12 Best REITs With Solid Fundamentals To Finance Profitable Growth

Owning such things as office buildings and self-storage facilities, real estate investment trusts rake in rents and must pay at least 90 percent of their taxable income to shareholders. 

As long as they can keep raising rents and dividend payments, the stocks should fare well. 

Indeed, REITs’ underlying properties should post a 4.5 percent average gain in operating income this year, fueling dividend growth in the “high single-digit” range, says investment firm Lazard, and yields in the range of 2 percent to 6 percent.

Attached you will find a selection of Reits with Return on Assests over 5 percent and solid debt ratios. 

This is in my view the best way to discover stocks with potential for profitable growth in the future.

Here are the results...

Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On October 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.

In total, 33 stocks go ex dividend - of which 10 yield more than 3 percent. 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
MFA Financial, Inc.	MFA	2.72B	9.52	0.86	5.51	11.70%
Linn Energy, LLC	LINE	6.23B	-	1.47	3.41	11.54%
Sasol Ltd.	SSL	29.88B	11.40	1.98	1.64	4.61%
Kraft Foods Group, Inc.	KRFT	31.99B	17.37	7.44	1.74	3.90%
Sovran Self Storage Inc.	SSS	2.35B	38.31	2.94	9.18	2.82%
General Dynamics Corp.	GD	30.26B	-	2.57	0.97	2.60%
Accenture plc	ACN	46.47B	14.86	9.37	1.53	2.57%
Aviva plc	AV	20.04B	-	1.29	0.36	2.57%
Marsh & McLennan Companies	MMC	23.68B	18.44	3.49	1.96	2.33%
Waddell & Reed Financial Inc.	WDR	4.51B	21.44	8.01	3.62	2.13%
Yum! Brands, Inc.	YUM	32.43B	23.42	14.58	2.46	2.07%
Smith & Nephew plc	SNN	11.11B	20.25	2.85	2.66	1.69%
WPP plc	WPPGY	25.41B	20.36	2.04	1.48	1.64%
Patterson Companies Inc.	PDCO	4.03B	19.66	2.89	1.11	1.60%
Masco Corporation	MAS	7.15B	93.09	20.08	0.91	1.46%
Kyocera Corp.	KYO	36.17B	42.68	1.00	2.68	1.36%
Coty Inc.	COTY	6.13B	38.10	4.10	1.32	1.25%
CLARCOR Inc.	CLC	2.76B	28.39	2.83	2.45	1.23%
Morningstar Inc.	MORN	3.56B	31.42	4.97	5.26	0.65%
Roper Industries Inc.	ROP	12.88B	26.16	3.31	4.18	0.51%

5 Stocks and 5 Funds Announced A Dividend Growth Last Week

Stocks with dividend hikes from last week originally published at “long-term-investments.blogspot.com”. We’ve reached new lows in weekly dividend hikes. Last week, only five stocks and five additional funds announced a dividend hike. That’s not much but the big dividend growth stocks have increased their payments earlier this year. The others still have 6 month or more to met the straight criteria of a real dividend Champion, Challenger or Contender.

Below is a detailed look of the five dividend growth stocks from last week. You can find additional information in the attached table. Despite the low number of dividend growth stocks and funds, the power of is still impressive. 62.35 percent, that’s the rate of dividend growth.

Dividend Growth | The Best Stocks With Dividend Growth From Last Week

I love dividends and dividend growth stocks. That’s the main reason why I make a regular screen of the latest stocks with dividend growth on my blog “long-term-investments.blogspot.com”. 

I believe that those companies could have a well running business and could have a better performance in the long-run. 

Below is a current list of companies that have announced a dividend increase within the recent week. In total, 5 stocks and funds raised dividends of which 2 have a dividend growth of more than 10 percent. The average dividend growth amounts to 17.0 percent.

Below the results is one high-yield stock from the closed-end debt industry. Three of the growth stocks have a current buy or better recommendation.

14 Dividend Stocks Marking New 52-Week Highs

Dividend Stocks Close To New Highs By Dividend Yield – Stock, Capital, Investment. Here is a current sheet of dividend stocks (positive yield) that have marked a new 52-Week High within the recent days. Despite the uncertainty at the markets, there are 52 companies at one-year highs and 22 of them pay dividends. I selected the best performing dividend stocks by a higher capitalization of more than $300 million. Fourteen stocks trading near 52-week highs remain of which two have a double digit yield and nine are recommended to buy.

Here is the list with some fundamentals to compare:

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Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
Westpac Banking Corporation	WBK	83.98B	13.82	1.83	2.19	12.77%
Crexus Investment Corp.	CXS	952.51M	10.45	1.04	8.71	10.30%
Healthcare Trust of America	HTA	2.22B	-	1.61	7.85	5.55%
Sun Life Financial Inc.	SLF	15.78B	26.98	0.96	0.78	5.49%
Nacco Industries Inc.	NC	366.51M	3.56	1.55	0.11	4.07%
Taiwan Semiconductor	TSM	85.26B	15.81	3.67	5.16	3.02%
Sovran Self Storage Inc.	SSS	1.86B	38.90	2.56	8.06	2.95%
Titanium Metals Corporation	TIE	2.89B	27.97	2.35	2.69	1.82%
Cooper Tire & Rubber Co.	CTB	1.51B	4.24	2.05	0.36	1.75%
Credicorp Ltd.	BAP	10.96B	15.17	2.99	5.34	1.67%
Federal Agricultural Mortgage	AGM	304.42M	51.82	1.08	1.06	1.38%
AO Smith Corp.	AOS	2.74B	18.28	2.30	1.45	1.35%
Signet Jewelers Limited	SIG	4.24B	13.43	2.01	1.11	0.92%
Precision Castparts Corp.	PCP	26.12B	19.77	3.01	3.41	0.07%

Take a look at the full table of high yield stocks at new 52-Week Highs. The average price to earnings ratio amounts to 20.02 while the average forward price to earnings ratio amounts to 14.21. The average dividend yield is 3.79 percent. Price to book ratio is 2.07 and price to sales ratio 3.45. The stocks are 0.76 percent below new 52-Week Highs.

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WBK, CXS, HTA, SLF, NC, TSM, SSS, TIE, CTB, BAP, AGM, AOS, SIG, PCP

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· 50 Top Stocks With The Highest Dividend Growth In October 2012

· The Best Dogs Of The Dow Jones As Of October 2012

· 15 Higher Capitalized Dividend Stocks Close To New 52-Week Lows

* I have no positions in any stocks mentioned, and no plans to initiate any positions within the next 72 hours. I receive no compensation to write about any specific stock, sector or theme.

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