10 Of The Most Promising Dow Jones Stocks

Today I've tried to find a particular type of equity from the Dow Jones Index: high-quality dividend growth stocks with strong competitive advantages suitable for long-term investors.

These stocks have a mix of a low price-to-earnings ratio, high dividend yield, low stock-price-volatility, and high growth rate.

The Dow Jones is one of the top indices in the world and covers the biggest dividend paying stocks. It's the real american capitalism.

My criteria also included the following onces:

- Total return
- Payout ratio
- Dividend yield
- Historical growth rate
- Price-to-earnings ratio
- Stock price standard deviation and beta ratio

Here are the results from the latest screen. Which do you like?

10 High Yielding Stocks With Reliable Dividends

If you are a yield investor, you should look at my screening results from today. I've compiled 10 top yielding stocks from the S&P 500 with reliable dividends and a yield of at least 3.5 percent.

About 60 companies in the S&P 500 have yields of 3% or more. To make our cut, each company needs to cover its dividend from estimated 2015 earnings.

I excluded oil stocks and real estate investment trusts as well as master limited partnerships, which are valued differently than regular corporations using cash-flow measures rather than reported earnings.

These are my results....

3 Dow Jones Stocks With Shareholder Yields Over 10%

This blog is mostly dedicated to dividend growth stocks and yield is an important issue but it tells investors only half of the truth.

Beside dividend payments to shareholders, the company can also spend money for share buybacks. If we combine buybacks and dividends, we got a new yield, a shareholder yield, which is normally higher than the current dividend yield.

Below is a list of stocks from the Dow Jones which shows the current shareholder yields of the index. The results are better than the dividend yields due to positive share buybacks. Only three stocks have a double-digit shareholder yield.

Here are the top results with a 10+ percent shareholder yield...

Dogs of the Dow Jones Index As Of August 2013

Dogs of the Dow Jones originally published on “long-term-investments.blogspot.com”. As you might know, I also cover some popular indices and investing strategies and present great picks from the selection.

One investment strategy that I cover and would like to update today is the Dogs of the Dow Jones investing rule. The popular investment theory was introduced by Michael O’Higgins in 1991 and became very popular over the time.

The philosophy behind is to buy ten stocks of the Dow Jones with the highest dividend yield and lowest price to earnings ratio at the beginning of the year and to hold these stocks for a year. After this period, the investor should sell stocks that are no more Dogs of the Dow and buy therefore new Dogs of the Dow. Below is an updated sheet of the ten best Dogs of the Dow. They have the lowest expected price to earnings ratio and highest dividend yield within the Dow Jones index.

Summarized, the 10 cheapest stocks of the Dow Jones have an average dividend yield of 3.56 percent as well as a forward P/E ratio of 24.62. The average P/B ratio amounts to 2.65 and P/S ratio is 2.46.

4 Stocks From The Dow Jones Index With The Highest Long-Term Dividend Growth Rates

Stocks from the Dow Jones Index with the highest rate of dividend growth originally published at "long-term-investments.blogspot.com". I ever told that growth is the key for wealth. If your target company grows, no matter how fast, it will get bigger and bigger over the time. More important is that the company grows faster than their competitors in order to gain market share and strength business power.

The Dow Jones Index is full of great growth stocks. Some grew well, others extraordinary good and others not so spectacularly. The latest category will be removed from the index in the long-run.

While many investors look solely at current yield as their gauge of whether a dividend stock is a smart buy, the better bet is to focus on long-term dividend growth. If a company can boost its payout consistently over the years, then it will eventually reward shareholders much more than a company that pays an unsustainably high dividend yield that shrinks in the near future.

With that goal in mind, let's look today at the four companies among the Dow Jones Industrials that have done the best job of boosting their dividend payouts over the past five years. Linked are the four best results. Three of them have a current buy or better rating.

The Best Yielding Stocks From The Dow Jones And NASDAQ | Stock List January 2013

Best Yielding Stocks from Dow Jones and NASDAQ originally published at Dividend Yields – Stock, Capital, Investment. I am not a very focused or specialized investor. All I try to do is to evaluate the values of a stock. Certainly I look at dividends but they are not the reason if I buy the stock or not. I am also not focused on indices but all bigger and broader diversified companies are part of one major indices which I cover regular in my Dividend Yield Fact Book.

Today I like to show you an unlimited list of the best yielding stocks from two major indices, the Dow Jones and the NASDAQ 100. Below are the results. 

