These 7 Dividend Cash Cows Produce Money Like Milk (Part I)

Investing is great. You can spend money on stocks and if your bet goes wild you will make a lot of money. That's a great dream for all of us and I can tell you that it's possible to become an investment Pro.

I'm a guy who looks steadily at stocks and try to find attractive investment stories and cheap stocks in order to make a good return.

I'm not short term focused; plan to hold most of my stocks over years and decades. Due to my long investment horizon, I need good companies that grow over time their business, pay me good dividends, and grow dividends as well.

But the most important question is that the corporate can grow without taking new investors on board. Those actions will grow outstanding shares in general and bring pressure on earnings per share growth.

I look for companies have generated high free cash flows, companies with a business model that don't need much money to keep their operational business alive.

I've tried to find some new ideas with an old screener who has a quick option; it’s called the reinvestment rate. I don't know how they calculate this ratio but when I sort the list of large with high margins by this ratio, companies with low investment spending on their operational cash flow come first.

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I talk about companies with a high scalable business, stocks with the lowest need of capital expenditures. First you might think about Facebook or all the great tobacco companies. For sure those shares generate big free cash flows.

But there are much more companies, I talk about technology stocks and money platforms. The key is here the platform business. Each new customer doesn't cause new costs and bring free cash into the corporate. That's a great idea of making money.

The only item to care about is market entry barriers. Can competitors easily enter and push down margins? If yes, keep your fingers away of buy only at low multiples.

Below are seven detailed stocks. I will follow up with 8 additional stocks. That's only a selection; there are much more companies available. Some of them pay no dividends other a low one but dividend is not the key.

Look at Part II here: These 8 Dividend Stocks Bubbling Cash Like Lava Gold Mines (Part II)

Most of the presented results come from the tech and financial space.

7 Dividend Stocks with strong free cashflows are...

5 Top Dividend Stocks With No Debt But High Cash On Balance Sheet

I hate it when one of my stock holdings cut its dividends. Tesco did it recently and I will lose now 75 percent of my income from the stake. 

For sure, it’s not much because the stock has only a portfolio share of around one percent but I've bought this share in hopes to get a stable output or a rising long-term dividend with low taxation.

Recently I wrote about stocks that have lower debt amounts on their balance sheets. I made this with thoughts in my mind to avoid a future dividend cut. 

Today I will strengthen my criteria and tighten the focus on stocks with no debt and high cash amounts. That's the highest level of safeness every investor could reach.

I found the graphic on US Today with some interesting stocks in terms of cash and debt (look at the end of this article). 

The list shows 26 U.S. stocks with no debt! There are more available on the market but those are some of the biggest and you might know them.

Cash is king and large capitalization too. I love big capitalized stocks because of their good business diversification. Those stocks have often a well diversified product portfolio and great sales teams all over the world. 

Big companies also have more money for research and development and offer more money and social benefits to the best talented people in the world.

If one country or currency suffers, a different one can eliminate the problems with sales growth. No every problem can be solved so easy but investors have a better chance to make a good return.

No debt could also mean more money for shareholders (Dividends or Share Buybacks) or a higher growth. The company can invest into the future by acquisitions or product investments.

In the end, everything is a question of the ability of the management team; a good team can boost the company while a bad head can bring them down.

Below are five of my favorite stocks with no debt and high cash mountains.

8 Stocks With Nearly Safe Dividends

A good example how debt destroys the dreams of dividend growth investors is Tesco. The company cut its dividend payments yesterday by 75 percent. 

The major reasons for the trigger were worsening earnings as well as a high debt burden. 

Warren Buffett also bought a small stake in Tesco a few years ago and most of us thought it was a safe haven but as I saw the huge debt amount of 10 billion British pounds, I was shocked. Am I wrong? Did I oversee something my analysis? No! Now we see the bitter result of a weakening business with high debt.

Quick Tesco Income Statement
Source: MSN Money

I personally love companies with strong growth and low debt ratios. In my blog I've also often published hundreds of stock ideas and some of them performed very well.

The market is full of high dividend payer with a big long-term debt portfolio. Below are eight large cap dividend stocks with very low debt-to-equity ratios.

I've focused my thoughts on stocks with a yield over 2 percent but you must consider the full amount of cash which the company owns. The higher the cash per share, the better the premium you can pay but in the end, it’s the operational business that drives the stock up or down.

Only a good growing company with better developing business perspectives can lift up your asset. I know that it is hard to look into the future and nobody has the ability to do this but with a small piece of unclouded thoughts, your investment should become a clear target or trash.

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8 solid dividend stocks with very low debt in order to avoid dividend cuts in the future are...

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.

5 Cash-Hoarding Stocks With Top Yields And Strong Cash Flows (PFE, COP, CVX, LLY, MRK)

While I made my daily research on several stock market screeners, one question came deeply into my mind. When the markets are so expensive, who are the cheapest stocks, not by P/E but in terms of cash flow or Ebitda. I also included the Cash and debt of the company.

So, the good thing is that you can buy stocks in every market cycle but you must be careful with your investment spending.

Your final return depends in the end on your inital investment cost and if you buy at a high price, your return will fall into a low or negative area.

Good to know that dividends can upper your yield but my experience is that it could be very painful for an investor to look at a suffering return over years.

These are my criteria:

- Market Cap over 15 Billion

- Dividend Yield in the higher yield space over 3 percent

- Cheapest Enterprise-To-Ebitda Ratio on the market

My screen delivered some interesting results in the large cap area: Oil companies are top. 

COP, CVX are the best results in terms of EV/EBITDA. Both have a ratio of around 5 which is very comfortable in the current situation but what about Russia and the Middle East crises?

My second best results came from the technology space: Intel and Verizon. Warren Buffett added his VZ stake by one third on the past quarter and he might be right because VZ is much cheaper than rival AT&T. The EV/EBITDA ratio is only at 6.35 while T has a ratio of 9.66.

Healthcare is also good positioned with Merck, Pfizer and Eli Lilly but those are suffering on the patent cliff.

I believe that it does not make sense to look at stocks with a higher ratio. For sure cash flows can come down and the full sheet becomes trash but most of the companies serve values. What are your thoughts about my current screen? How are you invested?

These are the best results in terms of lowest debt-to-equity ratio: