The Top Yielding Dividend Stocks Of The S&P 500

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Ticker	Company	P/E	Fwd P/E	P/S	P/B	Dividend
CTL	CenturyLink, Inc.	37.63	17.31	1.08	0.99	10.07%
LB	L Brands, Inc.	10.66	11.57	0.63	-	7.92%
KIM	Kimco Realty Corporation	30	26.71	5.68	1.27	6.86%
IRM	Iron Mountain Incorporated	52.33	27.91	2.4	4.78	6.84%
F	Ford Motor Company	5.84	6.73	0.23	1.02	6.44%
T	AT&T Inc.	18.08	9.2	1.52	1.16	5.97%
VTR	Ventas, Inc.	38.67	33.7	5.3	1.79	5.85%
HCP	HCP, Inc.	153.51	47.85	6.55	2.36	5.74%
PM	Philip Morris International Inc.	15.88	15.21	4.19	-	5.57%
PPL	PPL Corporation	11.87	12.11	2.65	1.83	5.57%
SO	The Southern Company	21.04	14.34	1.84	1.85	5.56%
WELL	Welltower Inc.	160.66	35.99	5.34	1.73	5.50%
MAC	Macerich Company	204.23	64	7.89	2.51	5.43%
STX	Seagate Technology plc	8.07	7.74	1.2	8.13	5.36%
MO	Altria Group, Inc.	15.71	13.84	4.52	7.23	5.30%
IVZ	Invesco Ltd.	9.07	8.07	1.75	1.08	5.22%
NLSN	Nielsen Holdings plc	20.84	21.54	1.48	2.43	5.05%
WMB	The Williams Companies, Inc.	307.33	28.2	4.08	2.45	4.92%
OKE	ONEOK, Inc.	30.29	24.11	2.23	4.26	4.79%
D	Dominion Energy, Inc.	21.82	16.52	3.54	2.53	4.76%

The Best Dividend Paying Dogs Of The S&P 500

S&P 500 Dogs Find Energy To Power July Dog Days
(Source: Seeking Alpha)

Dividend Growth Dogs As Of July 2016

Top CCC Combo Dogs; 
Source: Seeking Alpha

34 Best Dividend Stocks With A 100 Year Long History

Blue chip stocks are established large-cap businesses that pay reliable dividends. 

They have long corporate histories and provide well-known products and/or services. 

This article examines every business in the S&P 500 with a 3% yield and a 100+ year corporate history. These are my criteria:

- Stocks with yields at or above 3%
- Low P/E ratios
- Strong competitive advantage
- Over 100 Years in Business

These are the best ideas that came into my minds...

10 S&P Stocks With The Lowest Cash To Debt Ratios

Apple has tons of cash, right, but the technology giant also owns massive debt. 

If you subtract those burdens from the cash account, you see that Apples cash is much smaller as many might think. A useful way to evalueate this problem is to calculate the cash-to-debt ratio.

Cash To Debt Ratio compares a company's operating cash flow to its total debt, which, for purposes of this ratio, is defined as the sum of short-term borrowings, the current portion of long-term debt and long-term debt. 

This ratio provides an indication of a company's ability to cover total debt with its yearly cash flow from operations. The higher the percentage ratio, the better the company's ability to carry its total debt.

Attached I've made the effort to select those stocks from the S&P 500 with the lowest cash to debt ratio. 

These are the 10 stocks with the lowest ratio...

Energy Dividend Dogs As Of June 2016

Energy Dividend Dogs As Of June 2016; Source: Seeking Alpha

30 Fast-Growing Dividend Growth Stocks For High Total Return

Dividend growth is important for investors who like to put money into stocks and follow a buy and hold strategy until they retire.

If the company growth and with them the dividend payout, your passive income should also grow and your investment finally be higher.

Attached you will find a nice overview of the best dividend growth stocks of the recent decade sorted by short-term, mid-term and long-term dividend growth.

For sure the past performance is no guarantee for growth in the future but it gives a nice overview about the good stocks in the past.

Maybe you own some of them and you have made a decent amount of money with your investment.

Here are the best dividend growth stocks of the past...

These Dividend Growth Stocks Could Reduce Its Dividends In The Future

With interest rates now having spent years near their all-time lows, many investors who might prefer safer assets have moved to dividend stocks as a way to generate income from their investments. 

The problem with this strategy is that it only works if the companies that have been mailing out those dividend checks can afford to keep doing so.

Therefore, income investors should probably avoid putting their money into any company that is currently experiencing a financial hardship that might threaten its ability to continue making dividend payments.

I started my research by screening the Dividend Champions list by stocks with unsustainable dividend measures. High payouts, high debt, low growth and a cyclic business model are key drivers for an unsustainable dividend.

Each of the attached results grown its dividend over 10 consecutive years.

Here are the results from my research, sorted by highest debt load...

Stocks With The Highest Annual Dividend Growth Of The Past 3, 5 and 10 Years

Recently, I showed you how your investment portfolio grows over 30 years if you own sustainable long-term dividend growth stocks. 

The key notice from the article was that if you buy high yielding stocks with fast dividend growth, you could maximize your portfolio return. 

It sounds quite easy but it’s hard to find those stocks because no one of us can look into the future or has crystal ball. 

Today I like to show you those stocks with the highest short, mid and long-term dividend growth of the past 3, 5 and 10 years. 

Over the next upcoming days, I will also deliver a few stocks with the highest 10year dividend growth rate of the most consistent dividend raiser in the market. 

Here the best dividend growers of the past decade....

13 High-Yield Large Caps From The S&P 500 Stock Index

Despite all the hand-wringing over the beginning of the Federal Reserve interest rate increases, the fact of the matter is they will start small, stay small and happen at a very slow pace. 

