Highest Yielding Dividend Stocks From Nasdaq 100

Did you notice that the Nasdaq hit the 5,000 yesterday? 

Congratulations, what a number. The Nasdaq index compromises many growth stocks, more than the Dow Jones did. 

That's also one of the reasons why the index is well-know for technology and innovation firms. 

But the technology sector isn't particularly known for finding good dividends. Indeed, many of the most exciting technology stocks don't pay a dividend at all.

Assuming they're profitable (an assumption that doesn't always hold), technology companies often funnel their cash back into their business rather than pay shareholders a dividend.

You may also like my articles related to technology dividend stocks. There are a few great ideas in it. Cash, innovations and growth are main topics.

Today I would like to celebrate the 5,000 mark by highlighting some of the highest yielding stocks from the index.

Around half of the index members pay a dividend and of them has a high yield of more than 5 percent. Attached is a list of the highest yielding top 20 stocks from the Nasdaq 100.

Here are my favorites in detail: 

Big Dividend Growth And Share Buybacks: These Are My 5 Top Picks Of The Week

The week comes to an end and I like to show you the latest dividend grower and share buyback companies in this article.

It was also a hard week for short-term orientated investors because volatility rises due to topics like Ebola and a weaker European economy.

The Dow lost 2.73 percent within the past week while the S&P 500 was down 3.12 percent and NASDAQ down 4.44 percent.

You know that I have not sold any of my stockholdings. I'm not a fearful investor who sells his wonderful businesses and cash-in some money, pay taxes and waiting for new opportunities.

You also may like: Yields Of The Dividend Aristocrats - 12 Cheapest Stock Of The Index

I like to make money with stocks by holding them over a decade or more. Only over a long period of time, companies can create value.

I keep my eyes on new targets which were very rare in the past because American stocks are some of the most expensive companies in the whole world but they offer also the biggest insurance for investors. 

The Dollar is a safe heaven and he still dominates the world. I keep my money into USD.

One-Week Performance Major Indices (Click to enlarge)

Within the past week, only one big company - Kimberly-Clark, announced a 2 billion buyback program. The next biggest program came from Liberty Interactive.

On the dividend growth side, twelve companies raised dividend payments. The biggest companies here were Kraft Foods and Plains All American Pipeline.

Many oil- and gas pipeline companies are part of the dividend growers list. Those companies have experienced a big boom by creating energy infratructure but they have also high debt figures, compareable with REITs or Telecoms.

Below are my five favorites from the week. I hope you like my selection. I personally own only KFT and KMB, both are consumer giants.

Compared to the dividend growth results of the past week, the numer of stocks is still weak.

My 5 Favorite Dividend Growth And Share Buybacker of the Week are...

6 Stocks With New Billion Share Buyback Announcements

I love dividends, growth and also share buybacks. 

Good companies pay half of its net income via dividends to shareholders and the second half should be invested in own shares in order to increase the share of all investors of the company. It's a very tax-efficent way to create shareholder value if the corporate don't overpay it's own intrinsic value.

Today would like to present you six of the latest stocks with over a billion in refreshed or new share buyback programs. The amounts are limited for the next five years or so.

Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On October 09, 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, 33 stocks go ex dividend - of which 10 yield more than 3 percent. 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
MFA Financial, Inc.	MFA	2.72B	9.52	0.86	5.51	11.70%
Linn Energy, LLC	LINE	6.23B	-	1.47	3.41	11.54%
Sasol Ltd.	SSL	29.88B	11.40	1.98	1.64	4.61%
Kraft Foods Group, Inc.	KRFT	31.99B	17.37	7.44	1.74	3.90%
Sovran Self Storage Inc.	SSS	2.35B	38.31	2.94	9.18	2.82%
General Dynamics Corp.	GD	30.26B	-	2.57	0.97	2.60%
Accenture plc	ACN	46.47B	14.86	9.37	1.53	2.57%
Aviva plc	AV	20.04B	-	1.29	0.36	2.57%
Marsh & McLennan Companies	MMC	23.68B	18.44	3.49	1.96	2.33%
Waddell & Reed Financial Inc.	WDR	4.51B	21.44	8.01	3.62	2.13%
Yum! Brands, Inc.	YUM	32.43B	23.42	14.58	2.46	2.07%
Smith & Nephew plc	SNN	11.11B	20.25	2.85	2.66	1.69%
WPP plc	WPPGY	25.41B	20.36	2.04	1.48	1.64%
Patterson Companies Inc.	PDCO	4.03B	19.66	2.89	1.11	1.60%
Masco Corporation	MAS	7.15B	93.09	20.08	0.91	1.46%
Kyocera Corp.	KYO	36.17B	42.68	1.00	2.68	1.36%
Coty Inc.	COTY	6.13B	38.10	4.10	1.32	1.25%
CLARCOR Inc.	CLC	2.76B	28.39	2.83	2.45	1.23%
Morningstar Inc.	MORN	3.56B	31.42	4.97	5.26	0.65%
Roper Industries Inc.	ROP	12.88B	26.16	3.31	4.18	0.51%

13 Stocks With Fresh New Dividend Hikes

Stocks with dividend hikes from last week originally published at long-term-investments.blogspot.com. 13 stocks and 4 funds announced a dividend hike within the recent week.

