18 Dividend Growth Stocks With 4% Yields And The Lowest Beta Ratios

Defensive Investors are defined as investors who are not able or willing to do substantial research into individual investments, and therefore need to select only the companies that present the least amount of risk.

Risk taking should be rewarded with higher yields. Most investors don't get paid for their investments or risk preference. Dividend stocks could offer a small risk compensation. Each dividend payment reduces your initial investment cost which is really nice. Over years, you will have a large risk buffer.

Today I like to show you some stocks with a long dividend growth history, high yields and low beta ratios. I guess this should be a great middle way. My research focus is limited to stocks with a consecutive dividend growth history of more than 10 years. Each stock should have a yield over 4% and a beta ratio under 0.5. 

18 companies fulfilled my criteria of which eight are high-yields. 5 Master Limited Partnerships lead the list of the results. Do you like any of the results? Please leave a comment in the box below the article and we discuss it. Thank you for reading and commenting.

Here are the top yielding results 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...

10 Top Dividend Champs At 52-Week Lows

I personally look at stocks that are not popular on the market. Those are companies with decreasing stock prices which does not mean that they have a bad running business. Sometimes, there is something wrong with the sentiment or the technicals, only a market issue.

Bottom fishing can sometimes be a big mistake for novice investors. In the past I found it easy to convince myself that buying a stock at the 52 week low is not a risky proposition because of that stock's low price relative to past earnings, dividend yield, or some other metric of value.

But in reality, buying a down trending stock is always risky, as you are betting against the market itself which does not mean that it is bad. Swimming or acting against the storm or crowd could be profitable.

Today, I like to show you those stocks from the Dividend Champions list that is trading around its one year lows. It's only informational but there are also some good names on it. Which do you like?

These are the results...

4 Safe High-Yielding Stocks To Consider

Safety comes first, that's also one of my rules when I started to invest money into the stock market. I believe that it gives you a solid return to avoid the big risks because each loss you don't need is also a gain you don't need to catch by taking higher risks.

Growth is just as important. Investors in or near requirement should demand their investments grow dividend income at least as fast as inflation - and hopefully much faster. This gives you a boost in your standard of living each year.

Today I like to introduce 4 stocks with a large dividend growth history (more than 30 years that give investors a solid ground to invest.

Each of these businesses also has maintained a growth rate higher than the inflation rate for the last several years and has a dividend yield 3% or higher. These high yield stocks should provide income now and growth for future income. 

They all have exceptionally low stock price standard deviations. These 3 businesses also have strong competitive advantages that insulate them from the worst effects of recessions. In short, these are 4 high quality businesses that score high marks for safety.

These are the results:

6 Mid Capitalized Dividend Achievers For Growth And Income Seeking Investors

Recently, I wrote about foreign small cap dividend stocks with growth potential. Small- and midcaps offer investors a higher opportunity because sales could grow faster from a low basis.

But there is no free lunch. Those stocks are also much riskier than large caps. Generally, smaller cap securities are more volatile, but often offer a higher rate of return over the long-term.

 Today I like to show you 6 small and mid capitalized stocks form the Dividend Achievers list that have risen dividends over more than 10 years in a row.

These are the results:

7 High Quality Stocks With Solid Room To Grow Dividends While Paying High Yields

It's hard to find good investments, especially in a market where everybody can discover the same fundamentals.

The stock market is one of the most competitive and transparent markets in the whole world. The good thing is that free information helps us to get a better overview of price ratios and risk premiums.

I'm a very fundamental driven investor and screen the capital market by several criteria related to debt, price, free cash flow, growth and so on.

Today I like to introduce 7 high quality stocks with a debt to total capital less than 40, free cash payout less than 60% and with a yield above 2.5%.

These are the results:

The Best Guarantee To Get Dividends Over 100 Years

Dividends are important for investors because they pay down your investment and reduce risk. Growing dividends are good but only a small group of companies could grow their dividends year over year.

