Dividend stocks can be the foundation of a great retirement portfolio. Not only do the payments put money in your pocket, which can help hedge against any dips in the stock market, they're usually a sign of a financially sound company.
Dividends also give investors a painless opportunity to reinvest in a stock, thus compounding gains over time.
However, not all income stocks live up to their full potential.
Using the payout ratio -- i.e., the percentage of profits a company returns to its shareholders as dividends -- we can get a good bead on whether a company has room to increase its dividend. Ideally, we like to see healthy payout ratios between 50% and 75%.
I run a screen to find some good stock ideas that could offer upside in terms of dividend payments.
My criteria were low payout (under 50%), low debt (under 0.5), solid growth (over 5% for the next five years) and finally a dividend yield over 3 percent. 12 stocks keep on the screen. Each has a market cap over 2 billion.
Here are 12 income stocks with payout ratios currently below 50% that could potentially double their dividends in the future easily....
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12 Stocks With The Latest Dividend Growth
Attached are all stocks with dividend
growth from the past week. There was a massive sell-off during the latest
trading days of the week.
Well, it hurts me
too but as a long-term investor, you must look at the next 20 or 30 years. I
know that it's hard to stay disciplined and holding your first class assets
while seeing them shrinking.
Only 12 companies
have announced a dividend hike in the past week. ITC, Nordson, Dillard and Brinker
are the biggest names.
Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On August 22, 2013
The best yielding and biggest
ex-dividend stocks researched by ”long-term-investments.blogspot.com”. Dividend Investors should
have a quiet overview of stocks with upcoming ex dividend dates.
The ex dividend date is the
final date on which the new stock buyer couldn’t receive the next dividend. If
you like to receive the dividend, you need to buy the stock before the ex dividend
date. I made a little screen of the best yielding stocks with a higher
capitalization that have their ex date on the next trading day.
In total, 16 stocks go ex dividend
- of which 3 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 2.68%.
Here is a full list of all stocks with ex-dividend
date within the upcoming week.
Here is the sheet of the best yielding, higher
capitalized ex-dividend stocks:
Company
|
Ticker
|
Mcap
|
P/E
|
P/B
|
P/S
|
Yield
|
Intersections
Inc.
|
177.93M
|
17.00
|
1.72
|
0.53
|
8.11%
|
|
Pan
American Silver Corp.
|
2.07B
|
-
|
0.77
|
2.26
|
3.66%
|
|
Atmos
Energy Corporation
|
3.77B
|
17.07
|
1.46
|
1.01
|
3.36%
|
|
FirstMerit
Corporation
|
3.63B
|
17.81
|
1.42
|
6.16
|
2.79%
|
|
HollyFrontier
Corporation
|
9.25B
|
5.91
|
1.48
|
0.45
|
2.62%
|
|
Symantec
Corporation
|
18.30B
|
24.77
|
3.33
|
2.63
|
2.28%
|
|
Assurant
Inc.
|
4.27B
|
11.04
|
0.89
|
0.49
|
1.82%
|
|
Dunkin'
Brands Group, Inc.
|
4.66B
|
36.83
|
13.14
|
6.88
|
1.76%
|
|
Robert
Half International Inc.
|
5.13B
|
22.14
|
5.95
|
1.24
|
1.70%
|
|
Old
Line Bancshares Inc.
|
89.93M
|
12.87
|
1.20
|
2.37
|
1.22%
|
|
Apollo
Global Management, LLC
|
3.91B
|
8.00
|
3.70
|
1.06
|
0.98%
|
|
Guaranty
Bancorp
|
240.52M
|
19.88
|
1.30
|
3.49
|
0.87%
|
|
LSB
Financial Corp.
|
37.58M
|
13.88
|
0.95
|
2.47
|
0.83%
|
|
Haverty
Furniture Companies
|
574.87M
|
28.18
|
2.11
|
0.81
|
0.62%
|
|
Hecla
Mining Co.
|
1.13B
|
-
|
0.85
|
3.49
|
0.27%
|
|
Radian
Group Inc.
|
2.26B
|
-
|
2.51
|
3.10
|
0.08%
|
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