My 11 Pearls From The Dividend Aristocrats Index

Dividend growth investing is gaining popularity in the investment community for those wanting the compounding growth effect on income.

The Dividend Aristocrat index is made up of 50 stocks from the SP 500 that have at least 25 years of increasing dividends.

Investing in Dividend Growth companies is an appealing strategy for many investors. When we look at the performance of stocks that grow dividends, stocks that pay dividends, stocks that do not pay dividends, and stocks that have cut dividends, the results are fairly dramatic.

Investing in Dividend Growth companies is an appealing strategy for many investors. When we look at the performance of stocks that grow dividends, stocks that pay dividends, stocks that do not pay dividends, and stocks that have cut dividends, the results are fairly dramatic.

Today I stay focused on the best dividend growth category on the market, the Dividend Aristocrats. Attached you can find my pearls from the index.

I've screened the index by stocks with a P/E under 20 that should grow earnings per share by more than 10% yearly for the next five years. In addition, the debt-to-equity should be normal at 1 or less.

11 stocksfulfilled my criteria. Check out the porfolio statistics below.

These are the highest yielding in detail...

Stocks For The Next Decade Each Safe Haven Investor Need To Know

When it comes to times of uncertainty and volatility, nothing beats safe haven stocks. What are they? They are dividend stocks with high yields and minimal risk as compared to other stocks.

You might have noticed that the federal banks flooding the markets with cheap money and investors started to get greedy by taking more and more debt to buy stocks higher and bonds extraordinary higher.

Those times come to an end if rates rise or something else crosses like weak economic data. This time, the strong dollar could bring the rally to an end.

Today I like to show you 13 stocks with cheap price ratios and an extremely stable business model that can resist the greatest market storm. It does not mean that the stock price goes down but with every recession those stocks become stronger and stronger.

These are my ideas. What do you guess?

Dogs Of The Dividend Aristocrats Index 2015

The “Dogs of the Dow Jones” theory is a popular investment strategy. Put most of your money into those stocks from the Dow Jones with the highest yield, cheapest price ratios and big expected earnings growth.

It's easier to tell you this than to do it. However, I like to enlarge this philosophy to stocks from the Dividend Aristocrats index.

Attached are the 10 top Dogs of the Dividend Aristocrats list.

Here are the detailed results:

8 Attractive Looking Dividend Growth Companies

The recent small sell-off gave me an opportunity to look at the current dividend achievers lists; those also include lists of Champions, Contenders and Aristocrats.

I've looked for cheap opportunities with a solid growing business. ACE and TROW were both stocks that cached my thoughts in the recent days. For sure, their yields stand only at 2.54 and 2.67 percent as well but remember that they pay only a small amount of money to shareholders while the business models enables it to pay much more.

ACE also started to buy bigger amounts of own shares. That's fantastic because in the past, they thrown only shares on the market to finance growth.

TROW paid a special dividend earlier this year but still has enough capability to raise dividends in the future. The current payout is only around 40 percent with no debt on balance sheets.

Here are the top picks from my screening results. Which do you like?

11 Oversold Dividend Growth Stocks With Cheap P/E's And Growth Forecast

When a stock price falls, I believe that a high quality company becomes cheaper and more attractive. That is a good thing in my view.

Today I like to share eleven stocks with an oversold label, measured by an RSI-40 level.

I've compiled only stocks with 10 or more years of consecutive dividend growth. In addition, on the list are only stocks with a low forward P/E as well as expected earnings growth of more than 5 percent for the next five years.

These are the results....

8 Dividend Grower With Very Low Debt Ratios

When we talk about safe dividend stocks, one criteria that makes the company more secure is cash or low debt.

The financial situation of a corporate is very essential for the future success. Only with low debt and cash on banks, a firm has enough potential to act independent. They don't need to look for new capital injections to finance growth or repay debt.

Today I like to show you those large cap stocks with a longer dividend growth history that have the lowest debt-to-equity ratio.

They have extremly low ratios of less than 0.1. Which stocks do you like?

