20 Best Healthcare Dividend Stocks With Yields Up To 6.08%

The health care sector includes a wide variety of companies operating in various industries, such as biotechnology, long-term care facilities, drug manufacturing, medical devices and equipment industries.

Due to an aging population in the United States, the availability of a wide spectrum of medical services to prolong life and increasing demand from baby boomers for medical services, the health care sector is poised to continue growing at an above-average rate compared to broad U.S. market returns.

From 2010 to 2015, various industries within the health care sector have generated average annual returns ranging between 17% for long-term care facilities to 34% for biotechnology companies, which is substantially above the average market return in the U.S.

Overall, the health care sector is poised to continue growing and generating excess returns due to ongoing innovation and strong patent protection. Also, due to stable cash flows and a solid pipeline of products, most health care companies can afford to pay out substantial amounts of their earnings to their shareholders, resulting in high dividend yields that average from 3 to 4% as of September 2015.

Looking for high-yielding dividend stocks from the healthcare sector? We've listed the top yielders without any restrictions. Here they are...

10 Highest Yielding Healthcare Dividend Stocks

Healthcare's stable revenue and growing demand due to aging baby boomers makes it a hit with income investors, but not every healthcare stock with a big dividend yield is ripe to buy. 

These 10 healthcare stocks offer the best dividend yields in the sector, yet investors should avoid most of them. 

The 10 best dividend yields in healthcare We'll get into the nitty-gritty of which of these stocks are buys and sells in a minute, but first let's take a look at the list of the top 10 highest-dividend-yielding healthcare stocks:

15 Top Yielding Stocks From The Buyback Achievers Portfolio

Best yielding stocks from the Dividend Buyback Achievers Portfolio originally published at long-term-investments.blogspot.com. I always talk about good dividends that grow over time but receiving big dividends from high quality stocks is only the half truth.

A Dividend payment is only one way to distribute earnings to shareholders. Another very effective way to pay money indirect is to buy own shares back.

Today I started a little screen about stocks that have repurchased at least around 5 percent of its own outstanding shares within the recent twelve months.

You can find a complete list of the top yielding stocks from the Dividend Buyback Achievers Portfolio attached. Only fifteen companies from the list have a current yield of more than 3 percent.

Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On May 16, 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 16, 2013. In total, 22 stocks and preferred shares go ex dividend - of which 9 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 4.43%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
Seaspan Corp.	SSW	1.45B	28.52	1.15	2.19	5.48%
Giant Interactive Group	GA	1.92B	11.96	3.73	5.47	5.24%
Select Medical Holdings	SEM	1.15B	8.22	1.55	0.39	4.87%
Atmos Energy Corporation	ATO	4.02B	17.22	1.58	1.17	3.15%
PartnerRe Ltd.	PRE	5.32B	6.15	0.78	0.96	2.75%
Teva Pharmaceutical Industries	TEVA	37.56B	17.77	1.49	1.85	2.74%
Deluxe Corp.	DLX	1.99B	11.62	4.27	1.30	2.56%
Honeywell International Inc.	HON	62.28B	20.45	4.63	1.65	2.07%
Ryder System, Inc.	R	3.20B	15.31	2.14	0.51	2.01%
Snap-on Inc.	SNA	5.33B	16.91	2.91	1.81	1.66%
Hanesbrands Inc.	HBI	5.01B	16.61	5.28	1.11	1.57%
Bunge Limited	BG	10.61B	28.75	0.93	0.17	1.50%
FLIR Systems, Inc.	FLIR	3.50B	16.34	2.35	2.49	1.46%
Moody's Corp.	MCO	14.86B	21.44	32.53	5.28	1.20%
Watts Water Technologies	WTS	1.66B	23.55	1.77	1.15	1.11%
Woodward, Inc.	WWD	2.54B	17.91	2.38	1.35	0.87%
Tractor Supply Company	TSCO	8.00B	29.63	7.74	1.69	0.70%

20 Best Yielding Stocks From The Share Buyback Achievers Index

The highest yielding stocks from the Share Buyback Achievers index originally published at "long-term-investments.blogspot.com". I love dividends and dividend growth but most investors are fixed on these themes. Some companies know this and they try to catch investors by paying dividends and let them grow. The problem is that they have only a middle class business model and they burn shareholder value by following the dividend growth approach.

Better variants to give money back to shareholders are share buyback programs. The company buys own stocks and reduces the current amount of outstanding shares. As a result, earnings per share grow at a higher rate and the share price should follow because the P/E goes down and yields are up.
There exists an index that covers the best stocks with share buy backs of at least 5 percent or more for the trailing 12 months. The index is called Buyback Achievers Index. Over 200 companies are constituents but only half of them pay dividends.

Today, I like to introduce the 20 highest yielding stocks from the index. Below results are completely different stocks compared to my regular screens about Dividend Champs and other growth picks. Just take a look and get inspired.