20 Foreign Dividend Stocks Paying Out More Than 5% Yields

Currently the S&P 500 has a dividend yield of about 2%. Investors looking for higher yields can invest in overseas companies which offer much higher yields. Generally utilities and financials tend to have higher payouts. Though most foreign firms pay dividends once or twice a year, the paid out dividends will be significantly higher. Due to tax implications it is advisable to hold high dividend-paying foreign stocks in a taxable account. To get started, the table below lists 20 exchange-listed foreign stocks paying over 5% dividends: S.No. Name Ticker Dividend Yield as of April 8, 2011 Country Sector 1 Alon Holdings Blue Square Israel Ltd BSI 34.47% Israel Retail Grocery 2 Enersis S.A. ENI 13.09% Chile Electric Utility 3 Partner Communications Company Ltd PTNR 11.46% Israel... more

124 High-Yield Stocks Going Ex-Dividend in April

The first week of April was packed with stocks going Ex-Dividend, as 88 companies made their mark following first quarter earnings. The rest of April slows down a bit, but still provides plenty of stocks with upcoming Ex-Dividend dates (at least 124). Listed below you will find the ticker, company name, Ex-Dividend Date, Pay Date, payout amount, price and yield of these stocks. Additionally, after the table you will find commentary on a handful of these April Ex-Dividend stocks. Stock Company Ex-Div Pay Dividend Stock Dividend Symbol Name Date Date Payout Price Yield ORCL Oracle Corp 11-Apr 4-May 0.06 33.72 0.71% ROMA ... more

10 Foreign, Dividend-Paying Bank Stocks Worth Considering

Most foreign banks have rebounded strongly since the depth of the credit crisis. Some of them have written off all of the losses and have shored up their balance sheets. Investors who avoided bank stocks in the past few months many want to consider adding some of the stronger banks at current levels. Another round of fresh stress tests planned for European banks in June should further raise confidence in this sector. Ten foreign banks for review are listed below together with their current price and dividend yields. 1. Bank: Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria S.A (BBVA) Current Price: $12.65 Current Dividend Yield: 6.64% Country: Spain 2. Bank: BNP Paribas SA (BNPQY.PK) Current Price: $39.42 Current Dividend Yield: 2.36% Country: France 3. Bank:Westpac Banking Corp (WBK) Current... more

Eaton Vance's Global Dividend ETF: Ripe for A Raise

Eaton Vance's Tax-Advantaged Global Dividend Opportunities Fund (ETO) has been far and away one of the best performing equity-based high-yielding Closed-End Funds (CEFs) not just from the market lows in early 2009 but also since inception from April of 2004. In fact, ETO’s current 2-year high NAV price of $24.39 is so significantly above its inception NAV of $19.10 once again that its current NAV yield is now down to 5.74%, lower than its inception yield of 6.28%. I believe that even if ETO’s primary source of NAV growth has come from pure portfolio appreciation more so than increased investment income from dividends and interest, the portfolio appreciation still warrants a dividend increase since ETO’s market price will have a difficult time appreciating much more once... more

Newmont Mining: Dividend Based on the Price of Gold

Here is an interesting inflation hedge for income investors. Newmont Mining Corporation (NEM) is planning its dividend payments based on the average sales price for gold. The expected payment date based on this formula is June 29, 2011. According to the company: The annual payout will increase at a rate of $0.20 per share for each $100 per ounce rise in the average realized gold price. At the current gold price of approximately $1,450 per ounce (i.e. between $1,400 - $1,499 per ounce), Newmont's annual dividend would be $1.00 per share. Subject to Board approval, the first quarterly dividend under this policy is expected to be payable on June 29, 2011 to shareholders of record on June 16, 2011. The company believes that by 2017, it can produce 7 million ounces of attributable annual... more

34 Companies Expected to Raise Dividends in the Next 8 Weeks

In compiling the Dividend Champions list I get to see which companies are nearing the anniversaries of their previous dividend increases. Since most of these firms raise their payout about the same time every year, I can say with some confidence that they are likely to do so again. New Format My previous articles in this series were generally published just after mid-month and included companies with Ex-Dividend Dates in the following month. However, as some commenters noted, this led to a few companies “falling through the cracks” because they had Ex-Dividend Dates in the month after that, but announced increases several weeks in advance. So, beginning with this article, I am going to switch from a monthly format to a twice-monthly one and extend the forward look to a period of... more

H&R Block: Solidifying Market Dominance, Great Momentum, Healthy Dividend Yield

H&R Block (HRB) is by far the largest provider of tax preparation and other financial and business services in the United States. The company's biggest and oldest business is Tax Services, which generates 77% of revenues and over 90% of operating profits. Block has 12,000 offices across the country, of which about 1/3rd are run by franchisees. These offices processed over 23 million tax returns in 2010, 15.5% of all returns filed. To put Block's dominance in perspective, second place Jackson-Hewitt (JTX) processed about 2.5 million - about 1/10th of HRB.Although Block's bread-and-butter is office prepared returns, the company has aggressively moved into the "do-it-yourself" software-based return preparation market in the past year. While H&R produces its own software product, it made a... more

High Dividend Stocks: Rising Oil Prices Will Increase Dividends

If you're looking for dividend paying stocks that will benefit from the current rise in oil prices, royalty trusts might interest you. With oil ending the week at over $113/barrel today, it seems logical that energy-based royalty trusts with exposure to oil should be able to increase their dividends in the near future. We found 2 of these high dividend stocks that are going ex-dividend next week, on April 13th: Sabine Royalty Trust, (SBR), and BP Prudhoe Bay, (BPT). SBR's April distribution reflects primarily the oil production for January 2011 and the gas production for December 2010. Note the significant increases in volume and price for oil for these months: "Revenues are only posted and distributed when they are received. Most energy companies normally issue payment of royalties on or... more

Way to Stick It to Me, Seagate

Late yesterday, the company issued upbeat fiscal third-quarter guidance and reinstated its dividend policy. Seagate quit paying dividends in 2009 to shave costs and avoid what appeared to be an irreversible slide toward bankruptcy. No longer. Seagate expects $2.7 billion in fiscal third quarter revenue. Analysts had been calling for $2.62 billion in revenue, Barron's reports. The company's $0.18 per share dividend, payable on June 1 to those holding shares as of May 2, amounts to a 5% yield when annualized.... more

Value Ideas: 9 Deeply Undervalued, High-Yield Utilities for a Watchlist

Are you looking for value ideas? If so, this list may be a helpful starting place for that search. Below we present nine utilities stocks with dividends between 4%-7%. These stocks are also undervalued by the Graham Number. Benjamin Graham, the man who developed this equation, was a former mentor of Warren Buffett and is the so-called “Godfather” of value investing.The Graham Number, or the maximum price an investor should pay for a stock, is derived using only two data points: Current earnings per share and current book value per share.The Graham Number = Fair Value of a Stock = Square Root of (22.5) x (TTM Earnings per Share) x (MRQ Book Value per Share).The math of the Graham number is relatively straightforward. It is predicated on the belief that the price-to-earnings (P/EPS)... more