20 Best Dividend Contenders By Price-To-Book Ratio

Attached you can find the 20 Dividend Contenders with the lowest P/B ratio. The table is a screenshot from the Dividend Champions Financial Factsheet Excel Table.

Ticker	Company	P/E	Fwd P/E	P/S	P/B	Dividend
ODC	Oil-Dri Corporation of America	22.63	-	0.99	0.61	2.52%
ETP	Energy Transfer Partners, L.P.	-	13.18	0.7	0.78	12.62%
PRU	Prudential Financial, Inc.	9.74	8.51	0.77	0.86	3.28%
DGICA	Donegal Group Inc.	189.25	11.21	0.55	0.92	3.70%
DGICB	Donegal Group Inc.	60.32	-	0.11	0.94	3.22%
FINL	The Finish Line, Inc.	39.69	13.44	0.22	0.95	4.44%
AFSI	AmTrust Financial Services, Inc.	-	9.4	0.42	0.96	5.35%
AEL	American Equity Investment Life Holding	13.83	8.84	0.74	1.01	0.81%
AXS	AXIS Capital Holdings Limited	-	11.52	1	1.01	2.81%
OMI	Owens & Minor, Inc.	27.68	7.78	0.11	1.01	6.06%
SCG	SCANA Corporation	-	12.87	1.33	1.06	6.28%
SHPG	Shire plc	21.64	8.08	2.65	1.1	0.80%
SEP	Spectra Energy Partners, LP	11.46	13.27	6.55	1.13	7.08%
AIZ	Assurant, Inc.	14.56	9.94	0.73	1.14	2.51%
EBMT	Eagle Bancorp Montana, Inc.	17.26	11.15	3.63	1.22	1.77%
ANDE	The Andersons, Inc.	-	14.83	0.27	1.23	1.82%
DUK	Duke Energy Corporation	21.15	15.43	2.27	1.28	4.66%
BHB	Bar Harbor Bankshares	15.17	-	3.89	1.29	2.54%
CB	Chubb Limited	16.1	12.45	2.05	1.29	2.00%
NHC	National HealthCare Corporation	16.13	-	0.93	1.29	3.22%

This is only a small part of the full Dividend Champions/Contenders Financial Factsheet Excel table. The full excel sheet contains all 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.

These are the content ratios:

Ticker

Company

Market Cap

P/E

Fwd P/E

P/S

P/B

Dividend Yield

Payout Ratio

EPS next 5Y

Sales past 5Y

EPS Q/Q

Sales Q/Q

ROA

ROE

ROI

Debt/Equity

Operating Margin

Performance Year

Beta

Price

Target Price

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20 Undervalued Dividend-Paying Stocks

If you are concerned that current valuations may cast a shadow over the future returns of equity-income strategies, you're not alone. There's no telling how long dividend stocks' recent run of outperformance will continue.

But there are plenty of reasons to think that investing in steady dividend-paying stocks, particularly high-quality stocks that are healthy enough to not only sustain but possibly even increase their dividend, won't go out of style completely. 

Investors still have need for income, and although interest rates are likely to rise, they are still very low by historical standards and are not expected to shoot up dramatically anytime soon.

To get a better sense of how over- or undervalued dividend-paying stocks are today, we run a screen with selection of dividend yield, P/E and growth and filtered those stocks with attractive ratios in most of the areas.

Here are the top results from our screen...

Despite Market Sell-Off: 16 S&P 500 Stocks Close To Fresh 52-Week Highs

Stock markets are in correction mode but not all stocks declined within the past months. 

Not so surprisingly, they’re mostly defensive names like staples and utilities. 

After all, we’ll need to stock up on plenty of cans of Campbell soup and Hormel SPAM for our bunkers to ride out the market volatility (not to mention the 2016 elections!). 

Looking back at 2011, not only did most of these stocks perform respectably during the 2011 selloff, they participated in the rally back (although on a low beta).Attached you will find a selection of stocks near 52-Week Highs.

Only 16 companies from the S&P 500 have achieved this.

