15 Growing Dividend Stocks That Buffett/Munger Would Choose

Dividend stocks from the Buffett/Munger screener originally published at long-term-investments.blogspot.com. Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger are the two investment heads of Berkshire Hathaway. If they decide to put money into a business, they usually have a good nose for their investment which will be paid-off.

With a long-term annual return wide above 20 percent, they definitely have done the most things right. 

Today I would like to present you the best dividend stocks from the gurufocus Buffett/Munger screener. The tool searches the market by good companies at fair or even undervalued prices. The screener take only stocks with a high predicable business into account. 

These are some of the criteria:

- Rising Margin

- Growing Business

- Little Debt

- Fair or Undervalued

The Buffett/Munger screener gives you over 200 results but I like to focus on the U.S. stock market. 

From 77 American stocks are only 15 shares that pay dividends. Buffett and Munger will definitely love some of these results. 

The good thing is that the screener don’t show results of stocks in which they are already invested. For a closer overview about the latest stock purchases from Warren Buffett and his latest portfolio, please look here: Warren Buffet’s Latest Stock Picks And His Biggest Portfolio Holdings.

On High-Yield is below the results and nine got a buy or better rating by brokerage firms.

100 Most Bought Stocks By Investment Gurus

100 most bought stocks by investment professionals originally published on Dividend Yield – Stock, Capital, Investment. Big investors are sometimes better informed about the issues of a company. They know where to find low hanging fruits and to make profits. It could make sense for us normal investors to observe the activities from the big investors in order to get a feeling about the good and bad companies, stocks that investors love and hate.

Each month, I develop a little screen about the largest stock buys from 49 super investors. I analyze how often a stock was bought over the recent six months and ranked them in my 100 best guru buy list. All super gurus combined bought 631 stocks within the recent half year; they seem to be more bullish.

In my view, it’s a good tool to look at the activities of the guru investors in the market because they have huge amounts of capital and if they invest combined, they can change the market very easy. Their attitude to stocks is also lightning the way to return, not always but sometimes because the media notices the portfolio changes of the hedge fund managers and create additional publicity.

Technology is still the place to be for the investment guru’s. The top three results from the guru 100 best buy list are all tech stocks: Oracle, Apple and Microsoft.

…and investors bet more on dividends: Now, 80 percent of the equities they bought pay a dividend. But most of them are low yielding stocks, around 11 stocks yielding over 3 percent. Investment guru’s still look for growth and don’t seek for high cash compensation.

19 High Beta Technology Dividend Stocks At Reasonable Prices Compared To Growth

Cheap technology dividend stocks with highest beta ratios and good growth originally published at long-term-investments.blogspot.com. High beta stocks are risky but they offer also big opportunities for risk seeking investors. The technology sector is one of the investment fields with a huge base of risk-adjusted business models.  Not every investment is a “win or fail” strategy.

Today I would like to continue my monthly screen serial about high beta stocks from several sectors. Technology dividend stocks are in my focus now. Because of the huge amount of high beta dividend paying technology stocks, I implemented three additional criteria in my screen: A very high market capitalization, an expected five year earnings per share growth as well as a low forward price-to-earnings ratio.

Growth should be over 10 percent for the next half decade and the P/E should below 15. In my view, this ratio represents a very good price for the future growth opportunity but the business model could be much riskier because of the high beta ratio. The betas of the 19 results are between 1.3 and 4. Some stocks like Telecom Italia, Orange or Broadcom have a really bad mid-term performance. Others like TE Connectivity from Swiss or Eaton increased during the same period by over 55 percent or more.

Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On July 10, 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 09, 2013. In total, 15 stocks and preferred shares go ex dividend - of which 5 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 4.05%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
MFA Financial, Inc.	MFA	2.93B	10.10	0.90	5.88	10.76%
RAIT Financial Trust	RAS	449.70M	-	0.59	1.83	6.98%
Kayne Anderson Energy Development	KED	271.27M	11.04	1.10	25.12	6.81%
Ennis Inc.	EBF	478.06M	16.25	1.29	0.90	3.81%
Potash Corp. of Saskatchewan, Inc.	POT	33.34B	15.73	3.19	4.03	3.63%
Bank of Kentucky Financial Corp.	BKYF	216.44M	12.37	1.25	3.69	2.35%
Center Bancorp Inc.	CNBC	222.33M	12.36	1.45	3.97	2.21%
Northeast Community Bancorp, Inc.	NECB	77.44M	-	0.74	3.93	1.91%
Yum! Brands, Inc.	YUM	32.98B	23.01	14.38	2.46	1.85%
AZZ Incorporated	AZZ	910.08M	15.47	2.63	1.45	1.57%
Methode Electronics Inc.	MEI	676.32M	16.90	2.34	1.30	1.55%
Oracle Corporation	ORCL	148.16B	14.00	3.32	3.98	1.52%
Morningstar Inc.	MORN	3.69B	34.13	5.00	5.54	0.63%
Roper Industries Inc.	ROP	12.55B	25.33	3.32	4.16	0.52%
Advent Software, Inc.	ADVS	1.81B	53.40	5.55	4.96	-

Next Week's Top Yielding Large Cap Ex-Dividend Stocks

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 week.

A full list of all stocks with payment dates can be found here: Ex-Dividend Stocks Between July 08 - 14,2013. In total, 75 stocks and preferred shares go ex dividend - of which 29 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 4.37%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
AT&T, Inc.	T	197.53B	27.99	2.24	1.56	5.02%
Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold	FCX	25.97B	8.91	1.45	1.44	4.57%
Shaw Communications, Inc.	SJR	10.58B	14.82	3.00	2.20	4.13%
Verizon Communications Inc.	VZ	147.03B	128.25	4.41	1.26	4.02%
AbbVie Inc.	ABBV	67.84B	12.60	22.97	3.66	3.75%
Potash Corp. of Saskatchewan	POT	33.04B	15.59	3.16	3.99	3.67%
General Mills, Inc.	GIS	31.80B	18.03	4.53	1.82	3.10%
Marsh & McLennan Companies	MMC	22.44B	18.45	3.38	1.87	2.44%
General Growth Properties Inc.	GGP	18.82B	-	2.23	7.37	2.40%
Yum! Brands, Inc.	YUM	32.61B	22.75	14.22	2.43	1.87%
Chesapeake Energy Corporation	CHK	13.70B	-	1.08	1.03	1.66%
Abbott Laboratories	ABT	54.78B	71.27	2.42	2.54	1.60%
NetApp, Inc.	NTAP	13.90B	28.09	2.95	2.19	1.55%
Gap Inc.	GPS	20.09B	16.85	6.36	1.26	1.39%
Aetna Inc.	AET	20.50B	12.93	1.92	0.55	1.28%
Lincoln National Corp.	LNC	10.53B	8.60	0.71	0.90	1.23%
Intuit Inc.	INTU	18.58B	23.52	5.20	4.18	1.09%
Oracle Corporation	ORCL	146.03B	13.80	3.27	3.93	0.77%
Roper Industries Inc.	ROP	12.64B	25.52	3.34	4.19	0.52%