Ex-Dividend Growth Stocks As Of September 17, 2018

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Ticker	Company	P/E	Fwd P/E	P/S	P/B	Dividend	Get the PDF via Mail…
GME	GameStop Corp.	37.31	5.98	0.19	0.78	9.05%	Stock Report of GME
HOG	Harley-Davidson, Inc.	13.64	12.43	1.31	3.41	3.34%	Stock Report of HOG
HPP	Hudson Pacific Properties, Inc.	46.61	50.71	6.99	1.38	3.10%	Stock Report of HPP
BGG	Briggs & Stratton Corporation	92.27	11.6	0.46	1.49	2.76%	Stock Report of BGG
BBY	Best Buy Co., Inc.	17.26	14.31	0.51	6.48	2.30%	Stock Report of BBY
PLOW	Douglas Dynamics, Inc.	12.52	21.81	2.06	3.94	2.26%	Stock Report of PLOW
PFLT	PennantPark Floating Rate Capital Ltd.	14.47	11.18	7.49	0.96	1.66%	Stock Report of PFLT
BR	Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc.	37.45	26.93	3.72	14.73	1.41%	Stock Report of BR
PHM	PulteGroup, Inc.	8.58	7.01	0.85	1.7	1.33%	Stock Report of PHM
KAMN	Kaman Corporation	26.6	17.95	0.97	2.81	1.24%	Stock Report of KAMN
ECL	Ecolab Inc.	32.32	26.05	3.15	5.78	1.04%	Stock Report of ECL

Ticker	Company	Sales past 5Y	Sales Q/Q	EPS Q/Q	EPS next 5Y	Perf Year
GME	GameStop Corp.	0.70%	-5.50%	-52.5%	15.0%	-16.38%
HOG	Harley-Davidson, Inc.	0.20%	-2.90%	-1.8%	10.4%	-9.49%
HPP	Hudson Pacific Properties, Inc.	35.30%	-2.90%	354.6%	9.0%	-0.62%
BGG	Briggs & Stratton Corporation	0.20%	5.80%	-178.1%	-	-7.31%
BBY	Best Buy Co., Inc.	2.00%	6.80%	20.9%	14.4%	34.28%
PLOW	Douglas Dynamics, Inc.	27.70%	17.20%	42.6%	15.0%	31.37%
PFLT	PennantPark Floating Rate Capital Ltd.	37.50%	28.30%	-55.4%	-	-7.61%
BR	Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc.	12.20%	-1.90%	8.9%	13.4%	73.67%
PHM	PulteGroup, Inc.	12.20%	27.10%	252.1%	44.2%	2.46%
KAMN	Kaman Corporation	2.90%	4.30%	10.2%	10.0%	28.71%
ECL	Ecolab Inc.	3.20%	6.60%	25.7%	13.7%	19.93%

Ticker	Company	ROA	ROE	ROI	Oper- Margin	Debt/ Equity
GME	GameStop Corp.	0.70%	1.50%	4.4%	1.5%	0.37
HOG	Harley-Davidson, Inc.	4.80%	25.10%	6.8%	13.5%	3.30
HPP	Hudson Pacific Properties, Inc.	1.60%	3.00%	2.3%	20.7%	0.65
BGG	Briggs & Stratton Corporation	-0.80%	-2.10%	3.9%	1.8%	0.43
BBY	Best Buy Co., Inc.	7.50%	25.80%	26.3%	4.3%	0.39
PLOW	Douglas Dynamics, Inc.	9.30%	24.80%	17.1%	15.4%	1.02
PFLT	PennantPark Floating Rate Capital Ltd.	3.90%	6.40%	4.7%	58.5%	0.73
BR	Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc.	12.90%	39.20%	22.2%	13.7%	-
PHM	PulteGroup, Inc.	7.60%	17.20%	8.2%	13.8%	0.72
KAMN	Kaman Corporation	4.10%	9.30%	7.7%	6.2%	0.50
ECL	Ecolab Inc.	7.80%	20.60%	10.8%	14.3%	0.92

Dividend Growth Stocks Of The Week

20 Cheapest Large Cap Buyback Opportunities

It’s that time of year again — the time of year when companies ramp-up their stock buyback activity as they realize they’ll have enough cash to fund those efforts, and/or just to make sure they reach their internal buyback goals.

