20 Stocks With A Free Cashflow Inital Yield Over 5%

A profitable company is solid and a good investment if it growth and scales its profits. That's a fact. 

But often we see earnings that are no earnings. The cash flow is often higher or lower and the need for capital expenditures makes it more complicated to evaluate the true earnings for return orientated investors.

A High free cash flow can be used for so many interesting things like organic growth, merger and acquisitions or even buybacks and special dividends.

Attached I've compiled a few stocks that offer a free cash flow yield over 5 percent. That’s a good initial yield in my view.

Here are my favorite 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

30 High-Margin Stocks With Strong Competitive Advantages

Investing into high margin companies could end in a better return. The underlying thought is simple: A companies that works on higher margin can survive a market correction more likely and become stronger after a recession.

Attached, you can find a list of companies with high profit margins. Those could be a first step to start a further research. 

In general, the margin tells us something about the competition as well as the business model. 

High margins mean that the corporate make many business processing steps by it. The competition is less hard. Products are unique and could have a market barrier.

Here is the selection of high-margin stocks...

20 Highest Yielding Ex-Dividend Stocks Of The Next Week

Attached is a list of the highest yielding stocks that go ex-dividend within the upcoming week. The full list can be found here: Ex-Dividend Stocks Of The Next Week September 14 - September 20, 2015. Only MidCaps with a market cap over 2 billion were included.

As a result, 49 higher capitalized stocks go ex-dividend in the upcoming week. Six of them have a yield over 5 percent while the lowest yielding below the top 20 yields at 2.67 percent. Check out the attached list.

Below is a current stock list of dividend stocks (common shares, preferred shares and American Depositary Receipts – ADR’s), paying forthcoming dividends and having their ex-dividend within the week September 14, 2015 – September 20, 2015. The average dividend-yield amounts to 5.05 percent.

Highlights in the week are Las Vegas Sands, STMicroelectronics, Vector Group, Medical Properties, Western Union, Omnicon and Albemarle.

20 Highest Yielding Ex-Dividend Stocks
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66 Dividend Growth Stocks Of The Week

Attached is a full list of the latest Dividend Growers. Those stocks have announced a dividend hike during the past trading week.

66 stocks raised their dividends within the past week. 19 of them have a cheap forward P/E of less than 15.

You can find the biggest stocks in the attached list. Regional Banks are the cheapest growth stocks with expected EPS growth over 5 percent for the next half-decade.

The best yielding stocks with a 2 billion+ market cap can be found the following list. Oil and gas pipeline stocks dominating.

66 Dividend Growth Stocks Of The Week

Mondelez, Siomon Property, Energy Transfer Partners, Amphenol, Stanley Black & Decker, Magellan Midstream and Republic Services are the biggest stocks with dividend growth. Which stocks do you like?

Here are the all of the 66 dividend growers of the past week....

Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On September 12, 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.

In total, 192 stocks, preferred shares or funds go ex dividend - of which 95 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 6.02%. Here is a full list of all stocks with ex-dividend date within the current week.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
Ares Capital Corporation	ARCC	4.72B	8.33	1.09	5.87	8.57%
Altria Group Inc.	MO	70.03B	15.97	19.65	2.88	5.49%
BCE, Inc.	BCE	33.62B	14.49	3.10	1.74	5.12%
Garmin Ltd.	GRMN	8.34B	15.80	2.48	3.12	4.22%
Equity One Inc.	EQY	2.54B	-	1.78	7.45	4.07%
DTE Energy Co.	DTE	11.61B	16.47	1.54	1.25	3.93%
Extra Space Storage Inc.	EXR	4.82B	33.60	3.15	10.27	3.69%
Northeast Utilities	NU	12.91B	16.58	1.37	1.80	3.59%
Merck & Co. Inc.	MRK	144.42B	28.56	3.04	3.22	3.58%
Rayonier Inc.	RYN	7.12B	21.25	4.56	4.33	3.47%
Dr Pepper Snapple Group, Inc.	DPS	9.09B	15.25	3.95	1.51	3.41%
Prologis, Inc.	PLD	18.12B	-	1.32	9.46	3.00%
UGI Corp.	UGI	4.44B	16.32	1.78	0.63	2.91%
The Coca-Cola Company	KO	171.75B	20.44	5.33	3.61	2.90%
Taubman Centers Inc.	TCO	4.41B	46.12	-	5.80	2.89%
NYSE Euronext, Inc.	NYX	10.26B	23.73	1.68	2.72	2.84%
Owens & Minor Inc.	OMI	2.18B	21.10	2.21	0.24	2.76%
Western Union Co.	WU	10.31B	11.75	11.11	1.86	2.69%
Fidelity National Financial, Inc.	FNF	5.60B	9.21	1.28	0.65	2.57%
Endurance Specialty Holdings	ENH	2.17B	16.19	0.80	0.95	2.52%

Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On June 07, 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 June 07, 2013. In total, 12 stocks and preferred shares go ex dividend - of which 2 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 1.99%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
China Petroleum & Chemical	SNP	87.49B	8.74	1.02	0.19	5.73%
Laclede Group Inc.	LG	1.48B	16.70	1.67	1.39	3.61%
Prologis, Inc.	PLD	19.36B	-	1.44	9.60	2.88%
Best Buy Co. Inc.	BBY	9.20B	-	3.14	0.19	2.51%
Firstbank Corporation	FBMI	109.16M	11.69	0.82	1.74	1.77%
Legg Mason Inc.	LM	4.19B	-	0.87	1.60	1.55%
Scorpio Tankers Inc.	STNG	1.44B	-	0.65	10.97	1.13%
Ross Stores Inc.	ROST	14.06B	17.38	7.51	1.42	1.06%
W.R. Berkley Corporation	WRB	5.47B	11.59	1.25	0.92	1.00%
GAMCO Investors, Inc.	GBL	1.42B	19.48	4.02	4.06	0.36%
Gardner Denver Inc.	GDI	3.70B	14.65	2.53	1.64	0.27%
UniFirst Corp.	UNF	1.88B	17.49	1.96	1.44	0.16%

Next Week's Best Yielding 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 June 03 - 09, 2013. In total, 150 stocks and preferred shares go ex dividend - of which 49 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 2.81%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
France Telecom	FTE	27.76B	27.58	0.88	0.49	14.31%
China Petroleum & Chemical	SNP	90.80B	9.07	1.06	0.20	5.52%
PPL Corporation	PPL	17.43B	12.83	1.66	1.64	4.92%
Reynolds American Inc.	RAI	26.57B	18.05	5.19	3.22	4.86%
Public Service Enterprise Group	PEG	16.87B	15.37	1.54	1.74	4.32%
Dominion Resources, Inc.	D	32.98B	100.16	2.97	2.51	3.94%
Williams Companies, Inc.	WMB	24.45B	38.92	5.09	3.36	3.80%
TELUS Corporation	TU	11.52B	9.06	1.44	1.07	3.76%
Ventas, Inc.	VTR	21.34B	57.31	2.33	8.20	3.68%
Waste Management, Inc.	WM	19.69B	24.09	3.08	1.44	3.46%
Ensco plc	ESV	14.40B	11.45	1.19	3.25	3.23%
Kimberly-Clark Corporation	KMB	38.58B	21.81	8.22	1.82	3.23%
Pepsico, Inc.	PEP	125.60B	20.83	5.62	1.91	2.79%
Genuine Parts Company	GPC	12.17B	18.97	3.97	0.93	2.74%
Prologis, Inc.	PLD	20.48B	-	1.52	10.15	2.73%
Baxter International Inc.	BAX	39.02B	17.35	5.61	2.74	2.72%
Occidental Petroleum	OXY	76.33B	17.32	1.87	3.20	2.70%
CME Group Inc.	CME	23.30B	26.84	1.08	8.15	2.58%
SLM Corporation	SLM	10.68B	9.77	2.08	1.67	2.50%
Banco Bradesco S.A.	BBD	68.45B	12.14	2.00	2.92	2.46%