3 Best And Worst Performing Dividend Champions In 2013

We're coming to the year-end and I would like to review the performance of the best and worst stocks from the Dividend Champions list.

The best performing stocks increased by 60.77 percent over the whole year while the worst performer declined by 17.34 percent.

In total, we can summarize that the year 2013 was a good year for all investors. Big money came in due to the monetary policy and helped to boost stocks at all-time highs.

4 Stocks With Over 6 Percent Dividend Yield And Low Debt / Price-Earnings

On this blog, you can find many ideas about stocks with a longer dividend growth history but each Dividend King or Dividend Champion started its career with its first dividend payment 50 years ago.

It's very hard to predict which of the 400 companies will become the next Dividend King and who of the additional 3,000 shares will create the most shareholder values with the result of extraordinary strong dividend growth.

Today I've created a quick list about stocks that have a low price ratio (on current basis and for the future). In addition, the dividend should be bigger than a normal high-yielding stock and the debt situation should finally be on a normal level (below one). These are the criteria in detail:

Market Cap over USD 1 billion

Dividend yield is above 6 percent

At least one dividend hike in the past year

Trailing P/E is less than 15

Forward P/E is less than 15

Total debt to equity is less than 1.00

Only four stocks fulfilled the above mentioned criteria. Of which three are currently recommended to buy.

5 Higher Yielding Growth Picks With Acceptable Price Ratios

I've recently published an article about stocks that combined dividends and growth. The article introduced five picks with attractive fundamentals but the yield ratios were really low.

Today I would like to fix this lack by showing you some higher yielding stocks with great earnings growth forecasts. 

In addition, the valuation could not be cheap because of the higher growth rates but they should be acceptable. These are my criteria in detail:

- Dividend Yield - Over 4%

- Payout Ratio - Under 100%

- Sales growth Past 5 years - Over 10%

- EPS growth Past 5 years - Over 10%

- EPS growth next 5 years - Over 10%

- Trailing P/E - Under 25

- Forward P/E - Under 20

4 Dividend Stocks With Over A Billion Refreshed Share Buyback Programes

Dividends are great and a good possibility to give money back to shareholders but you can do the same via share buyback programs. 

Latest is also a very tax-effective way to buy own shares back and boost or support the stock price.

Below, you can find 4 great dividend stocks that have announced recently to buy own shares back in an amount of more than a billion US-Dollar. 

Over the longer-period, this shareholder friendly process should fuel and support the stock price.

4 Stocks with bigger share buyback programs, recently announced

21 Stocks With Bigger Dividends

Stocks with dividend hikes from last week originally published at long-term-investments.blogspot.com. Attached you find a full list of the latest dividend growers of the recent week. In total, 21 companies raised their dividend cash distributions to shareholders of which 18 are currently recommended to buy.

Big names are on the list like Siemens or Disney.