7 Of The Most Underestimated Dividend Stocks

It's hard to define a solid investing criterion which could bring you solid gains while excluding the big risks. 

I personally believe in dividends as a safe haven criteria because cash you have received in the past could compensate a potential loss. 

For sure, this is not a good return driver, especially when we are talking about yields of 1-2 percent yearly, but each penny sums to dollars if you compile enough of them.

Today I run my daily screen about cheap dividend paying stocks with double-digit earnings growth forecasts for the next five years. 

In addition, the stocks have a very comfortable debt situation, measured by a debt-to-equity ratio of less than 0.5.

These are my favorites from the screening results:

7 High Quality Stocks With Solid Room To Grow Dividends While Paying High Yields

It's hard to find good investments, especially in a market where everybody can discover the same fundamentals.

The stock market is one of the most competitive and transparent markets in the whole world. The good thing is that free information helps us to get a better overview of price ratios and risk premiums.

I'm a very fundamental driven investor and screen the capital market by several criteria related to debt, price, free cash flow, growth and so on.

Today I like to introduce 7 high quality stocks with a debt to total capital less than 40, free cash payout less than 60% and with a yield above 2.5%.

These are the results:

These 15 Stocks Could Double Their Dividends

Dividend growth is more important than yield, that's a major issue from the dividend growth investing space.

The reason is simple, a fast growing stock that reinvest all of their generated money, could overtake every higher yielding and slow growing stock in a few years.

Today I like to show you 15 Dividend Achievers, stocks with a history of growing dividends of more than 10 years without a break, that have potential to double their dividends.

My criteria:
- Debt-to-equity of less than 0.2
- Low payout ratio under 30%
- positive earnings growth over 5% yearly

Here are my favorites...

10 Sustainable Dividend Growth Stocks With High Yields And Low Payouts

If you're looking for income in retirement, a classic source of that are dividend payments.

Dividend income may not guaranteed but they can easily deliver a sustainable income source. And while not guaranteed, many dividend payouts are exceedingly reliable.

Even better, dividends from healthy, growing companies tend to be increased over time, while the stock price should grow in tandem.

For safe and steady dividend income, seek out companies that: Pay reasonably generous dividends, such as 2.5% or more.

By the way, you may also like my article about the 20 safest Dividend Champions. Always good to know what stocks have the lowest beta ratio.

--- Have a track record of hiking their payouts regularly.

--- Have low payout ratios -- no more than 30%.

--- Are stable, growing, and easy for you to understand.

Below are 10 stock ideas from the dividend growth investing space that fulfills some of these criteria. Which from the results do you like? Please share your thoughts by leaving a comment. Thank you.

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These are my 5 highlights...

These 11 Top Yielding Stocks Have A Nearly Secure Dividend

I started a screen in order to hunt for the most guaranteeing dividend paying stocks.

I wish to concentrate on bigger, more diversified organizations in the U.S. because of their inalienable quality and solidness. Next, I will utilize three profit related criteria to choose several dividend all-stars. 

To start with, I will choose only those organizations with dividend yields of 3 percent or more. By the way, the sustainable of the dividend payments are also in focus of my research. 

It doesn't make sense when a company pays its investor one or two years and then cuts the income stream for the following once – I will screen for companies with a dividend coverage ratio of no less than 250 percent. 

The dividend coverage is characterized as the earnings in relation to the dividend payments. The higher the ratio, the lower the dividend payouts and the higher the dividend coverage should be. 

Good companies, like Dividend Kings, can pay stable dividends or let grow when despite earnings are falling by 50 percent due to high dividend coverage.

At last, I will search for stocks with a reputation of raising their profit payouts over the long haul. I will search for a five-year normal dividend growth rate of not less than 3 percent every year. 

Attached are my 11 results of which five are highlighted in detail. I hope you find some values in my work and the current screen. Thank you for reading.

These are my favorites from the results…

7 Dividend Achievers Good Enough To Buy And 10 To Watch

The last sell-off on the market gave me reasons to look back on my dividend growers lists to check the current price ratios.

