When investing in dividend stocks, the primary goal isn't necessarily to make a boatload of money right away.
Rather, most of us invest in dividend stocks for a stable, growing income stream that will build wealth over time. Still, dividend stocks do experience some big moves from time to time.
Today I like to give you an overview of the best performing dividend stocks of the year. The Dow Jones is negative year-to-date. It was a really hard year. Only seven stocks gained more than 100%. Around 40 companies had a performance over 50%.
You will see that high yields are not performance drivers.
Attached you can find the 20 best performing dividend paying stocks of the year. I've only selected those companies with a market cap over 300 million. The performance of the 20 top stocks starts at 60.19% and ends at 290.47%.
These were the best large cap dividend stock investments of the year 2015...
I've recently looked at the S&P MidCap 400 Dividend Aristocrats Index in order to find new investment ideas.
The index is designed to measure the performance of companies within the S&P MidCap 400® that have followed a managed dividends policy of consistently increasing dividends every year for at least 15 years.
Most valuations skyrocket within the past years due to moetaring easing. As a result, price multiples of high-quality stocks rose to over 20 and yields went down under 2 percent.
Attached is list of the cheapest dividend growers from the index. Those stocks have a forward P/E of less than 15.
You can also find more cheap dividend stock ideas on my blog.
These are my favorite stocks...
Cheaply
priced stocks traded below its own book values originally published at long-term-investments.blogspot.com. I love it to look for
high quality dividend stocks with a proven long-term track record but one thing I often
noticed in my research is that the market gets more and more expensive. But if you would like to make a solid return, you definitely need cheap stocks.
With
low yields, the valuation rises in an inflationary environment. That's the key premise in our economy.
Today I would
like to try my best to discover some of the best dividend growth stocks with a current cheap
valuation. I use two criteria for screening the Dividend Achievers database: A
forward P/E below 15 as well as a price to sales ratio below one.
Exactly
17 dividend growth stocks fulfilled the mentioned criteria. Eight of them got a
buy or better rating by brokerage firms. The yields are between 0.95 and 2.91
percent. That’s not much in my view but growth forecasts are positive for all
of the results.
Dividend
Contenders with low debt and cheap price ratios originally published at long-term-investments.blogspot.com. Dividend Contenders have raised
their dividend payments over 10 years in a row but not more than 25 consecutive
years. There are over 200 stocks with such an impressive dividend growth history
but not all of them are really good. Every stock has a something that an investor
loves and hates. The perfect stock does not exist.
Today
I would like to screen the Dividend Contenders category by cheap stocks (forward P/E below 15) with
the lowest debt ratios. For passive investors, it's very important to own low leveraged
growth stocks because they can expect further dividend hikes. If you purchase them
at reasonable prices, you can increase the possibility for a good return.
Twelve
of the 20 cheap Contenders with very low debt to equity ratios have a buy or better
rating and four yield over three percent. Many insurer and banks are on the list.
The financial sector is very strong.
Stocks With Biggest Dividend
Hikes From Last Week by Dividend
Yield – Stock, Capital, Investment. Here is a
current sheet of companies that have announced a dividend increase within the
recent week. In total, 41 stocks and funds raised dividends of which 18 have a
dividend growth of more than 10 percent. The average dividend growth amounts to
39.01 percent. Exactly 9 stocks/funds have a yield over five percent (High-Yield),
19 yield above three percent. 18 companies are currently recommended to buy.
Cheap
Dividend Contenders In Terms Of Reproduction Value Researched By “long-term-investments.blogspot.com”. Dividend Contenders are stocks
with a history of rising dividends of more than 10 years in a row but less than
25. Exactly 178 companies fulfilled these growth criteria but many are highly priced.
In order
to find some opportunities, I screened all Dividend Contenders with a very low price
to book ratio. Especially in times of heavy crises, the reproduction value or the
market value of properties, machines and equipments is an award lowmark for investors.
If the price of the whole company falls below the value of the equity, you should
get real bargains from the value site. 12 Dividend Contenders have a current P/B
ratio of less than one. Two of them are high-yields and eight are recommended to
buy.
Dividend Achievers With Cheap Price Ratios Researched By Dividend Yield - Stock, Capital, Investment. Dividend Achievers are stocks
that have raised their distributions to shareholders via dividends over a period
of 10 consecutive years. 186 listed companies or 2.8 percent of the available stocks
have such an impressive dividend growth history. But to own wonderful growth stocks
with a high reliability of dividend payments does not guarantee a high final total
return. You need to look at stocks with cheap price ratios.
In order to find the cheapest Dividend Achievers, I screened the investment
category by companies with a P/S ratio of less than one, a P/B ratio lower than
two and finally a current P/E ratio below 15. Thirteen companies remained of
which six are recommended by investment firms.
When investing in dividend stocks, the primary goal isn't necessarily to make a boatload of money right away. 