These are the results...

Maybe The 3 Most Undervalued High-Quality Dividend Stocks

Stock prices go up and down in a very short period of time. A gain of someone is also a loss for a different person or group.

There are times in which investors are greedy and there are times on which they are fearful and sell assets below their fair or intrinsic value.

The stock market is giving opportunistic investors an opportunity to load up on these well-known blue-chip stocks at attractive prices.

There are three high-quality dividend stocks that have seen their share prices fall 10% or more in the last 12 months and are worth buying right now to take advantage of the discount.

 Today I like to show you these top picks which have a bad sentiment but true values to offer. These are my results:

11 Good Yielding Dividend Growth Stocks You Don't Want To Miss In Your Portfolio

If you are a fearful investor who scared about the ups and downs of the stock market, you must consider low volatility stocks with strong and growing cash flows.

In addition, the management team of the company should pay a solid amount of the net income back to shareholders. I talk about dividends and buybacks. Those are very shareholder friendly activities to create value for investors.

Today I like to introduce 11 dividend stocks that combine stable cash flows with high dividend yields above 3% and low stock price volatility. The stocks below reward investors each year with steady or rising dividend payments. Each of these 11 stocks has not reduced its dividend payments in over 25 years.

These are the results in detail:

6 Cheap Dividend Aristocrats Everybody Must Love

Dividend Aristocrats are popular on the market because they have achieved to hike dividends over more than 25 years.

A rising income is an important issue for cash-flow orientated investors. I’m such a person and put my eyes also on this category of stocks.

Today, I like to introduce some of the cheapest stocks from the index which is organized by Standard & Poor’s.

As of the time of writing, only eleven stocks have a low forward P/E of which four yield over three percent.

If you are looking for more cheap stocks with solid income growth, you should discover my articles from the category.

These are my main favorites:

The 5 Highest Yield Dividend Aristocrats

This is a guest post by Ben Reynolds with Sure Dividend. Sure Dividend uses The 8 Rules of Dividend Investing to identify and rank high quality dividend stocks suitable for long-term investors.

The Dividend Aristocrats Index has outperformed the S&P 500 by 2.76 percentage points a year over the last decade, according to S&P. Simply put, the Dividend Aristocrats Index is an excellent place to look for high quality dividend stocks. 

This is because a company must increase its dividend payments for 25+ consecutive years to be eligible for inclusion in the exclusive Dividend Aristocrats Index. A business must have a strong competitive advantage to raise its dividend payments for 25+ consecutive years.

Of course, not all stocks in the Dividend Aristocrats Index are the same.  Some have better growth prospects and higher dividend yields than others.  This article takes a look at the 5 highest yielding stocks in the exclusive Dividend Aristocrats Index.

#5 – Cincinnati Financial (CINF)

Cincinnati Financial has a dividend yield of 3.5%. The company has paid increasing dividends for an amazing 55 consecutive years. Cincinnati Financial is a property and casualty insurer with an $8.6 billion market cap.

The company operates in 5 main segments:

·         Commercial Insurance

·         Personal Insurance

·         Excess & Surplus Insurance

·         Life Insurance

·         Investment operations

The insurance industry is highly competitive.  Cincinnati Financial has taken an underwriting loss on the sum of its insurance operations each year since 2008. The company has managed to raise its dividend payments year after year thanks to the investment income it earns on the insurance float the company invests.

Cincinnati Financial invests differently than most insurers. The company invests more of its float in blue chip stocks than most insurers. This helps the company realize higher earnings during bull markets, and lower earnings during bear markets. 

The strategy of losing money on underwriting to make it back in investments has not worked well for Cincinnati Financial over the last decade. The company has seen week revenue-per-share growth of under 2% a year.  Despite its high dividend yield and long history of dividend increases, Cincinnati Financial does not have solid growth prospects moving forward.

#4 – Chevron (CVX)

Chevron has a 4.1% dividend yield. The company has paid increasing dividends for 27 consecutive years. Chevron has a market cap of $197 billion, making it the 4^th largest publicly traded oil corporation in the world. 

