My Favorite Dividend Growth Stocks With Yields Over 4%

Finding a quality dividend stock these days trading at an attractive value and yielding more than 4% isn't easy.

With interest rates remaining low, investors have piled into dividend payers looking for a good yield, causing stock prices to rise and yields to fall.

There are still a few stocks out there worth taking a look at, though. Here are two stocks to buy with dividends yielding more than 4%.

Here are my favorites...

Is Traditional Apparel Retailing A Buying Opportunity?

Given the recent negative performance of many apparel retailers and some calls that traditional apparel retailing is dead, we are addressing our thoughts on these issues and discussing which subsectors and companies we see as positioned best for long-term success. 

In our opinion, there has been a secular shift in apparel retailing that is a persistent force. 

We believe the current trend toward value over brand is here to stay. Unless a product can perform notably better than the competition (keep you warmer, keep you drier, perform better in athletic situations), consumers appear unwilling to pay a premium simply to own a brand. 

We also think that shifts in wallet share are here to stay, with experience (travel, restaurants) valued over apparel, and other costs--including healthcare, education, and housing--rising in share. 

Finally, we think the shift in distribution channel toward digital will persist. 

As a result, we agree that apparel retail growth is not likely to return to historical levels. Having acknowledged that, we do believe that we are at a low point in the apparel retail cycle and there is future upside.

We do not believe brick-and-mortar apparel retailing is dead; however, it will look much different in the future. We think there is a place for stores where consumers can touch fabrics, try sizes, and see fit. 

However, the apparel industry has experienced much self-inflicted near-term malaise. Many management teams have been overly optimistic regarding inventory levels and have not converted to more modern, responsive supply chains. 

This has resulted in a highly promotional retail environment that has forced even well-run companies to discount to remain competitive. Also, we think we are nearing the end of the athleisure fashion trend. 

With consumers having enough skinny and yoga pants to clothe themselves for a while and no new fashion must-haves, nothing is driving discretionary purchases.

Check out a summary of the big fishes in traditional retailing:

The Best Dividend Ideas From The Buyback Achievers Index

There are a number of ways in which a company can return wealth to its shareholders. 

Although stock price appreciation and dividends are the two most common ways of doing this, there are other useful, and often overlooked, ways for companies to share their wealth with investors: Dividends and share buybacks. 

Buybacks is one way to build values for investors. It's a kind of income usage. Buying back own shares increases future eps when the net income is constant.

Today I would like to introduce a number of stocks with interesting fundamentals and price ratios that have bought own shares in a significant amount back.

Each of the attached stocks have fulfilled all of the following criteria:

- Share reduction over the past year over 5%
- Forward P/E under 15
- Debt-to-equity under 1
- Positive ROA
- EPS growth for the next five years over 5%
- Dividend yield at least 2%

Here are the results...

20 Stocks With A Free Cashflow Inital Yield Over 5%

A profitable company is solid and a good investment if it growth and scales its profits. That's a fact. 

But often we see earnings that are no earnings. The cash flow is often higher or lower and the need for capital expenditures makes it more complicated to evaluate the true earnings for return orientated investors.

A High free cash flow can be used for so many interesting things like organic growth, merger and acquisitions or even buybacks and special dividends.

Attached I've compiled a few stocks that offer a free cash flow yield over 5 percent. That’s a good initial yield in my view.

Here are my favorite results...

Oversold Dividend Growth Stocks As Buying Opportunity? Check out These 11 Stocks

A lot of people like to “cheer” for higher prices in the short-term. Yet for the long-term net buyer, it’s lower prices that can provide the ultimate benefit.

This allows you to purchase more shares, which creates more income and a greater underlying earnings claim. Personally when I see lower prices, that’s when I tend to get more interested.

It's a first step to discover those stocks that might get cheaper but you need to discover carefully if there is a reason for the cheapness.

Attached you will find a selection of stocks from the dividend growth space that become cheaper over the recent year.

Here are the stocks I'm talking from...

10 Dividend Paying Bargains With High Return On Investment Promise

Dividend stocks have historically outperformed no dividend stocks over long periods of time. 


Good dividend stocks can help generate outperformance for investors thanks to their strong business models and rising dividend payouts over time.

Attached you will find a couple of stocks that look attractively due to low price multiples and high dividend payments. Huge dividend payments are essential for income investors who look for a fast pay back of their investment.

They hedge you against inflation and give you a premium for your risk and if you don't tend to overpay your stock, you catch them for a great initial yield. Initial yield is also an expression of a low valuation.

If the growth perspectives are still strong for the company, you have a realistic chance of a good total return. 

