These Are The 20 Highest Yielding Dividend Champions

As a long-term orientated income investor, I screen the best long-term dividend growth stocks by yield several times a month.

Today I like to share my view on the current screen results from the Dividend Champions List with you here on the blog.

Each of the 105 stocks with more than 25 years of consecutive dividend growth yield over 3 percent. Big names like HCP, AT&T or Mercury General are the top yielding results.

For sure, not all of them are qualified for my private portfolio but a few of them. 

When I'm looking at the best yielding stocks, I guess AT&T, Emerson Electric, Altria, Target and Procter & Gamble are my current favorites. Which stocks are your best picks right now? 

Please leave a comment and we discuss it. Thank you for reading and commenting.

Here are the 20 highest yielding Dividend Champions...

20 Highest Yielding Stocks From The S&P MidCap 400 Dividend Aristocrats Index

Most investors know the fantastic lists of long term dividend growers, named as Dividend Aristocrats, Champions, Contenders, Challengers or even Achievers. 

On the lists are many large caps but smaller capitalized stocks don't jump into your mind if you think at these lists. Today I like to show you some of the highest yielding MidCap Dividend Aristocrats. 

Smaller stocks have the advantage to grow faster than large cap holdings. They have a normally a more tighten management structure and could act more dynamic. 

 Here are the 20 highest yielding stocks from the S&P MidCap 400 Dividend Aristocrats sorted by dividend yield from highest to lowest. Each stock has increased its annual dividend 15 or more consecutive years.

20 Highest Yielding Stocks From
The S&P MidCap 400 Dividend Aristocrats Index
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5 Stocks With Big Dividend Yields And Annual Returns Over 10%

For dividend investors, its nice to have stocks that offer attractive yields, but it is also important to select stocks that do not lose value over the course of time.

Stocks that lose value are more likely to cut or suspend dividends in the future, and a loss of price appreciation can really affect the overall performance of a portfolio.

The stocks I'm going to review in this article offer solid yields (3% or better) and have averaged double digit returns over the past decade.

These are the results I'm talking about...

12 Most Profitable Long-Term Dividend Growth Stocks By Net Profit Margin

Net profit margin is a measure of how profitable a company is. It analyzes how much net profit a company generates after accounting for all the costs of running the business, then divides that figure by total revenue.

The other role net profit margin plays is to give us some insight into the nature of the competition a company faces.

High net profit margins often signify a company that has a dominant market share, a dominant product, or operates in an arena where few competitors exist, meaning it has little in the way of pricing power concerns. 

In other words, net profit margin can potentially be a useful tool in spotting top-performing companies. 

Recently, I wrote about dividend growth stocks with the highest operating margin. Today I like to show you those with the highest net margin.

Here are the results...

15 Long-Term Dividend Grower With The Highest Operating Margin

Many investors never really look at company financials. By neglecting that aspect of their financial education, they miss out on some of the most useful information that financial data can provide. 

 In particular, measures like margins can tell you how efficient a company is in converting the sales it generates into profits for shareholders. 

 One type of margin known as operating margin focuses on an intermediate step in the financial statement, and it's something that you can use to focus on the core elements of a business to see how profitable it is. 

The operating margin show us how many of a dollar revenue is profit for paying interest and taxes. The higher the value, the better it is for investors. It tells us also a lot about the market strength of a corporate and their pricing power. 

If margins are low, you may own only a small piece of the supply chain and the cake. Remember retailer. They have a damn low margin, which is in general not bad but they offer only a small part of the whole product development and marketing cycle. 

They just sell the product. Attached you will find a couple of dividend paying long-term raiser stocks with the highest margin on the market. I observed only the group of Dividend Champions. 

 Over the next days I will also show you those stocks with the highest net income profit margin. The difference between them and today's results is that they could have less debt. That's one reason why they have higher margins in the end.

Here are the most profitable dividend grower from the Dividend Champions League…

20 Highest Yielding Dividend Champions - Fundamentals List

If you are looking for an up to date list of the highest yielding Dividend Champions, you should take a look at the following list.

The attached table shows the 20 highest yielding stocks with a few price multiples. Each of the Champions managed to raise dividends by 25 consecutive years.

The yield begins at 3.46% and grows to 7.05% at the top of the list.

Here are the highest yielding Dividend Champions...

20 Best Performing Dividend Stocks Year-To-Date 2016

The start in the year was not as perfect as we have expected. At the end of last year, we saw a small bounce back to all-time highs but during the first month of the year 2016 we saw a small disaster. 

The Dow Jones is down 7.29% and the S&P 500 6.88% for the first 4 weeks of the year. Despite the bad start into the year, a dozen of stocks gained more than 10 percent. 

If this is a small signal for the rest of the year or a simple different reaction, we will see it over the next months.

Today I like to show you the 20 best performing dividend stocks since the start of the year 2016. They gained from 11.23% to 50.57% in the first 30 days of the year 2016.

Here are the best dividend stocks since the start of the year 2016...

