividend consecutively for over 47 years! I'm a fan of the company long-term and believe shares currently offer a good value. 

Tom: Final Question: You’ve published a long Watchlist on your Blog. What are your main criteria to consider a buy? Do you look at P/E multiples, high yields or other ratios?

AA Interest: I actually laid out a Business Plan so that I could monitor my stock purchasing like running an actual business. As outlined in this plan, my main criteria to buy are:

1.) At least 90% of all stocks chosen should be in the CCC list, that is the Champions, Contenders and Challengers list maintained by David Fish.  This list can be found on my Resources tab.

2.) Small-Cap or larger ( >250 million market cap).

3.) 10-year YOC should be 10% or higher (typically using 5-year CAGR).

4.) Minimum yield of 2.5% (exception can be made as long as target total portfolio yield holds).

5.) Dividend growth over last 5 years (5-year CAGR) must be over 4%.

6.) Large moat or competitive advantages.

7.) Sound fundamentals.

These are the basic rules that I follow. Some of these rules leave flexibility and some room for being subjective.  

For instance, Visa doesn't meet rule number 4. However, since my portfolio average yield is well above 3.5%, I made an exception.

In a nutshell, I'm looking for companies that pay and raise dividends at a rate higher than inflation, have a large barrier to entry and are fundamentally sound. This is why I consider myself a dividend growth investor.

Tom: Thank you for your great interview. If you like to follow AA Interest, please visit his Blog at http://www.allaboutinterest.com.

If you also like to be interviewed or release a guest article, please contact us.

8 Cheap Dividend Growth Stars You Must Know....

Dividend stocks are a passion for me but most of the long-term dividend payer and grower underperformed the market within the recent years.

However, I maintain my strategy because I know what I own and how much return they will deliver over the long-run. I don't care about my friends and other investor colleagues and what they might say about my boring strategy. 

Toady I've screened the market by cheap opportunities, stocks that look fundamentally cheap. It does not mean that they perform well in the near future but they offer a good yield with solid fundamentals which is a good seed of future crops.

My criteria are:

- Dividend growth of more than 5 consecutive years
- Debt-to-equity ratio under 0.5
- Dividend Yield above 3 percent
- Market Cap over $2 billion
- Forward P/E below 15

8 companies survived my screening. Below are the detailed stocks in review.

8 Cheap Dividend Stars you must know...