| Ticker | Company | Market Cap | P/E | P/S | P/B | Dividend |
| AEG | Aegon N.V. | 13.61B | 5.03 | 0.2 | 0.46 | 5.07% |
| ING | ING Groep N.V. | 58.44B | 9.9 | 1.44 | 1 | 4.86% |
| PUK | Prudential plc | 60.06B | 15.81 | 0.53 | 2.79 | 4.53% |
| MFC | Manulife Financial Corporation | 36.16B | 18.98 | 0.88 | 1.18 | 3.75% |
| MET | MetLife, Inc. | 47.11B | 9.66 | 0.69 | 0.85 | 3.65% |
| PRU | Prudential Financial, Inc. | 42.60B | 8.92 | 0.71 | 0.82 | 3.59% |
| PFG | Principal Financial Group, Inc. | 16.27B | 8.63 | 1.16 | 1.39 | 3.53% |
| LFC | China Life Insurance Company Limited | 87.97B | 14.54 | 0.93 | 1.46 | 2.64% |
| FFG | FBL Financial Group, Inc. | 2.01B | 19.67 | 2.71 | 1.69 | 2.22% |
| TIPT | Tiptree Inc. | 259.58M | - | 0.44 | 0.62 | 2.12% |
| LNC | Lincoln National Corporation | 14.90B | 21.8 | 1.01 | 0.96 | 1.97% |
| RGA | Reinsurance Group of America, Incorporated | 9.20B | 13.16 | 0.72 | 1.02 | 1.40% |
| PRI | Primerica, Inc. | 5.04B | 19.77 | 2.89 | 3.64 | 0.86% |
| IHC | Independence Holding Company | 539.31M | 10.87 | 1.6 | 1.28 | 0.80% |
| AAME | Atlantic American Corporation | 49.73M | - | 0.28 | 0.5 | 0.80% |
| TMK | Torchmark Corporation | 9.98B | 4.27 | 2.34 | 1.72 | 0.73% |
| AEL | American Equity Investment Life Holding Company | 3.29B | 11.08 | 1.06 | 1.28 | 0.72% |
| NWLI | National Western Life Group, Inc. | 1.22B | 12.55 | 1.1 | 0.66 | 0.11% |
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The Best Yielding Life Insurer By Dividend Yield
19 Best European Dividend Stocks
The table below lists the 19 European dividend stocks most widely held in at least a third of the European dividend-focused mutual funds. In other words, the stocks listed in the table are held as a Top 30 holding by at least 6 of the 16 funds studied. In addition, the table also shows the subset of Morningstar 4- and 5-star rated funds that hold the same stocks.
20 Cheapest Large Cap Stocks With Fat Dividends And Low Debt Ratios
De-risk your portfolio with undervalued dividend payers that you can watch grow inside of your portfolio. With the market pulling back again, now is a great time to start adding shares while they’re cheap.
There are a number of stocks that have taken a beating of late, and that’s created some great buying opportunities. There are close to 350 stocks that pay a 2% plus dividend yield and are down 10% in 2016.
However, not all of these dividends are actually “cheap” from a valuation perspective, nor do all have the balance sheets or cash flows to support their dividends.
The key is to be prudent.
Attached you will see a list of the 20 cheapest dividend paying large cap stocks by forward price to earnings ratio. I've only listed those with a market cap over 10 billion with a debt to equity ratio below one. Those are two very essential restrictions to my screen.
As might see, there is a good mix of all sectors: Financials, Industrials, Services, Technology, Healthcare and Utilites.
These are the 20 cheapest dividend paying large caps by forward P/E ratio...
Why Insurer Metlife Could Be A Buy
Over the past 16 decades it has grown from a simple provider of life insurance and annuities (60%) to a financial colossus that extends to employee benefits and asset management products and services.
From its famous Park Avenue location, MET reaches 90 million customers. This includes over 60 countries in Asia, Latin America, Europe and the Middle East that adds to nearly 30% of its business.
The insurance and financial services industry is highly competitive in all respects. Great importance is placed on attracting new retail and corporate customers since longevity is a key to success in the main insurance and annuity segments of MET's business.
