14 Dividend Paying Stocks With Low P/E's And High Returns On Invested Capital

I built a screen that I would like to share that acts as a starting point in identifying quality stocks that have great historical returns on invested capital and relatively low current valuations.

Only companies that had a market cap over $1 billion and headquarters located in the U.S. were included.

I used EBIT as the earnings metric, so it is not a perfect after-tax return on invested capital. I calculated invested capital two ways, one with goodwill, and one without goodwill.

In addition, each of stocks has a low forwad P/E, a positive dividend yield and payout ratios below 52 percent. The return on assets is between 7.50% and  32.70%.

14 stocks fulfilled my critera.

These are the results...

14 Dividend Paying Stocks With Low P/E's
And High Returns On Invested Capital
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Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On August 30, 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, 18 stocks go ex dividend - of which 4 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 2.21%. 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
Six Flags Entertainment	SIX	3.23B	10.16	8.01	2.99	5.33%
Orchids Paper Products Company	TIS	216.68M	20.58	2.68	2.05	5.04%
Greenhill & Co., Inc.	GHL	1.46B	27.97	5.71	4.55	3.68%
Arthur J Gallagher & Co.	AJG	5.31B	23.19	3.12	1.91	3.35%
Avery Dennison Corporation	AVY	4.30B	21.00	2.84	0.71	2.68%
Suncor Energy Inc.	SU	52.39B	20.23	1.34	1.41	2.24%
QUALCOMM Incorporated	QCOM	114.95B	17.70	3.06	4.94	2.10%
Interval Leisure Group, Inc.	IILG	1.25B	20.56	4.01	2.56	2.02%
Xylem Inc.	XYL	4.54B	19.61	2.21	1.22	1.92%
Forrester Research Inc.	FORR	720.58M	33.90	3.31	2.46	1.77%
Computer Sciences Corporation	CSC	7.49B	12.53	2.42	0.51	1.60%
Schlumberger Limited	SLB	109.72B	17.70	2.97	2.45	1.51%
Joy Global, Inc.	JOY	5.20B	7.17	1.81	0.95	1.43%
HSN, Inc.	HSNI	2.94B	20.74	6.30	0.88	1.31%
Imperial Oil Ltd.	IMO	36.23B	11.77	2.17	1.18	1.10%
Alliant Techsystems Inc.	ATK	3.13B	11.66	2.01	0.72	1.06%
Halliburton Company	HAL	45.23B	24.95	2.95	1.58	1.02%
Itau Unibanco Holding S.A.	ITUB	59.99B	9.08	1.57	2.03	0.66%

Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On June 03, 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 03, 2013. In total, 28 stocks and preferred shares go ex dividend - of which 10 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 3.12%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
France Telecom	FTE	27.76B	27.58	0.88	0.49	14.31%
Enerplus Corporation	ERF	3.14B	-	1.01	2.72	6.82%
Cedar Fair, L.P.	FUN	2.33B	23.28	14.65	2.18	5.97%
Ventas, Inc.	VTR	21.34B	57.31	2.33	8.20	3.68%
Hancock Holding Co.	HBHC	2.45B	13.77	0.99	3.25	3.32%
Avery Dennison Corporation	AVY	4.38B	23.79	2.80	0.72	2.64%
Stanley Black & Decker, Inc.	SWK	12.99B	31.22	1.94	1.27	2.44%
QUALCOMM Incorporated	QCOM	110.89B	18.08	2.95	5.12	2.18%
Brown-Forman Corporation	BF-B	15.15B	26.27	9.97	5.43	1.97%
Flowers Foods, Inc.	FLO	4.65B	22.27	4.92	1.42	1.90%
Nielsen Holdings N.V.	NLSN	12.67B	43.45	2.45	2.24	1.89%
Schlumberger Limited	SLB	99.46B	18.52	2.79	2.31	1.67%
Everest Re Group Ltd.	RE	6.48B	7.41	0.95	1.29	1.48%
HSN, Inc.	HSNI	3.04B	23.03	6.47	0.92	1.27%
Halliburton Company	HAL	39.73B	20.50	2.53	1.39	1.17%
Southwest Airlines Co.	LUV	10.31B	27.98	1.50	0.60	1.12%
Compuware Corporation	CPWR	2.41B	34.48	2.30	2.49	1.10%
Itau Unibanco Holding S.A.	ITUB	76.58B	10.96	1.84	2.62	0.59%

Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On March 04, 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 March 04, 2013. In total, 15 stocks and preferred shares go ex dividend - of which 2 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 2.62%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
Royce Focus Trust, Inc.	FUND	144.77M	-	0.97	58.61	9.80%
Tronox Incorporated	TROX	2.33B	1.13	0.82	1.34	4.87%
Greenhill & Co., Inc.	GHL	1.72B	43.73	6.04	6.04	2.96%
Avery Dennison Corporation	AVY	4.07B	25.06	2.57	0.67	2.64%
Banco Bradesco S.A.	BBD	68.73B	12.14	1.99	3.26	2.45%
Commerce Bancshares, Inc.	CBSH	3.48B	13.09	1.61	5.14	2.36%
Banco Bradesco S.A.	BBDO	66.85B	11.99	1.94	2.56	2.29%
Forrester Research Inc.	FORR	612.36M	20.96	2.07	2.09	2.04%
Nielsen Holdings N.V.	NLSN	12.58B	45.53	2.45	2.24	1.90%
Cooper Tire & Rubber Co.	CTB	1.59B	4.47	2.16	0.38	1.66%
Everest Re Group Ltd.	RE	6.44B	7.94	0.95	1.31	1.54%
Fresh Del Monte Produce Inc.	FDP	1.51B	10.78	0.84	0.44	1.53%
The Cheesecake Factory	CAKE	1.86B	18.14	3.23	1.02	1.39%
HSN, Inc.	HSNI	2.95B	25.00	6.21	0.91	1.35%
Halliburton Company	HAL	38.68B	14.93	2.44	1.36	0.87%