20 Most Profitable Insurers To Consider

Insurers are under pressure due to Hurricane Irma. Let's take a look at the most profitable vertical integrated insurer in order to find some investment opportunities after the big sell-off which is still alive at the moment.

The industry is very broad developed. There are many insurers available on the market and barriers to entry seem very low. But the demand for insurance products is high and rises over years.

Warren Buffett loves insurance stocks and I love them too. Which stocks from the high return insurance stock list do you like?

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These Stocks With Recent Dividend Hikes Go Ex-Dividend Tomorrow

Attached you will find a list with stocks, going ex-dividend tomorrow. Each of the listed companies have increased their upcoming dividend.

The list summarizes only stocks with higher dividends compared to the most recent dividend payment. It excludes those stocks with higher dividends over the past TTM.

It's in my view a nice overview. I believe that those stocks will perform better with rising dividends.

Which stocks do you like?

50 Best S&P SmallCap 600 Dividend Dogs

Source: Seeking Alpha

20 Cheapest High-Yield Dividend Challengers

Today's screen is focused on high yields and low P/E within the Dividend Challengers space. Those stocks managed to raise dividends by more than 5 years in a row. 

Challengers jumped over the first level of dividend growth barriers. One day they could become a Dividend Contender, Achiever, Champion, Aristocrat or even a Dividend King. 

Most Challengers have in common that they could fail to raise dividends in the future. There are more cyclic stocks on the list. The top yielding results com the credit services, REIT and oil and gas sector. 

My favorites are GMLP, SSW, STX, WDR, SSI, and SAFT. Which stocks do you like from the screen? Please let me know some of your thoughts by leaving a comment. Here are the 20 cheapest high-yield Dividend Challengers….

Here are the 20 cheapest high-yield Dividend Challengers…

11 Dividend Growth Stocks With Low Debt, Solid Growth And Yields Over 4%

All too often, yield-starved investors give in to the temptation of high yield dividend stocks. Dividend yields greater than 5% look like an easy way to grab more current income on the surface, but dividend income is just part of the total return equation.

If a stock with a 6% dividend yield sees its price cut in half, an investor living off dividends in retirement would have been better off purchasing a lower yielding stock with less business risk and volatility, occasionally selling shares to meet his or her cash flow needs.

That's the reason for my today's screen. I've tried to catch some companies with high dividends which are not at risk to cut.

The total amount of debt is one important criterion for a dividend cut. Growth is also an important issue.

Each stock I've researched has a dividend yield over 4% and positive 5 year EPS growth forecasts. In addition, debt-to-equity ratios are under 0.4. Eleven stocks fulfilled my tight criteria of which 3 got a buy or better rating by analysts.

Here are the best yielding results from my research...

8 High-Yields With Attractive Fundamentals And Room To Grow

With interest rates still hovering near multi-decade lows, many investors who need to generate income from their investments have been forced to put money to work in the stock market. 

However, with the S&P 500 currently offering up a paltry dividend yield of roughly 2%, investors looking for a higher cash return have been often been forced to invest in riskier stocks. In an effort to help those investors I've compiled a few stock ideas that also offers investors a high dividend yield.

In order to keep the focus on solid fundamentals, I decided to use the following selection criteria:

- Forward P/E under 15
- EPS growth for the next half decade over 5%
- 5 % Dividend Yield
- Debt-to-equity under 1
- Consecutive Dividend Growth Of More Than 5 Years

Here are the results...

19 Best Insurance Dividend Growth Stocks To Consider Now

If there is one thing every investor can appreciate, it is a growing stream of reliable dividends. Some sectors have more dividend champions than others. The insurance sector is a useful place for investors who want to align their personal risks with their portfolio. 

If insurance companies are able to increase prices and profits, owning the insurance companies should lead to stronger dividends at the same time that insurance costs will be increasing. However, it can be difficult for investors to determine which insurance stocks would be the best fit for their portfolio.

Insurers are big asset managers and depend on the market conditions. But not all insurers are equal. Life insurers suffer more on this weak interest environment than property and casualty insurer.

Attached you can find the best investment opportunities from the industry. I've only listed those stocks with a long dividend growth history. In addition, each of the stocks has a low forward P/E and a positive earnings growth outlook for the next five years. In addition, the debt-to-equity ratio is under 0.5. As a result, 19 stocks joined the list.

Here are the results:

10 High-Yielding Small Caps For A Portfolio Return Boost

I'm a big fan of large capitalized stocks because most of them offer a huge diversification. But the great lack of bigger companies is that they do not grow at a fast pace. I'm not talking about Apple, those are exceptions.

The reason is simple: A company with a market cap of $500 million will simply have more room to grow than a company with a market cap of $50 billion. If it makes it to $1 billion, and you've invested, you double your money; if the large cap company adds $500 million to its market cap, you've only made 1%.

Today I would like to introduce 10 stocks with a yield higher than 3 percent and P/E valuations in an acceptable area while the market capitalization doesn’t reach the 2 billion levels.

These are my results: