11 Great Dividend Growth Stocks With Low Debt

Great dividend paying stocks with low debt ratios originally published at long-term-investments.blogspot.com. Dividend growth is wonderful but it does not mean a good return in the end. Out there are also stocks that hiked dividends over 10 years or more but they delivered only a 3 percent annual return of which 2 percent are explainable to cash dividend payments.

A good dividend growth stocks is a pick that delivers adequate returns far above the expected inflation rate. Nobody knows which stock can give you this but one critical factor is the amount of debt. A low leveraged stock has more possibilities to grow in an easy way.

Today I would like to share some great dividend stocks with low debt ratios. Great dividend stocks are those stocks that have delivered good growth and high returns combined in the past.

I used a restriction of a debt to equity ratio of 0.5 percent. Eleven stocks fulfilled my criteria of which six are recommended to buy.

Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On September 16, 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, 18 stocks, preferred shares or funds go ex dividend - of which 13 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 6.68%. Here is a full list of all stocks with ex-dividend date within the 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
Horizon Technology Finance	HRZN	128.82M	36.35	0.90	6.05	10.26%
Gladstone Land Corporation	LAND	107.35M	149.45	1.89	29.82	8.76%
Gladstone Investment Corporation	GAIN	189.30M	12.77	0.82	5.92	8.39%
Gladstone Commercial Corp.	GOOD	222.22M	-	1.34	4.03	8.36%
Navios Maritime Acquisition	NNA	358.16M	-	0.84	2.10	5.04%
UIL Holdings Corporation	UIL	1.86B	16.42	1.62	1.15	4.74%
STMicroelectronics NV	STM	8.01B	-	1.41	0.96	3.77%
Cincinnati Financial Corp.	CINF	7.57B	13.42	1.33	1.76	3.63%
Navios Maritime Holdings Inc.	NM	724.69M	6.03	0.62	1.31	3.37%
Companhia de Bebidas Das Americas	ABV	116.06B	25.76	9.18	8.00	3.34%
Tupperware Brands Corporation	TUP	4.41B	18.06	13.13	1.66	2.95%
Evans Bancorp Inc.	EVBN	81.07M	10.16	1.05	2.48	2.47%
Altra Holdings, Inc.	AIMC	702.54M	27.38	2.86	0.98	1.52%

15 Higher Capitalized Monthly Dividend Paying Stocks

Stocks with monthly dividend payments originally published at long-term-investments.blogspot.com. I know that you love it to receive dividends and some of you want dividends on a monthly basis.

I talked about this theme in the past and mentioned that it doesn’t matter how often you will receive the dividend. The good thing is that you get smaller amounts of money earlier that you can use for other investing activities. The bad item is that the more often you get dividends the higher the costs for the company because each transaction will produce costs at banks and service providers.

However, today I would like to introduce some of the 15 biggest companies with a monthly dividend payment. Seven of them yielding over five percent and nine got a buy or better rating from brokerage firms.

Most of the monthly dividends paying stocks have a relation to the financial sector e.g. REITs, Banks or asset management. The second biggest part of the list goes to basic material stocks like gold or oil companies.

Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On September 13, 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, 22 stocks, preferred shares or funds go ex dividend - of which 6 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 5.67%. Here is a full list of all stocks with ex-dividend date within the 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
Life Partners Holdings, Inc.	LPHI	41.21M	-	1.39	2.37	9.05%
LS Starrett Co.	SCX	71.46M	-	0.56	0.29	3.81%
Potlatch Corporation	PCH	1.59B	23.79	10.27	2.80	3.16%
Chemung Financial Corp.	CHMG	153.71M	15.28	1.16	3.02	3.15%
Horace Mann Educators Corp.	HMN	1.09B	9.66	0.99	1.06	2.84%
Renasant Corp.	RNST	667.43M	22.42	1.33	4.23	2.57%
Huntington Bancshares	HBAN	7.19B	12.13	1.33	3.80	2.32%
Gulfmark Offshore, Inc.	GLF	1.29B	61.95	1.32	3.20	2.02%
R.G. Barry Corporation	DFZ	217.41M	16.62	2.54	1.48	1.88%
The Men's Wearhouse, Inc.	MW	1.96B	14.52	1.81	0.78	1.86%
Harley-Davidson, Inc.	HOG	14.13B	20.44	5.01	2.44	1.33%
Ecolab Inc.	ECL	28.97B	34.44	4.35	2.36	0.96%
Air Lease Corporation	AL	2.76B	17.80	1.14	3.61	0.37%

17 Cheap Dividend Achievers With Very Low P/S Ratios

Cheaply priced stocks traded below its own book values originally published at long-term-investments.blogspot.com. I love it to look for high quality dividend stocks with a proven long-term track record but one thing I often noticed in my research is that the market gets more and more expensive. But if you would like to make a solid return, you definitely need cheap stocks.

With low yields, the valuation rises in an inflationary environment. That's the key premise in our economy. 

Today I would like to try my best to discover some of the best dividend growth stocks with a current cheap valuation. I use two criteria for screening the Dividend Achievers database: A forward P/E below 15 as well as a price to sales ratio below one.

Exactly 17 dividend growth stocks fulfilled the mentioned criteria. Eight of them got a buy or better rating by brokerage firms. The yields are between 0.95 and 2.91 percent. That’s not much in my view but growth forecasts are positive for all of the results.