18 Services Stocks With Low Debt And Payout Ratios To Boost Future Dividends

Services dividend paying stocks with low payout ratios and relatively small debt figures originally published at long-term-investments.blogspot.com. Today I would like to continue my article serial about low leveraged stocks with small payout ratios. I believe that those stocks can pay higher dividends in the future or they have the ability to grow further without capital increases.

The services sector ha s many corporate stocks with small dividend payouts but the most of the stocks are working with small profit margins or they have a modest capitalization. I decided to look only at stocks with more than $2 billion market capitalization in order to get the best results. My other criteria are still the same: Debt to equity under 0.5 with a dividend payout ratio of less than 20 percent.

Eighteen stocks fulfilled the above mentioned criteria of which ten are currently recommended to buy.

14 Top Dividend Growers From Last Week

Stocks with dividend hikes from last week originally published at long-term-investments.blogspot.com. Only 14 stocks raised their dividend payments within the recent week. Despite the low number of growth stocks, the quality is still available.

Big names are again on the list. The biggest player is Lockheed Martin. The military group announced to boost dividends by 15.7 percent. I love this stock that is so deeply integrated into the U.S. economy.

Five High-Yields are part of the latest dividend growth stocks but only three companies are currently valuated with a forward P/E of less than 15. Also three of fourteen shares are currently recommended to buy.

Basic material stocks as well as financial stocks are dominating the results – A fact that we’ve also seen over the recent weeks. For the financial sector it’s reasonable because of the abnormal dividend cuts in 2008 but basic or raw material stocks? It’s really hard to explain why these stocks hike dividends when the whole sector is under pressure due to falling prices in anticipation of a slowing Chinese economy.

We will see how it develops over the time. I’ve attached, like every week, the full list of the latest dividend growth stocks. You can also find attached the current price ratios in order to find and compare the cheapest stocks from the list.

Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On July 31, 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 31, 2013. In total, 17 stocks go ex dividend - of which 8 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 4.13%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
CCA Industries Inc.	CAW	24.62M	-	1.08	0.51	8.02%
PAA Natural Gas Storage, L.P.	PNG	1.56B	21.73	1.29	3.83	6.51%
Main Street Capital Corporation	MAIN	1.06B	9.18	1.64	11.10	6.08%
Plains All American Pipeline, L.P.	PAA	18.38B	1.82	2.73	0.38	4.30%
CMS Energy Corp.	CMS	7.48B	17.46	2.25	1.14	3.61%
Tesoro Logistics LP	TLLP	2.42B	32.18	6.38	13.41	3.56%
Pfizer Inc.	PFE	212.30B	20.95	2.58	3.69	3.25%
MOCON Inc.	MOCO	78.95M	39.72	2.35	1.43	3.08%
PNM Resources, Inc.	PNM	1.89B	19.22	1.18	1.39	2.79%
Capitol Federal Financial, Inc.	CFFN	1.84B	26.37	1.12	5.89	2.37%
Ford Motor Co.	F	67.00B	11.54	3.80	0.49	2.34%
Ocean Shore Holding Co.	OSHC	96.61M	20.67	0.91	2.68	1.61%
Coca-Cola Bottling Co.	COKE	597.02M	25.35	4.27	0.37	1.55%
SB Financial Group, Inc.	SBFG	38.62M	7.49	0.71	1.49	1.51%
Pall Corp.	PLL	7.81B	25.17	4.50	2.94	1.43%
PetSmart, Inc.	PETM	7.47B	19.60	7.10	1.09	0.91%
Signet Jewelers Limited	SIG	5.81B	15.87	2.48	1.42	0.83%

The Biggest Ex-Dividend Stocks On October 24, 2012

The Best And Biggest Ex-Dividend Stocks Researched By Dividend Yield - Stock, Capital, Investment. 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-dividend date on the next trading day.

A full list of all stocks with ex-dividend date can be found here: Ex-Dividend Stocks on October 24, 2012. In total, 9 stocks and preferred shares go ex-dividend - of which 4 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 2.85%.

Here is the sheet of the best yielding Ex-Dividend stocks:

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
Franklin Street Properties Corp.	FSP	928.93M	46.67	1.03	6.15	6.79%
Banco Latinoamericano de Comercio Exterior	BLX	850.52M	8.68	1.05	4.63	5.38%
HSBC Holdings plc	HBC	183.14B	11.63	1.09	2.98	3.62%
Healthcare Services Group Inc.	HCSG	1.61B	38.60	7.19	1.53	2.76%
Pentair, Inc.	PNR	4.16B	91.65	2.09	1.17	2.09%
Williams-Sonoma Inc.	WSM	4.65B	20.43	3.85	1.21	1.86%
PetSmart, Inc.	PETM	7.25B	22.58	6.38	1.14	0.98%
Signet Jewelers Limited	SIG	4.01B	12.71	1.90	1.05	0.97%
SM Energy Company	SM	3.69B	24.37	2.38	2.32	0.18%

The Best Stocks With Dividend Growth From Last Week (June 18 – June 24, 2012)

Stocks With Biggest Dividend Hikes From Last Week by Dividend Yield – Stock, Capital, Investment. Here is a current sheet of companies that have announced a dividend increase within the recent week. In total, 23 stocks and funds raised dividends of which 10 have a dividend growth of more than 10 percent. The average dividend growth amounts to 25.23 percent. Exactly nine stocks/funds have a yield over five percent and seven are currently recommended to buy.

Steven Romick - FPA Crescent Fund Q4-2011 Fund Portfolio

Steven Romick - FPA Crescent Fund Q4-2011 Fund Investing Strategies By Dividend Yield – Stock Capital, Investment. Here is a current portfolio update of Steven Romick’s - FPA Crescent Fund - portfolio movements as of Q4/2011 (December 31, 2011). In total, he has 44 stocks with a total portfolio worth of USD 4,483,551,000.