20 Best Healthcare Dividend Stocks With Yields Up To 6.08%

The health care sector includes a wide variety of companies operating in various industries, such as biotechnology, long-term care facilities, drug manufacturing, medical devices and equipment industries.

Due to an aging population in the United States, the availability of a wide spectrum of medical services to prolong life and increasing demand from baby boomers for medical services, the health care sector is poised to continue growing at an above-average rate compared to broad U.S. market returns.

From 2010 to 2015, various industries within the health care sector have generated average annual returns ranging between 17% for long-term care facilities to 34% for biotechnology companies, which is substantially above the average market return in the U.S.

Overall, the health care sector is poised to continue growing and generating excess returns due to ongoing innovation and strong patent protection. Also, due to stable cash flows and a solid pipeline of products, most health care companies can afford to pay out substantial amounts of their earnings to their shareholders, resulting in high dividend yields that average from 3 to 4% as of September 2015.

Looking for high-yielding dividend stocks from the healthcare sector? We've listed the top yielders without any restrictions. Here they are...

My Top Stocks From The International Dividend Achievers Index

Why Dividends Matter? Companies that pay regular dividends tend to be in better financial health and produce sustained earnings and revenue growth. 

Dividends help identify well-managed companies; every dividend declaration represents a promise by management and a vote of confidence by the board of directors in the company's leadership. 

Companies that consistently raise their dividend payouts also raise the bar on their own performance expectations. 

Shares of dividend-paying companies possess built-in value that makes them generally more resilient in down markets, with solid appreciation potential during earnings-driven market upturns — with less price volatility.

That's the theory. In real, there are several indices you can follow in order to discover the best dividend paying stocks.

Very poplular are Dividend Aristocrats and the CCC Lists. But those have in common that they are focussed on national domiciled stocks.

For sure, on an international basis, the number of stocks with a long dividend growth history is very limited. That's the reason why we need to turn down the classic rules of Dividend Growth.

Today I screened the lists of International Dividend Achievers, stocks with more than 5 consecutive years of dividend growth by companies with good looking fundamentals and growth perspectives.

Attached you will find 17 of my top results. The list contains 6 stocks with a yield over 4 percent. 

Here are the results...

17 Best Healthcare Dividend Growth Picks Of The Past 20 Years

The healthcare sector should be an important part of every dividend investor's portfolio. Healthcare spending as a portion of GDP in OECD countries is expected to rise steadily over the coming decades. In East Asia, healthcare spending will also rise relative to GDP, given the steep drop in fertility in that region over the last 20 years.

An aging population is a very long-lived, secular trend, and so many well-positioned healthcare businesses have steady growth prospects as far out as the eye can see. Luckily for income investors, the healthcare sector includes many businesses that are stable, dividend-minded and have good balance sheets.

Today, I like to introduce a few of the best dividend growth stocks from the healthcare sector. You might have some great names in your mind, like Johnson & Johnson or Medtronic.

For me, the medical equipment industry is a great way to invest into the future. Pharmacy is also a great but they are more cyclic and threaten by biotech. Those get also pressure from bio-similars.

There is no guarantee for a good return in the future but I feel confident to own some of the best names in the sector.

These are the best Healthcare dividend growth picks of the past 20 years. Which stocks do you like?

20 Defensive Dividend Growth Stocks With Potential To Create Values In The Future

Investors have just been reminded that the stock market can finally have a formal correction. A drop of more than 500 points on Friday has put the Dow Jones Industrial Average down just over 10% from its highs, and the S&P 500 is down over 7% from its highs.

While selling trends had been in place prior to this past week, 6% of that 10% drop, or 60% of the total correction, took place last week alone. The trend that has survived in the past four years or so now is that investors have bought each and every stock market pullback.

This week’s dismal end also came on what was the last Friday of summer for many families in America, so lots of would-be buyers were simply not around to have an interest in the market, whether it was going up or going down.