Here are the results...

16 Cheap And High-Yielding Stocks From The S&P 500

S&P 500 stocks with low earnings multiples and high dividends originally published at long-term-investments.blogspot.com. I remember times when the popular S&P 500 index had more than 15 constituents of High-Yields. Today we only got seven!

Yes, market getting more and more expensive. The S&P 500 is up 22.85 percent this year and marked All-Time-Highs. In times when P/E’s of 20+ are the new valuation standard, it’s more important to keep an eye on cheaply priced stocks.

That’s the main reason why I would like to produce a screen from the mainstream index S&P 500 by the cheapest and highest yielding stocks measured with a forward P/E of less than 15 and a dividend yield over 4 percent.

Only sixteen corporate stocks fulfilled these criteria of which five have a buy or better rating. Utilities are the dominating investment category.

17 High Yielding Dividend Achievers | Cheap Income Growth Stocks

Dividend income growth stocks with high yields and low price-to-earnings ratios originally published at long-term-investments.blogspot.com. High yielding stocks in a low interest environment is the only solution to hedge your assets against inflation.

But high yielding stocks are rare when the Fed keeps its leading interest rates close to zero percent and pull the market loan rates via bond purchases to the ground. But the inflation risk is still aware and you will get poorer over the time.

I stopped purchasing stocks for my own accounts since the beginning of the year. It was a wrong decision because equities are now more expensive. I don’t believe that they are still cheap, more likely fair valuated or slightly overpriced. 

It’s very hard to discover good stocks with solid dividend growth and high yields. I talk about yields over 3 percent and not the big risk including stocks with yields far above 5 percent.

Today I would like to screen the High-Dividend Achievers Index by stocks with inflation adequate yields and low price-to-earnings ratios. I prefer a ratio of the forward P/E below 15. Only 17 of 50 index members fulfilled these criteria. You can find a detailed list of these stocks attached.

Two High-Yields are part of the results and five received a current buy or better rating. Banks and utilities are the dominating industries on the list.

Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On September 06, 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.

In total, 50 stocks go ex dividend - of which 16 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 3.70%. Here is a full list of all stocks with ex-dividend date within the current week.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
Linn Energy, LLC	LINE	5.63B	-	1.33	3.08	12.77%
Pepco Holdings, Inc.	POM	4.61B	-	1.09	1.03	5.83%
Reynolds American Inc.	RAI	26.08B	17.36	5.12	3.16	5.28%
PPL Corporation	PPL	18.12B	12.39	1.66	1.57	4.79%
SCANA Corp.	SCG	6.57B	13.79	1.46	1.46	4.32%
TELUS Corporation	TU	21.39B	17.54	3.01	2.01	3.93%
H&R Block, Inc.	HRB	7.55B	16.69	5.97	2.60	2.89%
Occidental Petroleum	OXY	72.26B	16.38	1.73	2.99	2.85%
Harris Corp.	HRS	6.28B	14.06	4.02	1.23	2.54%
The Travelers Companies, Inc.	TRV	30.47B	10.47	1.22	1.17	2.47%
CME Group Inc.	CME	24.48B	26.30	1.12	8.50	2.44%
Best Buy Co. Inc.	BBY	12.64B	-	3.51	0.30	1.83%
V.F. Corporation	VFC	20.99B	19.10	4.05	1.91	1.81%
WellPoint Inc.	WLP	26.17B	9.51	1.07	0.39	1.72%
Avnet Inc.	AVT	5.44B	12.32	1.27	0.21	1.51%
UMB Financial Corporation	UMBF	2.38B	21.29	1.94	7.01	1.44%
W.R. Berkley Corporation	WRB	5.58B	11.64	1.32	0.91	0.97%
CBS Corporation	CBS	33.25B	19.64	3.46	2.30	0.88%
CNO Financial Group, Inc.	CNO	3.16B	17.89	0.69	0.72	0.84%
Mentor Graphics Corp.	MENT	2.54B	23.65	2.44	2.35	0.80%