At the same time, adequate reserves must be maintained to meet eventual policy payments to beneficiaries. MET earns its income making actuarial assumptions and earning an interest spread in the interim.
Low interest rates combined with historically narrow interest spreads have disrupted fixed income markets for the past several years. As long-term fixed income investments have matured, insurance companies have been hard pressed to reinvest these proceeds as profitably.
For MET this has caused the company to alter actuarial assumptions and change reserve practices that was announced with the most recent quarterly performance. During this period, the company's revenues fell by 2% to $17 billion and per share profits by 93% to $0.06.
MET has paid dividends either to policyholders or stockholders for more than 90 years with regular increases over the past four. Yes, the financial industry is going through difficult times but it is not the first.
During the financial crisis in 2008, MET revenues increased 8% while per share profits posted negative growth of 24%. The company consistently paid dividends during this period. This means that MET could be less sensitive to bear market pressures than the average company.
The payout ratio is just 41% of earnings-per-share and only 13% of free cash flow. This is unusually low even for insurance companies that are required to maintain adequate reserves for policyholder payments.
MET's balance sheet is not particularly leveraged, and profitability margins are above average. Operating margins at 10.7% are the highest in nearly five years as are the 6% return on invested capital and 8% return on equity.
MET stock has seriously under performed the general market, driving up the $1.60 per share payout to a well above average 3.9% yield.
Over the past decade, dividends have compounded at an 11% average annual rate and by 14.9% over the past five years. If the company can continue to grow dividends and the stock price recovers, MET could offer investors attractive total returns.
Here is a corporate profil and the dividend history of the stock...
These Dividend Stocks Are The Biggest Losers Of The #Brexit
Today I like to show you those dividend paying stocks that lost the most after the first sell-off on the market.
Today the markets look to calm down but we don't know what will happened in the next days.
In my view, the Brexit effects on the market are only short-term and driven by forex markets.
Here are the
biggest losers by one-week performance...
My Top Stocks From The International Dividend Achievers Index
Dividends help identify well-managed companies; every dividend declaration represents a promise by management and a vote of confidence by the board of directors in the company's leadership.
Companies that consistently raise their dividend payouts also raise the bar on their own performance expectations.
Shares of dividend-paying companies possess built-in value that makes them generally more resilient in down markets, with solid appreciation potential during earnings-driven market upturns — with less price volatility.
That's the theory. In real, there are several indices you can follow in order to discover the best dividend paying stocks.
Very poplular are Dividend Aristocrats and the CCC Lists. But those have in common that they are focussed on national domiciled stocks.
For sure, on an international basis, the number of stocks with a long dividend growth history is very limited. That's the reason why we need to turn down the classic rules of Dividend Growth.
Today I screened the lists of International Dividend Achievers, stocks with more than 5 consecutive years of dividend growth by companies with good looking fundamentals and growth perspectives.
Attached you will find 17 of my top results. The list contains 6 stocks with a yield over 4 percent.
Here are the results...
8 High-Return Creating Stocks
A company that has
a big return on equity and also low debt ratios means that the high ratio was
not created by taking debt and boosting earnings. Great for us investors; we
own a piece of a high income generating company.
If the company can
scale up its sales by taking more debt and issuing new shares, our return could
boost. That's also one reason why I look at low debt with good return on equity
ratios. If the company also do stock buybacks and hiked dividends, great!
My experience is
that no companies fulfill everything. It's no shame when a company suffers and
do not meet every optimum value. Each business is volatile and risky.
I've tried to
create a screen, based on some return figures. Below are my 8 favorites. At the
end of this article, you can find a list with 16 additional stocks.
These are my main criteria:
- Midcap+
- Forward P/E under 15
- Operating Margin over 15 percent
- Debt-to-equity under 1
- Return on Equity 15%+
- Payout half of profits
- Mid-digit Earnigns growth forecasts
These are my main criteria:
- Midcap+
- Forward P/E under 15
- Operating Margin over 15 percent
- Debt-to-equity under 1
- Return on Equity 15%+
- Payout half of profits
- Mid-digit Earnigns growth forecasts
8 high return creating
stocks, low debt and price ratios included are...
