Large Cap Dividend Stocks At Fresh New 52-Week Highs - #AES #McCormick #Aetna

Dear Reader, find below a list of Large Cap Dividend Stocks At Fresh New 52-Week Highs. 

Ticker	Company	P/E	Fwd P/E	P/S	P/B	Dividend	Price	Target Price
HCP	HCP, Inc.	71.94	51.61	7.38	2.64	5.19%	28.49	27.20
AES	The AES Corporation	37.67	12.24	1.01	3.2	3.25%	16.01	14.33
KO	The Coca-Cola Company	31.38	22.05	6.43	11.45	3.18%	49.11	51.44
TRI	Thomson Reuters Corporation	37.34	38.3	3.21	2.93	2.87%	48.10	46.09
CCE	Coca-Cola European Partners plc	19.39	16.12	1.75	2.9	2.74%	46.72	48.34
CINF	Cincinnati Financial Corporation	14.87	24.22	2.15	1.57	2.64%	80.16	77.50
MCD	McDonald's Corporation	24.27	22.2	6.72	-	2.54%	182.71	191.81
CLX	The Clorox Company	27.27	23.5	3.27	29.83	2.43%	158.10	140.53
KDP	Keurig Dr Pepper Inc.	6.1	18.6	5.48	1.8	2.21%	27.21	24.86
JWN	Nordstrom, Inc.	20.58	17.81	0.7	9.94	2.19%	67.46	60.59
SBUX	Starbucks Corporation	20	21.96	3.77	22.76	2.18%	66.01	58.71
CME	CME Group Inc.	33.14	26.27	15.97	2.74	1.50%	186.40	185.09
MKC	McCormick & Company, Incorporated	33.68	27.58	3.66	6.30	1.40%	148.50	128.82
CHD	Church & Dwight Co., Inc.	30.49	27.6	4.06	7.09	1.28%	67.88	59.61
DG	Dollar General Corporation	21.64	16.96	1.25	4.78	1.01%	114.39	116.36
AET	Aetna Inc.	18.14	16.69	1.12	3.71	0.97%	207.05	206.80
LW	Lamb Weston Holdings, Inc.	32.34	24.12	3.35	-	0.96%	80.26	76.92
ROST	Ross Stores, Inc.	25.03	22.29	2.53	11.83	0.89%	101.48	100.57
JEC	Jacobs Engineering Group Inc.	29.75	14.95	0.84	1.89	0.75%	79.53	86.92
NRG	NRG Energy, Inc.	13.02	8.51	1.08	-	0.32%	37.95	41.72

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40 Leaders And Laggards Of EPS Surprise / EPS Revision

A huge number of companies have released their Q4 fiscal figures. Market actors are looking deeply into those numbers in order to compare them with their expectations.

If a company does not meet them, it got punished.

Attached you will find the 10 best and worst stocks that beat expectations in Q4/2015. You will also find a list of the 10 best and worst stocks with the highest EPS revisions for the upcoming quarter.

Sometimes it indicates a clear trend.

Here are the top results...

20 Cashflow Strong Stocks With 3.5% to 12.8% Dividend Yields And Potential To Hike

Investors love dividend stocks, even during times of turmoil. Some focus on current income, while others track the correlation between dividend increases and outperformance. 


Cash flow is a key issue in investing. It's in my view a better view on the earnings power of a company. Even better is the free cash flow, that's the amount of operating cash ex capital spending.

Those amounts of money could fully used for dividends, investment (Mergers, Acquisitions), share buybacks and more.

As a follow-up to our look at companies with high free cash flow that could be used to raise dividends, we decided to take a broader and simpler approach to list dividend stocks favored the most by analysts.

Analysts say a lot about stocks and often they are wrong with their opinion. Don't put too much trust in their work. The do the same as you, simple desk research and often your results will be better.

Here are the results...

20 Cashflow Strong Stocks (click to enlarge)
Source: Marketwatch, FactSet

Stay Away From These 25 Stocks When The Fed Hikes Rates

Companies with variable/floating-rate debt are more immediately impacted (negatively) by a rate hike than companies with fixed rate debt.

It's easy to understand that a corporate with high debt and rising rates should lose earnings in the end. Attached you can find a list of companies that may lose values due to a soon rate hike.

I'm not a fan of highly leveraged companies. I know the hefty disadvantages from a debt burden but sometimes there could be some advantages appear. Just remember the tax benefits you should gain or return boosts due to a higher leverage.

Also interesting was the development from ABInbev. Those shares fall like a stone during the financial crisis in 2008/2009. After the freefall, when they found their bottom, they created massive values for investors with risk appetite.

It’s not always bad to invest into companies with a high leverage. You must consider each investment isolated.

Sometimes, when the underlying business is stable, you should find a real investment opportunity.

Attached is a small list of stocks that may offer a higher risk when the rates start to rise.

Here is the list...

Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On July 30, 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 July 30, 2013. In total, 42 stocks go ex dividend - of which 17 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 4.13%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
Realty Income Corp.	O	8.66B	62.39	1.94	14.31	4.92%
Bank of Montreal	BMO	41.57B	11.01	1.60	3.18	4.45%
People's United Financial Inc.	PBCT	4.77B	20.86	1.02	4.72	4.27%
Genesis Energy LP	GEL	4.18B	41.85	4.65	0.98	3.96%
Pinnacle West Capital	PNW	6.55B	15.74	1.63	1.95	3.65%
Paychex, Inc.	PAYX	14.32B	25.17	8.08	6.16	3.57%
Hasbro Inc.	HAS	6.14B	19.30	4.21	1.51	3.40%
MeadWestvaco Corporation	MWV	6.41B	37.09	1.91	1.17	2.75%
The Mosaic Company	MOS	22.41B	11.90	1.67	2.25	1.90%
NRG Energy, Inc.	NRG	8.94B	13.11	0.93	1.03	1.73%
Advanced Semiconductor	ASX	6.16B	14.03	1.64	0.92	1.72%
Brookfield Asset Management	BAM	23.29B	20.13	1.35	1.19	1.59%
CARBO Ceramics Inc.	CRR	2.02B	26.21	2.77	3.34	1.36%
The AES Corporation	AES	9.30B	-	2.01	0.52	1.28%
First Republic Bank	FRC	5.59B	13.75	1.80	4.26	1.13%
Casey's General Stores Inc.	CASY	2.57B	23.47	4.27	0.35	1.07%
Aon Corporation	AON	21.41B	21.64	2.83	1.84	1.04%
Zoetis Inc.	ZTS	15.22B	32.72	21.43	3.47	0.85%

50 Shares With Fastest Dividend Growth In April 2013

Shares with highest dividend growth researched by Dividend Yield – Stock, Capital, Investment. Only a growing business is a good business; that’s a major rule in economics. But growth is not all. Investors want a part of the company’s success; they want growing dividends at high rates.

Sometimes, predatory investors and some activists try to steal some of the company’s assets and force a dividend payment which is much higher than the current earnings. Those activities are bad for the stock price.

Good dividend hikes are such ones that are in-line with a healthy growing operational business. They reflect a solid growing business with a trustful management who wants to share the company’s success with the ownership.

It’s easy to discover good and bad dividend growth. All you need is to look at the earnings developments and debt changes.

Today I run my screen of the 50 fastest dividend growers from the recent month. Below the results are again some pretty good stocks with very good growth rates. All stocks have a double-digit growth rate. The average dividend growth of the 50 best stocks amounts to 73.26 percent. The average yield is still at 3.77 percent.