7 Of The Most Underestimated Dividend Stocks

It's hard to define a solid investing criterion which could bring you solid gains while excluding the big risks. 

I personally believe in dividends as a safe haven criteria because cash you have received in the past could compensate a potential loss. 

For sure, this is not a good return driver, especially when we are talking about yields of 1-2 percent yearly, but each penny sums to dollars if you compile enough of them.

Today I run my daily screen about cheap dividend paying stocks with double-digit earnings growth forecasts for the next five years. 

In addition, the stocks have a very comfortable debt situation, measured by a debt-to-equity ratio of less than 0.5.

These are my favorites from the screening results:

Dogs Of The Dow Jones: These Are The Cheapest Index Members

In the past, I've written more about cheap stocks. Due to the current market situation, there is a huge problem to discover cheap stocks. Today we classify stocks with a P/E multiple of less than 20 as cheap.

That's a risky way. Your expected yield will not be high but in the current situation, it's the cheapest play in the market.

Today I like to talk about the good old Dogs of the Dow Theory. Those are the 10 cheapest stocks of the Dow Jones index.

These are the results in detail:

5 Top Picks From The Safe Heaven Large Cap Screen

Security is a big point when you start to invest money and trying to build wealth with dividend stocks. The reason is simple: Each loss you create doesn’t need to be compensated by a capital gain.

There are several methods to scout for low risk stocks. A very popular way is to look at ratios like Beta or the volatility.

Today I run my safe heaven large cap screen by stocks with the highest dividend yields and beta ratios under one. In addition, the debt is lower than the equity. 

Attached are the 20 top yielding stocks. 

These are the 5 top yielding results in detail. Which do you like?

7 High Quality Stocks With Solid Room To Grow Dividends While Paying High Yields

It's hard to find good investments, especially in a market where everybody can discover the same fundamentals.

The stock market is one of the most competitive and transparent markets in the whole world. The good thing is that free information helps us to get a better overview of price ratios and risk premiums.

I'm a very fundamental driven investor and screen the capital market by several criteria related to debt, price, free cash flow, growth and so on.

Today I like to introduce 7 high quality stocks with a debt to total capital less than 40, free cash payout less than 60% and with a yield above 2.5%.

These are the results:

10 Foreign Dividend Small Cap Ideas

I read an interesting article during my daily resarch about UK dividend stocks. The article introduced some small cap UK stocks with a promising dividend future.

"Apart from a dividend growth streak of at least six years, we looked for companies that are forecast to grow dividends next year and have generated double-digit compound earnings growth over the past five years. The stocks also needed to have a QualityRank of at least 75 (out of 100). This scores and ranks every company in the market using measures of profitability, financial strength and low risk - from zero (low quality) to 100 (high quality)."

Attached is the list from the article. Great work in my view. Which stocks do you like?

These are the top yielding results in detail: