50 Technology Dividend Dogs As Of June 2016

50 Technology Dividend Dogs As Of June 2016,
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13 Dividend Growth Stocks With A Strong Buy Rating

Companies that have raised their dividend payments for at least 10 consecutive years are known as dividend achievers. It's an exclusive club containing just 335 companies.

It's always hard to find the good stocks from the bad performer. I personal approach is based on fundamentals. If a stock looks cheap, it offers values, than it might be buy. But sometimes they are cheap for a simple reason. They have longer enduring operational problems or face a hard headwind for the future.

It could also make sense to look what analysts recommend or discover the trade statistics of big guru's like Warren Buffett or George Soros.

Today I like to focus on the highest recommended stocks from the dividend achievers list. Those stocks are highlights and were rewarded by analysts with the highest buy recommendation, a strong buy.

Only 13 of 335 companies received such a high rating. Attached you can find a full list of the results.

These are the results....

18 Most Attractive Mid-Cap Dividend Growth Stocks

I'm a big fan of large capitalized stocks due to the higher degree of safeness I could enjoy. But the price I pay for those extra points is return.

High quality large cap stocks often give you a smaller return than companies with a small capitalization.

Mid-cap stocks combine attributes of both large and small companies. Similar to large companies, these mid-size companies can have seasoned management teams, a strong market presence and access to capital markets, for instance.

They can also grow quickly, with fewer layers of management and bureaucracy, and offer a more entrepreneurial spirit than large competitors.

Attached I've tried to list some smaller capitalized dividend growth stocks with a market cap under 10 billion and a history of consecutive dividend of more than 10 years.

Exactly 210 companies have such a long dividend growth history. In order to limit my selection, I've tighten my criteria.

Each of the stocks must fulfill the following restrictions:

- Forward P/E under 15

- Debt-to-equity under 0.5

- 5-Year estimated EPS growth over 5%

18 small- and mid capitalized stocks survived my screening criteria of which five yield over 3 percent. 8 of the results have a buy or better rating.

Here are the top yielding results in detail...

11 Dividend Growth Stocks With Low Debt, Solid Growth And Yields Over 4%

All too often, yield-starved investors give in to the temptation of high yield dividend stocks. Dividend yields greater than 5% look like an easy way to grab more current income on the surface, but dividend income is just part of the total return equation.

If a stock with a 6% dividend yield sees its price cut in half, an investor living off dividends in retirement would have been better off purchasing a lower yielding stock with less business risk and volatility, occasionally selling shares to meet his or her cash flow needs.

That's the reason for my today's screen. I've tried to catch some companies with high dividends which are not at risk to cut.

The total amount of debt is one important criterion for a dividend cut. Growth is also an important issue.

Each stock I've researched has a dividend yield over 4% and positive 5 year EPS growth forecasts. In addition, debt-to-equity ratios are under 0.4. Eleven stocks fulfilled my tight criteria of which 3 got a buy or better rating by analysts.

Here are the best yielding results from my research...

Dividend Growth Stocks Beating Every Asset Class Over The Long-Term - 11 Stocks You Must Look At

It is true that the stock turns out to be more attractive to buyers when its dividends increase. When the demand increases, sellers are more likely to raise the price to gain more profits. 

If you have a dividend stock, its share price will gradually increase as its dividend rises. This is why investors usually see increasing dividends as a sign of a company’s good health. 

Together with the increased dividend, you need to make sure that the company also reports increasing profits along with the dividend stock, as they’re most unlikely to pay the increased dividend over time.

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Attached you can find a list of stocks that might look attractive within the Dividend Growers segment.

I've put a lot of work into my screen. My main criteira are solid financials, decent growth for the future, cheap P/E multiples in relation to the expected growth and finally a great dividend growth history.

Here are the results from my research...

Analysts Saying These 30 Stocks Have The Biggest Upside Potential - Dividend Growth Stocks At Strong Buy Rating

There is one rule that investors need to keep in mind. The higher the projected return on an investment generally means that there is a lot more risk.

That is certainly true of the latest pack of analyst upside calls for massive upside. Some of these are beaten down stocks, some are very risky companies with uncertain futures, and some could easily end up in the “what ever happened to that company?” category.

Conservative investors and those who are averse to risk should not even remotely consider investing in speculative companies just because some Wall Street analyst says there is upside.

It is undeniable that many analyst calls do prove to be wrong. And many companies just never grow into their full potential. Now that you have been reminded that these are full of much more risk than you might expect from a Dow or S&P 500 stock, these are six of the last week’s analyst upgrades and positive research calls with massive upside.

Below you can get a quick overview of those stocks with the highest upside potential right now. Each of the attached listed dividend growth stocks has a strong buy rating.

