12 Best Yielding Utilities With Double-Digit EPS Growth Potential

Utilities with best dividend yields and high earnings per share growth forecasts originally published at "long-term-investments.blogspot.com". Utilities are well-known for its stability and high dividend payments but they offer also high debt and low growth rates. Sure, utilities can give you some kind of safeness but the only thing that let’s your wealth grow is growth.

Growth is very expensive within the utility sector and I am not sure how it works in the United States but in many countries on the world, utilities are regulated by the government, so they cannot increase prices how they like.
Utilities are essential supplier for basic consumptions products like electricity, water, garbage and so on. Prices should be low in order to realize an optimized prosperity of the nation. If prices are too high, the government will be changed at the next election.

For investors is this fact a very hard environment to make money. You can do it but it is much easier in other sectors. If you invest money in foreign utilities, you bet mainly on an inflation growth and a currency gain.
However, a high dividend is not the only solution of wealth. Growth is more important. I prefer low yielding stocks with no legislative rules and high growth. This will help me to grow faster than the inflation.

Today, I like to show you some of the best yielding utilities with the highest expected earnings per share growth for the next half-decade. From 123 listed utilities pay 107 a dividend but only for 12 companies, earnings per share is expected to grow yearly by more than 10 percent.

Gas utilities are the dominant players on my screening result - There are five stocks from the industry. It could be possible that analysts expecting lower gas prices for the mid-term due to the shale gas boom.

10 Higher Capitalized High-Yields Near 52-Week Lows

New Breakout Stocks By Dividend Yield – Stock, Capital, Investment. Sometimes it makes sense to observe stocks with an ongoing sell-off. The background is to find stocks with a possible turnaround story and to bet on a strong bull race. Oversold stocks are often traded at new lows but they could recover in a fast way. If the company pays stable dividends, it should increase the expected total return for an investor. However, here is a current screen of high-yield stocks that are close to their 52-Week Lows (up to 10 percent). In order to eliminate stocks with higher risk, I screened only companies with a market capitalization over USD 2 billion. As a result, 10 high-yield stocks are near to their 52-week low of which one has a double-digit dividend yield and two are recommended to buy.

The Best Yielding Diversified Utilities

Best Dividend Paying Diversified Utility Stocks Researched By Dividend Yield - Stock, Capital, Investment. The utility sector is a big part of the stock market. Stocks from the sector have a total market capitalization of USD 19.12 trillion. The average sector yield amounts to 4.14 percent and the P/E ratio is 15.45.

I screened one of the most diversified industries by the best yielding companies. The diversified utilities industry contains 24 companies of which 21 pay dividends. Below the results is one stock with a double-digit yield.

65 Best Yielding Stocks With Ex-Dividend Date August 2012

High yield investing is popular especially just before the next dividend payout. In order to receive the next dividend, investors must take a look at the ex-dividend date. If you own a share or fund before this day, you will receive the next dividend. I screened interesting stocks with a high yield and ex-dividend date within the next month – August 2012. As a result, I discovered 65 stocks with an average dividend yield of 6.26 percent.

12 Cheapest Dividend Stocks From Canada

Cheapest Dividend Stocks From Canada Researched By Dividend Yield - Stock, Capital, Investment. Everybody knows that the economy in Canada is a commodity based one and not as much shaking as the American consumer based economy. On America’s stock markets are 181 companies with a headquarter in Canada. 66 of these companies pay dividends but not all of them are already cheap.

However I’ve tried to screen the market by the cheapest Canada stocks with a listing in America. All stocks should have a current P/E ratio of less than 15, a P/S ratio of under two and a positive dividend yield. Exactly twelve companies fulfilled these criteria of which two are high yields. Six are recommended to buy.

Ex-Dividend Date Reminder For February 28, 2012

Here is a current overview of best yielding stocks that have their ex-dividend date on the next trading day. If your broker settles your trade today, you will receive the next dividend. A full list of all stocks with ex-dividend date can be found here: Ex-Dividend Stocks February 28, 2012. In total, 81 stocks and preferred shares go ex-dividend of which 33 yielding above 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 4.13 percent.

Ex-Dividend Date Reminder For Next Week (February 27 - March 04, 2012)

Here is a current overview of best yielding stocks with a market capitalization over USD 2 billion that have their ex-dividend date on the next trading week. If your broker settles your trade before the ex-day, you will receive the next dividend. A full list of all stocks with ex-dividend date can be found here: Ex-Dividend Stocks February 27 – March 04, 2012. In total, 230 stocks and preferred shares go ex-dividend of which 85 yielding above 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 3.77 percent.

The Best Yielding Utilities With Fastest Earnings Growth

Utility Stocks With Best Growth Forecasts And Highest Yield Researched by Dividend Yield - Stock, Capital, Investment. Growth is an important item for wealth. If you own a business that doubles sales and income in ten years, your investment should have a return of 7.2 percent. If you double it in five years, you will have a return of 14.9 percent. Let’s take a look at the best growth stocks with attractive dividend yields within the utility sector. Utilities are wonderful investment objects because they generate stable revenues. 77 percent of all listed utility stocks have a beta ratio (volatility measure) of less than one.