The company’s stock has fallen 16.5% over the last 6 months due to the precipitous fall in oil prices. The decline in Chevron’s stock price gives investors an opportunity to pick up this high quality shareholder friendly business for cheap. Chevron is currently trading at a price-to-earnings ratio of just 10.3.  Additionally, the company has not traded for a dividend yield over 4% since the depths of the last bear market in 2009.

Some investors worry that Chevron is at risk of cutting its dividend due to low oil prices. The company’s dividend appears safe, however. Chevron currently has a payout ratio of just 41%. Additionally, the company has very little debt. Chevron has over $7 per share in cash and currently pays $4.28 per share per year in dividends. The company is expected to generate about $4.50 in earnings per share this year by analysts. Despite low oil prices, Chevron is still expected to generate enough cash to more than cover its dividend payments.

#3 – Consolidated Edison (ED)

Consolidated Edison has a 4.2% dividend yield and has increased its dividend payments for 40 consecutive years. The company provides electricity to over 3 million people in New York state, and gas to over 1 million people in New York state. 

Consolidated Edison is a utility, and has an exceptionally low stock price standard deviation. In fact, it has the second lowest stock price standard deviation in the Dividend Aristocrats Index, behind only Johnson & Johnson.

As a utility, Consolidated Edison is a slow grower. The company has actually seen its revenue per share decline by about 1.5% a year over the last decade. This slow decline is not a good sign for long-term investors.  Earnings-per-share and dividends-per-share have shown modest growth, but the company is relatively stagnant. Consolidated Edison is a good choice for income oriented investors who cannot stand stock price volatility but require little growth. 

#2 – HCP, Inc. (HCP)

HCP currently has a 5.4% dividend yield and has increased its dividend payments for 30 consecutive years.  HCP is the third largest publicly traded health care REIT; the company has a market cap of over $19 billion.

HCP specializes in senior housing and post acute care facilities. The company has grown its dividends per share at about 3.3% a year over the last decade.  If HCP can continue to grow at 3.3% a year, investors will see total returns of 8.7% a year from both growth and dividend income. 

I believe it is very likely that HCP continues to grow by at least its historical 10 year growth rate (if not faster).  Demand for the company’s senior housing facilities will pick up as ever-greater numbers of baby boomers retire and reach old age.  This combined with longer life expectancies will increase the need for HCP’s senior housing facilities, which will drive the company’s growth.

#1 – AT&T (T)

The highest yielding Dividend Aristocrat is AT&T. AT&T currently has a 5.5% dividend yield.  The company has increased its dividend payments for 31 consecutive years. AT&T is the 2^nd largest telecommunications company in the U.S.; AT&T has a market cap of more than $176 billion.

AT&T has managed to grow at about 4% a year over the last decade. The company has transitioned from a traditional telephone company (long ago) to becoming one of the two most dominant wireless carriers in the U.S.

AT&T may very well grow faster over the next several years than it has over the last decade. The company is acquiring DirecTV. The DirecTV acquisition could spur growth for the company as DirecTV has a strong presence in Latin America which AT&T could leverage. Additionally, AT&T stands to benefit from the trend of using ever greater amounts of wireless data. Smart phone data usage is quickly growing.  As data usage grows, so does the demand and necessity of AT&T’s services.

Final Thoughts

Of the 5 highest yielding Dividend Aristocrats, only Chevron and AT&T rank highly using The 8 Rules of Dividend Investing. Both AT&T and Chevron have low price-to-earnings ratios, high dividend yields, and solid-if-unspectacular growth prospects. 

10 Dividend Aristocrats With The Highest Possibility To Grow Dividends At The Fastest Pace

I've discovered many investing strategies and found out that low dividend paying stocks with little debt and high EPS growth have outperformed the market over years.

Dividend growth is an important issue within the investing space. Investors need to look at several fundamental like debt, payout and growth ratios in order to get a feeling of how fast the company can increase its dividends in the future.

