20 Most Profitable Insurers To Consider

Insurers are under pressure due to Hurricane Irma. Let's take a look at the most profitable vertical integrated insurer in order to find some investment opportunities after the big sell-off which is still alive at the moment.

The industry is very broad developed. There are many insurers available on the market and barriers to entry seem very low. But the demand for insurance products is high and rises over years.

Warren Buffett loves insurance stocks and I love them too. Which stocks from the high return insurance stock list do you like?

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Top 10 S&P 500 Companies By Dividend Growth

Dividend growth is better than dividend yield because over the long-term, each investor could receive a higher return due to the growing business of a corporate.

Today I like to show you those stocks from the popular S&P 500 that have the fastest twelve trailing months dividend growth.

The screen excludes companies with current dividend yield of less than 2%. The growth rate methodology is based on trailing twelve-month DPS compared to the value one year ago.

You may also like my older articles about dividend growth stocks with solid yields and growth persectives.

These are the results, sorted by dividend growth....

17 Safest Stocks From The Financial Sector

Financial stocks with low beta ratios and high market capitalization originally published at "long-term-investments.blogspot.com". The financial sector is still under fire. Low interest rates and higher risks within the bond buying industry make it hard to earn money on investments. As a result, thousands of people lose their job and the sector is shrinking. Bank of America cut its workforce by over 30,000 people and their competitors follow.

Not everything is bad within the financial sector. If you have followed my screens over the past months, you could find there more and more good looking banks and asset managers as well as insurers.

Today I like to discover the best yielding dividend stocks from the financial sector with real safe heaven characteristics. My criteria are:

- Market Capitalization over USD 10 billion

- Beta ratio below 1

The stock should have a lower volatility than the overall market. For sure, these are not the only trigger ratios to seek out the highest degree of stability for a stock. Especially in the financial sector are more risks than in other industries. Banks are still black boxes because you never know what kind of risk exposure they have in detail.

The screen produced 17 stocks of which two have a double-digit yield. Eight of them are currently recommended to buy.

Best Dividend Paying Ex-Dividend Shares On January 23, 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 January 23, 2013. In total, 10 stocks and preferred shares go ex dividend - of which 5 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 4.80%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
R.R. Donnelley & Sons Company	RRD	1.71B	-	1.52	0.17	10.94%
Compass Diversified Holdings	CODI	762.66M	-	1.75	0.86	9.12%
Government Prop. Inc. Trust	GOV	1.38B	23.83	1.37	6.68	6.81%
Franklin Street Properties	FSP	1.08B	48.15	1.23	6.85	5.85%
Pembina Pipeline Corporation	PBA	8.56B	34.95	1.97	3.19	5.59%
Williams-Sonoma Inc.	WSM	4.37B	18.65	3.59	1.12	1.97%
Tyco International Ltd.	TYC	14.61B	-	2.90	1.40	1.91%
Progressive Corp.	PGR	13.74B	15.35	2.10	0.82	1.79%
Watsco Inc.	WSO	2.63B	25.47	2.84	0.79	1.31%
The Cooper Companies Inc.	COO	4.72B	19.24	2.15	3.27	0.06%

Best Dividend Paying Ex-Dividend Shares Between January 21 - 27, 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 week.