Why Stocks Are The Best Place For Your Money | A Small Guide

One question which is often asked by many people when they talk about “where to place money” is the following one:

If stocks realize a return of around 8% to 12% per year over a long period of time, why doesn’t everyone invests money into the stock market? Why are there so many possibilities where they place their money?

It seems that stock investing is a good method to earn money. Buying stocks and trading shares is an interesting and exciting game. Why put so few people money into the stock market?

The first answer is that not everybody has enough money for buying stocks. Most people need the money to finance their homes, lifestyles and children's. They have to pay bills at the end of the month they don't have enough cash to save which they could use for stock trading or long-term investing.

A second answer is that the stock market is also the best place to lose money very fast. Stocks go up and down by 1% to 5% per day in a normal case, tail risks not included. That's too much for an anxious investor. People like safeness. They don't want volatility.

If you like to play with money you can also travel to Las Vegas. It's much more exciting to play with your money there because the showbiz effect is much higher.

The stock market offers a higher risk than other investments with a fixed income like bonds. Gold and commodities with a daily use getting more and more attractive for investors. All these are popular alternatives. But can you make really money with it?

Derivatives is the fastest growing asset class at the market. With these products, you can hedge nearly everything that has a market price. You can buy assets which don’t exist today and will be produced in five years or so. Everything is possible.

Trading is getting more and more complex and people want this. The market delivers only and tries to satisfy the need of the population or investment community.

For people with a lower risk appetite are the mentioned assets an attractive alternative to get diversified from the stock market.

If you have a small investing budget and your thoughts are floating around exchange trading funds (ETFs) or index funds because everybody talks about it and they seem to be the right investment vehicles for you, please make a deeper research before you buy those products. You should consider if this is the real place to put your money in.

Sure it's a great way to get diversified with low commissions if you have only 500 bucks or so. But let me mention: Today's trading costs are so low that you can buy stocks for only one dollar per trade. That's not much.

If you like you can place a few hundred bucks for a dollar of trading cost and start to build your own portfolio. All you need to do is watching or hunting for the best stocks with a solid business model, a trustful management and growth potential. You also need a little bit luck.

Stock investing is not only luck and hard work via trading. 90% of successful stock investing is research and patience.

What are your thoughts about success stock trading? Are you a successful trader? Let me know and please leave a comment below!

12 Fastest Growing Dividend Stocks In The Dow Jones Index

Dow Jones Index Stocks With Highest Expected 5-Year Earnings Per Share Growth Researched By “long-term-investments.blogspot.com”. Some people might say that the Dow Jones in an index with slow growing value stocks with more or less stable dividends. The whole index is ex-growth and not rewarded by many growth investors. They search high growth within the technology sector on the NASDAQ or somewhere else, maybe in penny stocks. I will show you in this post, that the Dow Jones Index has more to offer than boring value stocks with flat dividends.

I made a screen of the 30 stocks from the Dow Jones and discovered those with a double-digit long-term growth rate, expected by analysts. Exactly for twelve companies is the upcoming earnings per share estimated to grow by more than ten percent yearly. Not bad for boring stocks with a huge portion of value. Of the results are ten with a current buy or better recommendation.

The Best Dogs Of The Dow Jones As Of October 2012

Dogs of the Dow Jones by Dividend Yield – Stock, Capital, Investment. Here is an updated sheet of the 10 best Dogs of the Dow. Such stocks have the lowest expected price to earnings ratio and highest dividend yield within the Dow Jones Index. The strategy is to buy 10 stocks of the Dow Jones with the highest dividend yield and lowest price to earnings ratio at the beginning of the year and to hold these stocks for a year. After this period, the investor should sell stocks that are no more Dogs of the Dow and buy therefore new Dogs of the Dow.

The ten cheapest stocks from the Dow Jones have an average dividend yield of 3.50 percent as well as a forward P/E ratio of 11.99. The average P/B ratio amounts to 2.56 and P/S ratio is 2.06. The best yielding stock is still AT&T (T) with whose yield is back in the high yield area (5+ percent). The stock is followed by its competitor Verizon (VZ). Compared to the results of the previous months, no essential changes have occurred.

The Best Dogs Of The Dow Jones As Of July 2012

Dogs of the Dow Jones by Dividend Yield – Stock, Capital, Investment. Here is an updated sheet of the 10 best Dogs of the Dow. Such stocks have the lowest expected price to earnings ratio and highest dividend yield within the Dow Jones Index. The ten cheapest stocks of the Dow Jones have an average dividend yield of 3.63 percent as well as a forward P/E ratio of 11.61. The average P/B ratio amounts to 2.52 and P/S ratio is 1.92. Compared to the results from last two months, no new dogs are available. The best yielding stock is still AT&T (T) with a yield of 4.85 percent. No high yields are below the dogs.

