10 Stocks With The Highest Buyback Yield

10 Stocks With The Highest Buyback Yield;
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20 Stocks With A Billion Dollar Buyback Program And Yields Over 2%

Let me ask you this: Would you rather buy a 10-year Treasury, which currently yields about 2%, or would you rather buy a large-cap stock with a 2% dividend yield, a billion-dollar stock buyback program, and share appreciation potential? 

With bond yields as low as they are, there's no contest. The Fed's zero interest rate policy has created a situation where there's nowhere to go except the stock market. 

Of course, the story will change once the Fed raises interest rates, which will make it more expensive for companies to borrow on the bond market. So there is a raging debate about when that will happen.

It is always better to own stocks in such situations. Those can hedge you against inflation. Fur sure, stocks are risky but if you look at the values of a company, and you avoid the big risks by not taking very cyclic stocks into your portfolio, you should be rewarded with a solid return.

Here are some alternatives with yields over 2% and a current buyback program worth over a billion dollar...

Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On August 28, 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, 154 stocks go ex dividend - of which 59 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 4.49%. Here is a full list of all stocks with ex-dividend date within the upcoming week.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
Lorillard, Inc.	LO	16.35B	13.51	-	2.42	5.06%
Eni SpA	E	83.52B	28.46	1.01	0.49	4.86%
CRH plc	CRH	15.88B	30.32	1.17	0.66	4.17%
NextEra Energy, Inc.	NEE	33.98B	22.19	2.05	2.37	3.28%
Weyerhaeuser Co.	WY	15.46B	25.65	2.64	1.97	3.15%
Analog Devices Inc.	ADI	14.60B	22.59	3.14	5.51	2.88%
Corning Inc.	GLW	21.67B	11.35	1.01	2.72	2.71%
Ford Motor Co.	F	64.54B	10.80	3.36	0.45	2.44%
Time Warner Cable Inc.	TWC	31.33B	14.97	4.67	1.43	2.40%
CSX Corp.	CSX	26.01B	13.83	2.70	2.20	2.36%
The Allstate Corporation	ALL	22.83B	10.42	1.17	0.67	2.05%
Union Pacific Corporation	UNP	72.83B	17.81	3.55	3.41	2.02%
TE Connectivity Ltd.	TEL	20.72B	16.48	2.63	1.57	2.00%
Whirlpool Corp.	WHR	10.62B	16.62	2.34	0.58	1.88%
Time Warner Inc.	TWX	57.66B	17.01	1.94	1.96	1.85%
Broadcom Corp.	BRCM	14.46B	35.73	1.83	1.74	1.76%
Dover Corp.	DOV	14.90B	16.37	2.99	1.78	1.72%
Magna International, Inc.	MGA	18.57B	12.41	1.97	0.57	1.59%
Silver Wheaton Corp.	SLW	10.08B	20.16	3.13	12.28	1.41%
Barclays PLC	BCS	56.31B	23.69	0.71	0.93	1.35%

19 High Beta Technology Dividend Stocks At Reasonable Prices Compared To Growth

Cheap technology dividend stocks with highest beta ratios and good growth originally published at long-term-investments.blogspot.com. High beta stocks are risky but they offer also big opportunities for risk seeking investors. The technology sector is one of the investment fields with a huge base of risk-adjusted business models.  Not every investment is a “win or fail” strategy.

Today I would like to continue my monthly screen serial about high beta stocks from several sectors. Technology dividend stocks are in my focus now. Because of the huge amount of high beta dividend paying technology stocks, I implemented three additional criteria in my screen: A very high market capitalization, an expected five year earnings per share growth as well as a low forward price-to-earnings ratio.

Growth should be over 10 percent for the next half decade and the P/E should below 15. In my view, this ratio represents a very good price for the future growth opportunity but the business model could be much riskier because of the high beta ratio. The betas of the 19 results are between 1.3 and 4. Some stocks like Telecom Italia, Orange or Broadcom have a really bad mid-term performance. Others like TE Connectivity from Swiss or Eaton increased during the same period by over 55 percent or more.

