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ADVANC BUY for growth, dividend yield

Upgrade 2008 earnings by 11% to Bt19.4bn Due to its impressive 1H08 results, with normalised earnings at 59% of our previous full-year forecast, we upgrade ADVANC?s 2008 normalised profit forecast by 11% to Bt19.4bn, or Bt6.57/share, ...

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Looking for the Perfect Dividend Stock

High Yield/Low Dividend Growth: When investors first consider dividend investing, High Yield is where they usually go first. I guess it is human nature to want it now and want a lot of it. Unfortunately, high yield stocks often carry ...

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Updated Dividend Stock Pre-Screen Model

In January 2008 I released my Dividend Stock Pre-Screen Model. Since then I've modified the model to calculate a target price based on a back-solved yield needed to generate a specified NPV of MMA Differential. ...

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High Dividend Yield Stocks

With inflation at 12%, investments in debt instrument (bank deposits) which offer yield of around 10% no longer seem attractive. High dividend yield stocks provide both consistent cash flows as well as a potential for capital ...

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Investment : Choose Aggressive or Defensive Stock Investing

Through time, stocks with a dividend yield higher returns than long-term treasury yields. Not only more dividends in stock investment but also to obtain favorable tax treatment. Dividends from equity investments of more than 15% Federal ...

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Stock Analysis: Air Products and Chemicals Inc. (APD)

MMA: Why would you assume the equity risk and invest in a dividend stock if you could earn a better return in a much less risky money market account (MMA)? This section compares the earning ability of this stock with a high yield MMA. ...

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Qualities of the Best Dividend Stocks

David Van Knapp submits:A recent article on Seeking Alpha, "Looking for the Perfect Dividend Stock," laid out a useful matrix of categories such as "High Yield/Low Dividend Growth" and "Low Yield/High Dividend Growth," giving a couple ...

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Make Money Doing Nothing: The Dividend Yield

So how do you calculate the return on stocks? Say for example General Electric (NSYE: GE), who have been paying dividends since 1899, has a dividend yield of 4.17% (as of Aug. 11th, 2008). What does this mean? ...

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Analysts pick Future Cap Holdings, HCL Infosystems, Vishal Retail ...

A 6.4% dividend yield provides some buffers to the stock, but upsides seem limited as a weak quarter looms, it adds. Vishal Retail cmp: Rs 415.90 target price: Rs 485 Kotak Institutional Equities has initiated coverage on Vishal Retail ...

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The Easy Way: Dividend ETFs

Additionally some investors may not have the time or want to select their own stocks but want the benefits of investing in dividend stocks. Exchange Traded Funds (ETF's) are a great way way for investors to participate in stocks but not ...

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Dividend Stock Analysis: Industrial Alliance Insurance & Financial ...

Industrial Alliance has a strong history of increasing its dividend, although I usually prefer the dividend yield to be higher then what I can make in a high interest savings account,it is close enough that I don't see it as being that ...

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Qualities Of The Best Dividend Stocks

That said, some leeway can be granted on the initial yield because the best dividend stocks increase their dividend payouts, unlike CDs and bonds, which are "fixed income" investments. So a stock whose yield falls a little short of a CD ...

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High Dividend Yield Stocks in Warren Buffett Portfolio: Gannet Co ...

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Five Reasons To Invest In Dividend Paying Stocks

So a dividend yield of 2.90% in comparison to a savings account of 3.30%, over the long run, can make a big difference. Why would you park your money in stock, considering the risk involved? Then again, being that you are an owner of a ...

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Serious Money: 'Stable stocks' update - CB, DIS, JNJ, TEVA & XEL

The following are the five stocks with closing prices from July 1. 1) Johnson and Johnson (NYSE: JNJ) -- when recommended the stock closed at $64.34 and paid a 2.89% dividend yield. It finished at $71.70 -- up 11.44% ...

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Brokers take - 15 Aug 2008

We favour the high-dividend plays, including Reits and telcos. Yields are looking very attractive and at their highs for many of the stocks. The recent sharp plunge in both long- and short-term interest rates will support high-yield ...

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Asahi Pretec: Urban Mining for Gold

The stock hasn't been sold off as heavily as the mining stocks like Sumitomo Mining, but still looks a little pricey at 15X earnings, dividend yield of 1.82% and a PBR of 2.94X. A good time to reconsider the stock is after they report ...