Here is what I'm talking about...

14 High Yielding Dividend Investments Qualified As Safe Heaven

With the S&P 500 down nearly 7% in the last three weeks alone, you can’t be blamed for wanting to throw up your hands and sell all your stocks. That's a stupid idea in my view.

You need to stay disciplined. If you are a long-term investor, sell-offs shouldn't care you because you have studied the long-term fundamentals and persectives of your investment and nothing chageged, you don't need to act.

If you have a long time horizon and you mainly hold dividend-paying US companies your are on the smartest side of the market. Stocks are risky, for sure but long-term dividend growth stocks offer a smaller risk than high leveradged oil drilling companies.

Attached you will find a few Dividend Growth Stocks that might filfill the needs of high-quality dividend investing and also might be hold this rating for years to come.

These are 14 of the results...

12 Value Stocks With Dividend Yields Over 3% To Consider Now!

There are plenty of stocks yielding 3% or more outside of traditional yield sectors like telecoms and utilities. Investors generally have to venture into out-of-favor industries like autos, retailing, and manufacturing to get those dividends.

Attached you can find a selection of interesting value stocks that caught my attention within recent weeks due to falling stock prices. 

Some of the results lost half of their market value in 2015. Valuations of the stocks look normal to cheap right now but if it is cheap for a reason, each investor must create his own opinion.

Which sectors or stocks are on your watchlist? Please let me know your thoughts by leaving a comment. Thank you.

Here are the results...

13 Dividend Income Stocks On Which Dividend Re-Investing Works (Value At Deep Discounts)

My personal portfolio goal is to create an income stream from dividends paid out by low risk, financially strong (high-quality) companies. Reinvesting your portfolio income is also an essential part for your financial freedom.

Reinvesting your dividends received from high-quality dividend growth stocks is a great, relatively conservative and proven way to build wealth over the long term.

This is especially true and appropriate for investors in the accumulation phase that are planning for future retirement. Accumulating additional shares of dividend growth stocks can, and will, provide an increasing and eventually larger stream of income available at retirement when income is needed most.

Attached you can find a list of stocks that might be interesting for long-term investors who like to reinvest their dividends in their portfolio while looking at raising dividends.

My main focus was on valuation. If you buy a stock at a moderate valuation, your initial yield should help you to get a solid starting yield.

Every stock on the attached list has a dividend yield of more than 3 percent. Debt-to-equity ratio is under 1, EPS growth for the next five years over 5% and the forward P/E under 15

As a result, 13 stocks remained on my screen. Some of them might also be interesting. It's a first step for further research but good to find value stocks with a decent income as inflation hedge.

Here are 13 top stocks for re-investing...

7 Big Dividend Stocks To Invest During Holiday Season

While many are getting ready for an end-of-year spending bonanza, putting together shopping lists and wish lists and making travel plans, investors are on the lookout for moneymaking opportunities. With the holiday season nigh and a holiday-fueled boost of spending perhaps headed their way.

I call this seasonally investing. Black Friday, Christmas, summer...each event has its own kings to observe.

Not surprisingly, retail stocks can be big performers during the Christmas season. According to Forbes, stocks that perform well during the holiday season range from big box retailers like Target and Wal-Mart to specialized retailers like Coach.

Additionally, with the prevalence of online shopping and convenience of e-commerce options, air, freight and ground shipping surge during the holidays, and can provide solid returns for investors who already own those stocks. UPS or Fedex, the Warren Buffet investment target, are two well knows companies from this field.

Companies such as American Express and PayPal are also big benefiters during the holiday season. While credit cards are a common method of payment at retail establishments, many shoppers opt for PayPal for e-commerce transactions. 

Credit card use tends to increase as the economy improves, because Americans begin to feel more comfortable with debt. If you previously purchased this type of stock at a lower rate, you may see some healthy returns due to holiday performance.

Attached are seven companies worth considering right now. They have a great dividend yield, solid till high earnings growth forecasts and a moderate forward P/E, which is one of the most important criteria. You can only pay high multiples when a company has a high change of structural growth.

Here are the 7 dividend plays to watch...

5 High Yielding S&P 500 Stocks With A Very Predictable Business

Who don't like stocks with recurring income? For sure, I do. There are many stocks that are deeply woven with the economy and their business model growth with the economy when it enlarges.

In reality, it isn't easy to find those stocks. At the first sight, there are many companies that seem to fill the predictable business but in fact, they are driving and growing a business which is hanging on a thread.

What a company need is to have an inimitable business. I'm not talking about low hanging fruit business. China could faster imitate this kind of business. Data storage or harware are such examples.