20 Of Europe’s Best Recommended Dividend Stocks

Best yielding dividend stocks from Europe with buy rating published at "long-term-investments.blogspot.com". Europe’s roof is on fire due to the debt crises. That was one of the major headlines in the press of the recent year. Sure, the fire still burns but the worst seems to be over.

Europe’s economy still has values. It’s also an export-driven mainland with a GDP of 13,076 billion, the second largest figure in the world. Certainly, the economy is weak, unemployment rates are at a high level of 11.8 percent and growth slows with a contracting GDP growth of -0.6 percent year over year.

But the currency market turns and reaches the highest value since the debt crises was debated. More and more money comes back to Europe mainly because the ECBs easing policy which is one of the most reserved below the leading industrialized national banks.

Europe is not dead and I like to show you the best yielding investment opportunities with a current buy rating and a listing in the United States. 162 companies with headquarter in Europe are listed on an American Stock Exchange. 102 of them pay dividends and 57 have a current buy or better rating. In order to exclude the stocks with a higher risk due to a small business model, I selected only stocks with a market capitalization over USD 10 billion. 41 stocks still remain.

You can find a list of the 20 most recommended stocks below. The list shows that Europe has still completive companies with a dominant market position. I think about Novo Nordisk or Anheuser Bush. Also Deutsche Bank and National Grid are leading players.

20 Hottest Technology Stocks | Best Stock Buy Rating List

Technology stocks with highest buy ratings originally published at "long-term-investments.blogspot.com". Technology fascinates us all also if we are not real techies who wants the latest stuff whatever it costs.

Technology stocks also made many people very rich. Some of the wealthiest and youngest persons in this world made their wealth on the internet or in related industries. I don’t talk about the Page brothers from Google, Facebook's Zuckerberg or Bill Gates.

This alone is a reason why we should observe the technology sector because there is a huge potential of growth at limited cots. Today, I like to proceed with my January research of the most recommended stocks and I do this at the technology sector.

Below is a small list with some fundamentals about tech stocks with the highest buy rating. I excluded stocks with a market capitalization below USD 2 billion because I think the risk should be much higher as for mid-capitalized stocks.

These are the results: Eleven of the best to buy rated stocks pay dividends; nine have a strong buy rating.

Best Dividend Paying Stocks | Ex-Dividend Shares November 28, 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 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 28, 2012. In total, 139 stocks and preferred shares go ex dividend - of which 61 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 4.10%. If you like to receive the next dividend you need to buy the dividend stocks now.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
National Grid plc	NGG	41.62B	11.33	2.87	1.92	5.54%
Lorillard, Inc.	LO	15.77B	14.59	-	2.41	5.09%
Dominion Resources, Inc.	D	28.95B	24.47	2.41	2.21	4.17%
Northeast Utilities	NU	11.96B	19.06	1.28	2.11	3.60%
NextEra Energy, Inc.	NEE	28.34B	13.22	1.81	1.92	3.53%
CSX Corp.	CSX	20.64B	11.18	2.29	1.75	2.80%
The Coca-Cola Company	KO	167.57B	19.46	5.05	3.52	2.73%
Magna International, Inc.	MGA	10.62B	7.69	1.16	0.35	2.41%
Time Warner Cable Inc.	TWC	28.09B	13.41	3.71	1.34	2.41%
TE Connectivity Ltd.	TEL	14.82B	12.94	1.86	1.12	2.39%
Barrick Gold Corporation	ABX	35.28B	10.53	1.40	2.49	2.27%
Union Pacific Corporation	UNP	57.33B	15.10	2.94	2.76	2.26%
Time Warner Inc.	TWX	44.05B	17.62	1.47	1.53	2.24%
Dover Corp.	DOV	11.40B	13.75	2.20	1.35	2.20%
The Allstate Corporation	ALL	19.49B	7.65	0.94	0.59	2.18%
Nordstrom Inc.	JWN	10.90B	16.54	5.78	0.93	1.99%
The Goldman Sachs Group	GS	56.83B	11.64	0.77	1.47	1.65%
AngloGold Ashanti Ltd.	AU	12.05B	9.44	2.12	1.79	1.33%
Estee Lauder Companies	EL	22.97B	26.72	7.60	2.35	0.89%
SunTrust Banks	STI	14.66B	8.86	0.72	2.44	0.74%