20 Dogs Of The Dividend Champions, Each Yielding Over 4%

The investing strategy which focuses on Dogs of the Dow was popularized by Michael Higgins in his book, "Beating the Dow". The strategy's simplicity is one of its most attractive attributes. The Dogs of the Dow strategy is very simple to implement:

1) Take the 30 stocks that make up the DJIA
2) Rank in yield from highest to lowest on January 1
3) Buy the 10 stocks in equal weight

The premise of this investment style is that the Dow laggards, which are temporarily out-of-favor stocks, are still good companies because they are still included in the DJIA; therefore, holding on to them is a smart idea, in theory.

Once these companies rebound and the market has revalued them properly (or so you hope), you can sell them and replenish your portfolio with other good companies that are temporarily out of favor. 

Companies in the Dow have historically been very stable companies that can weather any market decline with their solid balance sheets and strong fundamentals.

Furthermore, because there is a committee perpetually tinkering with the DJIA's components, you can rest assured that the DJIA is made up of good, solid companies.

Today I like to enlarge this concept by looking at the Dogs of the Dividend Champions as of January 2016.

Attached you can also find a list with more fundamentals of the 20 top yielding Dividend Champions as of January 04, 2016.

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Here are the 10 Dogs of Dividend Achievers in detail...

20 Dividend Stocks With 4%+ Yield And Growth Ambitions

One of the smartest moves you can make before, during, and after a market correction is to load your portfolio with high-quality dividend-paying companies. 

Not only have companies that pay a dividend historically outperformed publicly listed companies that don't pay a dividend, but they offer other advantages as well. To begin with, the willingness of a company to pay a regular dividend signifies the health of its business model and portends that it likely has a positive long-term growth outlook.

In order to catch the highest yielding growth opportunities from the market that might offer low risk, if selected a few high yielders from the dividend growth space with future growth prospects.

These are my main criteria:

- 5-Year earnings growth forecast over 5 percent

- Over 4% dividend yield

- Consecutive dividend growth history over 10 years
- Market Cap over 2 billion

20 stocks fulfilled the above mentioned criteria of which 7 have a low forward P/E.

Here are 6 of my favorites….

7 Best Dividend Aristocrats To Consider

I recently dug into the list of dividend aristocrats and looked for the best potential among this group of income investments, zeroing in on seven top stocks that I think offer investors both stability in their share price, as well as a robust dividend.

Dividend stocks with reliable dividends are a good fundament for small pocket investors. For sure, you don't might to earn the 20+ percent yearly that might Warren Buffett catch but a 6-12 percent return is a better alternative that low yields from 10 Year Treasuries.

If you’re looking for the best dividend aristocrats to buy now — for both current yield, share potential and future dividend growth — I’ve identified seven worth a look. Here they are:

10 Top Dividend Champs At 52-Week Lows

I personally look at stocks that are not popular on the market. Those are companies with decreasing stock prices which does not mean that they have a bad running business. Sometimes, there is something wrong with the sentiment or the technicals, only a market issue.

Bottom fishing can sometimes be a big mistake for novice investors. In the past I found it easy to convince myself that buying a stock at the 52 week low is not a risky proposition because of that stock's low price relative to past earnings, dividend yield, or some other metric of value.

But in reality, buying a down trending stock is always risky, as you are betting against the market itself which does not mean that it is bad. Swimming or acting against the storm or crowd could be profitable.

Today, I like to show you those stocks from the Dividend Champions list that is trading around its one year lows. It's only informational but there are also some good names on it. Which do you like?

These are the results...

The Top Yielder From The S&P MidCap 400 Dividend Aristocrats Index

Dividends are a good income source for passive investors who like to retire earlier. A great source of stocks with a long history of sustainable and growing dividends can be found within the Dividend Aristocrats family.

I've written many articles about those stocks, which are very popular. Today I like to show the highest yielding stocks from the S&P MidCap 400 Dividend Aristocrats Index. Each stock has increased its annual dividend 15 or more consecutive years.

These are the results with a yield, higher or close to 3 percent dividend yield....

The Best Performing Utilities And Which Of Them Are Still Cheap

Utility dividend stocks with highest performance year-to-date originally published at long-term-investments.blogspot.com. Utilities are often high dividend payers but they also have high debt amounts and their growth abilities are very limited.

Normally, you should not expect higher capital gains due to the slow growth and high investment costs.

It’s surprising that the best performing utilities gained 18 percent to 80 percent within the first six months of the year. I my view, it’s a shift to quality business models with higher yields and stable returns. Investors look for investment alternatives outside the bond sector and utilities are a place to be for the time being.

You can find a small list of the 20 best performing utility dividend stocks. I excluded all companies with a market capitalization below 300 million. They are definitely too risky and some of them have an extraordinary high return. Lower valuated companies dominating the top results. The average market capitalization amounts to 3.6 billion.

Despite the large price increase of the stocks, twelve of them still have a buy or better rating.

Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On May 22, 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 22, 2013. In total, 27 stocks and preferred shares go ex dividend - of which 7 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 3.38%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
Medley Capital Corporation	MCC	449.15M	10.79	1.23	6.99	9.20%
Cablevision Systems Corporation	CVC	4.09B	-	-	0.62	3.92%
HSBC Holdings plc	HBC	218.32B	15.88	1.25	3.85	3.41%
Exelis, Inc.	XLS	2.27B	7.51	2.16	0.43	3.39%
Carnival Corporation	CCL	27.39B	18.69	1.16	1.78	2.83%
Guangshen Railway Co. Ltd.	GSH	3.46B	16.50	0.81	1.38	2.83%
Questar Corporation	STR	4.53B	21.72	4.19	3.94	2.79%
Carnival plc	CUK	28.60B	19.51	1.21	1.86	2.71%
The Scotts Miracle-Gro	SMG	3.00B	34.28	4.95	1.12	2.67%
American Water Works Company	AWK	7.59B	19.87	1.68	2.62	2.62%
W&T Offshore Inc.	WTI	1.15B	15.41	2.12	1.28	2.36%
Nu Skin Enterprises Inc.	NUS	3.67B	17.07	5.95	1.62	1.91%
Hershey Co.	HSY	19.87B	28.74	17.87	2.95	1.89%
Robert Half International Inc.	RHI	4.96B	22.81	5.72	1.21	1.80%
Marriott International, Inc.	MAR	13.32B	23.57	-	1.07	1.57%
Heartland Financial USA Inc.	HTLF	465.47M	9.97	1.13	2.47	1.45%
National Interstate Corporation	NATL	596.92M	18.23	1.64	1.15	1.45%
Equifax Inc.	EFX	7.51B	27.08	3.72	3.41	1.41%
Core-Mark Holding Company	CORE	662.51M	20.46	1.66	0.07	1.32%
ITT Corporation	ITT	2.76B	24.15	4.22	1.22	1.30%

20 Most Profitable Dividend Champions

Dividend Champions with highest operating margin originally published at "long-term-investments.blogspot.com". Recently I made a screen of the most profitable stocks from the Dividend Aristocrats index. I thought that it makes sense to know what kind of stocks have the highest degree of profitability. The results were impressive and some of my readers liked the idea.

Today I like to screen my Dividend Champions database by the most profitable stocks, measured by the operating margin. Because of the higher amount of screening members – the Dividend Champions list is nearly twice as big as the Dividend Aristocrats index; the results show some fresh ideas.

The 20 top stocks have a margin between 24.8 and 45.7 percent. Eleven of them are currently recommended to buy.

Best Ex-Dividend Stock List For November 14, 2012

The Best Yielding And Biggest Ex-Dividend Stocks Researched By Dividend Yield - Stock, Capital, Investment. 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-dividend date on the next trading day.

A full list of all stocks with ex-dividend date can be found here: Ex-Dividend Stocks on November 14, 2012. In total, 73 stocks and preferred shares go ex-dividend - of which 36 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 3.64%.

Here is the sheet of the best yielding, higher capitalized Ex-Dividend stocks:

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
Pitney Bowes Inc.	PBI	2.39B	6.59	19.23	0.47	12.58%
Terra Nitrogen Company, L.P.	TNH	4.27B	14.14	16.72	5.51	7.31%
GlaxoSmithKline plc	GSK	105.88B	13.70	10.52	2.50	5.39%
Oaktree Capital Group, LLC	OAK	7.69B	-	4.54	55.06	5.25%
Duke Energy Corporation	DUK	43.27B	19.51	1.06	2.50	4.98%
AGL Resources Inc.	GAS	4.50B	20.64	1.33	1.29	4.82%
CenterPoint Energy, Inc.	CNP	8.62B	21.67	2.03	1.15	4.02%
Sonoco Products Co.	SON	3.07B	17.12	2.02	0.65	3.94%
Plum Creek Timber Co. Inc.	PCL	6.90B	37.44	5.76	5.30	3.94%
Questar Corporation	STR	3.42B	16.38	3.24	3.08	3.55%
Chevron Corporation	CVX	207.32B	8.69	1.56	0.86	3.40%
Emerson Electric Co.	EMR	36.61B	18.78	3.51	1.50	3.26%
Corning Inc.	GLW	16.66B	8.87	0.76	2.15	3.19%
Apartment Investment	AIV	3.69B	-	4.22	3.48	3.16%
Linear Technology Corp.	LLTC	7.50B	19.30	9.32	5.90	3.08%
Simon Property Group Inc.	SPG	47.06B	30.61	8.06	10.00	2.89%
Aqua America Inc.	WTR	3.49B	23.06	2.65	4.69	2.81%
Protective Life Corp.	PL	2.04B	6.70	0.45	0.56	2.79%
United Technologies Corp.	UTX	70.53B	13.31	2.83	1.25	2.78%
American Water Works Company, Inc.	AWK	6.46B	16.99	1.45	2.29	2.74%