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Best And Cheapest S&P 500 Dividend Aristocrats

September 19, 2012 – Comments (0) | RELATED TICKERS: XOM , TGT , ADM

Best Yielding And Cheapest Dividend Aristocrats Shares by Dividend Yields - Stock, Capital, Investment. Stocks with a long dividend history are popular. If the company increased dividends for a long period too, there could no better investment for income investors. One famous index that reflects consecutive dividend increasing is the S&P 500 Dividend Aristocrats Index. The index measures the performance of large cap, blue chip companies within the S&P 500 that have followed a policy of increasing dividends every year for at least 25 consecutive years. 51 stocks are part of the index with a total market capitalization of roughly USD 1 trillion. In order discover the cheapest Dividend Aristocrats; I screened all stocks from the index with a P/E ratio below 15. Ten stocks fulfilled these criteria of which two yield over three percent and eight are currently recommended. One stock has a double-digit yield.

Here is the full table with some fundamentals:

Best And Cheapest S&P 500 Dividend Aristocrats...

Take a closer look at the full table. The average price to earnings ratio (P/E ratio) amounts to 12.19 and forward P/E ratio is 11.06. The dividend yield has a value of 3.11 percent. Price to book ratio is 5.55 and price to sales ratio 1.28. The operating margin amounts to 14.74 percent and the beta ratio is 1.00. The average stock has a debt to equity ratio of 4.91. If we eliminate the high value from PBI, the average debt ratio is at solid 0.42.

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CTL, PBI, CINF, ED, LEG, KMB, ABT, JNJ, CTAS, CLX, MCD, VFC, PG, PEP, BMS, ADP, KO, PPG, CB, MHP, EMR, MMM, MKC, APD, XOM, WMT, SWK, AFL, BF.B, DOV, BDX, ADM, HRL, SHW, LOW, WAG, TGT, GWW, FDO, ECL, SIAL, BCR,

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