14 Companies From The S&P 500 Low Volatility High Dividend Index With Low Debt Figures

Low leveraged stocks from the S&P 500 Low Volatility High Dividend index originally published at "long-term-investments.blogspot.com". I love high yielding stocks but most of them have a high debt burden or they grow too slow or they are not really diversified for my approach.

Every investor wants to make profits on the stock market and he tries to minimize the risk of a stock loss. An index that covers stocks with a low volatility and great dividends is the S&P 500 Low Volatility High Dividend index. The index is designed to serve as a benchmark for income-seeking investors in the U.S. equity market. 50 constituents are part of the index.

Today I like to show you which of the index members have the lowest debt ratios. I observe only stocks with a debt to equity ratio of less than 0.5. Only 14 companies fulfilled these criteria of which eight are currently recommended to buy. Drug stocks and major integrated oil and gas companies are the biggest groups of the results.

17 Cheap Growth Stocks From The Basic Material Sector With Current Dividend Payments

Basic material dividend stocks with highest expected growth and low price ratios originally published at "long-term-investments.blogspot.com". Good stocks to buy are hard to find. But what are good stocks?

Good investment indicators

Primarily it’s a question of your investment philosophy or screening criteria. I am focused on dividend stocks with great yields, strong market positions and low limitations to grow. I also invest into stocks with no yields or low dividend payments.

Don’t look at the yield alone

The dividend yield is only an expression and should never be a single investment criterion. I know so many people who only look at the P/E ratio and the dividend yield and argue that the stock is cheap at a P/E below 10. That’s too easy. If the company has no debt, you should look the enterprise value.

Growth is the value driver

More important is growth. If a company doubles every 3 years sales and earnings, it’s normal that the stock is highly valuated. Stock valuation is a very complex area.

Today I like to screen some opportunities from the basic material sector. 595 stocks are available with a relationship to the raw material sector – nearly 300 of them pay dividends. The average sector P/E ratio amounts to 11.08 at a yield of 2.98 percent.

I screened large capitalized stocks with very high expected earnings per share growth for the next five years (over 10 percent) and a low forward P/E ratio of less than 15. Seventeen stocks fulfilled my criteria of which twelve are currently recommended to buy. Two High-Yields are below the results.

The Biggest Ex-Dividend Stocks On October 30, 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 30, 2012. In total, 46 stocks and preferred shares go ex-dividend - of which 22 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 4.37%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
Cheniere Energy Partners LP.	CQP	3.93B	-	-	14.76	7.56%
Genesis Energy LP	GEL	2.54B	36.36	2.73	0.73	5.91%
People's United Financial Inc.	PBCT	4.27B	18.13	0.80	4.03	5.27%
Bank of Montreal	BMO	38.96B	10.53	1.38	2.82	4.85%
Realty Income Corp.	O	5.29B	46.60	2.16	11.39	4.59%
Pinnacle West Capital	PNW	5.79B	15.59	1.53	1.76	4.12%
Hasbro Inc.	HAS	4.73B	13.93	3.10	1.14	3.96%
The Mosaic Company	MOS	22.47B	12.45	1.79	2.13	1.89%
Brookfield Asset Management	BAM	19.57B	17.16	1.09	1.18	1.65%
NRG Energy, Inc.	NRG	5.00B	-	0.65	0.57	1.64%
Peabody Energy Corp.	BTU	7.57B	9.57	1.27	0.92	1.20%
First Republic Bank	FRC	4.41B	13.01	1.46	3.54	1.17%
Aon Corporation	AON	17.36B	18.89	2.13	1.53	1.17%
Cooper Industries plc	CBE	11.74B	17.00	2.84	2.04	1.14%
Diamond Offshore Drilling Inc.	DO	9.73B	12.92	2.14	3.26	0.71%

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.