12 Dividend Income Growth Stocks Below Book Value

Dividend growth stocks below book value originally published at long-term-investments.blogspot.com. How would it be if you purchase a dollar for 50 cents? I believe it would a great deal but who gives you values for less than the price you pay?

For sure, nobody will gift you something on the market and there is definitely no free lunch. That’s a major rule I’ve learned from my years as a professional investor. But sometimes these are good companies with price to book ratios below the current market valuation. Theoretically, you get more values for each dollar but does it helps you if the corporate produces losses and decreases the book value year for year? I don’t think so. But the answer is always hidden.

Today I would like to present you dividend growth stocks that have hiked their payments uninterrupted over more than five years and have a price-to-book ratio below one at the same time. The financial industry is one of the biggest contributors to the screening results. Are there real values for investors?

Only 12 corporate stocks in total fulfilled these two criteria of which four yield over three percent and six of them have a current buy or better rating.

12 Safe Dividend Contenders With Low P/E Multiples

Dividend Contenders with low P/E and beta ratios originally published at "long-term-investments.blogspot.com". Safety and growth is a good combination but hard to find. 

Safe stocks don’t exist because with your shares you are a part of the business and must carry all fluctuations. But there are more or less risky businesses.

Growth is your wealth driver. A growing business is a good business and makes you richer when your company employs more people and generates higher sales and incomes over a couple of years. 

In order to realize a return you must care about the current price ratios. The price you pay for growth should be acceptable in order to make a good return. Normally you have to pay a higher P/E with bigger growth expectations.

Today I try to combine all three factors: Growth, Bargains and Safeness. I like to screen dividend growth stocks with 10 to 25 years of consecutive dividend growth by low P/E and beta ratios: The P/E should be under 15 and the beta ratio must below 0.5.

Twelve stocks fulfilled the mentioned criteria of which three have a buy or better rating. Insurer, banks and telecom stocks are main contributors to the screen. Somehow strange - How banks fundamentals have changed over the recent years. They show low debt figures and good dividends but the banks in my screen are very low capitalized and have a greater risk.

Best Dividend Paying Ex-Dividend Shares On February 14, 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 February 15, 2013. In total, 13 stocks and preferred shares go ex dividend - of which 3 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 2.40%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
LTC Properties Inc.	LTC	1.17B	24.37	2.51	12.71	4.86%
STMicroelectronics NV	STM	7.83B	-	1.23	0.92	3.95%
Landmark Bancorp Inc.	LARK	59.60M	9.91	0.95	2.66	3.72%
Maxim Integrated Products Inc.	MXIM	9.51B	28.76	3.68	3.95	2.95%
Applied Materials Inc.	AMAT	16.52B	229.50	2.28	1.89	2.61%
Target Corp.	TGT	40.80B	13.90	2.51	0.57	2.30%
Marathon Oil Corporation	MRO	24.70B	13.71	-	1.56	1.95%
Energizer Holdings Inc.	ENR	5.53B	14.50	2.52	1.21	1.79%
Marathon Petroleum Corporation	MPC	27.70B	8.23	2.41	0.34	1.71%
Moody's Corp.	MCO	10.43B	15.39	33.42	3.82	1.71%
Schlumberger Limited	SLB	104.44B	19.37	3.01	2.47	1.59%
Walter Energy, Inc.	WLT	2.33B	-	2.04	0.89	1.34%
Plantronics, Inc.	PLT	1.73B	17.11	2.91	2.36	0.98%

12 Dividend Contenders Below Book Value To Consider

Cheap Dividend Contenders In Terms Of Reproduction Value Researched By “long-term-investments.blogspot.com”. Dividend Contenders are stocks with a history of rising dividends of more than 10 years in a row but less than 25. Exactly 178 companies fulfilled these growth criteria but many are highly priced.

In order to find some opportunities, I screened all Dividend Contenders with a very low price to book ratio. Especially in times of heavy crises, the reproduction value or the market value of properties, machines and equipments is an award lowmark for investors. If the price of the whole company falls below the value of the equity, you should get real bargains from the value site. 12 Dividend Contenders have a current P/B ratio of less than one. Two of them are high-yields and eight are recommended to buy.

Ex-Dividend Date Reminder For February 17, 2012

Here is a current overview of best yielding stocks that have their ex-dividend date on the next trading day. If your broker settles your trade today, you will receive the next dividend. A full list of all stocks with ex-dividend date can be found here: Ex-Dividend Stocks February 17, 2012. In total, 12 stocks and preferred shares go ex-dividend of which 8 yielding above 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 3.97 percent.