Look at General Electric. The company reduced its dividends within the financial crisis but paid investors cash. Is GE a bad stock? No, definitely not.

There are times in which the company has problems but for the long-term the business perspectives should become better due to a stronger and growing economy. This should not work for every company but for the average stock market.

Today I like to show you the 7 best dividend paying stocks that paid a dividend for more than a century, over 100 years or more.

These are the results:

The 5 Best Dividend Champion By Fundamentals Right Now!

Fundamental investors look for good investments via balance sheets, income statements and cash flow statements as well.

They run a screen over the market and get results which stocks look attractively on current prices. This method has some lags, for sure but it could also deliver new ideas.

Today I've run my Dividend Champions database by stocks with cheap fundamentals, low valuations and decent earnings growth over the mid-terms.

5 stocks fulfilled my criteria. Which do you like?

These are the results:

20 Solid Dividend Growth Stocks With A Reasonable Pricing

When we look for good investments, we do have a strong focus on stocks with cheap price ratios, solid growth forecasts and solid debt ratios as well.

As a reader of my blog, you might know that I'm creating screens on a regular basis with these input factors. 

Today I've discovered my dividend grower’s lists with the following criteria:

- 5 year earnings growth forecasts over 5 percent yearly

- Debt-to-equity ratio under 0.5

- Low forward P/E

- Market capitalization over 2 billion

20 stocks fulfilled my criteria of which 13 yield over 2 percent. Insurer and banks are dominating the results. Those belong to the financial sector and offer risks due to the link to the financial market who might offer external shocks.

These are my favorite stocks from the list. Attached, you can find my full results with some essential fundamentals. Which do you like? Please let me know.

These are the results:

5 Dividend Grower With 10%+ Upside Potential

Dividends are essential for income investors but if we are honest, stock price growth is also important for wealth creating. The total return separates the good investors from the bad ones.

A high total return cannot achieve with low dividends and higher dividends are risky.

You need stocks with upside potential to boost your expected return, stocks with rising stock prices.

Today I like to show you some dividend growers that may have upside potential.

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:

7 Attractive Dividend Growth Stocks With Solid Yields And Low Price Ratios

Recently the Federal Reserve downgraded its expectations for inflation going forward, Fed watchers concluded that September would be the earliest that hiking would begin, and even then it would proceed at a much slower pace than previously feared.

Investors care much about the activities of the Fed, more than doing own research, reading annual reports and thinking in worst and best cases of their portfolio allocation.

Also check out this article: 3 Unbelievable Dividend Champions With Zero Debt And Promising Payout Growth

I can nothing change in the Fed policy which will ever be offensive because the aim is to simulate the economy. Yes, markets could be overvalued due to low manipulated interest rates but even in a broadly overpriced U.S. market, we can still find solid deals on dividend stocks. If bought at a reasonable price, a good dividend stock offers both a competitive current yield and a strong probability of dividend growth.

Here are seven Dividend Achievers, stocks with a history of growing dividends of more than 10 consecutive years, with attractive fundamentals. The forward P/E is under 15 while earnings are expected to grow by more than 5 percent over the next five years. Sales also grew by more than 5 percent yearly in the past years.

If you are looking for more stocks with an attractive valuation, you should real my articles from this category.

War Stocks: 8 Interesting Military, Aerospace & Defense Dividend Stocks Income Investors Need

Military expenditure shrunk in 2013 by 1.9% but not all countries are spending less. 

Military spending in North America and in Western and Central European countries has continued to decline, while other countries such as Brazil and Russia have increased their arms investments. 

 I'm not a military guy but my guess is that it could be possible to come back to cold war times. Maybe Europe is creating an own army to fight against Russia. There is a lot of rumor in the market. 

Who might benefit? Defense and Aerospace stocks. Today, I've created a small overview of defense stocks with good dividends that might catch a good part of military budget. 

You can also get more dividend ideas from the military and defense industry in my recent articles.

Which stocks do you like? 

These are the highlights....

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.