You know that stocks are too expensive but some of them show good growth ratio and have also attractive price ratios in relation to the cash income and enterprise values.

This week I've screened all Dividend Achievers by cheap fundamentals, solid growth figures and low dividend payouts. 

Dividend Achievers are stocks that have raised dividends over a period of 10 consecutive years or more. 

These are my criteria in detail:

- Dividend Yield over 2 percent

- Dividend Payout below 40 percent

- Expected 5-Year Earnings Growth over 5 percent

- Forward P/E under 15

- Only Large Caps

- 10 Years of consecutive dividend growth or more

My screen delivered me 17 results. The best yielding results come from the oil and gas sector. Those stocks suffered under falling oil and gas prices. Russian crises and recession fears in Europe are main forces to the cheap fundamentals.

I'm a guy who believes in technology, old school technology. IBM is a top pick in my view. For sure IBM did not grow over the past decade but they have a strong focus on profit and shareholder return. Earnings doubled and due to massive buybacks, EPS skyrocket.

IBM is no island in a raw sea. It's only a big company with a strong cash flow and they must pay attention to the competition.

Which stocks did you buy from the list below? Or would you buy some of the top yielder?

Here are seven Dividend Achievers with cheap fundamentals from seven different sectors. A good and broad diversification is good for most investors because they can reduce your portfolio volatility.

7 cheap top yielding Dividend Achievers are....

Yields Of The Dividend Aristocrats | 12 Cheapest Stock Of The Index

Today I've attached a list of the yields from the Dividend Aristocrats for you. You can also find the payout ratios in this table. It's very informative in my view and I use this overview too in order to get a feeling about the pricing of the market.

Dividend Aristocrats are stocks that have increased dividend payments over a period of 25 consecutive years without a break. That's a top value and around 100+companies could achieve this goal.

Standard & Poor's increases the restrictions and cut the list to 42 members. Well not all stocks are good from the list but you can find there some value player. Just take a look!

You may also like: 6 Cheap Dividend Aristocrats With High Growth Predicted 

Only 12 companies yield over 3 percent. Not bad for a low interest environment. The bond market offers 1.56 percent and has also default risks.

The top yielding stocks also slow grower full of debt. Which stock do you like or own from the list? Let me know your thoughts and write a comment. Thank you.

These are my main thoughts to the Dividend Aristocrats list:

- When we look at the highest yielding stocks with yields over 3 percent, we see that only 3 companies have a low forward P/E.

- Stocks with a lower yield are much cheaper. 9 companies with yields less than 2 percent have a forward P/E under 15.

- Low yielding stocks pay out less of it's annual earnings and might be reinvest more money into growth.

Also read this: 25 Of The Most Attractive Dividend Stocks

These are the 12 cheapest Dividend Aristocrats:

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
AT&T, Inc.	T	182.96B	10.38	1.99	1.40	5.22%
Consolidated Edison, Inc.	ED	16.50B	13.04	1.33	1.26	4.47%
Chevron Corporation	CVX	230.66B	11.59	1.49	1.06	3.52%
Exxon Mobil Corporation	XOM	406.98B	12.16	2.26	0.96	2.89%
Bemis Company, Inc.	BMS	3.80B	17.37	2.25	0.77	2.84%
AFLAC Inc.	AFL	26.50B	9.24	1.51	1.14	2.53%
Wal-Mart Stores Inc.	WMT	246.49B	16.00	3.18	0.51	2.51%
Stanley Black & Decker, Inc.	SWK	14.10B	23.14	2.00	1.26	2.31%
The Chubb Corporation	CB	21.98B	11.19	1.36	1.58	2.19%
Medtronic, Inc.	MDT	62.04B	21.40	3.27	3.61	1.93%
Archer-Daniels-Midland Company	ADM	32.84B	20.43	1.65	0.37	1.89%
Franklin Resources Inc.	BEN	34.39B	15.41	3.04	4.13	0.87%

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8 High-Return Creating Stocks

When you invest in dividend stocks you need also look at internal return rates. The most popular ratios are return on equity and return on investment.

