The Neatest Little Guide to Stock Market Investing

The essential stock market guide, now updated with even more timely and necessary information

Now in its fifth edition, The Neatest Little Guide to Stock Market Investing has established itself as a clear, concise, and highly effective approach to stocks and investment strategy. Rooted in the principles that made it invaluable from the start, this completely revised and updated edition of The Neatest Little Guide to Stock Market Investing shares a wealth of information, including:

• What has changed and what remains timeless as the economy recovers from the subprime crash 

• All-new insights from deep historical research showing which measurements best identify winning stocks

• A rock-solid value averaging plan that grows 3 percent per quarter, regardless of the economic climate

• An exclusive conversation with legendary Legg Mason portfolio manager Bill Miller, revealing what he learned from the crash and recovery

• Thoroughly updated resources emphasizing online tools, the latest stock screeners, and analytical sites that best navigated recent trends 

Accessible and intelligent, The Neatest Little Guide to Stock Market Investing is what every investor needs to keep pace in the current market.

Read more here: The Neatest Little Guide to Stock Market Investing: 2013 Edition

12 Stocks With Very High Yields (+10%) And Positive Growth Expectations

10% yielding stocks with future earnings growth originally published at "long-term-investments.blogspot.com". We all look for high dividend payments. I for myself am fixed to get a 3 percent return with good long-term growth perspectives. Others like High-Yields with stable payments.

Today I like to show you the highest yielding stocks at the market with positive earnings per shares growth for the next five years. I know, stocks with yields above the 10 percent mark are very risky and they like to reduce their payments in the future. In order to reduce the risks from lower capitalized stocks, I selected only those companies with a market cap above 2 billion.

Only 12 companies fulfilled my mentioned criteria of which five have a current buy or better rating. The results are dominated by real estate trusts. Annaly Capital Management is still on the list but they needed to cut dividends last week by 11.1 percent from 0.45 to 0.4 cts per share. Die interest rate increase hurts the company.

Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On June 26, 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 26, 2013. In total, 117 stocks and preferred shares go ex dividend - of which 59 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 4.64%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce	CM	28.82B	9.35	1.88	2.54	5.25%
TransCanada Corp.	TRP	30.19B	22.74	1.96	3.80	4.23%
The Dow Chemical Company	DOW	38.21B	39.94	2.25	0.68	3.96%
Kraft Foods Group, Inc.	KRFT	31.86B	23.50	8.52	1.73	3.72%
Nucor Corporation	NUE	13.74B	31.03	1.82	0.73	3.41%
Avalonbay Communities Inc.	AVB	15.98B	62.40	1.85	14.47	3.21%
Staples, Inc.	SPLS	10.10B	-	1.66	0.42	3.12%
Edison International	EIX	15.05B	9.64	1.58	1.25	2.92%
Xerox Corp.	XRX	10.97B	9.73	0.95	0.49	2.57%
Wipro Ltd.	WIT	19.38B	18.53	3.96	3.07	2.56%
Deere & Company	DE	31.53B	9.96	3.81	0.84	2.52%
Agrium Inc.	AGU	12.58B	8.86	1.81	0.77	2.37%
Illinois Tool Works Inc.	ITW	30.33B	12.57	2.95	1.74	2.26%
St. Jude Medical Inc.	STJ	12.79B	18.01	3.42	2.35	2.23%
Western Digital Corp.	WDC	13.99B	7.43	1.66	0.85	1.71%
Stryker Corp.	SYK	24.59B	19.80	2.91	2.83	1.64%
Humana Inc.	HUM	13.44B	9.47	1.47	0.34	1.28%
Canadian Pacific Railway Limited	CP	20.36B	38.05	3.80	3.66	1.18%
Zimmer Holdings, Inc.	ZMH	12.70B	17.18	2.22	2.84	1.06%
Danaher Corp.	DHR	42.67B	17.72	2.17	2.32	0.16%

14 Companies From The S&P 500 Low Volatility High Dividend Index With Low Debt Figures

Low leveraged stocks from the S&P 500 Low Volatility High Dividend index originally published at "long-term-investments.blogspot.com". I love high yielding stocks but most of them have a high debt burden or they grow too slow or they are not really diversified for my approach.

Every investor wants to make profits on the stock market and he tries to minimize the risk of a stock loss. An index that covers stocks with a low volatility and great dividends is the S&P 500 Low Volatility High Dividend index. The index is designed to serve as a benchmark for income-seeking investors in the U.S. equity market. 50 constituents are part of the index.

Today I like to show you which of the index members have the lowest debt ratios. I observe only stocks with a debt to equity ratio of less than 0.5. Only 14 companies fulfilled these criteria of which eight are currently recommended to buy. Drug stocks and major integrated oil and gas companies are the biggest groups of the results.

Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On June 25, 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 25, 2013. In total, 11 stocks and preferred shares go ex dividend - of which 8 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 2.98%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
James Hardie Industries SE	JHX	3.88B	84.60	209.48	2.94	8.41%
Healthcare Trust of America	HTA	2.39B	-	1.80	7.82	5.27%
Cypress Semiconductor	CY	1.53B	-	9.71	2.02	4.20%
Getty Realty Corp.	GTY	677.63M	49.49	1.80	6.89	3.94%
Philip Morris International, Inc.	PM	143.96B	16.79	-	1.85	3.89%
Covanta Holding Corporation	CVA	2.57B	25.38	2.69	1.58	3.33%
Glen Burnie Bancorp	GLBZ	34.24M	13.90	1.03	2.22	3.20%
Bancolombia S.A.	CIB	11.66B	12.91	1.94	2.80	3.01%
ProAssurance Corporation	PRA	3.17B	9.55	1.34	4.33	1.95%
International Flavors & Fragrances	IFF	6.23B	23.94	4.77	2.19	1.78%
Embraer SA	ERJ	6.70B	24.58	2.05	1.10	0.22%