20 biggest Dividend Contenders by Marketcapitalization

See below a list of the 20 biggest Dividend Contenders by Marketcapitalization. For a small donation, you can get the full list of Dividend Champs and Contenders.

Ticker	Company	Market Cap	P/E	Fwd P/E	P/S	P/B	Dividend
MSFT	Microsoft Corporation	778.00B	27.88	25.01	7.51	9.76	1.67%
V	Visa Inc.	306.64B	38.83	25.76	15.84	10.64	0.62%
VZ	Verizon Communications Inc.	202.47B	14.25	10.64	1.58	4.02	4.74%
CMCSA	Comcast Corporation	156.50B	15.36	12.34	1.8	2.25	2.25%
IBM	International Business Machines	130.07B	11.89	10.01	1.62	7.16	4.45%
PM	Philip Morris International Inc.	124.52B	16.42	14.02	4.21	-	5.34%
NKE	NIKE, Inc.	118.11B	31.76	27.35	3.35	12.18	1.09%
TXN	Texas Instruments Incorporated	112.22B	28.06	18.75	7.31	10.37	2.21%
UNP	Union Pacific Corporation	111.69B	22.4	16.67	5.18	4.58	2.03%
ACN	Accenture plc	103.00B	27.07	21.82	2.63	10.19	1.67%
UTX	United Technologies Corporation	99.29B	19.19	15.99	1.62	3.23	2.24%
COST	Costco Wholesale Corporation	92.62B	32.36	27.39	0.66	7.63	1.08%
QCOM	QUALCOMM Incorporated	86.67B	-	16.69	3.83	3.64	4.24%
LMT	Lockheed Martin Corporation	85.47B	20.64	16.31	1.66	-	2.67%
CAT	Caterpillar Inc.	84.32B	18.3	11.62	1.74	5.5	2.23%
HDB	HDFC Bank Limited	82.95B	39.01	24.09	7.13	5.58	0.48%
NEE	NextEra Energy, Inc.	77.34B	13.24	19.66	4.53	2.36	2.70%
CVS	CVS Health Corporation	73.33B	14.31	9.96	0.39	1.9	2.77%
OXY	Occidental Petroleum Corporation	64.55B	33.9	19.03	4.78	3.08	3.70%
FDX	FedEx Corporation	63.71B	19.84	13.89	1	3.43	1.08%

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Here is a look at the DG50's income growth in the July-September period compared to the third quarter of 2016:

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Stocks With Over $700 Bn Cash on Hands

In the second quarter of 2017, twenty-four of the largest American companies are holding on to a whopping $1.01 trillion in cash reserves, up 1.63% from the first quarter, according to analysis of second quarter earnings reports by Bank of America.

The biggest amount of money is created and kept by technology firms like Alphabet, Apple or Microsoft.

Here are the biggest cash companies compiled:

Source: Business Insider

Nasdaq 100 Dividend Dog With Yields Up To 4.39%

Source: Seeking Alpha

8 Tech Stocks With Growing Dividends

These days, larger tech companies are much more likely to offer dividends and other payouts in addition to capital appreciation. That can be good news for income-seeking investors, assuming a company’s fundamentals are sound.

Still, tech stocks as a whole don’t have a high yield compared with other groups like utilities or telecom. The tech stocks in the S&P 500 yield about 1.4%, one of the lowest-yielding sectors and well below the broader market’s average of about 2%. Utilities yield about 3.4%.

Attached you will find a couple of tech stocks with rising dividends and yields over 2% that could deliver solid returns in the future.

Source: Barrons

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15 Long-Term Dividend Growth Stocks

History has taught us that dividend growth stocks are the absolute best way to grow both your income and wealth over time.

One such group of dividend stocks is known as the S&P 500 Dividend Aristocrats — S&P 500 companies that have increased their payouts for at least 25 consecutive years. Aristocrats have collectively outperformed the S&P 500 over time with less volatility.

Of course, to be able to pay secure and growing dividends, a company needs to have a strong competitive advantage that gives it good pricing power and allows it to generate strong free cash flow.

Today, we’re going to look at 10 great dividend growth stocks worth investigating. These are companies with strong businesses that consistently generate rivers of FCF that allow them to reward long-term dividend lovers.

These are the results...

Dogs of the Dow 2017

Dividend stocks offer current income and growth potential, and the dividend stocks that you'll find among the 30 stocks of the Dow Jones Industrials are some of the best-known, highest-quality dividend payers you'll find. 

Rather than simply buying the entire Dow, however, many dividend investors choose instead to follow a strategy called the Dogs of the Dow. 

These stocks offer better yields than the Dow as a whole, and often, they've been able to outperform the Dow over the course of the year. Let's take a first look at 2017's Dogs of the Dow to see what you should watch out for over the coming year.

The "Dogs of the Dow" are the highest-yielding components at the start of any given year. In the past sixteen years, the Dogs of the Dow have returned an average of 7.9%. 

This is above that of the overall Dow, which has returned a more meager 6.3% average return. The Dow stocks gained an exceptional 18.7% last year, with Caterpillar (NYSE:CAT), Goldman Sachs (NYSE:GS), and JPMorgan (NYSE:JPM) leading the charge. 

Here are the Dogs of the Dow for 2017 with yield...

