20 Dividend Contenders With Very Low Debt Ratios - #MarketAxess #PetMed #Rollins #Atrion

Dear Reader, find below a list of 20 Dividend Contenders With Very Low Debt Ratios. 

Ticker	Company	P/E	Fwd P/E	P/S	P/B	Dividend	Price	Target Price
MKTX	MarketAxess Holdings Inc.	45.87	40.68	18.34	13.31	0.8%	207.96	196.67
NKSH	National Bankshares, Inc.	18.43	16.23	7.11	1.59	2.7%	43.01	48.00
NWFL	Norwood Financial Corp.	16.42	-	5.64	1.98	2.4%	36.49	-
PB	Prosperity Bancshares, Inc.	15.7	14.13	6.85	1.21	2.4%	69.06	69.10
PETS	PetMed Express, Inc.	14.3	11.98	2.09	4.43	3.8%	27.40	35.00
ROL	Rollins, Inc.	59.24	50.18	7.55	18.21	0.9%	60.80	61.75
TPL	Texas Pacific Land Trust	30.07	-	21.36	26.15	0.2%	632.77	-
UTMD	Utah Medical Products, Inc.	17.73	-	7.82	3.67	1.3%	86.10	-
WHG	Westwood Holdings Group, Inc.	12.72	-	2.93	2.1	7.0%	41.10	-
ATRI	Atrion Corporation	43.48	-	8.78	6.67	0.8%	712.99	300.00
AUBN	Auburn National Bancorporation, Inc.	15.55	-	4.8	1.57	2.6%	37.40	-
EXPD	Expeditors International of Washington, Inc.	22.54	21.05	1.63	6.36	1.3%	70.87	73.14
FMAO	Farmers & Merchants Bancorp, Inc.	25.03	21.69	8.53	2.70	1.4%	41.20	30.00
RHI	Robert Half International Inc.	18.55	16.10	1.39	6.74	1.8%	62.73	66.45
JJSF	J&J Snack Foods Corp.	37.61	28.99	2.54	3.93	1.2%	155.32	158.33
ACN	Accenture plc	24.98	20.81	2.52	10.21	1.8%	163.38	179.32
HIFS	Hingham Institution for Savings	13.47	-	4.86	2.13	0.7%	203.84	-
COLM	Columbia Sportswear Company	40.94	22.93	2.43	3.89	1.0%	92.45	99.80
BMRC	Bank of Marin Bancorp	21.54	16.72	6.6	1.89	1.7%	84.00	86.60
HCSG	Healthcare Services Group, Inc.	42.91	26.46	1.62	7.78	1.8%	43.63	47.78

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Dividend Growth Stocks From The Past Week

14 Top Dividend Growers From Last Week

Stocks with dividend hikes from last week originally published at long-term-investments.blogspot.com. Only 14 stocks raised their dividend payments within the recent week. Despite the low number of growth stocks, the quality is still available.

Big names are again on the list. The biggest player is Lockheed Martin. The military group announced to boost dividends by 15.7 percent. I love this stock that is so deeply integrated into the U.S. economy.

Five High-Yields are part of the latest dividend growth stocks but only three companies are currently valuated with a forward P/E of less than 15. Also three of fourteen shares are currently recommended to buy.

Basic material stocks as well as financial stocks are dominating the results – A fact that we’ve also seen over the recent weeks. For the financial sector it’s reasonable because of the abnormal dividend cuts in 2008 but basic or raw material stocks? It’s really hard to explain why these stocks hike dividends when the whole sector is under pressure due to falling prices in anticipation of a slowing Chinese economy.

We will see how it develops over the time. I’ve attached, like every week, the full list of the latest dividend growth stocks. You can also find attached the current price ratios in order to find and compare the cheapest stocks from the list.

Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On July 08, 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 July 05, 2013. In total, 19 stocks and preferred shares go ex dividend - of which 6 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 2.38%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
AT&T, Inc.	T	196.37B	27.83	2.23	1.55	5.05%
Verizon Communications Inc.	VZ	146.19B	127.52	4.39	1.25	4.04%
Darden Restaurants, Inc.	DRI	6.61B	16.28	3.21	0.77	3.92%
WGL Holdings Inc.	WGL	2.21B	14.13	1.61	0.91	3.92%
UDR, Inc.	UDR	6.48B	-	2.25	8.75	3.62%
General Mills, Inc.	GIS	31.74B	18.00	4.52	1.82	3.11%
CSG International, Inc.	CSGS	748.38M	14.56	2.29	0.99	2.58%
United Microelectronics	UMC	6.11B	15.13	0.88	1.56	2.48%
Brady Corp.	BRC	1.60B	33.39	1.54	1.35	2.45%
Industrias Bachoco S.A.B. de C.V.	IBA	1.73B	10.29	1.22	0.57	1.67%
Raven Industries Inc.	RAVN	1.10B	23.34	4.76	2.82	1.58%
Hingham Institution for Savings	HIFS	145.10M	10.95	1.52	2.98	1.52%
Gap Inc.	GPS	19.90B	16.69	6.30	1.25	1.40%
Lincoln National Corp.	LNC	9.99B	8.16	0.67	0.86	1.30%
Ethan Allen Interiors Inc.	ETH	838.93M	26.91	2.55	1.15	1.24%
Intuit Inc.	INTU	18.53B	23.45	5.19	4.17	1.09%
InterDigital, Inc.	IDCC	1.56B	6.48	3.09	2.44	1.05%
FEI Company	FEIC	2.82B	25.97	3.31	3.15	0.66%
Lennar Corp.	LEN	6.72B	19.11	1.92	1.38	0.45%

12 Safe Dividend Contenders With Low P/E Multiples

Dividend Contenders with low P/E and beta ratios originally published at "long-term-investments.blogspot.com". Safety and growth is a good combination but hard to find. 

Safe stocks don’t exist because with your shares you are a part of the business and must carry all fluctuations. But there are more or less risky businesses.

Growth is your wealth driver. A growing business is a good business and makes you richer when your company employs more people and generates higher sales and incomes over a couple of years. 

In order to realize a return you must care about the current price ratios. The price you pay for growth should be acceptable in order to make a good return. Normally you have to pay a higher P/E with bigger growth expectations.

Today I try to combine all three factors: Growth, Bargains and Safeness. I like to screen dividend growth stocks with 10 to 25 years of consecutive dividend growth by low P/E and beta ratios: The P/E should be under 15 and the beta ratio must below 0.5.

Twelve stocks fulfilled the mentioned criteria of which three have a buy or better rating. Insurer, banks and telecom stocks are main contributors to the screen. Somehow strange - How banks fundamentals have changed over the recent years. They show low debt figures and good dividends but the banks in my screen are very low capitalized and have a greater risk.