9 Safest Stocks That Offer Growth And Growing Yields

Dividends and safety are an excellent combination for long-term investors, and safe stocks with high dividends are the best kind of all. Unfortunately, many high-paying stocks are volatile and risky -- the exact opposite of what long-term investors want. 

To help you sort through all of your options, four of our contributors would like to tell you about dividend-paying dividend stocks that will let you sleep soundly at night.

My main criteria are the beta ratio. The financial market ratio compares the stock volatility with the broader market. Is the stock more volatile or risky, the ratio exceeds the magic number one.

Attached you will find a couple of stocks with the longest dividend growth history and lowest beta ratios on the market, a value below 0.50. Each of the presented stocks are had half of the market volatility.

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20 Dividend Aristocrats With Double-Digit Earnings Growth Forecast

Dividend Aristocrats are a group of 50 stocks in the S&P 500 Index that have increased their dividend payments for at least 25 consecutive years, a sign of impressive profitability, financial strength, and management's confidence in the business.

The Dividend Aristocrats index is thought to be composed of well known businesses long past their respective growth phases.

One of the top 10 fastest growing Dividend Aristocrats combines both growth and value. AFLAC (AFL) has a 10 year per share growth rate of 8.53%, and a P/E ratio less than 10.

It is rare to find businesses trading for cheap with a long history of dividend increases and strong growth. It is particularly impressive to see businesses that are ‘in decline’ such as Coca-Cola (KO) and Pepsi (PEP) on the list.

Looking at each of the 50 dividend aristocrats on the list today here are the top 10 dividend stocks that could be the most successful companies over the next decade and beyond. All I've done is to select those stocks with the highest expected earnings growth for the next half decade.

The 20 Dividend Aristocrats with the highest expected 10 year earnings per share growth rates are below. Each of the twenty stocks should grow EPS by more than 10 percent.

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10 Cheap Dividend Aristocrats By Forward P/E Ratio

The S&P 500 currently trades at 25 times earnings, its highest multiple in seven years. 

Meanwhile, low interest rates are causing income investors to buy more dividend yielding stocks instead of bonds -- which has inflated the multiples on many dividend stalwarts to historically high levels.

Johnson & Johnson and General Mills, for example, respectively trade at 23 and 24 times earnings, but their yields are near multi-year lows.

It might seem hard to find any cheap dividend stocks in this frothy market.

However, income investors should note that "mature tech" stocks like Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL), Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO), and IBM (NYSE: IBM) still offer decent dividends with multiples under 15.

Attached you will find a couple of stocks from the Dividend Aristocrats List with cheap forward P/E's. 

Each of the stocks has risen dividends over more than 25 consecutive years and beeing part of the Standard & Poor's Dividend Aristocrats list. In addition, the forward P/E is below 15 which represents an earnings yield of 6.6 percent.

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13 Bargain Dividend Stocks With 25+ Years Consecutive Dividend Growth

If you're looking for a long-term winner as a retiree, it's hard to beat a stock that not only pays growing dividends, but whose shares are in the bargain bin because of short-term disappointments.

Even the highest-quality companies suffer setbacks, which can present a golden opportunity to buy beaten-down shares and watch them rebound. 

In addition, with the stock having taken a hit, your investment dollars buy more shares, meaning a juicier yield and a bigger income stream for decades -- perhaps even the rest of your life.

 Remember that no stock is without risk, and there are no guarantees. But if you have some patience and don't mind a little risk, these attached companies have a long history of solid performance and could make great choices for a retirement portfolio. All you need is a long-term investment horizon.

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6 Potential Dividend Kings For A Buy Consideration

There are few stocks that can provide the combination of current income, safety and income growth. Even fewer can provide these characteristics over a decade.

But today we'll look at 6 companies that have increased their dividend payments every year for at least 25 years. They are true Dividend Champions.

They could be a potential member of the "best-of-the-best" group of stocks known as the Dividend Kings one day. There are only 18 Dividend Kings and a few of the are still part of the exclusive list. Check out the link and you will find a list of them.

To be a Dividend King, a company must pay increasing dividends every year for at least 50 consecutive years. Dividend Kings have dividend histories long enough to be Dividend Aristocrats twice over.

This requires that a company have an extremely strong and durable competitive advantage, which gives it the ability to grow its dividends safely in the future.

Safety and income growth are important aspects of any investment, but so is current income. Attached you will find a couple of stocks with yields over 3 percent and potential to be real dividend king. Some of them still have achieved the

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