25 Of The Most Attractive Dividend Stocks

These are tough times for investors who look for cheap companies. The Dow and S&P 500 jump from high to high, but this boom is credit-driven; it's the result of the monetary easing policy of the world's major government banks.

The good thing is that we can buy stocks in every market situation, whether the market has a P/E level of 30 or 10. What we need to is to look at solid growth for the single stock and not overpay for the future prospects of an asset.

When I look at the market today, I see that the financial sector, conglomerates and basic material stocks are the cheapest valued ones in terms of forward P/E, but the highest growth is predicted for the Services and Technology sector, both of which have the highest P/E ratios.

Tech stocks have made many people rich, but if you recall the dot.com bubble in 2000, many investors and private dealers lost their money because they believed that their super high-flying stock could change the world.

Facebook, Twitter and Google dominate our world today, but will they do it in 10 or 20 years too? For sure, Microsoft has survived over 40 years. Oracle, IBM and even Apple also developed into dominant players and created a long track record, but technology is a fast changing business. You can make billions in a year, but also lose all your money in the next half-decade.

I own some of the old-school technology stocks too, but I don't like to pay for the uncertain future of a company more than it makes sense in an economic view. I will not pay 500 times sales today because of the company's next revolutionary product if I don’t understand how it works.

I want dividends and a fair chance to make an 8 percent or more return, nothing else. The market has enough opportunities to realize this goal, and it is easy to succeed.

I've found a new screener on Morningstar, but it seems only to work with Canadian and US stocks. Morningstar has a great classification of companies, from financially healthy to growth, so I tested it.

Today, I was looking for fairly valuated growth stocks with a good dividend yield. In addition, 5-year expected earnings growth had to be over 8 percent. The screen delivered 25 results, and my focus is still on consumer stocks, as well as non-cyclical dividend payers.

Below are 5 of my favorite picks. Do you like some of them? Please let me know what you think from the screen.

Cheapest Large Caps With Highest Expecte Growth As Of September 2012

Cheapest Large Capitalized Stocks With Highest Earnings Per Share Growth By Dividend Yield – Stock, Capital, Investment. Here is a current sheet of America’s cheapest Large Caps with the highest expected growth for the upcoming fiscal year. Stocks from the sheet have a market capitalization of more than USD 10 billion and earnings per share are expected to grow for at least 20 percent. Despite the strong growth, they still have a P/E ratio of less than 15 and a P/S and P/B ratio of less than two. Thirteen companies fulfilled the mentioned criteria of which nine companies have a buy or better recommendation. Eleven pay dividends.

The best yielding stock is still Energy Transfer Partners (ETP) with a yield of 8.35 percent. The company is followed by China Petroleum & Chemical (SNP) with a yield of 5.17 percent and LM Ericsson Telephone (ERIC) whose yield spots 3.86 percent.

The 10 Best And Cheapest S&P 500 Dividend Aristocrats

Best Yielding And Cheapest Dividend Aristocrats Shares by Dividend Yields - Stock, Capital, Investment. Stocks with a long dividend history are popular. If the company increased dividends for a long period too, there could no better investment for income investors. One famous index that reflects consecutive dividend increasing is the S&P 500 Dividend Aristocrats Index. The index measures the performance of large cap, blue chip companies within the S&P 500 that have followed a policy of increasing dividends every year for at least 25 consecutive years. 51 stocks are part of the index with a total market capitalization of roughly USD 1 trillion. In order discover the cheapest Dividend Aristocrats; I screened all stocks from the index with a P/E ratio below 15. Ten stocks fulfilled these criteria of which two yield over three percent and eight are currently recommended. One stock has a double-digit yield.

The Best Dogs of the Dow Jones As Of April 2012

Dogs of the Dow Jones by Dividend Yield – Stock, Capital, Investment. Here is an updated sheet of the 10 best Dogs of the Dow. Such stocks have the lowest expected price to earnings ratio and highest dividend yield within the Dow Jones Index. The ten cheapest stocks of the Dow Jones have an average dividend yield of 3.62 percent as well as a forward P/E ratio of 11.82. The average P/B ratio amounts to 2.65 and P/S ratio is 1.75. The two best results are still AT&T (T) and Verizon (VZ). Both companies come from the domestic telecom services industry. The second strongly represented industry is the major drug manufacturing industry, covering the following positions. The only new stock in our list is Chevron (CVX) who replaced Intel (INTC).