The Cheapest Stocks Within The Dow Jones

Cheapest Stocks From The Dow Jones Researched By Dividend Yield - Stock, Capital, Investment. The Dow Jones Index is a stock market index, and one of several indices created by Wall Street Journal editor and Dow Jones & Company co-founder Charles Dow. The index is used by many investors and institutional worldwide for their asset allocation. Stocks that are within the index must be held but it does not mean that the stocks are cheap and you get a good return.

I analyzed the index by the cheapest stocks, stocks with a current and forward P/E ratio of less than 15. Only thirteen companies fulfilled these criteria.

The Best Dogs of the Dow Jones As Of April 2012

Dogs of the Dow Jones by Dividend Yield – Stock, Capital, Investment. Here is an updated sheet of the 10 best Dogs of the Dow. Such stocks have the lowest expected price to earnings ratio and highest dividend yield within the Dow Jones Index. The ten cheapest stocks of the Dow Jones have an average dividend yield of 3.62 percent as well as a forward P/E ratio of 11.82. The average P/B ratio amounts to 2.65 and P/S ratio is 1.75. The two best results are still AT&T (T) and Verizon (VZ). Both companies come from the domestic telecom services industry. The second strongly represented industry is the major drug manufacturing industry, covering the following positions. The only new stock in our list is Chevron (CVX) who replaced Intel (INTC).

The Best Growing Dividend Stocks From The Dow Jones

Dividend Stocks With Best Growth Rates From The Dow Jones Index Researched By Dividend Yield - Stock, Capital, Investment. The Dow Jones is of huge importance for the financial industry. Many investors allocate their assets on the structure of the index which was created by Wall Street Journal editor and Dow Jones & Company co-founder Charles Dow and is now owned by Dow Jones Indexes, a majority owned company of the CME Group. Over the past ten years, stocks from the index generated a performance of 27.11 percent and over the recent forty years, the index is thirteen times higher. Year-to-date, the index is up 6.9 percent.

I screened the 30 Dow Jones stocks by the best growth rates. First, earnings per share should have grown by more than five percent over the recent half decade and second, they should grow for at least ten percent for the next half decade. Eight stocks fulfilled these growth criteria of which all are recommended to buy.

Dividend Yield Update For Dow Jones And NASDAQ As Of March 2012

Best Yielding Stocks from Dow Jones And NASDAQ Researched By Dividend Yields – Stock, Capital, Investment. I screened stocks from the Dow Jones Industrial Average 30 Index and NASDAQ 100 by the best dividend yields and dividend structure.

Dogs of the Dow Jones Industrial Average As Of February 2012

Dogs of the Dow Jones by Dividend Yield – Stock, Capital, Investment. Here is an updated sheet of the 10 best Dogs of the Dow. Such stocks have the lowest expected price to earnings ratio and highest dividend yield within the Dow Jones Index. The ten cheapest stocks of the Dow Jones have an average dividend yield of 3.72 percent as well as a forward P/E ratio of 11.69. The average P/B ratio amounts to 2.74 and P/S ratio is 1.89. The two best results are still AT&T (T) and Verizon (VZ). Both companies come from the domestic telecom services industry and have a yield over 5 percent. The second strongly represented industry is the major drug manufacturing industry, covering the following positions. But the best rated stocks are Kraft Foods (KFT) and Pfizer (PFE).

Dividend Yield Update For Dow Jones And NASDAQ As Of February 2012

The Best Yielding Stocks From Dow Jones and NASDAQ By Dividend Yields – Stock, Capital, Investment. I screened stocks from the Dow Jones Industrial Average 30 Index and NASDAQ 100 by dividend yields and dividend structure.

Are The Best Dividend Stocks From Last Year Also The Best Investments For 2012?

The Top 5 US Dividend Stocks For 2012 By DoubleDividend. Which dividend paying stocks paid out the most cash in dividends in 2011? Did they raise their dividends enough to stay among the top US dividend stocks in 2012 for cash payouts? 2011’s winners were all Dow dividend stocks, all raised their dividends in 2011, and have the size and cash necessary to make this short list.

