4 Top Turnaround Income Stocks With 5% Plus Yields

When stock prices plummet, dividends are generally the last thing on investors' minds. But what if you have a set of promising stocks that not only generate robust and sustainable dividend yields of over 5%, but are also turnaround stories in the making?

Income-oriented investors know that through time they get one-third to half of all of their total returns via dividends. Companies that will keep raising those dividends for years into the future are the best ways to generate income today and going forward.

With the following four beaten-down picks, you could enjoy not just dividend income growth, but also see your portfolio appreciate in value. As such, these stocks are ideal for a dividend portfolio designed for steady income.

Here are the results...

11 Dividend Stocks For A Diversified Portfolio

Invest in the best! A great rule but hard to follow in my view. If you're an income investor looking to stabilize your portfolio, or just want a little extra cash, dividend-paying stocks are a often a great thing to own.

With interest rates still historically quite low, you can get yields that are more than three or even four times what a bank might pay. But which dividend stocks are the best?

There are many great options, but I like to look for companies with a solid track record of paying and even increasing dividends, along with some potential for share price growth.

Attached are 11 dividend stocks that are worth a look right now. Which stocks from the list do you like?

Here are the results....

40 Stocks With Massive Upside Potential Accordance To Goldman Sachs

Goldman Sachs has recently created a sheet of stocks with high upside and downside targets. They published a list with 40 stocks with the highest possibility to create or destroy values.

I've attached the list. The full article with 40 additional stocks with the most downside potential can be found on Bloomberg. Mattel, Wynn and Viacom are the top picks in with dividend payments in pipeline.

There is more value inside. Just look at the results but beware of the debt loaded stocks. I'm not a fan of casino stocks like Wynn or LVS. Both are very sensitive in fincial crisis. Here are the results listed....

A Quick View On The Dogs Of The Nasdaq 100

Recently, I wrote about the current Dogs of the Dow and gave you a nice overview about the cheapest and highest yielding stocks from the large cap index Dow Jones that offer growth potential.

Some of you have agreed by the names I've introduced these but the index members of the Dow Jones still offer true values and long-term growth.

However, today I would like to share the Dogs of the NASDAQ with you.

Right, the cheapest and highest yielding stocks from the technology exchange. A decent number of stocks also pay dividends there. In total, there are 55 dividend stocks, more than half of the members.

The initial yield of the technology dominated index starts at 0.75% and ends at 6.99%, paid by Mattel.

Check the top Dogs of the NASDAQ here:

These 20 Stocks Become Most Attractive After The Latest Sell-Off

When panic drives the market, long-term orientated investors could find real bargains. A sell-off is painful but you can use the situation by acquiring attractive dividend growth stocks with a high initial yield. That's what I've done in 2008. 

I've read an interesting article on barrons.com about 20 stocks with big dividend yields. The article discussed stocks that became attractive due to the latest sell-off on the market.

What do you think about the results? Are there really bargains on the list or should we expect an ongoing sell-off?

These are some of the top results....

8 Promising & High Yielding Stocks Of The S&P 500

Dividend stocks also suffer from the same macroeconomic forces that are hurting stocks this year. From a stronger dollar to lower oil prices, there’s no shortage of issues to weigh on corporate earnings and revenue. 

But there is not everything bad in this world. If you believe the American economy is strong enough and capitalism is working, you should bet on stocks.

Let me mention one thing, stock investing is no game and you should invest your money wisely in order to achieve a solid gain.

High yielding stocks don't provide always a good return. You must be very selective. By selecting stocks only from great indices like the Dow Jones or the S&P 500, you should avoid the big mistakes.

That doesn’t mean that every stock on the list of the S&P 500’s highest-yielding dividend stocks is a dog — just that due diligence is as important as ever. Some of these names have a great track record of dividend payments (and loads of cash flow to boot.) Some are much more risky.

Check out my attached top picks for the moment. I've selected only high yielding stocks with a dividend yield over 5 percent. Do you like some of them? Please let me know your thoughts about the selection. I like to discuss the opportunities and risks from the stocks.

Here are the 8 top picks...

10 Highest Yielding NASDAQ 100 Stocks Each Yielding Over 3%

The Nasdaq 100 has historically been "overweight" the technology sector as compared to the S&P 500. The highest yielding Nasdaq 100 stocks are no exception. Eight out of the top highest yielding Nasdaq 100 stocks are in the technology sector.

I personally like technology stocks because of their high free cash flows but the great lack is the unpredictability of the technology change.

Each well established technology could be useless within the next five years. It's great potential for new companies but also a big threat for established well proven stocks.

Below is a detailed overview of the 10 top yielding stocks, each growth investor with need of cash income should know.

These are the results:

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: 

Are These 8 Great Dividend Grower Underestimated By The Market?

I like it when stocks fall because they become cheaper. That's the reason why I always look at companies with a really bad stock performance.

I personally don't care about analysts and lead investors who are sometimes anxious about the future of the company. In other cases, they need to justify their portfolio risk.

I love it to see bad performing dividend stocks with a very long history of solid growing dividends, especially when the future outlook is still bright.