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

8 high return creating stocks, low debt and price ratios included are...

6 Top Growth Heros With Potential To Lift Future Dividends

Only a growing dividend is a good dividend. That was one of my major rules when I started my dividend growth investing career. Since then, I quadrupled my net worth, only via dividend stock trading. That's a great feeling to see that it really works, but we must also consider that the markets are irrational valuated.

Today, I would like to share a new screen about dividend stocks that have beaten the market by sales and earnings growth numbers in the past. 

Not enough, they also have low debt, dividend payout ratios. Both are two major criteria to evaluate future dividend growth. These are the criteria in detail:

- Market cap is greater than USD 100 million

- Dividend yield is greater than 2%

- The payout ratio is less than 100%

- Total debt to equity is less than 1.00

- Average annual earnings growth for the past five years is greater than 25%

- Average annual sales growth for the past five years is greater than 10%

Six companies fulfilled the above mentioned criteria of which four have a current buy or better rating.

3 Stocks Warren Buffett Would Pick In His Earlier Years

I've released earlier this week an article about Warren Buffett's latest portfolio moves. Warren acts very cautious. 

He hold much cash and makes only a few big moves per year. People can say that he is a really lazy guy but also a smart investor when you look at his long-term performance.

If you copy Warren Buffett's investment style and cover his latest trades very tight, you will definitely make no bigger return. 

How was it possible to create a $50 billion net worth over 50 years, only by trading stocks?

Warren invested in his earlier year’s money into companies with operational problems. In addition, they were very small compared to the market potential. He bought the potential leaders in a growing market.

Looking into the past doesn’t help us to find new stock ideas. I've always look at higher capitalized stocks because of the bigger degree of safety. But large capitalized stocks are also stocks with modest or slow growth. 

Today I present you 3 long-term dividend growers (stocks that have raised dividends over 25 years or more), with the following criteria:

- Market capitalization under USD 2 billion

- Dividend Payout Ratio below 50 percent

- Debt-To-Equity less than 0.5

- Forward P/E fewer than 20

You can find a company overview of the three results below. I don't own any of them but believe that they cover some values inside.

These are the results:

15 High Yields With The Lowest Dividend Payout Ratios

High Yields with dividend payouts of less than 50 percent and room to boost future dividends originally published at long-term-investments.blogspot.com. If you have only small amounts of money available for investing, you need a higher yield. I do know this problem but I always remember that higher dividend yields are also equally with a higher risk.

Today I would like to screen all higher yielding stocks with a dividend yield over 5 percent and a market capitalization above the 2 billion mark by its payout ratios. I’m hunting for opportunities that pay less than 50 percent of its earnings. I believe that there should be more room for a small dividend hike if earnings are not cyclic and grow over the time.

Fifteen high yielding stocks fulfilled these criteria of which eleven are currently recommended to buy.

12 Consumer Goods Stocks With Big Dividend Potential

Consumer stocks with low debt and dividend payout ratios to boost current yields originally published at long-term-investments.blogspot.com. You know that I love stocks form the consumer goods sector because there are so many companies with a high quality and low cyclic business model. Around 3/4 of my investments have a deep relationship to the consumer sector.

Today I would like to finish my monthly screen about low debt stocks with small dividend payouts. I’ve tried to compile the top picks from the major capital sectors with high potential of a growing dividend.

Here you can find the links to the articles:

· 13 Industrials With Low Dividend Payouts And Little Debt To Boost Shareholder Values

· 11 Basic Material Stocks With Low Debt And Dividend Payout Ratios

· 13 Large Cap Financials With High Potential To Boost Dividends

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

· 10 Utilities With The Most Solid Debt And Payout Figures To Boost Future Dividends

· 14 Top Technology Dividend Stocks With Potential To Pay Bigger Dividends

· 12 Healthcare Dividend Stocks With High Potential To Boost Growth And Hike Dividends

The consumer sector offers 12 stocks with a low dividend payout of less than 20 percent combined with a debt to equity ratio below 0.2. Nine of them have a current buy or better rating by brokerage firms.