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(SNA) - Snap-on, Inc - dividend yield of 2.1% remains very ...

Competitive Income. The company’s dividend yield of 2.1% remains very competitive when measured against the industry average of 0.9%. In early June, Snap-on paid out a quarterly common stock dividend of 30 cents per share. ...

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The Return of the Risk Premium

The yield was nice, but the underlying asset was pretty volatile too, which shows the potential peril in investing for yield. The part to remember, across bonds and dividend stocks, is that profitability must be maintained in order to ...

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High-dividend yield in a down market

Traditionally, companies with high-dividend yields were those with low-growth potential, like utilities. Like Freddie, many of the current high-yield companies were created by a falling stock price. And like Freddie, they could always ...

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International Dividend Payers Can Diversify Portfolio

Dividend growth stocks are not only a US company phenomenom. More investors are looking to non-US investments for dividend growth investment opportunities. For a US investor, access to these types of investments can be obtained via ADRs ...

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Business Week’s Gene Marcial’s Top Picks 8/22 issue

... Capital is regulated and must pay 90% of its net income to stockholders as dividends. Its stock, now at 9.45 vs. 16 a year ago, has fallen along with financial shares. c.The stock is undervalued with a dividend yield of 18%. ...

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Dividend Stock Monday: Federated Investors (FII-N)

Dividend Yield, Cur Yld Greater Than 10 Yr Avg Yld, 1.2%, 1.0. Div Yld Compared to SPY Div Yld, Cur Yld Greater Than SPY Yld, 3.0%, 1.0. P/E Ratio, Cur P/E Less Than 10 Yr Avg P/E, 16.9, 1.0. Relative P/E, Relative P/E Less Than 1.0 ...

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Drop the Savings Account-Dividends Are the Way to Go

-Dividends and Dividend Yield: Dividends are specified in dollars per share. So a divident of $1 will pay $1 for every share you own. The lower the stock price the more shares you could buy obviously, so an important measure is the ...

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Taking Stock in IGM, Part III:

Price to book is the price per share of a company dividend by its book value (its value of net assets). This is important because it gives me a sense of how expensive a stock is based on its net assets if I had to replace the business ...

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Portfolio return: 20% Alpha + 80% Beta

Dividend yield of the stock is 7% and dividend payout has been rising since 1999. He is advising his customers to buy this stock if the share price is down another 20%. Coincidently I had held this stock in my portfolio and I totally ...

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A High Yield Bond Fund Hedge Program versus "Stealth Annuities"

Nonetheless, high yield bonds trade price wise more like stocks than bonds. The first chart shows LSBDX, VWELX (a balanced Vanguard fund), and the Dow Jones Transports (DJT) all without dividends reinvested. All three made price tops ...

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High Yield Investing Recommends Cellcom Israel

The editor of High Yield Investing explains, “In fact, there are more cellular phones than people.” Here’s her look at her latest “High Yield Stock of the Month,” which offers a double-digit dividend yield. ...

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Friday tips round-up: Bellway, British Land, Logica

Shareholders looking at British Land can take heart from the company's historically high dividend yield at 4.4% and the fact the company has not dropped its target of increasing the dividend by 7% this year. ...

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The Perfect Dividend Stock

In an utopian world, the perfect dividend stock would be one that is both high-yield and provide a high dividend growth rate. Its share price would appreciate ratable with its increasing dividend. All of this would be driven by ...

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Dividend Stock Analysis: Finning International (TSE: FTT)

In the end I think that I have stumbled across a fairly solid company here, and although the dividend yield is a little low, just like last weeks stock, it has a good record of increasing every year so with time, it will turn into a ...

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How to Handle the Inflation Monster

But with more bad earnings news this past week, the company slashed its quarterly dividend to five cents from 25 cents. Now, the flailing stock (down nearly 90% in the past year) sports a more humble dividend yield of 2.8%, ...

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Updated Dividend Stock Pre-Screen Model

I've updated my dividend pre-screen stock model to calculate a target price based on a back-solved yield needed to generate a specified NPV of MMA Differential. In addition, I updated the default MMA Yield to 4.61%. ...

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Tweedy, Browne Q2 Letter Released

The company at initial purchase was trading at 5 times earnings, 77% of book value, 70% of imbedded value and a 6% dividend yield. Earlier this year, Berkshire Hathaway's Warren Buffett (BRK.A) purchased a 3% position in the company, ...