The Most Important Buyback Champions On The Market

Over the past few years, I've been conducting quarterly reviews of companies that are aggressive repurchasers of their own stock.

I've tended to focus on companies that announced a share repurchase plan that represents at least 5% of shares outstanding. Anything smaller may not have much of an impact on earnings per share ( EPS ).

Yet in recent months, we have broadened our measure of corporate generosity to focus not just on buybacks but also dividends and debt reductions.

Below you'll find a group of companies that meet the criteria, based on share buyback announcements during the current earnings season.

Dogs Of The Dow Jones December 2017

Dividend-paying stocks appeal to many investors, with low interest rates on bonds making them one of the sole remaining sources of plentiful portfolio income.

For income-hungry investors, the Dow Jones Industrials and its 30 constituents are an obvious place to look for high-quality dividend stocks.

One way that dividend investors use the Dow to come up with a simple-to-follow strategy is known as the Dogs of the Dow, which offer both above-average yields and often outperformance on a total return basis.

Let's look more closely at the current list of the Dow Jones and try to discover the best Dogs for Dezember 2017. It's now time to adjust your portfolio and discover the best picks for the new year.

These are the Dogs of the Dow by yield (the 10 highest yielding stocks from the list)...

Best Dividend Stocks To Buy For 2017

Dividends, the share of their revenues that companies pay to their shareholders, are a big deal: 

Over the past century, they’ve accounted for roughly half of total returns earned by stock investors. And if stock returns flatten out over the next few years, as many economists anticipate, dividends will matter even more in driving growth for investors.

But these days, it’s unusually difficult to find dividend-paying stocks that look like good buys. 

Stock valuations in the category are lofty after years of outperforming the broader market. The forward price/earnings ratio of the top 25% of S&P 500 stocks by dividend yield is 17, vs. a 36-year average of 12.

And the dividends themselves can seem relatively stingy: The number of companies increasing their dividend has been shrinking, and the number of decreases is accelerating. And there’s also the danger that if interest rates rise, as is expected, investors could flee the sector and send stocks careening downward.

With those in mind, we asked ourself what could be the best investment ideas for 2017. Here are 11 stocks where the experts see opportunity and safety.

These are the results...

The Biggest Stock Buybacks With At Least One Billion Firepower

Stock buybacks, also known as share repurchases, occur when companies buy shares of their own stock to reduce the number of shares outstanding.

Stock buybacks can be used to offset stock issued to employees as compensation, or to improve earnings per share by reducing the number of shares by which earnings are divided. Sometimes, companies repurchase stock simply because they believe their shares are undervalued.

Buyback proponents say they reward these long-term shareholders by effectively increasing their ownership of the company, and they help boost the value of a stock by raising the company's earnings per share. And when there's no other compelling use for a company's cash, this is a better alternative than risky spending on takeovers or other big investments.

But the other view on buybacks is that — like the restaurant removing tables — their only impact is in making things look better than they seem. Yes, earnings per share rise, but that's not because earnings are growing. Even their fiercest proponents — somewhat hypocritically — say they're overused.

With that in mind, I've compiled all stocks with a billion dollar buyback announcement during the year 2016. In total, there are exactly 82 companies with such a big share buyback volume.

Here are the results...

5 Top Dividend Paying Champion Stocks To Look For In 2017

For the most part, 2016 has been a good year for the U.S. stock market, with the S&P 500 climbing nearly eight percent. 

During this period, dividend investors have also been handsomely rewarded. Many dividend-paying stocks kept their track record of dividend hikes.

At the same time, those high-paying dividend stocks offered a way for income investors to boost the return of their portfolios in this ultra-low-interest-rate environment. With one month to go until 2017, let’s take a look at the five best dividend stocks we like to observe for the next year with hope that they can deliver a solid performance.

Here are the results...

9 Best Dividend Stocks For Income Investors To Bet On 2017

With interest rates expected to rise next year, many investors may be asking what will be the best dividend stocks in 2017. 

The 10 best dividend stocks of 2017 will be large-cap stocks with a long history of providing investors with capital appreciation and a high-yield dividend that gets raised annually.

It may sound boring, but these kinds of stocks tend to outperform the broader market regardless of the interest-rate environment.

You may be tempted to look for a smaller company providing a much higher dividend yield, but you need to remember there is a risk/reward trade-off with dividends. 

The higher the dividend, the greater the risk. Not only do you risk losing capital if the stock price plunges during a correction, but if the company doesn’t have a lot of money, the company could cut its dividend yield, which could also kill the share price.

One way to determine whether or not the company will be able to maintain and raise its annual dividend yield is to look at its free cash flow. This is the amount of money left over after capital expenditures.

Below is a selection of 9 stocks for dividend growth investors to watch in 2017. These stocks should do well, even when the Federal Reserve starts to raise rates.

Here are 9 dividend-paying stocks....

10 Stocks With The Biggest Dividend Cheque

Income investors rely on dividend stocks to provide both the cash they need for their immediate needs as well as the potential for future capital appreciation that they crave.

But just because a company is successful doesn't mean that it will choose to share its bounty with its shareholders through dividends. 

It takes a commitment from company management to build a meaningful dividend policy, and many stocks have adopted dividends that return billions of dollars to their investors.

Below, you'll find the five dividend stocks that have paid the most to shareholders over the past 12 months.

These are the results...