A full list of all stocks with payment dates can be found here: Ex-Dividend Stocks Between January 21 - 27, 2013. In total, 18 stocks and preferred shares go ex dividend - of which 10 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 4.48%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
R.R. Donnelley & Sons	RRD	1.71B	-	1.52	0.17	10.94%
Compass Diversified Holdings	CODI	762.66M	-	1.75	0.86	9.12%
Solar Senior Capital Ltd	SUNS	178.13M	10.25	1.01	9.92	7.52%
Government Properties Income	GOV	1.38B	23.83	1.37	6.68	6.81%
Franklin Street Properties	FSP	1.08B	48.15	1.23	6.85	5.85%
Pembina Pipeline Corporation	PBA	8.56B	34.95	1.97	3.19	5.59%
New Hampshire Thrift Bancshares	NHTB	75.52M	10.85	0.67	2.08	4.06%
Royal Bank of Canada	RY	90.07B	12.37	2.00	4.25	3.88%
Siemens AG	SI	97.76B	14.56	2.37	0.94	3.50%
Watsco Inc.	WSO	2.63B	25.47	2.84	0.79	3.26%
Colgate-Palmolive Co.	CL	51.51B	21.37	20.57	3.03	2.28%
Williams-Sonoma Inc.	WSM	4.37B	18.65	3.59	1.12	1.97%
Tyco International Ltd.	TYC	14.61B	-	2.90	1.40	1.91%
Progressive Corp.	PGR	13.74B	15.25	2.10	0.84	1.79%
CVS Caremark Corporation	CVS	64.97B	17.49	1.76	0.54	1.73%
Epoch Investment Partners	EPHC	663.51M	23.55	8.54	6.57	1.43%
Signet Jewelers Limited	SIG	4.96B	15.21	2.31	1.30	0.78%
The Cooper Companies Inc.	COO	4.72B	19.24	2.15	3.27	0.06%

13 Cheap Shares With A Higher Capitalization | Next Year’s Best Growth Stocks

Cheapest large capitalized stocks with highest earnings per share growth; originally published at “long-term-investments.blogspot.com. The most of my readers are looking for high yielding stocks or cheap stocks to buy. It sounds nearly similar because the goal of both is the same. All leads to a high return of your invested capital.

A cheap stock is the basis for every future returns. Beside cheap fundamentals and pricing ratios of a company, the expected growth is an additional important item for investors. After the ongoing turbulences due to the euro debt crises and the fiscal cliff in America, there should be some bargains in relation to growth right now.

I made a screen of America’s cheapest large capitalized stocks with highest expected growth for the upcoming fiscal year. Stocks from the sheet have a market capitalization of more than USD 10 billion and earnings per share are expected to grow for at least 15 percent. Despite the strong growth, they still have a P/E ratio of less than 15 and a P/S and P/B ratio of less than two.

Thirteen companies fulfilled the mentioned criteria of which ten companies have a buy or better recommendation. Eleven of the results pay dividends.

Best Ex-Dividend Stock List For November 19, 2012

The Best Yielding 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 date on the next trading day.

A full list of all stocks with ex-dividend date can be found here: Ex-Dividend Stocks on November 19, 2012. In total, 40 stocks and preferred shares go ex dividend - of which 18 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 3.73%. If you like to receive the next dividend you need to buy the dividend stocks now.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
Pengrowth Energy Corporation	PGH	2.59B	-	0.61	2.41	9.45%
Arcelor Mittal	MT	23.04B	-	0.41	0.26	5.08%
Microchip Technology Inc.	MCHP	5.74B	28.20	2.84	4.09	4.76%
Thomson Reuters Corporation	TRI	22.58B	-	1.33	1.68	4.68%
Autoliv, Inc.	ALV	5.27B	10.36	1.43	0.64	3.62%
Maxim Integrated Products Inc.	MXIM	7.99B	23.43	3.12	3.34	3.50%
Applied Materials Inc.	AMAT	12.75B	12.41	1.53	1.38	3.50%
Cinemark Holdings Inc.	CNK	2.93B	18.34	2.72	1.22	3.30%
Assured Guaranty Ltd.	AGO	2.50B	4.24	0.53	1.37	2.80%
Marathon Petroleum Corporation	MPC	18.29B	7.21	1.78	0.23	2.59%
Valero Energy Corporation	VLO	16.37B	14.79	0.94	0.12	2.37%
Target Corp.	TGT	40.89B	14.29	2.57	0.57	2.31%
Marathon Oil Corporation	MRO	21.57B	11.97	1.25	1.37	2.23%
Wyndham Worldwide	WYN	6.87B	19.21	3.40	1.55	1.88%
Progressive Corp.	PGR	13.44B	14.92	2.05	0.82	1.83%
Silver Wheaton Corp.	SLW	12.54B	22.84	4.21	16.62	0.79%
FedEx Corporation	FDX	27.18B	13.52	1.83	0.63	0.65%
Allergan Inc.	AGN	27.05B	25.72	4.74	4.75	0.23%
PVH Corp.	PVH	7.57B	23.28	2.72	1.27	0.14%