Dogs of the Dow Jones Industrial Average As Of January 2012

Dogs of the Dow Jones by Dividend Yield – Stock, Capital, Investment. Here is an updated sheet of the 10 best Dogs of the Dow. Such stocks have the lowest expected price to earnings ratio and highest dividend yield within the Dow Jones Index. The 10 cheapest stocks of the Dow Jones have an average dividend yield of 3.92 percent and a forward price to earnings ratio of 12.18. The average price to book ratio amounts to 2.46 and price to sales ratio is 1.86. Exactly 40 percent of the stocks have a dividend yield of more than 4 percent. Compared to the results from the previous month, nothing has changed. The cheapest stocks in terms of forward price to earnings are Pfizer (PFE) and Merck (MRK).

Here are the top three stocks with lowest forward P/E ratio:

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Pfizer (NYSE:PFE) has a market capitalization of $166.96 billion. The company employs 110,600 people, generates revenues of $67,809.00 million and has a net income of $8,298.00 million. The firm’s earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) amounts to $19,306.00 million. Because of these figures, the EBITDA margin is 28.47 percent (operating margin 13.89 percent and the net profit margin finally 12.24 percent).


Financial Analysis:
The total debt representing 22.58 percent of the company’s assets and the total debt in relation to the equity amounts to 50.14 percent. Due to the financial situation, a return on equity of 9.30 percent was realized. Twelve trailing months earnings per share reached a value of $1.27. Last fiscal year, the company paid $0.72 in form of dividends to shareholders.


Market Valuation:
Here are the price ratios of the company: The P/E ratio is 17.10, Price/Sales 2.46 and Price/Book ratio 1.98. Dividend Yield: 4.06 percent. The beta ratio is 0.72.

Long-Term Stock History Chart Of Pfizer Inc. (Click to enlarge)

Long-Term Dividends History of Pfizer Inc. (PFE) (Click to enlarge)

Long-Term Dividend Yield History of Pfizer Inc. (NYSE: PFE) (Click to enlarge)

Merck & Co. (NYSE:MRK) has a market capitalization of $117.89 billion. The company employs 90,000 people, generates revenues of $45,987.00 million and has a net income of $982.00 million. The firm’s earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) amounts to $9,250.00 million. Because of these figures, the EBITDA margin is 20.11 percent (operating margin 3.59 percent and the net profit margin finally 2.14 percent).


Financial Analysis:
The total debt representing 16.90 percent of the company’s assets and the total debt in relation to the equity amounts to 32.89 percent. Due to the financial situation, a return on equity of 1.51 percent was realized. Twelve trailing months earnings per share reached a value of $1.46. Last fiscal year, the company paid $1.52 in form of dividends to shareholders.


Market Valuation:
Here are the price ratios of the company: The P/E ratio is 26.42, Price/Sales 2.57 and Price/Book ratio 2.20. Dividend Yield: 4.33 percent. The beta ratio is 0.67.

Long-Term Stock History Chart Of Merck & Co., Inc. (Click to enlarge)

Long-Term Dividends History of Merck & Co., Inc. (MRK) (Click to enlarge)

Long-Term Dividend Yield History of Merck & Co., Inc. (NYSE: MRK) (Click to enlarge)

Intel Corporation (NASDAQ:INTC) has a market capitalization of $136.97 billion. The company employs 100,100 people, generates revenues of $53,999.00 million and has a net income of $12,942.00 million. The firm’s earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) amounts to $23,541.00 million. Because of these figures, the EBITDA margin is 43.60 percent (operating margin 32.37 percent and the net profit margin finally 23.97 percent).


Financial Analysis:
The total debt representing 10.31 percent of the company’s assets and the total debt in relation to the equity amounts to 15.97 percent. Due to the financial situation, a return on equity of 27.15 percent was realized. Twelve trailing months earnings per share reached a value of $2.40. Last fiscal year, the company paid $0.78 in form of dividends to shareholders.


Market Valuation:
Here are the price ratios of the company: The P/E ratio is 11.22, Price/Sales 2.54 and Price/Book ratio 2.98. Dividend Yield: 3.12 percent. The beta ratio is 1.10.

Long-Term Stock History Chart Of Intel Corporation (Click to enlarge)

Long-Term Dividends History of Intel Corporation (INTC) (Click to enlarge)

Long-Term Dividend Yield History of Intel Corporation (NASDAQ: INTC) (Click to enlarge)

Here is the table with some fundamentals:

Dogs of the Dow Jones January 2012 (Click to enlarge)

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Dividend Yield Table Dow Jones And NASDAQ As Of January 2012

Best Yielding Stocks from Dow Jones and NASDAQ By Dividend Yields – Stock, Capital, Investment. I screened stocks from the Dow Jones Industrial Average 30 Index and NASDAQ 100 by dividend yields and dividend structure.

