20 Cheapest Dividend Paying Stocks From The Services Sector

Dividend stocks from the services sector with very low forward P/E ratios originally published at "long-term-investments.blogspot.com". Today I like to resume my monthly screen series of the cheapest dividend stocks. Now, the services sector is subject of my analysis. A high dividend is not the solution for a return. The valuation also matters.

Because of the high amount of results, I observed only large cap stocks. The top 20 results are valuated between 9.75 and 13.41. Two of the results have a yield over three percent and 14 are currently recommended to buy.

20 Safest Dividend Income Growth Stocks From The Early Stage

Dividend Challengers with low beta ratios originally published at "long-term-investments.blogspot.com". Some investors are greedy and tend to overlook risks. Others are too anxious and avoid to buy stocks in a larger amount. They could “lose money” or they “can get quick rich” are two psychological factors that investors prevent to make real money with investing. Both are not true and only an illusion.

If you invest money into the stock market and you do it wisely and diversified, you should only count with a return close to the performance of the broad market. I believe that a return of 8 percent is realistic and good enough to beat inflation and grow wealth.

Today I like to screen a category of stocks with a longer dividend growth history, the Dividend Challengers. Those stocks have achieved to raise dividends over a period of more than five years in a row but less than 10 years. 167 companies have fulfilled these dividend growth criteria. 

Below is a list of the safest stocks from the investment category "Challengers". They have a beta ratio of less than 0.5 as well as a market capitalization over USD 2.0 billion.

20 Dividend Challengers are on the list of the safest dividend income growth stocks and six of them have a high yield; Nine are recommended to buy.

13 Highest Dividend Paying Grocery Stores

High dividend paying grocery store stocks originally published at "long-term-investments.blogspot.com". A very interesting investment field is to buy chains. Every company has a chain but I don’t talk about the relationship structures of a company when they buy commodities, manufacture products and sell them in the end to customers. I talk about store systems like McDonalds or Wal-Mart. For sure, these are two very successful chains with strong brands and lot’s of value. Normally a smaller chain has no big values.

To buy a store system is a way to make fast money because a profitable concept can be copied all over the world in a very short time. All you need is the right location to expand your selling space. Think about Starbucks and how they work. The critical point is if your business concept will be accepted by different cultures and if your customers are loyal to your products when competition rises. All will be measured in the ratio “Same Store Sales”. That’s a figure which counts the percentage sales increase of older stores space (because a new opened store has higher sales in the first six month).

Today I like to look at the grocery stores industry. The average dividend yield of grocery stores is 1.46% and the P/E ratio is around 35. Linked is a small list of the highest dividend paying grocery store concepts which you can buy at the market.

13 grocery stores pay dividends of which one is a High-Yield. Six of the results are recommended to buy.

Best Ex-Dividend Stock List For November 13, 2012

The Best Yielding And Biggest Ex-Dividend Stocks Researched By Dividend Yield - Stock, Capital, Investment. 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-dividend date on the next trading day.

A full list of all stocks with ex-dividend date can be found here: Ex-Dividend Stocks on November 13, 2012. In total, 79 stocks and preferred shares go ex-dividend - of which 29 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 3.99%.

Here is the sheet of the best yielding, higher capitalized Ex-Dividend stocks:

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
Exelon Corporation	EXC	26.55B	16.64	1.21	1.25	6.75%
Eli Lilly & Co.	LLY	55.09B	12.90	3.43	2.43	4.13%
E. I. du Pont de Nemours	DD	40.41B	14.54	3.81	1.11	3.97%
International Paper Co.	IP	15.30B	18.94	2.18	0.56	3.44%
Microsoft Corporation	MSFT	242.65B	15.58	3.53	3.35	3.19%
Enbridge Inc.	ENB	31.43B	35.74	3.11	1.34	2.89%
Archer Daniels Midland Company	ADM	16.72B	17.76	0.92	0.19	2.76%
The Blackstone Group	BX	16.57B	90.87	3.09	4.46	2.75%
Teva Pharmaceutical Industries	TEVA	37.90B	16.47	1.52	1.83	2.56%
The Kroger Co.	KR	13.03B	22.87	3.43	0.14	2.43%
Gerdau S.A.	GGB	15.20B	17.68	1.12	0.82	2.23%
Amgen Inc.	AMGN	65.36B	15.24	3.29	3.89	1.69%
Starbucks Corporation	SBUX	38.73B	28.47	7.48	2.91	1.65%
America Movil S.A.B. de C.V.	AMX	90.46B	15.06	4.30	1.62	1.28%
Goldcorp Inc.	GG	35.83B	24.14	1.61	6.50	1.22%
Companhia Brasileira de Distribuicao	CBD	11.81B	26.23	2.96	0.50	0.80%

The Best Stocks With Dividend Growth From Last Week (September 10 – September 16, 2012)

Stocks With Biggest Dividend Hikes From Last Week by Dividend Yield – Stock, Capital, Investment. Here is a current sheet of companies that have announced a dividend increase within the recent week. In total, 11 stocks and funds raised dividends of which 6 have a dividend growth of more than 10 percent. The average dividend growth amounts to 19.85 percent. Exactly four stocks have a yield over three percent and six are currently recommended to buy.