Below I've highlighted some of the worst performing and most disliked dividend growth stocks on the market with a negative 1-Year performance. They all got low forward P/E and yields over 3 percent.

What do you think, are they underestimated by the market?

6 Low Beta And High Yield Dividend Stock Ideas

Over the past months, I've published a lot of long-term orientated stock ideas on my blog. The aim was to get new and fresh ideas for our asset allocation and I generated tons of great articles but most of them have a clear focus on dividend growth.

This weekend, I've also looked at my dividend growth stock database but I still notice that yields are low and price ratios are very ambitious.

I decided to start a new screen which is not based on dividend growth but count in safe heaven criteria like the beta ratio and high market valuations.

I've attached 6 big names below with some great charts about the long-term yield, dividend and price developments.

The 6 top safe heaven stocks with yields above 3.5 percent are...

8 Dividend Growth Stocks On The Sweet Spot

Out there happening very exciting moments on the market. Due to the recent stock market crash, stocks look a little bit more attractive than weeks before while the total number of potential dividend growers rise steadily.

The fantastic economic recovery of the recent years was the the most important item which helped to grow the total number of stocks with more than 5 years of consecutive dividend growth to 488! I expect that we would hit the 500 mark by the end of this year.

It's great to see that we've more and more opportunities in the dividend growth investing field but if we look at the valuations on the market, we definitely notice that it's still hard to find real bargains.

Some stocks are too expensive, others are cheap but those companies release falling earnings and sales figures or they are overloaded with debt. What we need are long-term dividend growth stocks on the sweet spot.

After the recent sell-off on the market, I screened my database by stocks with a current dividend yield over 3 percent and a low forward P/E of less than 15. In addition, the expected earnings should grow by at least 5 percent (analyst predictions), year by year for the next five fiscals.

Around 30 companies fulfilled these criteria at the moment. I try to highlight some of the best ideas. Below are 8 stocks, sorted by market capitalization.

Next Week's 20 Top Yielding Large Cap 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, 203 stocks go ex dividend - of which 65 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 4.32%. Here is a full list of all stocks with ex-dividend date within the upcoming week.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
Lorillard, Inc.	LO	16.31B	13.48	-	2.42	5.07%
Sun Life Financial Inc.	SLF	19.23B	13.02	1.32	1.40	4.36%
Lockheed Martin Corporation	LMT	40.42B	14.11	58.33	0.87	3.65%
Mattel Inc.	MAT	14.46B	18.71	4.95	2.23	3.45%
NextEra Energy, Inc.	NEE	34.34B	22.43	2.07	2.40	3.24%
McDonald's Corp.	MCD	95.26B	17.42	6.28	3.43	3.24%
Philippine Long Distance Teleph.	PHI	14.36B	16.59	4.16	3.60	3.04%
Kellogg Company	K	22.83B	23.67	8.92	1.54	2.93%
Weyerhaeuser Co.	WY	15.37B	25.51	2.63	1.96	2.88%
Corning Inc.	GLW	21.70B	11.36	1.02	2.72	2.71%
BlackRock, Inc.	BLK	45.87B	17.45	1.79	4.69	2.50%
Time Warner Cable Inc.	TWC	31.49B	15.04	4.69	1.44	2.39%
CSX Corp.	CSX	25.92B	13.78	2.69	2.20	2.37%
Suncor Energy Inc.	SU	51.67B	19.61	1.33	1.37	2.24%
QUALCOMM Incorporated	QCOM	115.97B	17.86	3.09	4.99	2.08%
The Allstate Corporation	ALL	23.07B	10.53	1.18	0.68	2.03%
Union Pacific Corporation	UNP	73.55B	17.98	3.58	3.44	2.00%
TE Connectivity Ltd.	TEL	20.78B	16.53	2.64	1.57	2.00%
Hartford Financial Services	HIG	13.84B	-	0.73	0.48	1.96%
Time Warner Inc.	TWX	57.91B	17.08	1.94	1.97	1.84%

Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On August 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.

In total, 18 stocks go ex dividend - of which 12 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 3.97%. Here is a full list of all stocks with ex-dividend date within the upcoming week.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
Knightsbridge Tankers Limited	VLCCF	283.07M	-	1.06	13.74	8.58%
Sun Life Financial Inc.	SLF	19.13B	12.95	1.31	1.39	4.38%
Mattel Inc.	MAT	14.45B	18.70	4.95	2.22	3.45%
Cinemark Holdings Inc.	CNK	3.56B	28.10	3.35	1.41	2.69%
Schweitzer-Mauduit Intern.	SWM	1.76B	16.43	3.32	2.26	2.12%
Steris Corp.	STE	2.56B	15.85	2.64	1.67	1.93%
Everest Re Group Ltd.	RE	6.76B	7.63	1.02	1.30	1.38%
Blackbaud Inc.	BLKB	1.56B	103.32	10.21	3.24	1.37%
Expedia Inc.	EXPE	6.34B	46.94	2.84	1.44	1.29%
Nielsen Holdings N.V.	NLSN	12.76B	44.01	2.31	2.28	0.24%
PVH Corp.	PVH	10.47B	29.41	2.54	1.60	0.11%
Vulcan Materials Company	VMC	6.47B	-	1.70	2.48	0.08%