20 Dividend Contenders With The Lowest P/B Ratio

Please find attached those Dividend Contenders with the lowest P/B ratio.

Ticker	Company	P/E	Fwd P/E	P/S	P/B	Dividend
ETP	Energy Transfer Partners, L.P.	-	12.8	0.69	0.74	13.26%
PRU	Prudential Financial, Inc.	9.27	8.1	0.75	0.82	3.45%
AEL	American Equity Investment Life Holding	12.69	8.11	0.69	0.93	0.88%
OMI	Owens & Minor, Inc.	25.42	7.14	0.1	0.93	6.60%
SEP	Spectra Energy Partners, LP	9.5	11.08	8.62	0.94	8.55%
DGICA	Donegal Group Inc.	61.9	11.33	0.57	0.95	3.66%
DGICB	Donegal Group Inc.	59.94	-	0.11	0.95	3.24%
SCG	SCANA Corporation	-	12.18	1.2	0.98	6.82%
AXS	AXIS Capital Holdings Limited	-	11.69	1.04	1.03	2.76%
AFSI	AmTrust Financial Services, Inc.	-	7.37	0.41	1.08	5.43%
ISCA	International Speedway Corporation	15.52	18.33	2.76	1.09	1.07%
ANDE	The Andersons, Inc.	-	13.28	0.25	1.1	2.03%
AIZ	Assurant, Inc.	14.96	10.26	0.77	1.17	2.45%
EBMT	Eagle Bancorp Montana, Inc.	17.83	11.51	4.07	1.22	1.72%
CB	Chubb Limited	15.2	11.82	1.95	1.22	2.12%
BHB	Bar Harbor Bankshares	14.4	-	3.83	1.22	2.67%
BPL	Buckeye Partners, L.P.	11.57	10.96	1.58	1.24	13.05%
FINL	The Finish Line, Inc.	21.99	17.24	0.3	1.24	3.41%
SHPG	Shire plc	25.09	9.35	3.03	1.27	0.69%
RBCAA	Republic Bancorp, Inc.	15.66	12.13	3.65	1.28	2.51%

This is only a small part of the full Dividend Yield Investor Fact Book Package. The full package contains excel sheets of essential financial ratios from all 113 Dividend Champions (over 25 years of constant dividend growth) and 204 Dividend Contenders (10 to 24 years of consecutive dividend growth). It's an open version, so you can work with it very easily.

The idea to create Factbooks and Fact Excel Sheets was born when I were looking for free aggregated information on the web. As a student of economics, I had not much money to buy the expensive S&P Stock and Bond Guides by McGraw-Hill to educate myself. I must put all my efforts into research and web search. Finally I needed to put all information into one Word and Excel file.

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16 Long-Term Dividend Growers At Reasonable Prices

A very, very famous investor once said that he liked to buy excellent businesses at 'reasonable prices.' I like to think that I am of the same mindset. A strategy of mine is to look for such businesses with real competitive advantages, but ones that are dividend payers and dividend growers.

My watch list now includes a couple hundred stocks, all of which are dividend payers. Today I'd like to share a small list of those which I believe retail income investors can buy 'off the shelf' right now.

These are the results...

20 Dividend Achievers Benjamin Graham Would Hunt

Benjamin Graham, the father of value investing, liked bargains.

In The Intelligent Investor, he told investors to look for stock prices at or below 15-times earnings, and at or below 1.5-times book value.

I like to adjust this rule in order to limit the results from my screen.

Here are more restrictions of my screen:

- Dividend Achiever
- Forward P/E under 15
- P/B under 2
- 5 Year Future EPS Forecasted Growth Over 5% yearly
- Debt to equity under 0.5

Exactly 20 stocks fulfilled the above mentioned criteria of which 6 yield over 3%. 

Attached I've tried to compile a few stocks that might match these criteria within the Dividend Achievers space. You will also find the best yielding stocks from the screen as a detailed snapshot.

Banks and insurer are dominating the screening results.

Here are the results...

19 Dividend Achievers Below Book Value

In a rising stock market, all eyes are on the income statement. But in a flat or falling market, the balance sheet moves into the spotlight. Investors want to know the real core accounted values of the company. 

If you look at the book value per share, you can easily identify stocks that are traded below their accounted assets.

If a company’s P/B ratio is less than one, the shares are selling for less than the value of the company’s assets.

What Is Book Value?

Book value is a measure of all of a company's assets: stocks, bonds, inventory, manufacturing equipment, real estate, etc. In theory, book value should include everything down to the pencils and staples used by employees, but for simplicity's sake companies generally only include large assets that are easily quantified.

Today I’ve screened my Dividend Achievers list by stocks with a current P/B ratio below one. 19 stocks matched exactly my criteria. The attached list shows all of them, sorted by the lowest ratio to the highest.