Today I've compiled 10 Dividend Aristocrats with a debt-to-equity under 1 as well as 5-year expected earnings per share growth of more than 10 percent. In addition the dividend payout ratio is under 40 percent.

Dividend Aristocrats managed to increase dividends over more than 25 consecutive years. You can finde a full list here: Dividend Aristocrats.

Those criteria are a first sign for investors to expect a growing future dividend. Below are 10 stocks that fulfilled my criteria. Which stocks do you like? Please leave a comment. Thank you!

These are the 4 highest yielding results in detail...

6 Dividend Champs With Double-Digit EPS Growth Prospects

One investment strategy is to look for stocks with high growth and pay a solid price for it. If we transfer this reflection to the dividend growth area of the capital market, we get six top results.

Below is a list of the results with the highest expected earnings growth forecast of 103 Dividend Champions. 

Those stocks increased dividends over a period of more than 25 consecutive years. Which stocks do you like? 

6 Dividend Champs with double-digit EPS growth prospects are... 

11 Dividend Achievers With Strong Buy Rating

Are you looking for stocks that are worth to buy? Sure, we all do! Today I like to show you some of the stocks with the highest buy rating within the Dividend Growth space.

I've compiled all Dividend Achievers, stocks that have raised dividends over a period of at least 10 years without a break, and selected them by the highest analyst rating.

Currently, 167 companies (nearly half of the results) have a buy or better rating. Finally, eleven stocks got a strong buy rating. These are my 4 favorite results:

7 Stocks With The Longest Dividend Growth History

Many investors love dividend growth but there is only a dozen of stocks with a dividend history over 50 consecutive years. Those stocks are called "Dividend Kings".

Today I like to highlight stocks that could hit a new record this year by jumping over the magic 60th years barrier.

As of today, only one stock has managed this goal; it's the water utility American States Water. Attached are seven top stocks that could hit the magic 60 rule within the next two years.

12 Of The Safest Dividend Aristocrats

Happy New Year! It was a fantastic year 2014 and I hope you've also generated a good performance.

I hope that this year can also produce a solid for my portfolio depite the fact that many analysts are scared about the current market valuation.

I think that we must own stocks but we need to keep a larger amount of cash in order to be prepared for a potential market correction. If dividend yields go up, it's good for us because we can earn more money by holding stocks and receiving dividends, all with a smaller amount of money.

What to do with price fluctuations?

One of my most important lessons on the stock market was - how do I become more diversified and secure?

The answer was very simple: Don't put all your money into one basket; don't put all your money into one asset. Keep diversified over industries, sectors and try to look for higher capitalized stocks who are acting within several countries.

Those are one of my keystones when I talk about investment security. For sure, it's no guarantee to avoid losses but I can sleep much better and can take a bigger part of the capital market.

Today I like to show you some new stocks with focus on security. These are my main criteria:

- Dividend yields over 2%

- Beta below 0.5

- Dividend Payout Ratios under 60%

- Market Caps are over $10 billion

My screen produced a few interesting results of which three have a very long history with their dividends, going back more than 40 years (close to Dividend Kings). I like to highlight some oft them now. 

Here are 12 of the safest Dividend Aristocrats...

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...

5 Dividend Champions With Higher Dividends In 3 Months

No one has a crystal-ball but when we look forward in the dividend growth space we have a great possibility to find stocks that may raise dividends in the near future in order to keep their status.

Today I like to introduce some Dividend Champions that need to hike dividends over the next three month. They did grow dividend over more than 25 years, why stopping now?

In total, 13 stocks must grow dividends of which two are High-Yields. For sure most of the 13 stocks have grown their dividends by a low rate of less than 10 percent annually. The fastest Champ was Archer-Daniels-Midland with a 5-Year dividend growth rate of 7.9 percent.

Small dividend hikes are not bad. Remember, the inflation is also low and a 3 percent dividend hike could hedge your investment.

The best performing stock from the list was the financial services company McGraw Hill. Since 2010, the company went up 150 percent while the worst performer, AT&T realized only a gain of around 18 percent.

These are my 5 favorites...