Ken Fisher’s Biggest Dividend Stock Buys And His Latest Portfolio
Ken
Fisher’s stock purchases and his portfolio overview originally published at long-term-investments.blogspot.com. I often look at the
activities of the big players because some of them know what’s hot on the
market. One investment guru I would like to introduce here today is Ken Fisher. Fisher has assets of around $38 billion under management and he owns around 500 stocks of which 45 were completely new in his portfolio.
Because of the huge number of assets he own, the transaction list is very long and none of his deals had a really huge influence to his portfolio. The biggest move on the long side was the purchase of the UBS Fisher ETN “UBS Fisher Enhanced Big Cap Growth ETN”.
From his 20 biggest long transactions pay 12 a dividend.
Ken Fisher is one of the most diversified guy's I’ve ever seen. The biggest portfolio position has a share of 2.7 percent and is reasonable to the Barclays ETN FI Enhanced Global High Yield ETN. Fisher owns 3 exchange traded funds in his top 20 positions with a total weighting of around 7.1 percent.
Beside ETFs, Fisher loves the Technology sector and bets on financial services stocks. All three categories represent around 47.4 percent of his assets.
Fisher reduced technology, energy and basic material stocks within the recent quarter. On the other side, he increased stocks from the financial services sector, healthcare and defensive consumer goods sector.
Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On August 21, 2013
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, 94 stocks go ex dividend
- of which 33 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 6.09%. Here
is a full list of all
stocks with ex-dividend date within the upcoming week.
Here is the sheet of the best yielding, higher
capitalized ex-dividend stocks:
|
Company
|
Ticker
|
Mcap
|
P/E
|
P/B
|
P/S
|
Yield
|
|
Pembina
Pipeline Corporation
|
9.76B
|
30.58
|
2.05
|
2.13
|
5.03%
|
|
|
Transocean
Ltd.
|
16.75B
|
10.16
|
1.07
|
1.80
|
4.81%
|
|
|
HSBC
Holdings plc
|
203.07B
|
13.25
|
1.17
|
3.84
|
3.65%
|
|
|
Prudential
plc
|
47.13B
|
18.40
|
3.15
|
0.56
|
3.38%
|
|
|
Intercontinental
Hotels Group plc
|
10.20B
|
15.93
|
33.08
|
5.56
|
2.83%
|
|
|
Carnival
Corporation
|
27.81B
|
18.60
|
1.19
|
1.81
|
2.79%
|
|
|
Ritchie
Bros. Auctioneers
|
2.04B
|
27.70
|
3.08
|
4.64
|
2.72%
|
|
|
Carnival
plc
|
29.17B
|
19.50
|
1.25
|
1.90
|
2.66%
|
|
|
British
American Tobacco plc
|
101.69B
|
16.68
|
9.44
|
4.25
|
2.57%
|
|
|
3M
Co.
|
79.56B
|
18.12
|
4.45
|
2.63
|
2.20%
|
|
|
Hershey
Co.
|
21.18B
|
29.56
|
19.03
|
3.10
|
2.05%
|
|
|
Limited
Brands, Inc.
|
17.06B
|
22.71
|
-
|
1.61
|
2.03%
|
|
|
Snap-on
Inc.
|
5.59B
|
17.14
|
2.97
|
1.85
|
1.58%
|
|
|
Equifax
Inc.
|
7.52B
|
25.77
|
3.59
|
3.33
|
1.42%
|
|
|
Nu
Skin Enterprises Inc.
|
4.97B
|
21.40
|
7.17
|
2.12
|
1.42%
|
|
|
Primerica,
Inc.
|
2.17B
|
13.88
|
1.90
|
1.77
|
1.14%
|
15 Cheap International Dividend Achievers | Foreign Dividend Growth Stocks
My results often come from the American stocks but you can find overseas also some good dividend growth players with potential to grow further. For sure the rest of the world doesn’t have so many stocks with a long history of rising dividends but there are a few attractive candidates.