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The Myth of Investor Understanding, Part Two

Dividend yield is the amount of cash that’s paid to you relative to your investment. Right now, aggregate dividend yields are high because stock prices are low -- they always move in opposite directions. If you buy a stock for $10 a ...

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Dividend Payout Changes Today (BHI, BMTC, BNI, XTXI, XTEX, DPM ...

Burlington Northern (BNI ) has raised its annual dividend payout from $1.28 to $1.60. The new dividend yield, based on today’s closing price of $98.77 is 1.62%. BNI is a “Recommended” dividend stock, currently holding a Dividend.com ...

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A Few Frontier Market Investment Ideas

The stock has had an incredible year run as the chart shows below.BAP has a PE of 13.05 and a dividend yield of 2.10%. Beta is 1.1.The average annual dividend growth for the past 5 years is 45.41%. Chart: 5 Year Growth. bap-5-yea.png ...

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Scotiabank could be investor safe haven - Barron’s

S., a 4.2 percent dividend yield — recently raised — and isnot widely followed by the Street,” Barron’s cited MatthewMcCormick, a portfolio manager at Bahl & Gaynor InvestmentCounsel, as saying. Scotiabank, as it is called, ...

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12 Highest Yielding Stocks Going Ex-Dividend End of August

Ex-div date: 8/25/2008 Market cap: $7.0 billion Yield: 3.04% . If you need a refresher on dividend definitions, check out definitions of dividend dates. Author does not own any of the above. By Stockerblog.com.

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Cablevision will pay 10-cent quarterly dividend

Bethpage, NY-based Cablevision will pay start paying a quarterly dividend of 10 cents per share on Class A and B shares on Sept. 18, for a dividend yield of about 1.3 percent. Cablevision has said its stock price doesn't fully reflect ...

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A Foreign Telco Services Income Index

The trailing 12-month results for this index compare favorably to the overall US market and telecom fund peer group with an equal-weighted total return of +0.6% (5.5% dividend yield and -4.9% stock price change) and market cap-weighted ...

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Best Dividend Yield Stocks

While markets are in bearish phase, Fund Managers are back to the old school of thought, valuation based investing - Dividend Discount Model, etc. We are presenting you with some of the best dividend yielding stocks. Dividend Yield from ...

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Aggressive Vs Defensive Stock Investing

The high dividend yielding stocks protect you when the market goes down. As the stock prices fall, the dividend yield rises because the cash dividend can exceed the buying price of a share by a large percentage. ...

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French Chemical ADR Stocks

RHAYY has a dividend yield of 1.64% and currently trades well off its 52 week high of $42+. Related Posts: Top German Chemical ADRs Altana, Arkema and Ciba !! Chemical ADR Stocks !!!

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Follow T. Boone Pickens’ Lead With These 4 Stocks

With over 8400 installed worldwide, it provides power generation capacity of more than 11300 megawatts. GE currently trades at a very attractive P/E ratio of 13.5 and a 4% dividend yield. It pays you to hold its stock. ...

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Bank of America v. Banco Santander for Dividend Yield

It is axiomatic in dividend investing that the best dividend stocks score highly on dividend yield, consistency, and growth. When you are focusing on dividends (rather than exclusively on price), you obviously want to own companies that ...

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Dividend Stock Analysis: SNC-Lavalin Group Inc. (TSE: SNC)

I think that it may be worth looking into this stock again in a growth oriented analysis. The last thing I wanted to mention is that the dividend yield is quite a bit lower then what I'd normally like, but with an average dvidend growth ...

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STEng - DBS

The recent strengthening of the US$, however should provide some respite to earnings, if sustained. As such, we keep our Target Price unchanged at S$2.80, and continue to maintain HOLD on the stock given attractive dividend yield in ...

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Dividend Payout Changes Today (APL, BHB, IFF, MMLP, NSC, SCHW ...

Norfolk Southern (NSC ) has raised their annual dividend payout from $1.16 to $1.28. The new dividend yield, based on today’s closing price of $65.69 is 1.95%. NSC is a “Recommended” dividend stock, currently holding a Dividend.com ...

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Dividend Focused Stocks Versus

At the beginning of a portfolio construction process, bonds nearly always yield more than stocks. Over the long run the growth of the dividend income ultimately surpasses the bond yield. Then looking at yield on equity cost, ...

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