16 Top Dividend Contenders From Abroad

Foreign Dividend Contenders originally published at "long-term-investments.blogspot.com". Everybody seeks for great opportunities on the stock market. If your equity base is not big enough in your home country, you need to look abroad for investment opportunities.

Today I like to show you all foreign Dividend Contenders (stocks with a dividend hike history between 10-25 years) with an U.S. Listing. 16 stocks fulfilled my criteria of which one is a High-Yield and nine are currently recommended to buy.

Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On June 24, 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 June 24, 2013. In total, 8 stocks and preferred shares go ex dividend - of which 3 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 4.27%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
Deswell Industries Inc.	DSWL	41.82M	-	0.39	0.71	8.00%
Preferred Apartment Communities	APTS	46.29M	-	0.72	2.93	6.86%
Campus Crest Communities, Inc.	CCG	527.56M	49.70	0.84	3.77	5.77%
Frisch's Restaurants Inc.	FRS	86.37M	13.76	1.10	0.43	3.75%
STMicroelectronics NV	STM	8.23B	-	1.39	0.97	3.67%
Ituran Location & Control Ltd.	ITRN	348.28M	13.50	3.94	2.27	2.47%
Toro Co.	TTC	2.66B	18.12	7.14	1.34	1.22%

Cheapest Dividend Paying Large Caps As of June 2013

Cheap large capitalized stocks with high growth originally published at “long-term-investments.blogspot.com. It's always good to own cheap stocks in order to gain a return. 

For sure, cheapness is a question of definition and in the end its growth that makes a stock cheap or expensive. 

I make each month a screen about the cheapest large capitalized dividend stocks. Below are screening criteria; they are very sternly in my view. I use this screen to find some attractive bargains. In a hot market it's ever hard to find low valuated stocks with great earnings growth perspectives. Especially within the recent months, the number of results decreased rapidly. Let’s look if the recent crisis 5/21 had some positive effects for the screen.

My criteria for the cheap large cap screen are:

- Market Capitalization over USD 10 billion

- Expected Earnings per share growth over 10 percent for the next year.

- P/E ratio under 15

- P/S and P/B ratio under 2

- Positive Dividends

Thirteen companies fulfilled these criteria. It’s exactly one stock less than last month. Two High-Yields are below the results and eight stocks have a current buy or better rating.

Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On June 21, 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 June 21, 2013. In total, 5 stocks, preferred shares or funds go ex dividend - of which 3 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 3.08%.

Here is the sheet of the best yielding ex-dividend stocks and funds:

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
Pembina Pipeline Corporation	PBA	9.80B	32.16	2.07	2.27	4.96%
Iron Mountain Inc.	IRM	5.44B	36.68	4.88	1.81	3.77%
Portland General Electric Company	POR	2.30B	16.32	1.31	1.28	3.62%
Allied World Assurance Company	AWH	3.19B	7.75	0.93	1.44	2.17%
Kimball International, Inc.	KBALB	398.32M	21.35	1.00	0.34	1.91%

100 Stocks At All-Time-Highs

List of stocks at All-Time-Highs originally published at "long-term-investments.blogspot.com". We are still in a bull market and have seen a small correction since 5/21. The trend is still intact which could be also checked by the number of stocks at All-Time-Highs. They came back recently to a big number.

Below is a list of the 100 best performing stocks at All-Time-Highs. The biggest players on the list are 3M, Danaher, Precision Castparts or Illinois Tool Works. Half of the results pay dividends and 81 have a current buy or better rating.

It’s good to see how fast some stocks recover, a very healthy sign from the market. But the risk increases with every percentage point. You need to take care about the valuation of the stocks. Only 18 percent of the top 100 companies at All-Time-Highs are valuated with a P/E below 15.