10 S&P Stocks With The Lowest Cash To Debt Ratios

Apple has tons of cash, right, but the technology giant also owns massive debt. 

If you subtract those burdens from the cash account, you see that Apples cash is much smaller as many might think. A useful way to evalueate this problem is to calculate the cash-to-debt ratio.

Cash To Debt Ratio compares a company's operating cash flow to its total debt, which, for purposes of this ratio, is defined as the sum of short-term borrowings, the current portion of long-term debt and long-term debt. 

This ratio provides an indication of a company's ability to cover total debt with its yearly cash flow from operations. The higher the percentage ratio, the better the company's ability to carry its total debt.

Attached I've made the effort to select those stocks from the S&P 500 with the lowest cash to debt ratio. 

These are the 10 stocks with the lowest ratio...

Dividend Growth Stocks Of The Week 19/2016

Dividend growth investing is a popular model followed by the investing community to build assets. 

Companies which not only pay dividends, but raise them year after year have been shown to perform better overall for investor returns. 

Following companies announced dividend increases this week. These are the dividend grower from the past week... If you like them to receive, just subscribe to my free newsletter.

Company	Ticker	New Yield	Dividend Growth in %
Barnes Group	B	1.55	8.33%
Buckeye Partners	BPL	6.97	1.05%
FactSet Research Systems	FDS	1.32	13.64%
Marriott Intl	MAR	1.74	20.00%
PetMed Express	PETS	3.9	5.56%
Pool	POOL	1.38	19.23%
Convergys Corp	CVG	1.29	12.50%
MSA Safety	MSA	2.71	3.13%
Pattern Energy Group	PEGI	7.64	2.36%
Black Box	BBOX	3.82	9.09%
Columbia Pipeline Group	CPGX	2.18	3.74%
HNI Cp	HNI	2.56	3.77%
Kelly Services Cl A	KELYA	1.61	50.00%
Macy's Inc	M	4.81	4.86%
NACCO Industries Cl A	NC	1.98	1.90%
Sanchez Production Ptrs	SPP	16.26	1.50%
Watts Water Tech	WTS	1.28	5.88%
Kelly Services Cl B	KELYB	1.54	50.00%
Lennox International	LII	1.24	19.44%
NiSource	NI	2.75	6.45%
Service Corp Intl	SCI	1.92	8.33%
Wabtec	WAB	0.51	25.00%
American Software Cl A	AMSWA	4.91	10.00%
Hackett Group	HCKT	1.77	30.00%

Despite Market Sell-Off: 16 S&P 500 Stocks Close To Fresh 52-Week Highs

Stock markets are in correction mode but not all stocks declined within the past months. 

Not so surprisingly, they’re mostly defensive names like staples and utilities. 

After all, we’ll need to stock up on plenty of cans of Campbell soup and Hormel SPAM for our bunkers to ride out the market volatility (not to mention the 2016 elections!). 

Looking back at 2011, not only did most of these stocks perform respectably during the 2011 selloff, they participated in the rally back (although on a low beta).Attached you will find a selection of stocks near 52-Week Highs.

Only 16 companies from the S&P 500 have achieved this.

Here are the results...

20 Top Yielding Electic Utilites With Sustainable Dividend Payouts For Growth

Well-managed electric utilities are excellent candidates for a dividend reinvestment portfolio. Typically, electric utilities generate lots of excess cash and pay it out as dividends to shareholders.

But not all utilities are equal. Some pay high amounts of their net income to shareholders in form of dividends, other only a small part. Be very wary of stocks with high dividend yields and high payout ratios. They are not sustainable and increase the debt level of the company over the long-term.

I'm looking for those utilities with low dividend payouts in order to get sustainable dividend payments over years that might grow, year over year for decades.

Attached you can find a detailed list of 20 electric utilities that might give investors a small hedge due to a solid dividend growth history and sustainable dividend payouts.

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

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 about 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 week.

In total, 175 stocks go ex dividend - of which 89 yield more than 3 percent. Here is a full list of all stocks with ex-dividend date within the current week.

