Warren Buffett Buys Precision Castparts. These Are 11 Dividend Alternatives From The Industry

Warren Buffett used his trigger to shoot a white elephant. He announced to buy Precision Castparts, a metal fabrication company with focus on the aero plane industry.

PCP is a huge investment for Warren Buffett.

Today I like to introduce some alternatives from the same industry. 18 public listed companies are located to the metal fabricaton industry but only 6 stocks have a market capitalization of more than 1 billion USD.

There is a huge conentration in the industry. PCP next competitor, Tenaris, has a 15 billion market cap, nealy half the value Warren Buffett paid for PCP.

However, here are the best dividend picks from the metal fabrication industry...

17 Cheap Dividend Contenders With Buy Ratings And Double-Digit Growth

Cheap Dividend Contenders with high growth and buy ratings originally published at long-term-investments.blogspot.com. Dividend growth and passive income strategies for normal investors is the core content of this blog. I personally create these articles to share my thoughts about good dividend paying stocks.

The underlying aim is to build a portfolio with high-quality dividend stocks that hike dividends in the future and boost your passive income. If they pay a good dividend and they grow, the share price must follow one day and reflect the corporate success.

Today I would like to present some dividend growth stocks with 10 to 25 years of growing dividends and buy or better ratings. These are my criteria in detail:

- 10 to 25 years of consecutive dividend growth

- Cheap forward P/E of less than 15

- EPS growth for the next five years over 10 percent yearly

- Buy or better rating by brokerage firms

Seventeen stocks fulfilled the above mentioned criteria of which one pays a high yield over five percent. Two companies have a strong buy rating.

Best Dividend Paying Ex-Dividend Shares On December 26, 2012

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 December 26, 2012. In total, 26 stocks and preferred shares go ex dividend - of which 13 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 5.20%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
Anworth Mortgage Asset	ANH	844.96M	8.22	0.74	4.13	10.14%
MFA Financial, Inc.	MFA	2.97B	9.90	0.92	5.97	9.62%
Canadian Imperial Bank	CM	33.51B	10.48	1.96	2.76	4.57%
DCT Industrial Trust Inc.	DCT	1.76B	-	1.38	6.84	4.29%
CBL & Associates Properties	CBL	3.39B	28.46	2.71	3.28	4.18%
BT Group plc	BT	30.35B	9.14	33.23	1.01	3.60%
Glimcher Realty Trust	GRT	1.58B	-	2.18	5.16	3.60%
Sempra Energy	SRE	17.34B	20.37	1.72	1.81	3.35%
DuPont Fabros Technology, Inc.	DFT	1.99B	57.74	1.23	6.21	3.30%
Sauer-Danfoss Inc.	SHS	2.53B	13.38	4.20	1.30	2.68%
Canadian Pacific Railway Limited	CP	17.66B	25.21	3.32	3.13	1.39%
CTS Corporation	CTS	349.29M	20.68	1.29	0.60	1.35%
Black Box Corp.	BBOX	419.79M	-	0.87	0.40	1.26%
Regal Beloit Corporation	RBC	3.13B	14.83	1.69	0.98	1.08%
Valmont Industries, Inc.	VMI	3.60B	12.69	2.70	1.21	0.67%
Banco Bradesco S.A.	BBDO	65.55B	12.00	2.02	2.75	0.63%
Banco Bradesco S.A.	BBD	67.47B	12.51	2.08	3.37	0.61%
Itau Unibanco Holding S.A.	ITUB	74.51B	11.24	2.01	2.55	0.55%
DENTSPLY International Inc.	XRAY	5.69B	25.21	2.68	1.95	0.55%

Best Industrial Goods Stock Picks For 2013 | High Growth at Top Margins

The best industrial growth picks for 2013 originally published at "long-term-investments.blogspot.com" Everybody likes to invest in well growing companies with strong brands and big cash flows, free for distributing to shareholders via share buybacks or dividend payments. The best stocks to buy are not only the cheapest shares with a low P/E or a high dividend yield. Good stocks are also those with a great track record in terms of industry growth and future growth prospects. Now, we are close to year-end and I like to discover some growth stock picks for next year 2013. Today, I focus on stocks from the industrial goods sector (354 shares available). 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

Sixteen companies fulfilled the above mentioned criteria. Eight of them pay dividends and fourteen have a current buy or better recommendation. The two best represented industries within the screening results are aerospace/defense and industrial equipments.

My Favorite Dividend Contender Picks For 2013 | Dividend Growth At Fair Value

Everybody loves dividends and dividend growth and everybody wanted to buy high dividend stocks with growth potential as well. But making money with stocks is not easy. It’s more than buying cheap stocks and selling them at a higher price. You need to take care of your risks and your trading limits.

I love stocks with rising sales and earnings that raise their distributions to shareholders every year. For me as investor, it is a great source to boost my dividend income without hard work. That’s the main reason why I am looking for buy opportunities of best dividend paying stocks worldwide. Today I like to progress with my best dividend picks for 2013. I screened my Dividend Contenders database by cheap stocks to buy with interesting valuation figures.

Dividend Contenders are “middle class” dividend growth stocks. They raised their dividend payments over a period of more than 10 consecutive years but less than 25 years. For the time being, 180 Contenders are available for stock trading. I selected only those with a market capitalization over USD 2 billion, a forward P/E ratio of less than 15 as well as double-digit expected earnings per share growth. In addition, the company should have shown a past sales growth of more than 10 percent yearly and the operating margin should be over 10 percent. Thirteen wonderful dividend growth stocks fulfilled these criteria of which eleven are currently rated with a buy or strong buy.

Stocks With Fastest Dividend Growth In April 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, 49 companies announced a dividend growth of more than 10 percent within the recent month. The average dividend yield of the fastest dividend growth stocks from last month amounts to 3.37 percent and the dividend growth is 70.76 percent.

13 Industrial Dividend Stocks With Gaining Earnings Growth Momentum

Industrial Dividend Stocks With Accelerated Growth Researched By Dividend Yield - Stock, Capital, Investment. Industrials are very cyclic and they are an early indicator for the health of the economy. Within the recent years, the sector realized a good recovery from the financial crises but the market cyclic doesn’t seem to be ended.

In order to find some opportunities from the industrial sector, I screened stocks with an earnings growth of more than ten percent over the past five years. In order to catch up only stocks with a gaining earnings momentum, I observed only those stocks with a quarter over quarter sales and earnings per share growth of more than fifteen percent. Exactly thirteen companies fulfilled these criteria of which two have a yield over three percent.

14 Dividend Contenders With Gaining Earnings Growth Momentum

Dividend Contenders With Improved Earnings Growth Researched By Dividend Yield - Stock, Capital, Investment. Dividend Contenders are growth stocks with a huge reliability in terms of dividend payments. They raised distributions over a period of 10-24 consecutive years. 166 companies with such an impressive dividend growth are tradable at the markets.

In order to find some opportunities, I screened the sector by stocks with an earnings growth of more than ten percent (past five years). In order to catch up only those stocks with a gaining earnings momentum, I observed only those stocks with a quarter over quarter sales and earnings per share growth of more than fifteen percent. Exactly fourteen companies fulfilled these criteria of which two are high yields; nine are recommended to buy.