Warren Buffett Buys Surprisingly These 9 Top Dividend Stocks

Warren Buffett is one of the most respected investors on the market. When he invests, it’s mostly a guarantee for follow investors to make money but as we have seen in the past, it’s often not true.

Warren makes mistakes when you think on the investments in Exxon, Tesco, DaVita or even ConocoPhillips.

However, it's always good to know what moves he makes and he did a big shot during the latest quarter. Let's take a deeper look at his dividend picks. Here are the results: Warren Buffett's latest Stock Buys and Sells.

If you like more results from the big investor, you should read my latest article about the Q3/2014 Warren Buffett stock moves.

Warren Buffett’s latest dividend stock buys are...

The Cheapest Dividend Growers From The MidCap 400 Dividend Aristocrats Index

I've recently looked at the S&P MidCap 400 Dividend Aristocrats Index in order to find new investment ideas.

The index is designed to measure the performance of companies within the S&P MidCap 400® that have followed a managed dividends policy of consistently increasing dividends every year for at least 15 years.

Most valuations skyrocket within the past years due to moetaring easing. As a result, price multiples of high-quality stocks rose to over 20 and yields went down under 2 percent.

Attached is list of the cheapest dividend growers from the index. Those stocks have a forward P/E of less than 15.

You can also find more cheap dividend stock ideas on my blog.

These are my favorite stocks... 

8 Dividend Picks With A Predictable Growing Business

I like growing stocks which give returns back to shareholders via dividends and buybacks.
Both are very popular and shareholder-friendly activities.

Attached is a fresh list from today's screen I've created. I was looking for solid yielding stocks with good fundamentals and modest growing sales and income.

8 U.S. based stocks appeared on my screen. Also on the list were two German Car makers, Daimler and BMW. Those are too cyclic for me and they cause much CAPEX.

The screening criteria looks a little bit like a safe haven screen but stocks are risky in general. I've written in the past about stocks with a low beta ratio. That's a great measure to evalueate stocks by their risk in relation to the overall market.

These are my highlights from the dividend screen:

16 Large Caps With Skyrocket Dividends

Dividend growth is important, no discussion about that. Many analysts and investors say that a fast growing dividend is a result of a rosy business which runs very well.

Others research studies say that high dividend raiser perform better than the market.

However, I like to show you which large capitalized stocks increased their dividends over the past year at the highest rate, more than 50 percent.

Purchasing high growth is better than buying high yielding stocks. A list Dividend Aristocrats with the fastest dividend growth rates can be found here: 10 Dividend Aristocrats With The Highest Possibility To Grow Dividends At The Fastest Pace...

You can find the full list at the end of this post. I hope you get some new inspirations which help you to structure your investments. Thank you for reading and commenting.

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These are my favorite stocks...

Which Stocks To Buy Now?

A very good question for investors is "what kind of stocks should I buy now?"

I often ask myself and think around many industries in order to get the best results. For sure, my focus is always on dividends and dividend growth. Better if the company buy back own shares.

Well, today I like to share some stock ideas with you for income investors who are blinded by high-paying dividend stocks and looking for stocks that may rise their dividend output within the next years. Divided growers are great.

Sure, those 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. In an earlier article, I've complied 9 undervalued stocks with an impressive dividend history.

Also check out my analysis about stocks with a nealy safe dividend.

A growing dividend is a good sign for investors and lifts up their regular income. Please share your thoughts about my ideas by leaving a comment. Thank you for reading and contributing.

5 top dividend stocks worth a deeper look are....

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...

13 Cheap S&P 500 Dividend Achievers

Today I like to introduce some dividend growth stocks with the cheapest valuation on the S&P 500. Those stocks have a forward P/E of less than 15.

Buying cheap stocks doesn't mean that you could make a quick return. Mostly the cheapness has reasons which you need to discover. 

For the time being, there are only 26 solid stocks but many have a huge debt burden to wear. If we exclude those stocks by implementing a debt-to-equity limit of 0.5, the results shrink to 13 companies. The list is attached. 

It's hard to find good growing stocks especially when the Fed offers money for free. But what should we do elsewhere? Compared to fixed income assets, equities are quiet cheap and they offer an inflation hedge.

Are you investing money into stocks too? Please share your thoughts related to my ideas here on my blog. Thank you so much.

Here are my 5 favorites, sorted from highest to lowest yield....

21 Stock Ideas To Benefit From Weak Oil Prices

The oil price is in free fall and lost half of its value within the recent month. I love it when something changes in such a short period because often it could be a good sign for investors to find new investment targets.

The oil and gas or energy sector is very complicated. There are working many companies in this field and some of them suffering deeply under low oil prices. 

The bad news is that many stocks from the sector did not fall in the same amount as oil prices. One of the main reasons could be that market actors anticipate a mid or long-term oil price forecast of USD 100. That's enough for most of the industry leaders to make money and solid returns.

Not only basic material dividend stocks like Exxon or Chevron are the top picks. 

