My Favorite Dividend Paying Buyback Hero Stocks

As you might know, I am a big fan of dividend growth and stock buybacks. Each action is a shareholder friendly way to give money back to the owner of the company.

Dividends are direct and share buybacks are indirect and more tax efficient. Both activities only make sense if the management team has a clear view about the valuation and growth perspectives or potential of the corporation. If there is an opportunity to grow with low risk, dividends shouldn't be paid in a big way. The same is neccessary for buybacks. There must be a mix of both in balance with growth.

Today I like to share a sheet of interesting stocks with good outstanding buyback programs. I've focused my research on growth and dividends while the valuation level doesn't exceed critical levels.

Here are my results...

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...

20 Best Yielding Profitable Growing Buyback Kings And My 8 Favorite Stocks

Today's screen discovers stocks with recent buyback announcements. I've compiled those stocks with a recent buyback program announcement.

Those buybacks are paid from a profitable operating business that is growing, not only in the past but should also go forward in the near future.

A consequence is that each of the attached stocks has a positive 5 years past sales performance, positive return on assets and positive expected 5 year EPS growth predictions as well.

Attached you will find the 20 best yielding results.

These are my personal favorites...

20 Stocks With At Least One Billion Share Buyback Plan In 2016

When corporations are profitable and established, they tend to return capital to shareholders. 

This can be achieved via stock buybacks to shrink the float and to support the stock, or it can be done via one-time dividends or by raising their annualized quarterly dividends.

In my blog, I often cover successful long-term dividend growth stocks. Those companies managed to raise dividends over a decade or half century.

I also talk a little about buyback stocks. Those gave more money back vie share repurchases which is in the end the same.

Today I would give you a short introduction into the biggest share buyback announced from the current fiscal year 2016.

As of now, we've noticed 94 companies with fresh, new, or increased buyback plans.

Here are the biggest announcements from fiscal 2016 to date...

Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On August 20, 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, 38 stocks go ex dividend - of which 12 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 4,46%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
Northern Tier Energy LP	NTI	2.08B	8.05	4.69	0.44	21.76%
Pengrowth Energy Corporation	PGH	2.95B	-	0.76	2.41	8.06%
Thomson Reuters Corporation	TRI	28.88B	29.00	1.73	2.24	3.74%
Maxim Integrated Products	MXIM	8.12B	18.46	3.24	3.32	3.73%
CA Technologies	CA	13.75B	13.28	2.44	2.97	3.27%
Applied Materials Inc.	AMAT	18.79B	-	2.70	2.62	2.56%
Archer Daniels Midland	ADM	24.62B	20.81	1.30	0.27	2.04%
Cummins Inc.	CMI	23.46B	16.64	3.50	1.39	2.00%
NVIDIA Corporation	NVDA	8.89B	16.88	2.13	2.10	1.98%
Wyndham Worldwide Corp.	WYN	8.01B	20.81	4.88	1.69	1.96%
Goldcorp Inc.	GG	25.23B	-	1.21	5.17	1.93%
Marriott International, Inc.	MAR	12.39B	20.30	-	0.96	1.71%
NICE Systems Ltd.	NICE	2.32B	28.29	1.93	2.56	1.40%
Zions Bancorp.	ZION	5.30B	22.03	1.03	2.67	0.55%
Allergan Inc.	AGN	26.03B	22.26	4.55	4.44	0.23%

Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On March 12, 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 March 12, 2013. In total, 28 stocks and preferred shares go ex dividend - of which 13 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 4.73%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
KKR Financial Holdings LLC	KFN	2.33B	5.95	1.10	4.19	7.39%
Mercury General Corporation	MCY	2.02B	17.25	1.10	0.72	6.67%
Medical Properties Trust Inc.	MPW	2.25B	26.40	1.95	11.19	5.32%
NYSE Euronext, Inc.	NYX	9.23B	27.51	1.45	2.46	3.16%
Rayonier Inc.	RYN	7.18B	26.56	4.95	4.57	3.05%
DDR Corp.	DDR	5.58B	-	1.67	6.97	3.05%
El Paso Electric Co.	EE	1.36B	14.97	1.64	1.59	2.96%
MDU Resources Group Inc.	MDU	4.68B	-	1.72	1.15	2.78%
Federal Realty Investment Trust	FRT	6.91B	45.26	5.36	11.36	2.75%
Marvell Technology Group Ltd.	MRVL	5.72B	18.43	1.22	1.82	2.25%
Wyndham Worldwide	WYN	8.68B	23.02	4.52	1.91	1.83%
The Home Depot, Inc.	HD	106.71B	23.79	6.01	1.43	1.63%
Nasdaq OMX Group Inc.	NDAQ	5.31B	15.70	1.01	1.70	1.62%
Airgas Inc.	ARG	7.76B	23.49	4.34	1.57	1.57%
Franco-Nevada Corporation	FNV	6.83B	211.95	2.12	15.84	1.54%
Legg Mason Inc.	LM	3.89B	-	0.79	1.50	1.46%
SPX Corporation	SPW	3.82B	26.43	1.80	0.77	1.23%
Ametek Inc.	AME	10.32B	22.56	4.07	3.10	0.57%
Gardner Denver Inc.	GDI	3.67B	14.13	2.53	1.56	0.27%

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.