Today I would like to look at some International Dividend Achievers. Those stocks have raised dividends for at least five consecutive years. In this article, I will present you the 15 cheapest stocks with positive 5-Year earnings per share growth expectations. Two High-Yields are part of the results and seven of the cheapest foreign dividend stocks have a current buy or better rating.
Great Britain’s Best Yielding Large Cap ADRs With Cheap Price Ratios
I’ve started a new series of screens on my blog. The best yielding large cap stocks from foreign countries with cheap price ratios. The results from Asia and Latin America were inspirational for me but when I look deeper into the results, I realize that I could not build a deeper relationship to them. They are too far away from my research and their products and services are really unknown for me.
Today I like to come back to the core industrialized
countries by screening stocks from the United Kingdom with an U.S. listing. A full
list of the best yielding stocks from the FTSE can also be found in my weekly published
E-Book “Dividend
Weekly”.
My criteria are still the same: A market capitalization
over USD 10 billion with a low forward P/E of less than 15. Finally, the dividend
yield should be positive. In total, 16 of 38 U.K. stocks fulfilled these criteria.
Thirteen companies have a current buy or better rating.
Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On March 27, 2013
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 March 27,
2013. In total, 28 stocks and
preferred shares go ex dividend - of which 10 yield more than 3 percent. The
average yield amounts to 4.51%.
Here is the sheet of the best yielding, higher
capitalized ex-dividend stocks:
Company
|
Ticker
|
Mcap
|
P/E
|
P/B
|
P/S
|
Yield
|
Dynex
Capital Inc.
|
591.76M
|
8.08
|
0.96
|
5.21
|
10.63%
|
|
Spirit
Realty Capital, Inc
|
1.63B
|
-
|
1.30
|
5.75
|
6.52%
|
|
Realty
Income Corp.
|
8.57B
|
58.17
|
2.45
|
18.03
|
4.91%
|
|
Liberty
Property Trust
|
4.75B
|
37.82
|
2.25
|
6.93
|
4.78%
|
|
Hersha
Hospitality Trust
|
1.16B
|
-
|
1.40
|
3.23
|
4.12%
|
|
CBL
& Associates Properties
|
3.81B
|
35.22
|
2.87
|
3.68
|
3.90%
|
|
Prudential
plc
|
41.98B
|
12.48
|
2.68
|
0.50
|
3.81%
|
|
Maiden
Holdings, Ltd.
|
770.55M
|
16.89
|
0.76
|
0.41
|
3.38%
|
|
BankUnited,
Inc.
|
2.66B
|
12.62
|
1.36
|
3.69
|
3.25%
|
|
Republic
Services, Inc.
|
11.84B
|
21.06
|
1.53
|
1.46
|
2.88%
|
|
CubeSmart
|
2.11B
|
-
|
2.10
|
7.45
|
2.79%
|
|
Cardinal
Health, Inc.
|
14.33B
|
12.74
|
2.19
|
0.14
|
2.62%
|
|
Pebblebrook
Hotel Trust
|
1.55B
|
210.00
|
1.17
|
4.07
|
2.54%
|
|
Dell
Inc.
|
25.35B
|
10.75
|
2.36
|
0.45
|
2.21%
|
|
ProAssurance
Corporation
|
2.87B
|
10.48
|
1.27
|
4.02
|
2.14%
|
|
International
Bancshares
|
1.39B
|
14.85
|
0.97
|
3.69
|
1.94%
|
|
State
Street Corp.
|
27.10B
|
14.19
|
1.30
|
8.99
|
1.75%
|
|
Mondelez
International, Inc.
|
53.14B
|
34.74
|
1.65
|
1.52
|
1.74%
|
|
AmTrust
Financial Services, Inc.
|
2.34B
|
12.70
|
2.05
|
1.25
|
1.61%
|
|
HCC
Insurance Holdings Inc.
|
4.18B
|
10.85
|
1.18
|
1.65
|
1.59%
|
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