Indirect, companies with an energy intensive business model like industrial stocks, retailers, auto or restaurant stocks could get a short-term boost.

However, Today I like to share some investment ideas around the energy sector, who are not cheap now but could become an interesting investment.

Indirect oil related investment ideas

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... 

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...

6 Dividend Growth Stocks With A Big Footprint And Inimitable Business

Dividend investing is a large field for investors who seek for a return. People with focus on passive and regular income are the main target group for this topic.

In my view there are too many speculators on the market who don't understand the philosophy of dividend growth investing.

They like to make money fast with high momentum stocks or they like to make a capital gain by trading shares within a day or a week.

Those strategies could work but it’s in my view like a lottery because no one has a crystal ball to see how the stock prices develop in the next days. It's like gambling of which I have no plan how it works.

These are 3 big myth of dividend investing who let investors stay away from the dividend investing space:

1. Only high dividends are good dividends

2. Dividends don't matter because of their low yields

3. Dividends are not stable

Those thoughts could sometimes be right but often it is not true.

I'm a long-term investor and hope you are too. I do look at fundamentals and at the business strength and brand awareness of the company as well.

I like to invest in long-term growing stocks with a big and strong footprint in several industries. That's one of my key philosophies which helped me to avoid big risks. Below are six big names with such a big footprint.

All of the stocks have a long-term growth track record and they are classified as Dividend Aristocrats or Champions.

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6 Dividend Growth Stocks With A Big Footprint And Unimitable Business are...

These Dividend Contenders May Rise Dividends Within The Next 3 Months

Recently, I wrote about DividendChampions that may rise dividends within the next 3 months in order to keep their status as dividend grower alive.

It's fantstic to know what companies should hike it's dividends because the current yields are so low that each investor get tears in his eyes.

A potential dividend hike could lift the current dividend yield on a new level.

Today I like to introduce some Dividend Contenders with potential to hike dividends over the next quarter. As a result, I found 20 companies; nine of them yield over 3 percent.

Dividend Growth is a wonderful investing space on which I personally spend a lot of time. 

I love it to see dividends grow but it's only possible if a company grows and has low debt ratios.

These are my 6 highlights... 

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...

15 Cheap Dividend Achievers With Solid Fundamentals (ADM, QCOM, GPS, NSC ...)

While the markets hit new all time highs on a regular basis, each investor fears the power of a strong market correction; me too!

I'm watching the markets and buy only stocks on a very selective and very restrictive basis. I like to buy stock when everybody is anxious.

Today I've compiled 15 Dividend Achievers, stocks with more than 10 years of consecutive dividend growth, with attractive fundamentals and solid growth forecasts.

I believe in return of high yielding and cheap stocks. If the company grows earnings and sales and you pay a good price, you must get a higher price for your investment one day.

Each of the 15 stocks has a market capitalization over USD 2 billion and a low forward price-to-earnings ratio.

In addition, earnings are expected to grow at a double-digit pace within the next five years and more equity is available than debt.

These are my top results...

Capital For Shareholders: 8 Top Picks Of The Week

Let's face the latest dividend growth stocks. During the recent week, 29 stocks announced to pay a higher dividend in the future. I've compiled all stocks in the list and hope you can find some great values in it.

The biggest stocks are Disney, MasterCard and American Tower. Also big stocks with dividend growth are Franklin Resources, Stryker and Ecolab as well.

In addition, 15 stocks posted a fresh share buyback program. MasterCard, Northrop Grumman and Henry Schein are the biggest corporate in this space.

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Here are my eight shareholder friendly favorites from the past week...

6 Stocks Giving Investors Potential Dividend Hikes In December

Dividend growth stocks need to hike dividends each year in order to keep its status as dividend grower in the investor community.

Let us take a look ahead to companies that are expected to announce dividend increases in December 2014. 

There are only a few weeks to close the trading book for the full year. Maybe we can find there some great expectations.

20 Dividend Champs With Highest 10-Year Dividend Growth

If you are a real dividend growth investor, you look more at the pace of the dividend growth than on the yield of the stock.

A stock that is raising dividends very fast will hit the yield of a slow growing high yielder very soon.

I've also predicted in the past that it makes more sense to bet on fast growing stocks that are reasonable priced than on stocks with high yields and decreasing earnings growth.

Today I like to show you some of the 20 stocks from the Dividend Champions list with the fastest dividend growth over the recent decade.

These are the 5 Dividend Champions with fastest 10-Year dividend growth... 

8 Top Stocks With Recent Dividend Growth Or Stock Buyback Announcements

Below are the latest dividend growers and stocks with a fresh buyback announcement. I hope you have some fun by reading and discovering new stock ideas.

18 companies have raised their dividend payments during the past week. The biggest stocks are Merck, Aetna and Becton, Dickinson and Company. You can discover more results at the end of this post.

In addition, 13 companies announced a new or refreshed share buyback program. The biggest stocks are ACE Limited, Westlake Chemical and The Vasper Corporation as well. The full list of buyback companies is also attached.

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These are some of the biggest results from the past week: