20 Dividend Aristocrats For Retirees

Investment strategies change with age. While a younger investor with a longer time horizon may seek out high-risk, high-growth stocks, older folks, especially those in retirement, will want investments that provide safety and a solid source of income. 

As a retiree, you'll want to make sure the stocks you choose will protect your initial investment, offer some growth, and have the ability to pay a growing dividend. 

The S&P 500's Dividend Aristocrat list, which contains stocks on the index that have raised their dividends for at least 25 years straight, may be a good place to start, but bear in mind that past performance does not necessarily predict future returns.

For stocks with bright dividend growth ahead, retirees may want to consider the picks below.

20 Dividend Growth Champions To Boost Earnings By Double-Digit Rates

Dividend investing has been in vogue since the start of the year given the instability in the market and global growth concerns.

In fact, investors are chasing dividend growth when fears of dividend cuts are high amid macro uncertainties. 

A stock with a history of increasing dividends year over year is considered healthy and latent with higher capital appreciation opportunity irrespective of the stock market direction.

Stocks with solid dividend growth generally act as a hedge against economic uncertainty and offers downside protection with its consistent increase in payouts. Although these stocks do not necessarily have the highest yields, they are proven outperformers over the long term.

Today I like to share those stocks with you that might create a good return in the future by growing earnings and sales.

My criteria were very simple: Positive sales growth in the past years and double-digit earnings growth forecasts for the next five years. Each of the results should have grown dividends by more than 20 consecutive years.

Here are the results...

15 Long-Term Dividend Grower With The Highest Operating Margin

Many investors never really look at company financials. By neglecting that aspect of their financial education, they miss out on some of the most useful information that financial data can provide. 

 In particular, measures like margins can tell you how efficient a company is in converting the sales it generates into profits for shareholders. 

 One type of margin known as operating margin focuses on an intermediate step in the financial statement, and it's something that you can use to focus on the core elements of a business to see how profitable it is. 

The operating margin show us how many of a dollar revenue is profit for paying interest and taxes. The higher the value, the better it is for investors. It tells us also a lot about the market strength of a corporate and their pricing power. 

If margins are low, you may own only a small piece of the supply chain and the cake. Remember retailer. They have a damn low margin, which is in general not bad but they offer only a small part of the whole product development and marketing cycle. 

They just sell the product. Attached you will find a couple of dividend paying long-term raiser stocks with the highest margin on the market. I observed only the group of Dividend Champions. 

 Over the next days I will also show you those stocks with the highest net income profit margin. The difference between them and today's results is that they could have less debt. That's one reason why they have higher margins in the end.

Here are the most profitable dividend grower from the Dividend Champions League…

These Dividend Growth Stocks Could Reduce Its Dividends In The Future

With interest rates now having spent years near their all-time lows, many investors who might prefer safer assets have moved to dividend stocks as a way to generate income from their investments. 

The problem with this strategy is that it only works if the companies that have been mailing out those dividend checks can afford to keep doing so.

Therefore, income investors should probably avoid putting their money into any company that is currently experiencing a financial hardship that might threaten its ability to continue making dividend payments.

I started my research by screening the Dividend Champions list by stocks with unsustainable dividend measures. High payouts, high debt, low growth and a cyclic business model are key drivers for an unsustainable dividend.

Each of the attached results grown its dividend over 10 consecutive years.

Here are the results from my research, sorted by highest debt load...

20 Dividend Aristocrats With Double-Digit Earnings Growth Forecasts

Each growth investor needs to take a look at future earnings growth. The higher the expected earnings growth, the bigger the valuation multiples of the corporate but the art is not to overpay a growth company and to balance growth and price.

Of course, when you’re searching for impressive earnings growth, you also want to make sure the companies in question are big enough to offer some stability, and traded with enough volume to provide some liquidity.

It's always good to make first selection with high-quality stocks. One way is to screen only the Dividend Aristocrats Index.

The Dividend Aristocrats Index is comprised of 51 stocks that have paid dividends for 25+ consecutive years. Dividend Aristocrats are large cap, blue chip companies from many different industries, but they have all demonstrated a healthy balance between capital growth and dividend income.

Today I like to show you those dividend Aristocrats with the highest by analysts predicted earnings growth. Each of the 20 top results has a double-digit earnings growth.

These are the results...

10 Dividend Aristocrats With The Highest Possibility To Grow Dividends At The Fastest Pace

I've discovered many investing strategies and found out that low dividend paying stocks with little debt and high EPS growth have outperformed the market over years.

Dividend growth is an important issue within the investing space. Investors need to look at several fundamental like debt, payout and growth ratios in order to get a feeling of how fast the company can increase its dividends in the future.

Today I've compiled 10 Dividend Aristocrats with a debt-to-equity under 1 as well as 5-year expected earnings per share growth of more than 10 percent. In addition the dividend payout ratio is under 40 percent.

Dividend Aristocrats managed to increase dividends over more than 25 consecutive years. You can finde a full list here: Dividend Aristocrats.

Those criteria are a first sign for investors to expect a growing future dividend. Below are 10 stocks that fulfilled my criteria. Which stocks do you like? Please leave a comment. Thank you!

These are the 4 highest yielding results in detail...

5 Dividend Champions With Higher Dividends In 3 Months

No one has a crystal-ball but when we look forward in the dividend growth space we have a great possibility to find stocks that may raise dividends in the near future in order to keep their status.

Today I like to introduce some Dividend Champions that need to hike dividends over the next three month. They did grow dividend over more than 25 years, why stopping now?

In total, 13 stocks must grow dividends of which two are High-Yields. For sure most of the 13 stocks have grown their dividends by a low rate of less than 10 percent annually. The fastest Champ was Archer-Daniels-Midland with a 5-Year dividend growth rate of 7.9 percent.

Small dividend hikes are not bad. Remember, the inflation is also low and a 3 percent dividend hike could hedge your investment.

The best performing stock from the list was the financial services company McGraw Hill. Since 2010, the company went up 150 percent while the worst performer, AT&T realized only a gain of around 18 percent.

These are my 5 favorites...

13 Dividend Aristocrats With Lowest Payout Ratios To Boost Future Dividends

Dividend Aristocrats with low payout ratios and relatively small debt figures originally published at long-term-investments.blogspot.com. Dividend Aristocrats are stocks with a very long dividend growth history. Those stocks raised their dividends over more than 25 consecutive years and being selected by the credit agency Standard & Poor’s. The index covers 54 companies from the national stock exchanges.

Dividend Aristocrats are nice because they have a huge trust base for long-term orientated investors but a past performance also did not mean that the future performance would be the same. Some Dividend Aristocrats are full of debt and they pay dividends at a very high level.

I started an article serial this month about stocks with low debt and dividend payout ratios. I believe that those companies are much better positioned from the financial perspective to boost future dividends. In addition, they have much more capabilities to grow at a faster pace.

Today I would like to introduce you some of the Dividend Aristocrats with the lowest dividend payout ratios on the market. Half of the results have also acceptable or low debt ratios.

Only thirteen stocks have a dividend payout ratio of less than 30 percent of which seven are currently recommended to buy.

10 Dividend Champions With Very Low Payout Ratios - The Next Big Dividend Grower?

Dividend Champions with low payout ratios and small debt figures originally published at long-term-investments.blogspot.com. Dividend Champions are stocks with a very long history of consecutive dividend hikes. They have achieved to boost dividends year over year for more than 25 years without an interruption.

Only 105 stocks have managed this very important goal for long-term dividend growth investors. I like those stocks but some of them have a really high dividend payout ratio.

Earlier, I talked about the importance of the dividend growth rate and that it would be better to buy lower yielding stocks with a much higher growth rate than stocks with very big yields. Two main criteria for future dividend growth are the debt ratios and dividend payout figures.

This month, I started an article serial about dividend stocks with potential to boost dividends. Today I would like to present you Dividend Champions with the lowest dividend payouts. Only 10 income growth firms have a payout ratio of less than 20 percent. Seven of them are currently recommended to buy.

Most of them are modestly leveraged. Not low but also not too high but the right leverage ratio is also a question of the business model and the strong cash-flow of a corporate as well as the costs for growth.

Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On August 23, 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 3 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 2.14%. 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
CPFL Energia S.A.	CPL	7.78B	15.55	2.69	1.21	5.81%
CIFC Corp.	CIFC	162.31M	26.90	0.61	15.46	5.13%
The Scotts Miracle-Gro	SMG	3.34B	23.95	4.50	1.20	3.23%
Johnson & Johnson	JNJ	249.50B	19.73	3.58	3.56	2.97%
Delek US Holdings Inc.	DK	1.56B	5.58	1.61	0.17	2.27%
Rocky Brands, Inc.	RCKY	132.81M	12.53	1.04	0.54	2.26%
Prudential Financial, Inc.	PRU	36.06B	-	1.03	0.45	2.06%
Elbit Systems Ltd.	ESLT	1.92B	10.92	1.84	0.67	1.96%
YPF S.A.	YPF	6.45B	10.12	1.15	0.47	1.95%
McGraw Hill Financial, Inc.	MHFI	16.25B	22.53	13.28	3.40	1.89%
KeyCorp	KEY	11.05B	14.06	1.11	4.12	1.82%
Parker Hannifin Corporation	PH	15.20B	16.36	2.65	1.17	1.77%
John Bean Technologies	JBT	659.34M	17.50	6.07	0.72	1.59%
Barnes Group Inc.	B	1.71B	23.44	1.76	1.47	1.38%
Carpenter Technology	CRS	2.90B	20.11	2.23	1.28	1.31%
Griffon Corporation	GFF	618.62M	95.00	0.98	0.33	0.88%
Nordson Corporation	NDSN	4.48B	19.57	6.09	2.90	0.86%
Marten Transport Ltd.	MRTN	600.44M	20.55	1.75	0.92	0.39%

16 Dividend Aristocrats With High Beta Ratios

Dividend income growth stocks with highest beta ratios published at long-term-investments.blogspot.com. Dividend Aristocrats are stocks with a very long tradition in dividend growth. Those stocks hiked its dividend payments over a period of more than 25 years in a row and being selected by the credit rating agency Standard & Poor’s. The company selects 54 constituents for the index. All income investors love this index but he has also lacks.

Dividend Aristocrats normally have a lower volatility than other stocks. This could also be an disadvantage because you give up performance in a strong up moving market. The solution is simple: Look at high beta stocks. They can give you a better return when the market is very bullish.

I observed all current 54 Dividend Aristocrats by the highest rate of beta, starting with a value above one. Only 16 of them are more volatile than the overall market. It’s how I told it: Only a few Dividend Aristocrats, around 30 percent, are riskier than the market but they can also deliver you a better performance in return. For the time being, twelve of the High Beta Dividend Aristocrats have a buy or better rating.

14 Low Priced Dividend Champions

Dividend Champions with low price to earnings ratios originally published at "long-term-investments.blogspot.com". It’s important to have a clear picture of all your price ratios from your stock holdings. If you see that there is one company too high valuated compared to the growth perspective, you should consider to reduce the position.

The same on the long side: If you purchase a stock, you should only buy at reasonable prices. I know, everybody tells you this and sometimes P/E’s of 25 or 30 are still reasonable. It’s a question of believe and trust.

Today, I like to show you all Dividend Champions with a current P/E ratio of less than 15. Only 14 companies (around 14 percent of all champions) are so low valuated. Most of them have a good mid-term growth perspective.

Seven of the results have a current buy or better rating.