19 Shipping Stocks Far Below Book Value; Yields Still Up To 32%

If I screen the market by interesting investing ideas, one industry often popped on my screen: The shipping industry.

For sure, the global trade slows down and commodity costs are at the lowest level for decades. What looks like bad news for shipping stocks but also a great opportunity for long term investors?

Let's try a look. Ships are not equal. These are container ships, tanker etc. and each industry has a different cyclic.

The recent correction in share prices across shipping stocks, barring tanker operators, has transpired into attractive valuations. 

While investors are skeptical of catching falling knives, sitting on the cash means missing good bargains. 

Investors should adopt a diversified portfolio within the maritime space, to insulate from heightened uncertainty in the sector. 

We have followed top-down approach to build our model portfolio, while considering company-specific factors such as the balance sheet strength, financial performance and management profile for stock selection. 

It is important to note that shipping is a high-beta sector and tends to underperform/outperform the financial markets by a wide alpha on both sides.

Attached I've tried to compile a few dividend paying shipping stocks that might look like bargains due to low price to book ratios and earnings multiples. What du you think? Are shipping stocks worth an investment? Leave a comment and we discuss the idea.

Here are the results...

15 High Yields With The Lowest Dividend Payout Ratios

High Yields with dividend payouts of less than 50 percent and room to boost future dividends originally published at long-term-investments.blogspot.com. If you have only small amounts of money available for investing, you need a higher yield. I do know this problem but I always remember that higher dividend yields are also equally with a higher risk.

Today I would like to screen all higher yielding stocks with a dividend yield over 5 percent and a market capitalization above the 2 billion mark by its payout ratios. I’m hunting for opportunities that pay less than 50 percent of its earnings. I believe that there should be more room for a small dividend hike if earnings are not cyclic and grow over the time.

Fifteen high yielding stocks fulfilled these criteria of which eleven are currently recommended to buy.

18 Services Stocks With Low Debt And Payout Ratios To Boost Future Dividends

Services dividend paying stocks with low payout ratios and relatively small debt figures originally published at long-term-investments.blogspot.com. Today I would like to continue my article serial about low leveraged stocks with small payout ratios. I believe that those stocks can pay higher dividends in the future or they have the ability to grow further without capital increases.

The services sector ha s many corporate stocks with small dividend payouts but the most of the stocks are working with small profit margins or they have a modest capitalization. I decided to look only at stocks with more than $2 billion market capitalization in order to get the best results. My other criteria are still the same: Debt to equity under 0.5 with a dividend payout ratio of less than 20 percent.

Eighteen stocks fulfilled the above mentioned criteria of which ten are currently recommended to buy.

Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On September 11, 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, 258 stocks go ex dividend - of which 80 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 5.49%. Here is a full list of all stocks with ex-dividend date within the current week.

Here is the sheet of the best yielding, higher capitalized ex-dividend stocks:

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
Valley National Bancorp	VLY	2.04B	14.45	1.34	3.22	6.34%
Digital Realty Trust Inc.	DLR	6.76B	36.58	2.37	4.78	5.92%
Golar LNG Ltd.	GLNG	3.06B	3.25	1.59	10.81	4.73%
Leggett & Platt	LEG	4.41B	17.58	3.09	1.18	3.97%
Validus Holdings, Ltd.	VR	3.65B	10.53	1.01	1.73	3.39%
Domtar Corporation	UFS	2.20B	28.60	0.83	0.41	3.34%
BRE Properties Inc.	BRE	3.88B	43.05	2.28	9.67	3.14%
Packaging Corp. of America	PKG	5.24B	23.44	4.99	1.74	2.94%
GATX Corp.	GMT	2.19B	15.33	1.80	1.72	2.63%
The Hanover Insurance Group	THG	2.23B	21.95	0.89	0.47	2.60%
XL Group plc	XL	8.75B	10.35	0.88	1.17	1.85%
Airgas Inc.	ARG	7.72B	24.30	4.78	1.55	1.82%
Worthington Industries, Inc.	WOR	2.36B	17.60	2.84	0.90	1.79%
First Horizon National	FHN	2.71B	18.54	1.26	3.53	1.77%
Nasdaq OMX Group Inc.	NDAQ	5.10B	17.13	0.87	1.67	1.70%
URS Corporation	URS	3.74B	11.92	1.04	0.32	1.66%
Comerica Incorporated	CMA	7.55B	15.01	1.09	4.18	1.65%
Albemarle Corp.	ALB	5.23B	17.52	3.86	1.99	1.54%
Service Corp. International	SCI	3.87B	25.03	2.76	1.56	1.53%
Alcoa, Inc.	AA	8.64B	80.80	0.68	0.37	1.49%

Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On June 11, 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.

A full list of all stocks with payment dates can be found here: Ex-Dividend Stocks June 11, 2013. In total, 22 stocks and preferred shares go ex dividend - of which 11 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 3.58%.

Here is the sheet of the best yielding, higher capitalized ex-dividend stocks:

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
Mercury General Corporation	MCY	2.41B	21.96	1.29	0.86	5.58%
Medical Properties Trust Inc.	MPW	2.28B	22.37	1.86	10.44	5.26%
Golar LNG Ltd.	GLNG	2.76B	3.01	1.46	7.62	4.95%
Yanzhou Coal Mining Co. Ltd.	YZC	4.98B	4.92	0.69	0.53	4.94%
Lumos Networks Corp.	LMOS	340.29M	19.15	4.97	1.64	3.61%
DDR Corp.	DDR	6.20B	-	1.66	7.55	3.08%
El Paso Electric Co.	EE	1.45B	15.17	1.74	1.68	2.95%
MDU Resources Group Inc.	MDU	4.81B	849.67	1.81	1.16	2.71%
Marvell Technology Group Ltd.	MRVL	5.53B	22.94	1.31	1.78	2.14%
T. Rowe Price Group, Inc.	TROW	19.63B	21.50	4.78	6.31	2.01%
Franco-Nevada Corporation	FNV	6.11B	66.08	1.95	14.18	1.73%
PolyOne Corporation	POL	2.49B	36.32	2.86	0.83	0.96%
J&J Snack Foods Corp.	JJSF	1.44B	23.63	2.91	1.67	0.84%
HDFC Bank Ltd.	HDB	6.01B	27.80	27.03	1.04	0.74%
Berry Petroleum Co.	BRY	2.46B	14.69	2.35	2.43	0.71%
AAON Inc.	AAON	779.52M	26.09	5.39	2.56	0.63%