These 5 Stocks Give Over 15% Return To Shareholders

Now let's apply those lessons to 2017, and highlight five that should do even better (17%+ returns) this year (and likely beyond).

Remember, projecting our returns from any given stock is simple. We simply add together the three ways it can pay us:

Its current dividend. A future dividend hike. Share repurchases. It also helps if the stock is inexpensive, as buybacks deliver more bang for management's buck. So let's stick with stocks that are dirt-cheap, trading for 10-times free cash flow (FCF) or less for this exercise.

Here's an example of a stock ready to return 17% or more over the next year.

20 Undervalued Dividend-Paying Stocks

If you are concerned that current valuations may cast a shadow over the future returns of equity-income strategies, you're not alone. There's no telling how long dividend stocks' recent run of outperformance will continue.

But there are plenty of reasons to think that investing in steady dividend-paying stocks, particularly high-quality stocks that are healthy enough to not only sustain but possibly even increase their dividend, won't go out of style completely. 

Investors still have need for income, and although interest rates are likely to rise, they are still very low by historical standards and are not expected to shoot up dramatically anytime soon.

To get a better sense of how over- or undervalued dividend-paying stocks are today, we run a screen with selection of dividend yield, P/E and growth and filtered those stocks with attractive ratios in most of the areas.

Here are the top results from our screen...

10 Cheap Dividend Growth Stocks Below $20 Price

Contrary to popular belief, not all dividend stocks are priced at double- and triple-digit levels. 

Some of them are downright cheap stocks, with prices below $20 per share, allowing income-seeking investors to own a round lot of them for not a lot of money.

Better still, while theoretically it shouldn’t matter, in reality, cheap stocks don’t face the eventual psychological hurdle of being valued at eye-popping prices that even cause veteran investors to balk.

With that in mind, here’s a closer look at nine attractive but cheap dividend stocks — each priced at less than $20 per share — that also offer nice to downright outstanding yields.

Each member of the attached stock list has grown dividends over more than 5 consecutive years while the market exceed 2 billion. More important is the valuation. The forward P/E is also under 15.

Only 10 stocks have a price tag below USD 20 per share.

These are the results...

18 Fast Growing Dividend Jewels You Should Consider

The Brexit dominates the market in several ways. He creates massive uncertainty, especially within the foreign exchange market which affects so many businesses around the world. 

The news is that those effects are limited. The big cake is still in America and the rest of the world. That’s also one reason why I want to screen the domestic market by stocks which are less affected by currency fluctuations. 

I like high margin companies that are big enough to finance its own growth without taking debt or issuing shares.

Finally, shareholders should get a decent amount of money as compensation for their risk and rental for their money. 

Today’s stock market screen tries to capture this issue in a special way. 

Here are my criteria: 

- Market Capitalization over USD 2 Billion
- Positive Dividend Yield 
- EPS to Grow By More Than 10% for The Next Half Decade 
- Debt/Equity Under 0.5 
- Operating Margin over 15% 
- Positive Return on Assets 
- Forward P/E under 15 

Exactly eighteen stocks fulfilled the above mentioned criteria of which five paying dividends over 3 percent. 

16 of the results are currently recommended to buy. 

These are my five favorites from the screening results...

Stocks With Fastest Dividend Growth In April 2012

Shares With Highest Dividend Growth by Dividend Yield – Stock, Capital, Investment. Here is a current sheet of companies with fastest dividend growth compared to the previous dividend declaration. The dividend growth is often a good indicator for the financial health of a stock. Companies with a strong increase in dividends judge the future of their company rosy and they want to give money back to shareholders that they don’t need for their business.

In total, 49 companies announced a dividend growth of more than 10 percent within the recent month. The average dividend yield of the fastest dividend growth stocks from last month amounts to 3.37 percent and the dividend growth is 70.76 percent.

