18 Stocks With Very High Yields (+10%) And Earnings Growth

+10% yielding shares with strong earnings per share growth originally published at "long-term-investments.blogspot.com" Some of my friends search regular for stocks with very high yield. I don’t talk about high-yields, stocks with yields between 5-10 percent. I mean stocks with annualized dividend yields of more than 10 percent.

It sounds a bit unserious and I personally would never buy such stocks but I can understand my friends because they have only a low net worth and they try to boost their passive income from dividends.

Let me say one thing: It could not sustainable for any kind of business to pay such a high amount of money to shareholders at a normal valuation. Something must be wrong. But if find an attractive investment, you can boost your dividend income and in ten years your investment paid-off.

Out there are 148 stocks with a yield over 10 percent. I’ve tried to figure out some interesting stocks.

These are my criteria:

- Dividend Yield above 10%

- Earnings per share growth for the next 5Y over 5%

- Market Capitalization over 300 million

Eighteen shares fulfilled these criteria. Seven of them have a current buy or better recommendation.

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I screened the sector by stocks with the highest earnings per share growth for the upcoming five years (at least 15 percent yearly). In addition, the company should pay today more than 3 percent in cash dividends. 14 stocks fulfilled my criteria of which 6 are high yields. Twelve stocks have a buy or better recommendation.

Ex-Dividend Date Reminder For February 03, 2012

Here is a current overview of best yielding stocks that have their ex-dividend date on the next trading day. If your broker settles your trade today, you will receive the next dividend. A full list of all stocks with ex-dividend date can be found here: Ex-Dividend Stocks February 03, 2012. In total, 21 stocks and preferred shares go ex-dividend of which 17 yielding above 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 5.04 percent.