I’ve attached a list with all stocks and included a few fundamentals for you. So it would be easier to compare the current valuation.

Two High-Yields are part of the results but they are both very small capitalized. The biggest stocks with the most recent dividend growth are Accenture and Phillips 66. Only four companies have a P/E of less than 15. The market gets more and more expensive, a fact that is also reasonable to the low interest policy of Bernanke.

Warren Buffett’s Latest Stock Picks And His Biggest Portfolio Holdings

Warren Buffett’s latest dividend stock picks and his big portfolio picture originally published at long-term-investments.blogspot.com. 

Everybody loves Warren Buffett and when he releases his portfolio statements, all investors jump on this paper and try to figure out what he is doing.

In this article I will summarize the latest stock buys and sells of Warren Buffett's Bershire Hathaway and his latest portfolio overview.

Within the recent quarter, Warren made only 13 trades of which nine come from the long side. He bought two new companies and increased seven additional stock holdings in his portfolio. The new stocks were Dish Network and Suncor Energy.

The only stake he sold completely was the newspaper publisher Gannett.  Kraft Foods, Moody’s and Mondelez were reduced within the recent quarter.

Nothing changed much in Warren's Portfolio

In total, Warren did not change much. The stock with the highest influence to his portfolio pocket change was the bank U.S. Bancorp. The Oracle of Omaha increased the position by 27.37 percent which resulted in an portfolio impact of 0.69 percent.

You can find a full list of his latest transactions below. Ten of his 13 latest stock moves pay dividends and the yields are between 0.33 and 3.84.

Warren Buffett concentrates money on big dividend companies

Back to Warren’s biggest portfolio positions. Warren concentrates most of his wealth on four assets: Wells Fargo, Coca Cola, IBM and American Express. These fantastic four represent around 67 percent of his full portfolio value. On the attached list, you can see more details about his 20 biggest stock positions. Financial Services, Consumer defensive stocks and technology are the biggest sector in which Warren Buffett loves to invest.

Dodge & Cox's Latest Dividend Stock Buys And Income Holdings

Dodge & Cox fund investing strategies originally published at long-term-investments.blogspot.com. The Dodge & Cox fund is a real equity based investment vehicle with around USD 81.3 billion in assets under management.

The investment firm was founded in 1930, by Van Duyn Dodge and E. Morris Cox. With this long history in background, there is also a long performance review available. 

Over the recent years, the fund’s performance suffered a bit. There was a small underperformance of 2.7 percent over the recent three years and 9.2 percent over the past five years. The excess gain to the S&P 500 over the longer term was also small with up to 2.9 percent at the peak (15 years).

They own in total 163 companies of which two were recently new in the fund. Kraft Foods Group and Abbvie are the two names.

Dodge & Cox have a real focus on financial, healthcare and technology stocks. More than half of their funds (59.9 percent) are invested in these three stock categories. The biggest impact on the buy side had the technology sector which is now net 0.7 percentage points bigger compared to the previous quarter.

Dodge & Cox have a dividend focus and they like large capitalized stocks. From their 20 biggest stock buys and sells in Q1/13 pay 17 a solid dividend and 17 have a valuation over USD 10 billion. Hewlett Packard is the biggest holding, worth around USD 4 billion. The latest big stock increases are up 26.03 percent year-to-date.

Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On June 26, 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 26, 2013. In total, 117 stocks and preferred shares go ex dividend - of which 59 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 4.64%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce	CM	28.82B	9.35	1.88	2.54	5.25%
TransCanada Corp.	TRP	30.19B	22.74	1.96	3.80	4.23%
The Dow Chemical Company	DOW	38.21B	39.94	2.25	0.68	3.96%
Kraft Foods Group, Inc.	KRFT	31.86B	23.50	8.52	1.73	3.72%
Nucor Corporation	NUE	13.74B	31.03	1.82	0.73	3.41%
Avalonbay Communities Inc.	AVB	15.98B	62.40	1.85	14.47	3.21%
Staples, Inc.	SPLS	10.10B	-	1.66	0.42	3.12%
Edison International	EIX	15.05B	9.64	1.58	1.25	2.92%
Xerox Corp.	XRX	10.97B	9.73	0.95	0.49	2.57%
Wipro Ltd.	WIT	19.38B	18.53	3.96	3.07	2.56%
Deere & Company	DE	31.53B	9.96	3.81	0.84	2.52%
Agrium Inc.	AGU	12.58B	8.86	1.81	0.77	2.37%
Illinois Tool Works Inc.	ITW	30.33B	12.57	2.95	1.74	2.26%
St. Jude Medical Inc.	STJ	12.79B	18.01	3.42	2.35	2.23%
Western Digital Corp.	WDC	13.99B	7.43	1.66	0.85	1.71%
Stryker Corp.	SYK	24.59B	19.80	2.91	2.83	1.64%
Humana Inc.	HUM	13.44B	9.47	1.47	0.34	1.28%
Canadian Pacific Railway Limited	CP	20.36B	38.05	3.80	3.66	1.18%
Zimmer Holdings, Inc.	ZMH	12.70B	17.18	2.22	2.84	1.06%
Danaher Corp.	DHR	42.67B	17.72	2.17	2.32	0.16%