How To Build A Diversified Dividend Growth Portfolio?

Diversification is a key element in the investing space. Each investor should have a well diversified portfolio in order to eliminate the big risks.

We are no Warren Buffett who met the CEO's and Chairman’s of a company in a private talk and cannot evaluate risks in a deeper detail. What we make is desk research and those investors need to be diversified. 

Attached are 12 great Dividend Aristocrats from different sectors which you can use to build a broader diversification for your own portfolio.

Dividend Aristocrats don't just sound royal, they performed like kings in the past. Over the last decade, an index of the 54 Dividend Aristocrats stocks has returned 10.91% a year, versus just 8.06% a year for the S&P 50.

Remember, a past performance is for sure no guarantee for a solid future return. As a group, the 10 stocks below have an average dividend yield of 2.8% and an average P/E ratio of 18.5. 

These are the results with a 3+ percent annual dividend yield...

20 Of The Safest Dividend Champions

20 Of The Safest Dividend Champions originally appeard on long-term-investments. More and more people talk about an overvaluation of the market. Sure P/E ratios skyrocket within the past five years but earnings did also improve.

You might agree with me that the risk of a market correction is improving with rising stock prices. What investors like you and me need to do is to hedge their risks.

I personally look for low beta stocks. Those have a lower correlation to the overall market and should fall less. Below are 20 of the safest Dividend Champions by beta ratio.

I've created a detailed snapshot of my 4 favorites and attached the full list. Let's go forward...

Yields Of The Dividend Aristocrats | 12 Cheapest Stock Of The Index

Today I've attached a list of the yields from the Dividend Aristocrats for you. You can also find the payout ratios in this table. It's very informative in my view and I use this overview too in order to get a feeling about the pricing of the market.

Dividend Aristocrats are stocks that have increased dividend payments over a period of 25 consecutive years without a break. That's a top value and around 100+companies could achieve this goal.

Standard & Poor's increases the restrictions and cut the list to 42 members. Well not all stocks are good from the list but you can find there some value player. Just take a look!

You may also like: 6 Cheap Dividend Aristocrats With High Growth Predicted 

Only 12 companies yield over 3 percent. Not bad for a low interest environment. The bond market offers 1.56 percent and has also default risks.

The top yielding stocks also slow grower full of debt. Which stock do you like or own from the list? Let me know your thoughts and write a comment. Thank you.

These are my main thoughts to the Dividend Aristocrats list:

- When we look at the highest yielding stocks with yields over 3 percent, we see that only 3 companies have a low forward P/E.

- Stocks with a lower yield are much cheaper. 9 companies with yields less than 2 percent have a forward P/E under 15.

- Low yielding stocks pay out less of it's annual earnings and might be reinvest more money into growth.

Also read this: 25 Of The Most Attractive Dividend Stocks

These are the 12 cheapest Dividend Aristocrats:

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
AT&T, Inc.	T	182.96B	10.38	1.99	1.40	5.22%
Consolidated Edison, Inc.	ED	16.50B	13.04	1.33	1.26	4.47%
Chevron Corporation	CVX	230.66B	11.59	1.49	1.06	3.52%
Exxon Mobil Corporation	XOM	406.98B	12.16	2.26	0.96	2.89%
Bemis Company, Inc.	BMS	3.80B	17.37	2.25	0.77	2.84%
AFLAC Inc.	AFL	26.50B	9.24	1.51	1.14	2.53%
Wal-Mart Stores Inc.	WMT	246.49B	16.00	3.18	0.51	2.51%
Stanley Black & Decker, Inc.	SWK	14.10B	23.14	2.00	1.26	2.31%
The Chubb Corporation	CB	21.98B	11.19	1.36	1.58	2.19%
Medtronic, Inc.	MDT	62.04B	21.40	3.27	3.61	1.93%
Archer-Daniels-Midland Company	ADM	32.84B	20.43	1.65	0.37	1.89%
Franklin Resources Inc.	BEN	34.39B	15.41	3.04	4.13	0.87%

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