The Best Dividend Stock Buys Of Michael Price (MFP Investors)

Michael F. Price - MFP Investors Q4/2011 Fund Investing Strategies By Dividend Yield – Stock Capital, Investment. Here is a current update of the best yielding stocks that Michael Price recently bought for his fund MFP Investors. In total, he bought 27 stocks of which 15 pay dividends and 6 yielding over 3 percent. His highest yielding buy was Courier Corporation (CRRC) with a yield of 7.63 percent. CRRC impacted the portfolio by 0.01 percent and was added by 16.67 percent over the recent quarter.

John W. Rogers - Ariel Appreciation Q4-2011 Fund Portfolio

John W. Rogers - Ariel Appreciation Q4-2011 Fund Investing Strategies By Dividend Yield – Stock Capital, Investment. Here is a current portfolio update of John W. Rogers - Ariel Appreciation - portfolio movements as of Q4/2011 (December 31, 2011). In total, he has 38 stocks with a total portfolio worth of USD 1,238,963,000.

John W. Rogers fund positions as of Q4/2011 with actual share movements:

Sym - Stock	Portfolio Weight	Recent activity	Reported Price*
CBS - CBS Corp.	4.5	Reduce 16.38%	$27.14
VIA.B - Viacom Inc.	4.45	0	$45.41
AFL - AFLAC Inc.	4.29	0	$43.26
IPG - Interpublic Group	4.21	0	$9.73
DELL - Dell Inc.	3.95	0	$14.63
NTRS - Northern Trust Corp.	3.86	0	$39.66
LAZ - Lazard Ltd.	3.73	Add 5.48%	$26.11
MHK - Mohawk Industries	3.45	Reduce 7.72%	$59.85
JLL - Jones Lang Lasalle Inc.	3.29	0	$61.26
CCL - Carnival Corp.	3.25	0	$32.64
OMC - Omnicom Group	3.25	Reduce 5.43%	$44.58
BEN - Franklin Resources	3.11	Add 9.55%	$96.06
CHK - Chesapeake Energy	2.84	Add 21.89%	$22.29
FAF - First Amer'n Corp.	2.8	Add 28.36%	$12.67
ZMH - Zimmer Holdings	2.79	Reduce 24.14%	$53.42
TMO - Thermo Fisher Scientific	2.79	0	$44.97
JNS - Janus Capital Group	2.78	Add 21.39%	$6.31
IGT - International Game Technology	2.72	Reduce 6.87%	$17.20
STJ - St Jude Medical	2.67	Add 22.50%	$34.30
GCI - Gannett Co.	2.54	Reduce 26.06%	$13.37
SJM - Smucker (J.M.)	2.43	Reduce 10.64%	$78.17
SWK - Stanley Black & Decker Inc.	2.4	0	$67.60
BX - The Blackstone Group	2.4	Add 60.47%	$14.01
KKR - KKR & Co. L.P.	2.33	Add 65.00%	$12.83
ACN - Accenture	2.32	Reduce 17.15%	$53.23
DV - DeVRY Inc.	2.19	Add 57.19%	$38.46
MSG - Madison Square Garden Inc.	2.18	0	$28.64
ITW - Illinois Tool Works	2.03	0	$46.71
CBG - CBRE Group	2.03	0	$15.22
CYN - City National Corp.	1.81	Reduce 7.61%	$44.18
TROW - T. Rowe Price Group	1.6	Reduce 23.90%	$56.95
BIO - Bio-Rad Laboratories Inc.	1.56	0	$96.04
JWN - Nordstrom	1.5	Reduce 27.00%	$49.71
HSP - Hospira Inc.	1.44	Add 21.60%	$30.37
BID - Sotheby's	1.43	Add 50.33%	$28.53
NWL - Newell Rubbermaid Co.	1.41	0	$16.15
BAX - Baxter International Inc.	0.99	Reduce 58.18%	$49.48
MAT - Mattel Inc.	0.7	Reduce 45.23%	$27.76

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CBS, VIA.B, AFL, IPG, DELL, NTRS, LAZ, MHK, JLL, CCL, OMC, BEN, CHK, FAF, ZHM, TMO, JNS, IGT, STJ, GCI, SJM, SWK, BX, KKR, CAN, DV, MSG, ITW, CBG, CYN, TROW, BIO, JWN, HSP, BID, NWL, BAX, MAT