When corporations are profitable and established, they tend to return capital to shareholders. This can be achieved via stock buybacks to shrink the float and to support the stock, or it can be done via one-time dividends or by raising their annualized quarterly dividends. Both are activities I do cover on this blog on a regular basis.

Many investors love the cash flow from dividends. After all, dividends can contribute up to 50% of total returns through time. Other investors prefer for companies to buy back their common stock. But a good alternative is to combine both shareholder friendly activities.

When picking out companies that will be buying back the largest number of shares in 2016, several things have to be considered. First and foremost, a company had to be willing to spend billions of dollars to buy its shares. Such companies also have to have a history of conducting stock buybacks, or they had to have a solid reason why they would be so aggressive in buying back stock this year alone.

As for which stocks are particularly well-positioned to be the beneficiaries of corporate buyback efforts, investors may want to put the following names on their radar. Attached you will find a selection of the 20 cheapest large cap stocks with a buyback announcement during the past 12 month.

These are the results...

10 Stocks With The Highest Buyback Yield

Investing in companies returning cash to shareholders via a combination of buybacks and dividends has proven to be an effective long-term strategy relative to the market and other uses of cash.

Since 1991, a sector-neutral basket of the S&P 500 stocks with the highest trailing combined dividend and buyback yields has returned an annualized 15.7% versus 13.8% for the top capex + R&D spenders and 12.8% for S&P 500. It seems this could be a great way to invest.

What is a stock purchase?

A stock repurchase occurs when a company asks stockholders to tender their shares for repurchase by the company. This is an alternate way for a company to increase value for stockholders. First, a repurchase can be used to restructure the company's capital structure without increasing the company's debt load.

Additionally, rather than a company changing its dividend policy, it can offer value to its stockholders through stock repurchases, keeping in mind that capital gains taxes are lower than taxes on dividends.

Advantages of a Stock Repurchase

Many companies initiate a share repurchase at a price level that management deems a good entry point. This point tends to be when the stock is estimated to be undervalued. If a company knows its business and relative stock price well, would it purchase its stock price at a high level? The answer is no, leading investors to believe the management perceives its stock price to be at a low level.

Unlike a cash dividend, a stock repurchase gives the decision to the investor. A stockholder can choose to tender his shares for repurchase, accept the payment and pay the taxes. With a cash dividend, a stockholder has no choice but to accept the dividend and pay the taxes.

At times, there may be a block of shares from one or more large shareholders that could come into the market, but the timing may be unknown. This problem may actually keep potential stockholders away since they may be worried about a flood of shares coming onto the market and lessening the stock's value. A stock repurchase can be quite useful in this situation.

However, let's come back to the real facts from the market. Attached you will find 10 stocks with the highest buyback yield of the past twelve months. The yield starts at 14.9% and ends at nearly 40%. Great values.

Here they are sorted by yield...

10 Stocks With The Highest Buyback Yield

10 Stocks With The Highest Buyback Yield;
Source: FactSet (click to enlarge)

20 Best Yielding Profitable Growing Buyback Kings And My 8 Favorite Stocks

Today's screen discovers stocks with recent buyback announcements. I've compiled those stocks with a recent buyback program announcement.

Those buybacks are paid from a profitable operating business that is growing, not only in the past but should also go forward in the near future.

A consequence is that each of the attached stocks has a positive 5 years past sales performance, positive return on assets and positive expected 5 year EPS growth predictions as well.

Attached you will find the 20 best yielding results.

These are my personal favorites...

