10 Cheap Income Growth Stocks From The S&P High-Yield Dividend Aristocrats Index

Stocks from the S&P High Yield Dividend Aristocrats with strong growth at low valuation originally published at long-term-investments.blogspot.com. Is there anybody who don’t loves high dividend paying stocks with a long history of dividend hikes? I don’t think so.

Standard & Poor’s has created an index family with focus on dividend growth stocks. One member of the index family is the popular S&P High Yield Dividend Aristocrats Index. Around 84 companies are part of the income product. The index is designed to measure the performance of companies within the S&P Composite 1500® that have followed a managed-dividends policy of consistently increasing dividends every year for at least 20 years.

Below is a small list of the cheapest stocks from the index with expected double-digit earnings per share growth for the next five years. In addition to the growth figures, they have a low forward P/E, fewer than 15. Only ten stocks fulfilled these criteria of which nine have a buy or better rating.

George Soros’s Biggest Dividend Stock Buys As Of Q1/2013

The biggest dividend stocks buys from George Soros originally published at "long-term-investments.blogspot.com". George Soros is well known within the financial industry. He is a hedge fund manager who serves around $8.56 billion in 207 stocks. Last quarter, he added 74 new companies. It’s very interesting to see how big investors act because if they move, the market changes. The amounts are really big when they decide to place a 1 percent stake.

Today I like to look at the biggest dividend stock buys from George Soros. George is a real speculator. His 20 biggest changes had an impact to his portfolio between 0.34 percent and 1.3 percent. Only eight of his 20 biggest stock buys pay dividends.

In total, George Soros has a much diversified fund. His biggest position, the SPDR S&P 500 ETF – Put, has a portfolio weighting of 4.8 percent. The second biggest position is the oil & gas company Pioneer Natural Resources with a 3.4 percent share.

12 Cheap Dividend Champions With Double-Digit Earnings Growth

Dividend Champions with strongest growth and cheap forward P/E ratios originally published at "long-term-investments.blogspot.com". Some of us like dividend growth and they want invest money into the best long-term growth picks. I also like to make money by holding a passive stake of a well-managed company and see how they create more and more values over the time.

A great source for high-quality stocks are Dividend Champions. Those are stocks with a dividend growth history of 25 or more consecutive years. 105 companies have created such a fantastic trust relationship to their shareholders.

Today I want to highlight the best growth picks with acceptable price ratios. Sure, cheap stocks with high growth don’t exist especially when you are looking for low risk stocks. Something must be wrong. But see this screening results as an informative tool with which you can adjust your own asset allocation and ask yourself if your current holdings with less growth and higher P/Es are worth to buy or hold.

Twelve Dividend Champions fulfilled my criteria of a low forward P/E (less than 15) at double-digit earnings per share forecast for the next five years. The best yielding pick is Walgreen, the leading drug store operator. Eleven of the results are currently recommended to buy. See the table linked and leave a comment below which of the results you would buy or sell.

20 Most Recommended Dividend Champions | Stock Buy List

Black Hills Corp. (BKH)
Best Yielding Buy Rated
Dividend Growth Stock

Dividend Champions with buy ratings originally published at "long-term-investments.blogspot.com". Dividend Champions are stocks with a history of dividend payments of more than 25 years in a row. Around 108 stocks have such a wonderful dividend growth history.

I personally love dividend stocks, dividend growth and consecutive dividend hikes. It gives me somehow the feeling that everything is all right. Not to forget, my trust into the company and the financial health is much higher if I see that the company shares its success with shareholders.

But not all dividend growth stocks are good investments. A past performance does not guarantee high future return. As you have see by long-term dividend growth stocks Avon Products. They cut quarterly dividend payments from 23 cents to 6 cents per share due to a bad operative performance and high debt burdens. These are all factors you need to observe when you buy a stock.

Today, I like to screen the current Dividend Champions recommendations by analysts and brokerage firms. I published the full results of the 20 most recommended A-Class dividend growth stocks on my blog. Five of the results have a yield over three percent and two have a strong buy rating.

Stocks With Dividend Growth From Last Week 4/2012

Stocks With Dividend Hikes From Last Week by Dividend Yield – Stock, Capital, Investment. Here is a current sheet of companies that have announced a dividend increase within the recent week. In total, 37 stocks and funds raised dividends of which 14 have a dividend growth of more than 10 percent. The average dividend growth amounts to 12.58 percent.