Here are the best yielding Dow Jones 30 stocks:

Company	Price	Estimated Dividend	Dividend Yield (%)
AT&T	30.38	1.76	5.79%
Verizon Communications	39.73	2.02	5.08%
Merck	38.3	1.7	4.44%
Pfizer	21.97	0.88	4.01%
General Electric	18.36	0.71	3.87%
Intel	24.54	0.9	3.67%
Johnson & Johnson	65.88	2.37	3.60%
Dupont	46.51	1.64	3.53%
Procter & Gamble	66.83	2.175	3.25%
Kraft Foods	37.27	1.2	3.22%
Microsoft	26.76	0.84	3.14%
Chevron	110.37	3.36	3.04%
Travelers	58.99	1.79	3.03%
McDonalds	98.84	2.88	2.91%
Home Depot	42.14	1.21	2.87%
Coca-Cola	70.14	2	2.85%
United Technologies	74.66	2.1	2.81%
Wal Mart	60.33	1.68	2.78%
3M	83.49	2.32	2.78%
JPMorgan Chase	34.98	0.9	2.57%
Boeing	74.22	1.76	2.37%
ExxonMobil	86	1.97	2.29%
Bank of America	5.8	0.13	2.24%
Disney	38.31	0.8	2.09%
Hewlett Packard	26.62	0.54	2.03%
Caterpillar	93.98	1.9	2.02%
IBM	186.3	3.3	1.77%
Alcoa	9.23	0.14	1.52%
Cisco Systems	18.63	0.21	1.13%
American Express	48.39	0.54	1.12%
Average			2.93%
Updated:
04-Jan-12

The NASDAQ 100 Index includes 100 of the largest domestic and international non-financial securities listed on The NASDAQ stock market is based on market capitalization. The Index reflects companies across major industry groups including computer hardware and software, telecommunications, retail/wholesale trade and biotechnology. It does not contain securities of financial companies including investment companies.

Here are the best yielding NASDAQ 100 stocks:

Company	Price	Estimated Dividend	Dividend Yield (%)
Vodafone	28.24	2.35	8.32%
Seagate Technology	16.43	0.72	4.38%
Paychex	30.43	1.28	4.21%
Garmin	39.6	1.6	4.04%
Microchip Technology	35.76	1.402	3.92%
Intel	24.54	0.9	3.67%
Mattel	27.76	0.96	3.46%
Maxim Integrated Products	26.33	0.9	3.42%
Linear Technology	30.34	1	3.30%
Applied Materials	10.7	0.35	3.27%
Microsoft	26.76	0.84	3.14%
Staples	14.22	0.44	3.09%
Automatic Data Processing	54.46	1.61	2.96%
KLA-Tencor	47.46	1.4	2.95%
PACCAR	38.8	1.08	2.78%
Xilinx	32.44	0.85	2.62%
Amgen	64.11	1.44	2.25%
Teva Pharmaceutical Ind.	43.1	0.876	2.03%
Avago Technologies	28.94	0.58	2.00%
C.H. Robinson Worldwide	69.84	1.36	1.95%
Expedia	29.66	0.56	1.89%
QUALCOMM	55.27	0.95	1.72%
Comcast	24.5	0.39	1.59%
Starbucks	45.28	0.72	1.59%
Activision Blizzard	12.2	0.18	1.48%
Infosys Limited	53.45	0.76	1.42%
Expeditors Intl Washington	41.32	0.58	1.40%
Broadcom	29.46	0.4	1.36%
Wynn Resorts	113.97	1.5	1.32%
Fastenal	43.76	0.56	1.28%
Sigma-Aldrich	63.47	0.8	1.26%
Costco Wholesale	84.6	1.065	1.26%
Ross Stores	47.29	0.56	1.18%
Intuit	52.46	0.6	1.14%
Cisco Systems	18.63	0.21	1.13%
Oracle	25.86	0.27	1.04%
News Corp.	18.35	0.19	1.04%
CA Technologies	20.3	0.2	0.99%
Altera	37.6	0.36	0.96%
Whole Foods Market	69.64	0.56	0.80%
Virgin Media	22.04	0.16	0.73%
DENTSPLY International	35.38	0.22	0.62%
Perrigo	98.55	0.33	0.33%
Randgold Resources	108.29	0.23	0.21%
Average			2.22%
Updated:
04-Jan-12

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