Here are the highest yielding results in detail…

20 Oversold Dividend Growth Stocks With Cheap P/E's And Yields Over 3%

The markets become more and more volatile. It's a real rollercoaster. One day, the Dow is up 300 points, the second day down 400. No one knows where is the trend. Short-Term it's decreasing.

A technical momentum indicator that compares the magnitude of recent gains to recent losses in an attempt to determine overbought and oversold conditions of an asset is the Relative Strength Index - RSI.

The RSI ranges from 0 to 100. An asset is deemed to be overbought once the RSI approaches the 70 level, meaning that it may be getting overvalued and is a good candidate for a pullback. Likewise, if the RSI approaches 30, it is an indication that the asset may be getting oversold and therefore likely to become undervalued.

Today I would use this approach by showing you some undervalued stocks with a RSI of less than 30. It's a small indication that the stock could be overbought.

I've only used my Dividend Achievers List, stocks with 10 years or more of consecutive dividend growth. In addition, each of the stocks have a low forward P/E of less than 15.

These are the 20 highest yielding stocks with  a RSI under 30....

14 Cheap Regional Banks With A Long Dividend Growth History

The banking sector has certainly come a long way since the financial crisis. Banks are better capitalized, have less risky loans and other assets, and are taking steps to operate more efficiently. There are some good investment opportunities in the banking sector.

My focus about high quality banks were on regional banks with a long dividend growth history. 25 stocks are available for trading that met these tight fundamental criteria.

Today I like to focus on those with a low forward P/E. Only 14 are part of my results which you can find in the attached list.

Here are the top yielding results...

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...

Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On June 19, 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 19, 2013. In total, 13 stocks and preferred shares go ex dividend - of which 6 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 4.75%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
PennantPark Investment Corporation	PNNT	785.52M	9.78	1.13	6.32	9.47%
Ship Finance International Limited	SFL	1.48B	7.90	1.39	4.91	9.01%
PennantPark Floating Rate Capital	PFLT	-	-	-	-	7.09%
Total SA	TOT	115.65B	10.15	1.20	0.48	4.24%
Nicholas Financial Inc.	NICK	180.24M	9.14	1.41	2.55	3.20%
Republic Bancorp Inc.	RBCAA	475.70M	9.50	0.88	3.44	3.07%
Federal Realty Investment Trust	FRT	6.81B	47.65	5.24	11.00	2.77%
Cohu, Inc.	COHU	286.02M	-	1.08	1.28	2.07%
The Chubb Corporation	CB	23.02B	13.83	1.44	1.68	2.01%
Convergys Corporation	CVG	1.93B	53.76	1.43	0.97	1.31%
QCR Holdings Inc.	QCRH	74.86M	8.17	0.53	0.98	0.53%
World Fuel Services Corp.	INT	2.84B	14.94	1.82	0.07	0.38%
Advance Auto Parts Inc.	AAP	6.04B	16.27	4.75	0.96	0.29%

Best Dividend Paying Ex-Dividend Shares On December 19, 2012

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 December 19, 2012. In total, 19 stocks and preferred shares go ex dividend - of which 8 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 5.07%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
PennantPark Investment Corporation	PNNT	395.52M	8.95	1.07	3.49	10.26%
PennantPark Floating Rate Capital	PFLT	-	-	-	-	7.72%
Highway Holdings Ltd.	HIHO	6.80M	20.00	0.57	0.28	6.67%
LTC Properties Inc.	LTC	1.01B	21.13	2.18	11.02	5.61%
Equity Residential	EQR	17.93B	89.89	2.82	8.30	5.51%
AmREIT, Inc.	AMRE	276.46M	49.00	1.65	6.96	4.66%
Ingles Markets Inc.	IMKTA	432.80M	10.08	0.95	0.12	3.70%
Republic Bancorp Inc.	RBCAA	424.45M	3.59	0.76	2.34	3.26%
Vina Concha y Toro S.A.	VCO	1.47B	15.26	1.69	1.58	2.62%
Capitol Federal Financial, Inc.	CFFN	1.87B	25.98	1.05	5.69	2.46%
The Chubb Corporation	CB	20.11B	11.14	1.26	1.49	2.14%
Jefferies Group, Inc.	JEF	3.70B	16.14	1.10	1.00	1.64%
Convergys Corporation	CVG	1.79B	44.41	1.28	0.86	1.22%
Coventry Health Care Inc.	CVH	5.99B	13.93	1.29	0.43	1.12%
Eagle Materials Inc.	EXP	2.78B	58.65	5.15	4.98	0.70%
QCR Holdings Inc.	QCRH	66.37M	7.95	0.48	0.85	0.59%
Minerals Technologies Inc.	MTX	679.30M	8.97	0.85	0.67	0.52%
Chicago Bridge & Iron	CBI	4.05B	14.62	3.07	0.78	0.48%
Advance Auto Parts Inc.	AAP	5.36B	13.94	4.67	0.86	0.33%