I own none of the mentioned stocks. This could be reasonable to the fact that most of the results have a very small market capitalization. I do love big companies with strong cash flows and high market entry barriers but those have also high debt burdens.

11 Basic Material Stocks With Low Debt And Dividend Payout Ratios

Basic material dividend stocks with low dividend payout ratios and small debt figures originally published at long-term-investments.blogspot.com. The basic material sector is not popular at the capital market for the time being. Over the past year, shares from the sector are the worst performing assets class on the market.

But what others hate does not mean that you cannot make money with basic material stocks. If you are a long-term investor, you should definitely find some good stocks with a cheap valuation. But be careful, raw materials are also more cyclic than consumer or healthcare companies.

Today I would like to continue my monthly screen about dividend stocks with low debt ratios and little dividend payments. I observe stocks from the basic material sector with a dividend payout ratio of less than 20 percent of earnings as well as a debt to equity ratio under 0.2.

Exactly eleven stocks fulfilled these criteria of which eight are currently recommended to buy. Agrichemicals and specialty chemical companies are the dominating player on the list.

13 Industrials With Low Dividend Payouts And Little Debt To Boost Shareholder Values

Industrial dividend stocks with low dividend payout ratios and small debt figures originally published at long-term-investments.blogspot.com. Every corporation with small amounts of debt has a better flexibility to grow faster than other stocks with a similar size in the same industry. Corporate debt is a major source to boost growth without issuing new shares.

I’m a real dividend growth investor and I ever look for stocks that pay in 10 years a dividend that is twice as big as today. That’s the reason why I always look beside the growth possibilities also at the dividend payout and debt figures. A company with little debt, high cash and low dividend payouts has much to offer for current shareholders.

Today I would like to screen the industrial sector by stocks with low debt figures and dividend payouts. I selected only those stocks with a 20 percent dividend payout and a debt to equity ratio of less than 0.2.

Only thirteen stocks fulfilled these two criteria of which ten have a current buy or better ratio. The results are dominated by lower capitalized stocks. Only five have a market cap over a billion dollar.

13 Large Cap Financials With High Potential To Boost Dividends

Financial dividend stocks with low payout ratios and relatively small debt figures originally published at long-term-investments.blogspot.com. I started an article serial about stocks with low dividend payout ratios and small debt figures this month.

I believe that these two ratios have a big impact to judge the ability of a corporate to grow at a faster pace and hike dividends in the future.

Today I would like to discover the financial sector by stocks with a less than 20 percent dividend payout ratio and a debt to equity leverage of less than one. Because of the huge amount of results, I will only look at those stocks with a market capitalization over USD 10 billion.

Exactly thirteen financial stocks fulfilled these criteria of which one is a High-Yield.

13 Dividend Aristocrats With Lowest Payout Ratios To Boost Future Dividends

Dividend Aristocrats with low payout ratios and relatively small debt figures originally published at long-term-investments.blogspot.com. Dividend Aristocrats are stocks with a very long dividend growth history. Those stocks raised their dividends over more than 25 consecutive years and being selected by the credit agency Standard & Poor’s. The index covers 54 companies from the national stock exchanges.

Dividend Aristocrats are nice because they have a huge trust base for long-term orientated investors but a past performance also did not mean that the future performance would be the same. Some Dividend Aristocrats are full of debt and they pay dividends at a very high level.

I started an article serial this month about stocks with low debt and dividend payout ratios. I believe that those companies are much better positioned from the financial perspective to boost future dividends. In addition, they have much more capabilities to grow at a faster pace.

Today I would like to introduce you some of the Dividend Aristocrats with the lowest dividend payout ratios on the market. Half of the results have also acceptable or low debt ratios.

Only thirteen stocks have a dividend payout ratio of less than 30 percent of which seven are currently recommended to buy.

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.