How To Buy Cheap Natural Gas Assets With A High Dividend Yield
As the price of a barrel of oil continues to trade around $100 per barrel, the price of natural gas has plummeted like a rock. Natural gas is currently trading at $2.33 million BTUs (British Thermal Units). Usually, the price of gas to oil is 6:1 but with natural gas trading at $2.33 and oil around $100 the ratio is 43:1. Natural gas hasn't been this cheap since 2002. There are several fundamental reasons that natural gas prices have dropped. These include a warmer than normal winter season, an oversupply of natural gas in the U.S. and other factors. This will impact the top and bottom lines of companies that have to produce, let alone sell, into that environment. The chart below shows the trend in natural gas prices as they bottomed in late 2009 and look to be near a new bottom soon.... more
2011 Was A Great Year For Dividend Stocks
Investing in dividend growth stocks is a long-term proposition. One of the beauties of following a dividend growth strategy is that you don't have to watch your portfolio or the market on a daily basis. For the most part, daily, monthly and yearly movements are just noise in the system. My normal practice is to refresh my analytical spreadsheets each Friday with updated price information on the 210+ stocks that I follow. Even then, I don't normally look at the value of my portfolio or the performance of individual stocks. However, each quarter I update my income portfolio's performance and benchmark it against the S&P 500 and other portfolios. At that time I will look at performance of individual stocks to understand the overall performance the portfolio. Saturday, I updated my Income... more
7 High Dividend Healthcare Stocks
In our previous study, we projected National Health Expenditures (NHE) for 10 years and showed that NHE as a share of GDP is expected to be 19.6% by 2019. As healthcare spending and costs are rising, we believe that healthcare stocks are attractive and will continue to be in the portfolio of many hedge funds in the future. Our past studies also showed that dividend stocks on average beat the market in the long term. Between 1927 and 2009, high dividend stocks on average returned 13.04%, beating the market by 1.36% per year. In this article, we are going to focus on the healthcare stocks with high dividend yields. Below we compiled a list of top seven dividend stocks in the healthcare sector. All companies have at least $2 billion market cap and dividend yield higher than 3%. The market... more
4 S&P 500 Dividend Stocks With The Highest Insider Buying
Interested in stocks paying dividend yields but don't know where to start? Here are some ideas you may find interesting. We ran a screen on the S&P 500 for stocks paying dividend yields above 1% and sustainable payout ratios below 50%. We then screened these stocks for those with the most significant net insider purchases over the last six months. Insiders, such as members of the company's board and upper management, report when they buy company stock - this is seen by the market as a very bullish signal since insiders know more about their company than anyone else. ‪ Interactive Chart: Press Play to compare changes in analyst ratings over the last two years for the stocks mentioned below. Analyst ratings sourced from Zacks Investment Research.‬ We also created a... more
Crane Co. Announces First Quarter Dividend
Crane Co., a diversified manufacturer of highly engineered industrial products, today announced its regular quarterly dividend of $0.26 per share for the first quarter of 2012. The dividend is payable on March 9, 2012 to shareholders of record as of the close of business on February 29, 2012.... more
8 Mid Cap Stocks For Dividend-Lovers
Our previous analysis has shown that dividend stocks on average beat the market in the long term. Between 1927 and 2009, the average return of high dividend stocks was 13.04%, outperforming the market by an average of 1.36% per year. We are concerned that the Fed's expansionary monetary policy will lead to inflation in the near future. We think dividend stocks are better investment choices than long-term Treasury bonds. Legendary investors such as Marc Faber agree with us that there is a bubble in long-term Treasuries. Dividend stocks can protect investors from the potential inflation. Therefore, we have been encouraging investors to play defensively by purchasing dividend stocks. Below we compiled a list of 8 mid-cap US companies that pay fat dividend checks and have low P/E ratios. All... more
iStar Financial Announces Tax Treatment of 2011 Dividends
iStar Financial Inc. (NYSE: SFI), a publicly traded finance company focused on the commercial real estate industry, announced today the tax treatment of its 2011 preferred stock dividends.... more
The National Security Group, Inc. Declares Cash Dividend
On January 20, 2012, the Board of Directors of The National Security Group, Inc. (Nasdaq: NSEC), declared a quarterly dividend of $.10 per share. This cash dividend is payable on February 29, 2012 to shareholders of record February 6, 2012. With its home office in Elba, Alabama, The National Security Group, Inc. is an insurance holding company. Company shares are traded on the Nasdaq Global Market under the symbol NSEC.... more
Public Storage Announces Tax Treatment of 2011 Dividends
Public Storage (NYSE: PSA) announced today the tax treatment of the Company’s 2011 dividends. For the tax year ended December 31, 2011, distributions for the PSA common stock and all the various series of preferred stock were classified as follows:... more
Kansas City Southern Board of Directors Declares Quarterly Preferred Dividend; Establishes Annual Meeting Date
Kansas City Southern’s (KCS) (NYSE: KSU) Board of Directors declared a regular quarterly dividend of 25 cents per share on the outstanding KCS 4% non-cumulative preferred stock. The dividend is payable on April 3, 2012 to preferred stockholders of record at the close of business on March 12, 2012.... more