Maybe The Best Dividend Stocks Of The S&P 500

Investing in indexes is a great way to avoid big risk especially when they are highly liquid like the Dow Jones or S&P 500. 

Both are survival indices because over the recent years and decades, bad companies become eliminated and good stocks were included. Today, Apple is a star in the Dow Jones. 

 By eliminating the bad stocks from the good ones, investors can create an outperformance. The only question is how do we beat the market by selected better performing stocks? 

To find the best dividend payers today, we need to divide the index into "High-yielders" and "dividend-growers". The first class of stocks pay a higher dividend but has a slow growth rate while the second group grows faster while paying only small amounts of money to shareholders. 

In addition, I run my screen for firms with solid earnings outlooks and solid fundamentals, both within the high yielders and dividend growers’ category. 

Finally, a list of nine dividend paying stocks remain. Please find attached the detailed results of the screen. Which do you like?

These are the results.....

82 Shareholder Friendly Stocks of the Week

Below are the top dividend growth stocks and share buyback companies of the week. On the list are some pretty good yielding stocks. Big names like Starbucks, Emerson Electric or Honeywell.

AIG, Motorola and Royal Caribbean Cruises are the biggest stocks with a fresh buyback announcement during the past week.

Cheap is a question of growth. A faster growing company can be higher valuated. Only 17 of the stocks have a forward P/E of less than 15.

The 7 Top Dividend Growth Stocks Of the past Week are...

Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On August 08, 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 August 08, 2013. In total, 12 stocks go ex dividend - of which 3 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 3.59%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
Alliance Holdings GP, L.P.	AHGP	3.87B	18.14	8.36	1.79	4.86%
PetMed Express Inc.	PETS	326.10M	18.26	4.93	1.40	3.65%
Artisan Partners Asset Managem.	APAM	661.91M	273.68	-	1.01	3.31%
Apple Inc.	AAPL	427.39B	11.62	3.46	2.52	2.62%
Southern National Bancorp of Virg.	SONA	113.47M	20.40	1.08	3.09	2.45%
U.S. Global Investors, Inc.	GROW	40.74M	263.00	1.08	2.05	2.28%
Rockwell Automation Inc.	ROK	13.95B	19.08	6.95	2.21	2.09%
Altera Corp.	ALTR	11.61B	23.37	3.37	6.57	1.66%
Penske Automotive Group, Inc.	PAG	3.50B	16.33	2.58	0.26	1.65%
PPG Industries Inc.	PPG	23.15B	21.58	4.59	1.55	1.51%
National Security Group Inc.	NSEC	17.61M	-	0.58	0.30	1.40%
First Bancshares Inc.	FBMS	40.53M	10.57	0.81	1.54	1.15%

Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On May 09, 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 May 09, 2013. In total, 11 stocks and preferred shares go ex dividend - of which one yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 3.11%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
Alliance Holdings GP, L.P.	AHGP	3.54B	18.05	7.93	1.74	5.00%
Enterprise Bancorp Inc.	EBTC	160.49M	12.58	1.12	2.33	2.81%
Exxon Mobil Corporation	XOM	405.29B	9.41	2.47	0.87	2.76%
Apple Inc.	AAPL	430.52B	10.95	3.18	2.55	2.66%
Rockwell Automation Inc.	ROK	12.28B	17.27	6.08	1.97	2.37%
Simplicity Bancorp, Inc.	SMPL	125.86M	19.64	0.82	3.19	2.14%
U.S. Global Investors, Inc.	GROW	44.15M	71.25	1.18	2.14	2.11%
National Instruments Corporation	NATI	3.44B	38.15	3.58	2.94	2.01%
Southern National Bancorp of Virginia	SONA	120.07M	18.18	1.17	3.20	1.93%
Rockwell Collins Inc.	COL	8.87B	15.16	7.93	1.90	1.84%
W.W. Grainger, Inc.	GWW	17.60B	25.60	5.63	1.95	1.47%

19 Stocks Hiked Dividends Last Week

Stocks with dividend hikes from last week originally published at “long-term-investments.blogspot.com”. 19 companies increased its dividend payments last week and additional 7 other vehicles like funds boosted dividends to new levels.

The retailer TJX Companies is a popular name on the list. The company announced to raise dividends by 26.1 percent. Another big player is the financial services group PNC who operates money center banks within the states. PNC Financial Services announced to raise its dividends by 10 percent.  

In total, 26 stocks and fund vehicles increased its dividend payments last week of which six are High-Yields and 10 are currently recommended to buy. The average dividend growth amounts to 16.83 percent.

17 Industrial Dividend Stocks With The Strongest Expected Earnings Growth

Industrial dividend stocks with the highest sector growth rates, originally published at "long-term-investments.blogspot.com". The industrial sector has a total market capitalization of USD 73.1 trillion. The average P/E is 17.19 and yields are at a 2.02 percent rate.

Industrials and conglomerates are one of the top sectors where investors put their money within the recent months. The whole sector is up 12.8 percent on a 3-month basis and 16.6 percent over the recent half-year.

I personally believe that most of the stocks are cyclic and their performance depends on a healthy economic growth. But not everything is bad. I personally own some industrials and like to increase my exposure the sector. The only question is when. 

In 2009, I bought shares of General Electric when they started to struggle with financing problems of their money division. It was close to the after-peak of the financial crisis. As of now, GE has not fully recovered but my unrealized return on the stock is far over 100 percent.

Growth perspectives from GE are still good. The market expects a double-digit growth for the next years. Today, I like to show you some other dividend stocks from the industrial sector with an expected earnings growth over 10 percent. Below is a small list of the best yielding stocks with a market capitalization over USD 10 billion. 14 of the results are currently recommended to buy.

The Biggest Ex-Dividend Stocks On November 08, 2012

The Best 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-dividend date on the next trading day.

In total, 11 stocks and preferred shares go ex-dividend - of which 4 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 3.04%.

Here is the sheet of the best yielding, higher capitalized Ex-Dividend stocks:

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
Intersil Corporation	ISIL	982.44M	110.00	0.95	1.54	6.23%
Seaspan Corp.	SSW	1.06B	52.66	0.97	1.65	5.93%
TECO Energy, Inc.	TE	3.85B	15.12	1.68	1.26	4.93%
Hudson Valley Holding Corp.	HVB	322.29M	109.40	1.10	2.71	4.39%
Rockwell Automation Inc.	ROK	11.14B	15.32	5.79	1.78	2.38%
Richardson Electronics Ltd.	RELL	177.56M	25.07	0.92	1.17	2.08%
CNA Financial Corporation	CNA	7.89B	9.54	0.62	0.84	2.05%
Metals USA Holdings Corp.	MUSA	560.95M	8.54	1.82	0.28	1.59%
Altera Corp.	ALTR	10.21B	17.79	3.13	5.67	1.26%
Carriage Services Inc.	CSV	206.43M	27.21	1.57	1.04	0.87%
Landstar System Inc.	LSTR	2.42B	18.96	6.50	0.86	0.46%