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
Telefonica Brasil, S.A.	VIV	25.37B	13.29	1.29	1.60	6.82%
Energy Transfer Partners LP	ETP	19.09B	30.41	1.60	0.54	6.61%
Kinder Morgan Energy Partners	KMP	34.70B	25.54	2.59	3.30	6.28%
Cheniere Energy Partners LP.	CQP	10.24B	-	5.66	38.30	5.48%
ONEOK Partners, L.P.	OKS	11.99B	21.97	2.80	1.12	5.29%
Southern Company	SO	37.11B	21.44	2.06	2.20	4.78%
Plains All American Pipeline, L.P.	PAA	18.19B	19.17	2.66	0.46	4.49%
Kinder Morgan	KMI	37.80B	37.23	2.77	2.87	4.38%
Telefonica, S.A.	TEF	79.56B	14.72	3.15	0.97	4.28%
Enterprise Products Partners LP	EPD	57.33B	23.28	4.05	1.30	4.22%
Bank of Montreal	BMO	45.16B	11.54	1.57	3.50	4.11%
Energy Transfer Equity, L.P.	ETE	19.23B	51.17	12.99	0.53	3.82%
Paychex, Inc.	PAYX	15.71B	27.22	8.98	6.67	3.26%
The Clorox Company	CLX	11.65B	20.52	79.86	2.07	3.20%
ConAgra Foods, Inc.	CAG	13.36B	20.08	2.49	0.82	3.15%
NiSource Inc.	NI	10.09B	22.92	1.77	1.88	3.09%
Texas Instruments Inc.	TXN	44.37B	22.35	4.01	3.61	2.98%
Weyerhaeuser Co.	WY	17.35B	28.80	2.96	2.21	2.80%
Norfolk Southern Corp.	NSC	27.53B	16.17	2.70	2.52	2.37%
Eaton Corporation	ETN	33.91B	21.64	2.20	1.77	2.35%

47 Top High-Yielding Stocks With Ex-Dividend Date In October 2013

Monthly high yielding shares researched by long-term-investments.blogspot.com. Close to the end of the month, I would like to highlight some of the best yielding ex-dividend shares for October.

If you are a daily reader of my blog, you would have noticed that I publish regularly lists about ex-dividend stocks. It’s a great information tool for investors who love it to receive dividends. If you purchase a stocks quick before the ex-dividend date, you get a faster cash return but you will not make extra gains with these money because on the ex-date, the stock would also be traded ex-dividend but with yields of about 0.5 percent quarter dividend or so, you will definitely see no big changes because the daily fluctuations are much higher.

However, every month, I create a small list about interesting high yielding stocks with ex-dividend date for the next month. I think it could bring you some values to see what companies pay you cash next month with an attractive equity story.

As result, I found 47 stocks with an average dividend yield of 5.76 percent. Eight stocks have a double-digit yield and additional eight stocks have a high yield below 10 percent but over 5 percent. 21 stocks from the results have a buy or better recommendation.

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

A full list of all stocks with payment dates can be found here: Ex-Dividend Stocks April 26, 2013. In total, 19 stocks and preferred shares go ex dividend - of which 12 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 5.46%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
Prospect Capital Corporation	PSEC	2.47B	7.87	1.01	5.06	12.07%
Entertainment Properties Trust	EPR	2.60B	24.77	1.78	8.07	5.69%
Chatham Lodging Trust	CLDT	321.71M	-	1.24	3.20	4.59%
Enterprise Products Partners LP	EPD	56.16B	22.74	4.24	1.32	4.35%
Northwest Natural Gas Company	NWN	1.22B	20.34	1.66	1.67	4.03%
Brookfield Office Properties Canada	BOXC	2.56B	-	3.00	4.88	3.96%
Alliant Energy Corporation	LNT	5.81B	17.88	1.74	1.88	3.59%
Texas Instruments Inc.	TXN	39.78B	23.85	3.64	3.10	3.11%
NiSource Inc.	NI	9.71B	22.40	1.74	1.92	3.08%
ConAgra Foods, Inc.	CAG	14.79B	28.16	2.94	1.03	2.82%
Tanger Factory Outlet Centers	SKT	3.50B	66.12	7.22	9.79	2.43%
Eaton Vance Corp.	EV	4.72B	23.06	8.20	3.83	2.04%
Scholastic Corporation	SCHL	849.50M	12.50	1.00	0.43	1.88%
ASML Holding NV	ASML	30.18B	19.35	4.24	5.29	0.82%