Here are the results...

8 Cheap Dividend Growth Stocks With Yields Over 4% And Decent Growth Potential

It’s true that rising bond yields provide more competition for stocks when it comes to luring income investors, and that income stocks tend to lose the most relative appeal.

It’s also true that the Federal Reserve has hinted it could raise its Fed funds rate soon, perhaps by year’s end.

The rate has been targeted at a historic low of 0% to 0.25% since late 2008, and recently hovered around an effective rate of 0.12%. What’s not clear is that a rise in the Fed funds rate would push yields on bonds substantially higher.

Don’t shy away from stocks with high dividend yields because of a looming interest rate hike. Do, however, favor companies with decent growth potential to complement their cash payouts. Below are three that yield over 4%.

Here are the results...

6 Mid-Cap Dividend Growth Stocks With Return Potential

When investors consider financial ratios individually, they may put their money in stocks that do not really fit in their profile. 

For instance, a high EPS alone doesn’t say too much about a company, if one doesn’t look into the company’s revenues, net income, and sustained dividend payments and so on.

Conversely, a high EPS combined with a good dividend yield above 3% and consistency in good, strong financial results, may suggest a great investment.

The article introduces 6 mid-capitalized stocks with fast growing earnings while price multiples for 2015 earnings are still low. The main focus is on smaller capitalized stocks, companies with a market cap below 2 billion and a consistent dividend growth history of more than a decade.

Here are the top results, sorted by yield...

13 Unleveraged Dividend Challengers With Yields Over 2% | Dividend Income Growth

Dividend Challengers with very low debt to equity ratios and great initial dividend yields originally published at long-term-investments.blogspot.com. 

If you read my blog for a longer time you should have noticed that dividend growth is one of the most important wealth drivers for long-term dividend investors.

I also talked about the difference between high dividend yields at a low growth and low yielding stocks with a high dividend growth.

The answer of this question is a between solution: Look at good initial yields with growing dividends over the longer period. I talk about mentionable yields and growth rates above the inflation level.

Today I would like to combine both, good growth with an acceptable initial dividend yield. In addition I love it to find stocks with low or no long-term debt. This increases the chance for further big dividend hikes or an accelerated growth.

Only a low leveraged company has more flexibility to grow sales and income much easier. Let’s take a look into the third dividend growth stock category - Dividend Challengers.

Thirteen stocks from the Dividend Challengers list (stocks with dividend growth between 5 to 10 consecutive years) fulfilled my above mentioned criteria. One stock has a high yield close to the double-digit yield ratio and five got a buy or better rating by brokerage firms. Most of the companies from the screening results are low capitalized; eight of them have a market capitalization under USD 2 billion.

14 Stocks With A Growing Dividend From Last Week

Stocks with dividend hikes from last week originally published at “long-term-investments.blogspot.com”. 

Last week was a weak one because only 14 companies announced to raise their dividends. Three of them have a high yield and ten a buy or better recommendation. In total they grew dividends by an average ratio of 16.57 percent.

Growing dividends are important because they show which companies are confident to manage future growth without additional capital. For you as investor, you get a higher passive income.

The biggest names on the best dividend growers list are National Grid, Seadrill and American Eagle Outfitters.

The Best Stocks With Dividend Growth From Last Week (May 28 – June 03, 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, 9 stocks and funds raised dividends of which 4 have a dividend growth of more than 10 percent. The average dividend growth amounts to 12.56 percent. Exactly four stocks have a yield over five percent and seven are currently recommended to buy.

20 Dividend Challengers With Very Low Debt

Dividend Challengers With Low Debt To Equity Ratios Researched By Dividend Yield - Stock, Capital, Investment. Stocks with a history of rising dividends of more than 5 years but less than 9 years in a row are named Dividend Challengers. 189 companies with such a dividend growth performance are available at the markets. But past dividend growth does not guarantee a future dividend hike if earnings are down. A major ratio to judge the ability of paying dividends from capital assets is the debt to equity ratio.

I screened all Dividend Challengers by companies with very low debt to equity ratios (ratio below 0.1). Those stocks are nearly free of debt and have a generous cushion of future dividend hikes. Below the results are some of stocks with a very low market capitalization which are not to recommend in a deeper analysis. 20 stocks with a market capitalization of more than USD 300 million remained. Twelve of them have a current buy or better rating.

The Highest Yielding Stock Buys Of William B. Frels Fund

William B. Frels’s Best Dividend Stock Buys By Dividend Yield – Stock Capital, Investment. Here is a current overview of the best yielding stock increasing of the fund portfolio from William Frels. He bought eight companies of which seven pay dividends; two stocks have a yield of more than three percent. His best yielding stock buys came from the industrials and conglomerates sector.