In fact, most Wall Street strategists predict that by the end of 2017, the fed funds rate will only be 2% at the very most. It could be even lower if economic growth slows down between now and then. 

With that scenario very likely, solid stocks with a big yield will remain in demand. I screened the S&P 500 index for large cap, blue chip stocks that paid a 5% dividend. 

As of now, 13 stocks pay such a high yield of which 5 have also a low forward P/E and 8 a buy or better rating.

A major worry for many yield-hungry investors is that when the Federal Reserve begins raising the federal funds rate, market prices for any yield-producing investment can come under pressure. 

When interest rates rise, the value of an existing bond or preferred stock must adjust itself lower so it has the same yield as a similarly rated new security.

A good advice from me is to avoid stocks with high debt leverage like REITs. Those stocks are living from an interest margin that could be destroyed.

Here are the large cap high-yields from the S&P 500...

Dividend Growth Stocks Of The Recent Week September 14 - 20, 2015

Attached, you can find a nice sheet with all dividend growth stocks that have raised dividends in the past week.

The biggest stocks below the latest dividend hikers are Microsoft, Philip Morris, Texas Instruments and Williams Companies.

Cheap by forward P/E are nine of the 20 stocks. My favorites of them are Microsoft, and PM and TXN. Which of the latest dividend growers to you like or would you consider to buy?

Dividend Growth And Share Buybacks

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Dividend Growth Stocks Of The Week September 14 - 20, 2015 Dividend Growth Stocks Of The Week September 14 - 20, 2015 (click to enlarge)

Check out the fundamental sheet here.... Dividend Growth Stocks Fundamentals (click to enlarge)

High-Yielding Ex-Dividend Stocks Of The Coming Week

Here I share all higher capitalized stocks going ex-dividend next week.
60 dividend stocks go ex-dividend in the upcoming week of which 30 are capitalized over 2 billion.

Afull list of next weeks ex-dividend stocks can be found here: Ex-Dividend Stocks of the Week September 21, 2015 – September 27, 2015. The average dividend-yield amounts to 4.55 percent.

Check out the top yielding stocks, starting at 2.11% and ending at 8.82%---

Highest Yielding Ex-Dividend Stocks Of The Next Week (Click to enlarge)

Which do you prefer? Well, on the higher yield side, there are many energy related stocks as well as REITs.

Those are also high debt loaded with enormous payouts.

I like Total, Williams, Staples, Medtronic and IFF.

10 High-Beta High-Yield Dividend Achievers To Beat The Street

There are a number of great companies in the market today but you need to know where the risks are exactly.

There are several ways to identify a risk. First, you can evalueate the business model and try to understand how they make money.

Second, you can look at the debt, equity, income and growth ratios. Both figures tell you something about the financial health of the corporate. If you like to know how volatile the stock is on the market, you should use the beta ratio.

A company's beta indicates the correlation at which its price moves in relation to the market. A beta greater than 1 indicates a company is more volatile than the market.

I've selected 10 Dividend Achievers for value investors with the highest beta.

These are the top Dividend Achievers...

Top 10 S&P 500 Companies By Dividend Growth

Dividend growth is better than dividend yield because over the long-term, each investor could receive a higher return due to the growing business of a corporate.

Today I like to show you those stocks from the popular S&P 500 that have the fastest twelve trailing months dividend growth.

The screen excludes companies with current dividend yield of less than 2%. The growth rate methodology is based on trailing twelve-month DPS compared to the value one year ago.

You may also like my older articles about dividend growth stocks with solid yields and growth persectives.

These are the results, sorted by dividend growth....

Next Week's 20 Top Yielding Ex-Dividend Shares

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, 201 stocks go ex dividend - of which 79 yield more than 3 percent. Here is a full list of all stocks with ex-dividend date within the next current week.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
Altria Group Inc.	MO	68.87B	15.71	19.33	2.83	5.58%
BCE, Inc.	BCE	33.12B	14.47	3.04	1.74	5.18%
Encana Corporation	ECA	12.88B	-	2.43	2.27	4.57%
Williams Companies, Inc.	WMB	23.98B	37.76	5.11	3.33	4.19%
Shaw Communications, Inc.	SJR	10.45B	14.64	2.79	2.16	4.17%
DTE Energy Co.	DTE	11.41B	16.19	1.51	1.23	4.00%
Rogers Communications Inc.	RCI	21.29B	12.30	5.17	1.77	3.99%
Merck & Co. Inc.	MRK	142.94B	28.27	3.01	3.18	3.62%
Public Storage	PSA	26.26B	34.23	5.08	13.91	3.27%
Cenovus Energy Inc.	CVE	22.45B	45.69	2.34	1.40	3.10%
The Coca-Cola Company	KO	170.50B	20.29	5.29	3.58	2.92%
NYSE Euronext, Inc.	NYX	10.17B	23.52	1.66	2.70	2.87%
Western Union Co.	WU	10.04B	11.43	10.81	1.81	2.77%
Kohl's Corp.	KSS	11.53B	12.27	1.90	0.60	2.67%
Hewlett-Packard Company	HPQ	43.25B	-	1.76	0.38	2.59%
Automatic Data Processing, Inc.	ADP	35.29B	26.12	5.70	3.12	2.38%
Macy's, Inc.	M	17.24B	13.07	2.94	0.62	2.22%
Motorola Solutions, Inc.	MSI	15.22B	16.09	5.45	1.75	2.20%
T. Rowe Price Group, Inc.	TROW	18.26B	19.38	4.24	5.66	2.15%
Fidelity National Information Services	FIS	13.08B	25.20	1.98	2.21	1.95%