I made most of my capital gains in finical turmoil’s by owning low beta stocks, large caps with a high diversification worldwide. For sure, you will not make money if you overpay a corporate.

However, here are a few attractive valuated dividend growers that could be potential stocks if the sell-off reaches a broader audience. My main criteria are positive growth in the past and expected earnings growth for the future. 

In addition, forward P/E is fewer than 15 while the beta ratio is the lowest on the results, reaching a high value of 0.73. Attached is a full compilation of the 20 best results by beta values.

These are my favorites...

7 Good Stocks With Return Promise

Buying big companies with strong cash flows and competitive advantages is one of my key philosophies when I think about investments. 

I also like such companies that grow and give more and more money back to shareholders.

I believe that each company should work for its owners and give them a good and solid return. 

That's one of the reasons why I'm scouting each week for the latest stocks with dividend growth and share buyback announcements.

Below are seven large caps with shareholder-friendly activities. I've tried to select a good mix from several sectors and industries but you can also find more by looking at the full list of dividend growers at the end of this article. I hope you get some inspirations.

7 good stocks with dividend growth or share buyback announcement are....

17 Cheap Large Cap Dividend Contenders Close To New 52-Week Highs

Cheaply valuated dividend growth stocks close to new 52-Week-Highs originally published at long-term-investments.blogspot.com. I published recently a small article about Large Cap stocks close to new one-year highs with a single P/E.

The idea behind is that there could be more room for a higher stock price due to the low valuation and the break-out signal. I know that this kind of method is more technically but it should give you some new ideas from a different perspective of the capital market.

Today I would like to screen my dividend income growth stock database by shares with 10 to 25 years of consecutive dividend growth that are 5 percent or less away from new one-year highs. In addition, the earnings income multiple for the next year should be under 15 and the market capitalization over USD 10 billion.

Only 17 stocks fulfilled these criteria of which ten are currently recommended to buy.

8 Predictable Dividend Stocks At Multi-Year Price-To-Book Value Lows

Stocks with a predictable business and historical low P/B ratios originally published at long-term-investments.blogspot.com. Today I would like to use my new gurufocus screener to get new stock ideas. I always hunt for value but I don’t want to add up too much risk in my portfolio.

For sure, there is no free lunch at the market and everybody must accept a fluctuating stock price. But in my view, there are different ways to take risk. Some are natural and others are not calculable risks, created by the company or the environment in which the corporate acts.

Let’s come back to my value stock screener. I would like to try out the Low P/B Companies screener by gurufocus and I’m glad to share the top yielding results with you here.

The screener supports only stocks that have grown sales and earnings over the past decade consistently. They are somehow predictable and high-quality stocks. The screener compares the current P/B ratios with the 10-Year average values of the ratio and plots the top 25 companies with the lowest spreads.

Only eight stocks of the top 25 results have a yield over 2 percent and three of them got a buy or better rating.

Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On August 16, 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 August 16, 2013. In total, 28 stocks go ex dividend - of which 6 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 3.31%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
Macerich Co.	MAC	8.25B	33.89	2.73	8.83	3.87%
Manulife Financial Corporation	MFC	32.88B	22.00	1.44	1.64	2.99%
Teva Pharmaceutical Industries	TEVA	33.83B	83.02	1.57	1.69	2.74%
Bemis Company, Inc.	BMS	4.28B	22.85	2.69	0.84	2.50%
Walgreen Co.	WAG	47.82B	22.23	2.52	0.67	2.50%
ResMed Inc.	RMD	6.95B	23.20	4.32	4.59	2.05%
Energizer Holdings Inc.	ENR	6.21B	15.02	2.69	1.37	2.01%
Honeywell International Inc.	HON	65.65B	20.79	4.77	1.73	1.97%
Spectrum Brands Holdings, Inc.	SPB	3.33B	-	3.71	0.88	1.56%
Bunge Limited	BG	11.51B	39.31	1.19	0.18	1.53%
Timken Co.	TKR	5.75B	18.56	2.49	1.30	1.53%
Moody's Corp.	MCO	14.56B	19.61	32.59	4.97	1.22%
The Babcock & Wilcox Company	BWC	3.45B	15.13	3.56	1.03	1.04%
Woodward, Inc.	WWD	2.87B	21.00	2.70	1.51	0.76%
QEP Resources, Inc.	QEP	5.22B	35.49	1.53	1.94	0.27%