Today I like to introduce 5 companies that might have a deeper integrated business with a predictable income. I used the gurufocus predictable companies’ screener for my work. Attached are the 5 top picks that earned the highest rating on the database. 

These are my results. Which do you like?

19 Top Yielding And Undervalued Stocks With A Predictable Business

Undervalued stocks with a predictable business originally published at long-term-investments.blogspot.com. Today I would highlight you some of the top results from the gurufocus undervalued predictable screener. It’s a nice tool in my view to get fresh new investment ideas for long-term orientated dividend growth and value seeking investors as well.

The screener plotted 77 results. You can find a list of the top yielding stocks below. Only nineteen stocks have a current yield over 2 percent; thirteen got a buy or better rating.

Next Week's 20 Top Yielding Ex-Dividend Shares

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, 201 stocks go ex dividend - of which 79 yield more than 3 percent. Here is a full list of all stocks with ex-dividend date within the next 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
Altria Group Inc.	MO	68.87B	15.71	19.33	2.83	5.58%
BCE, Inc.	BCE	33.12B	14.47	3.04	1.74	5.18%
Encana Corporation	ECA	12.88B	-	2.43	2.27	4.57%
Williams Companies, Inc.	WMB	23.98B	37.76	5.11	3.33	4.19%
Shaw Communications, Inc.	SJR	10.45B	14.64	2.79	2.16	4.17%
DTE Energy Co.	DTE	11.41B	16.19	1.51	1.23	4.00%
Rogers Communications Inc.	RCI	21.29B	12.30	5.17	1.77	3.99%
Merck & Co. Inc.	MRK	142.94B	28.27	3.01	3.18	3.62%
Public Storage	PSA	26.26B	34.23	5.08	13.91	3.27%
Cenovus Energy Inc.	CVE	22.45B	45.69	2.34	1.40	3.10%
The Coca-Cola Company	KO	170.50B	20.29	5.29	3.58	2.92%
NYSE Euronext, Inc.	NYX	10.17B	23.52	1.66	2.70	2.87%
Western Union Co.	WU	10.04B	11.43	10.81	1.81	2.77%
Kohl's Corp.	KSS	11.53B	12.27	1.90	0.60	2.67%
Hewlett-Packard Company	HPQ	43.25B	-	1.76	0.38	2.59%
Automatic Data Processing, Inc.	ADP	35.29B	26.12	5.70	3.12	2.38%
Macy's, Inc.	M	17.24B	13.07	2.94	0.62	2.22%
Motorola Solutions, Inc.	MSI	15.22B	16.09	5.45	1.75	2.20%
T. Rowe Price Group, Inc.	TROW	18.26B	19.38	4.24	5.66	2.15%
Fidelity National Information Services	FIS	13.08B	25.20	1.98	2.21	1.95%

Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On September 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, 24 stocks go ex dividend - of which 10 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 4.85%. 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
Calamos Convertible & High Income Fund	CHY	879.48M	7.26	0.90	11.54	8.37%
Triangle Capital Corporation	TCAP	812.21M	11.20	1.88	8.04	7.33%
Ameren Corporation	AEE	7.97B	-	1.25	1.25	4.87%
Compuware Corporation	CPWR	2.31B	-	2.31	2.45	4.62%
Gold Resource Corp	GORO	432.04M	20.27	5.07	3.23	4.44%
Univest Corp. of Pennsylvania	UVSP	318.56M	15.14	1.14	4.04	4.19%
Laclede Group Inc.	LG	1.13B	16.07	1.04	1.09	3.93%
Parkway Properties Inc.	PKY	1.10B	-	1.53	4.10	3.73%
Kohl's Corp.	KSS	11.61B	12.36	1.92	0.60	2.65%
Hewlett-Packard Company	HPQ	42.67B	-	1.73	0.38	2.62%
Guess' Inc.	GES	2.61B	16.43	2.43	0.99	2.58%
Rockwood Holdings, Inc.	ROC	4.93B	53.75	3.60	1.49	2.50%
State Auto Financial Corp.	STFC	732.24M	17.90	1.03	0.63	2.21%
Texas Roadhouse Inc.	TXRH	1.74B	22.62	3.05	1.31	1.93%
Amphenol Corporation	APH	12.08B	20.72	4.67	2.71	1.06%
Twenty-First Century Fox, Inc.	FOXA	74.16B	11.02	4.36	2.68	0.78%
Anadarko Petroleum Corporation	APC	46.56B	27.44	2.10	3.29	0.78%
DaVita, Inc.	DVA	11.70B	20.17	2.84	1.16	-