20 Dividend Stocks With The Highest Buy Rating | Compilation Of The Best Services Stocks

Most recommended dividend stocks from the services sector originally published at "long-term-investments.blogspot.com". Today I like to go forward with my best stock recommendation list for January 2013 and I analyze the services sector. 

The services sector has 888 companies listed of which 348 pay dividends and 213 are recommended to buy now.

The total market capitalization of all stocks amounts to USD 56.93 trillion dollar. An average stock from the sector has a dividend yield of 1.72 percent and is valuated with a P/E of 20.10. The best yielding industries are Consumer Services and Electronic Stores which is followed by Computers Wholesale.

I made a screen of the 20 most recommended and higher capitalized stocks with positive dividend payments. Two high-yields are part of the results.

Best Services Stock Picks For 2013 | A Selection Of Growth Stocks

Dividend income investors seeking for a high income stream from dividends. In addition, capital gains from stocks trades are a welcome bonus for a long-term investor like me. Over a long period, such capital gains are much higher than the amount of dividends. I personally have a ratio of 1:2. This means for every dollar in dividends I could generate additional two dollars of stock gains. Most of my capital gains are unrealized because I hold them for a very long time.

However, I started a new screen from the services sector. I wanted to know what stocks picks could be the best for next year. Last year’s picks gained 31.16 percent while the sector was up 23.16 percent compared to the previous year.

These are my criteria:

- Forward P/E under 15

- Past 5Y Sales growth over 10 percent

- Earnings per share growth for the next five years over 10 percent

- Operating Margin over 10 percent

- Market capitalization above USD 2 billion

Fourteen stocks fulfilled these criteria of which eight pay dividends and twelve are currently recommended to buy. The results are dominated by business services stocks and discount, variety store concepts. 

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, 72 stocks and funds raised dividends of which 28 have a dividend growth of more than 10 percent. The average dividend growth amounts to 48.60 percent.

25 of the dividend growth stocks/funds from last week are currently recommended to buy.

43 Stocks With The Highest Dividend Growth In August 2012

Shares With Highest Dividend Growth by Dividend Yield – Stock, Capital, Investment. Here is a current sheet of companies with fastest dividend growth compared to the previous dividend declaration. The dividend growth is often a good indicator for the financial health of a stock. Companies with a strong increase in dividends judge the future of their company rosy and they want to give money back to shareholders that they don’t need for their business.

In total, the 43 fastest dividend growth companies realized an average dividend growth of 20.62 percent. The average dividend yield of the stocks amounts to 3.37. The P/E ratio is 16.55, P/B 2.53 and P/S finally 3.16.