11 Dividend Growth Opportunities For November 2015

Investing in stocks that pay dividends can be agreat way to build wealth over time, as companies that regularly dish out cash payments to their investors tend to outperform the market over the long-term.

However, investors can't just pick any dividend paying company and expect to do well, as many other factors like the companies growth prospects balance sheet, and valuation also need to be factored in to the equation.

Attached you will find my best picks for November 2015.

Check out my research results here:

These Top Dividend Growth Stocks Should Boost Dividends By 15% Next Year

If you want to know what professional investment analysts predict about the best dividend growth stocks, you need to read the latest study from Goldman Sachs. The investment bank created a dividend growth basket of 50 best stocks with potential.

Goldman's Dividend Growth basket consists of 50 stocks with a median expected 2016 dividend yield of 3%. Goldman expects these companies to raise their dividends by an average of 12% in 2016. In comparison, the median S&P 500 stock has an expected dividend yield of 2.2% and an expected median dividend growth of 7% next year.

The basket has a large-cap bias because larger firms are more likely to pay dividends. Investors should use this basket to identify stocks returning cash to shareholders through strong dividend growth and high dividend yields.

Attached are 9 stocks with potential to grow dividends in 2016 by more than 15%. Those stocks have better fundamentals than 40 others in the basket.

These are the results...

These S&P 500 Stocks Created The Highest Shareholder Return Over The Past 25 Years

The S&P 500 had total returns of 7.2% a year over the last 25 years. At this rate, the S&P 500 doubled investor wealth every 10 years.

Investors often think of dividend stocks as stodgy slow growers that offer current income but little in the way of capital appreciation. This is often not the case.

In fact, if you look at the top 15 dividend stocks of the past 25 years, you'll see that even the worst of them way outperforms the market.

To find the 15 best-performing dividend stocks of the last 25 years, we reviewed the dividend history of all dividend-paying stocks in the S&P 500. Businesses that paid dividends from 1990 through 2015 without missing more than one year were included as dividend stocks.

Here are the 15 best stocks from the large index with the highest total return of the past 25 years.

10 Dividend Growers Institutional Investors Like

Goldman Sachs is projecting that nearly half of stock returns over the next decade will be from dividends. That's a huge number and based on historically data.

This is certainly good news for dividend investors. Unfortunately the stock market is trading at an elevated price-to-earnings ratio. As a result, total stock market returns are expected to average just 5% a year over the next decade.

If you are looking for more return, you must select the good stocks and eliminate the bad ones. By following the dividend growth rule, dividend growth stocks should perform better than the overall market.

Below are 10 that could fit the dividend growth rule. Which do you like?

10 Top Dividend Growers to consider are....

Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On September 13, 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, 22 stocks, preferred shares or funds go ex dividend - of which 6 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 5.67%. 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
Life Partners Holdings, Inc.	LPHI	41.21M	-	1.39	2.37	9.05%
LS Starrett Co.	SCX	71.46M	-	0.56	0.29	3.81%
Potlatch Corporation	PCH	1.59B	23.79	10.27	2.80	3.16%
Chemung Financial Corp.	CHMG	153.71M	15.28	1.16	3.02	3.15%
Horace Mann Educators Corp.	HMN	1.09B	9.66	0.99	1.06	2.84%
Renasant Corp.	RNST	667.43M	22.42	1.33	4.23	2.57%
Huntington Bancshares	HBAN	7.19B	12.13	1.33	3.80	2.32%
Gulfmark Offshore, Inc.	GLF	1.29B	61.95	1.32	3.20	2.02%
R.G. Barry Corporation	DFZ	217.41M	16.62	2.54	1.48	1.88%
The Men's Wearhouse, Inc.	MW	1.96B	14.52	1.81	0.78	1.86%
Harley-Davidson, Inc.	HOG	14.13B	20.44	5.01	2.44	1.33%
Ecolab Inc.	ECL	28.97B	34.44	4.35	2.36	0.96%
Air Lease Corporation	AL	2.76B	17.80	1.14	3.61	0.37%