15 Cheap International Dividend Achievers | Foreign Dividend Growth Stocks

Cheap international Dividend Achievers originally published at long-term-investments.blogspot.com. The search for high quality dividend stocks is the basis of my research. I always look for stocks with a good dividend history and potential to hike future dividends.

My results often come from the American stocks but you can find overseas also some good dividend growth players with potential to grow further. For sure the rest of the world doesn’t have so many stocks with a long history of rising dividends but there are a few attractive candidates.

Today I would like to look at some International Dividend Achievers. Those stocks have raised dividends for at least five consecutive years. In this article, I will present you the 15 cheapest stocks with positive 5-Year earnings per share growth expectations. Two High-Yields are part of the results and seven of the cheapest foreign dividend stocks have a current buy or better rating.

These 42 Stocks Planning To Pay More Dividends

Stocks with dividend hikes from last week originally published at long-term-investments.blogspot.com. Last week, around 42 companies announced a high dividend. I published all stocks with dividend growth from the recent week in the attached dividend list. In average, stocks from the list of the latest dividend growth stocks have increased their dividend payments by 15.51 percent.

It’s always good to see how the dividend growth strategy works. Some of the dividend growers have raised their payments forty times and more. The biggest names come from the oil and gas sector. Eni and Total are the two biggest stocks followed by the British spirit maker Diageo.

Five of the results have a double-digit dividend yield and seven yielding above five percent. Analysts and brokerage firms recommend more than half, 26 in total, of the dividend growth stocks.

Next Week's Best Yielding Large Cap Ex-Dividend Stocks

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 week.

A full list of all stocks with payment dates can be found here: Ex-Dividend Stocks Between August 12 - 18, 2013. In total, 182 stocks go ex dividend - of which 61 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 4.28%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
AstraZeneca PLC	AZN	63.54B	13.01	2.74	2.39	7.49%
Royal Dutch Shell plc	RDS-B	214.51B	8.18	1.19	0.47	5.08%
Duke Energy Corporation	DUK	49.89B	21.38	1.22	2.28	4.41%
Pearson plc	PSO	16.79B	44.28	1.91	2.13	4.37%
Consolidated Edison Inc.	ED	17.66B	16.89	1.49	1.43	4.08%
Exelon Corporation	EXC	26.73B	27.91	1.27	1.07	3.97%
Shaw Communications, Inc.	SJR	11.26B	15.57	2.99	2.29	3.95%
Eli Lilly & Co.	LLY	58.53B	12.15	3.84	2.55	3.62%
CenterPoint Energy, Inc.	CNP	10.39B	55.11	2.48	1.28	3.42%
Chevron Corporation	CVX	235.37B	9.93	1.68	1.01	3.27%
E. I. du Pont de Nemours	DD	55.12B	23.52	4.22	1.56	3.01%
Simon Property Group Inc.	SPG	49.01B	40.81	8.46	9.75	2.91%
Enbridge Inc.	ENB	33.97B	59.81	5.16	1.32	2.88%
Microsoft Corporation	MSFT	272.88B	12.63	3.46	3.51	2.81%
Teva Pharmaceutical Industries	TEVA	34.57B	20.22	1.52	1.72	2.70%
Walgreen Co.	WAG	47.02B	21.85	2.48	0.66	2.54%
International Paper Co.	IP	21.54B	21.93	3.21	0.75	2.50%
Talisman Energy Inc.	TLM	11.57B	-	1.21	2.05	2.40%
Valero Energy Corporation	VLO	20.16B	7.38	1.10	0.15	2.15%
Phillips 66	PSX	36.48B	7.98	1.68	0.21	2.12%