Investors have sought out the highest dividend paying stocks they can find in order to maximize their income in a low-interest rate environment. But despite the popularity of high-yield dividend stocks, their laser focus on current yield at the expense of other desirable characteristics often make them less-than-ideal long-term investments.
Too much of a good thing?
In general, dividend paying stocks are a great place for investors to start in their quest for solid investment opportunities. By paying a dividend, a company demonstrates its ability to generate dependable cash flow as well as its commitment to reward shareholders for investing in its stock. Moreover, companies tend to want to avoid making dividend cuts in the future, and so they tend to wait until they're absolutely sure that they'll be able to sustain their quarterly payouts before they initiate or boost a dividend.
But companies that pay high dividend yields often don't have the same favorable traits you'll find in their lower-yielding counterparts. All too often, a high yield comes about because of a decline in the company's overall business prospects that sends the stock price plunging. Although companies sometimes are able to sustain dividend levels even in light of faltering business conditions, the highest dividend paying stocks usually succumb to the pressure to reduce their payouts.
Top High Dividend Stocks To Invest In 2015: Myer Holdings Limited(MYR.AX)
Myer Holdings Limited engages in the operation of department stores in Australia. The company offers approximately 600,000 product lines across 11 product categories comprising 2,400 brands. Its product categories include womenswear, menswear, youth fashion, childrenswear, intimate apparel, homewares, electrical goods, toys, fashion accessories, and general merchandise, as well as beauty, fragrance, and cosmetics. The company also provides retail customer loyalty programs. It operates approximately 67 stores under the MYER brand name. Myer Holdings Limited was founded in 1900 and is based in Docklands, Australia.
Top High Dividend Stocks To Invest In 2015: Royale Energy Inc.(ROYL)
Royale Energy, Inc. operates as an independent oil and natural gas producer in the United States. It engages in the production and sale of oil and natural gas; acquisition of oil and gas lease interests and proved reserves; drilling of exploratory and development wells; and sale of working interests in wells to be drilled. The company also owns wells and leases located principally in the Sacramento Basin and San Joaquin Basin in California, as well as in Utah, Texas, and Louisiana. In addition, it holds proved developed producing reserves of oil and natural gas in Texas and Louisiana. As of December 31, 2009, Royale Energy operated 52 natural gas wells in California; owned and operated 7 natural gas wells in Utah; and had non operating interests in 17 oil and gas wells in Texas, 3 in Oklahoma, 1 in California, and 2 in Louisiana. It also had proved developed reserves of 4,563 MMcf and total proved reserves of 4,617 MMcf of natural gas; and proved developed oil reserves of 16 Mbbl and total proved oil reserves of 16 Mbbl. The company was founded in 1986 and is based in San Diego, California.
Advisors' Opinion:- [By James E. Brumley]
With nothing more than a passing glance at Royale Energy, Inc. (NASDAQ:ROYL), it would be easy to dismiss it as just another volatile small caps... one of many small cap stocks that gets a little squirrelly every now and then. The longer you study the chart of ROYL, however, the clearer it becomes... this chart looks like it's coming out of a slightly bearish lull and working its way into an uptrends.
Top 5 Blue Chip Stocks To Own Right Now: Oil-Dri Corporation Of America(ODC)
Oil-Dri Corporation of America engages in the development, manufacture, and marketing of sorbent products in the United States and internationally. The company offers cat litter products, including coarse and scoopable products under Cat?s Pride and Jonny Cat brands; industrial and automotive sorbent products comprising clay-based, polypropylene-based, and cotton-based sorbent products to absorb oil, grease, water, and chemical spills under the Oil-Dri brand; and bleaching clay and clarification aid products for bleaching, purification, and filtration applications under Pure-Flo, Perform, Select, and Ultra-Clear names. It also provides agricultural and horticultural products consisting of granular and powdered mineral absorbent products that are used as carriers for crop protection chemicals, agricultural drying agents, bulk processing aids, growing media components, and seed enhancement media under Agsorb, Verge, Flo-Fre, and Terra-Green brands. In addition, the company offers animal health and nutrition products, such as enterosorbent products and animal feed binders for the livestock industry under Calibrin, ConditionAde, Pel-Unite, and Pel-Unite Plus names; and sports products for use on baseball, football, and soccer fields under the Pro?s Choice brand. Its customers include mass merchandisers, wholesale clubs, drugstore chains, pet specialty retail outlets, dollar stores, retail grocery stores, distributors of industrial cleanup and automotive products, environmental service companies, and sports field product users; processors and refiners of edible oils, petroleum-based oils, and biodiesel fuel; manufacturers of animal feed and agricultural chemicals; and marketers of consumer products. Oil-Dri Corporation of America sells its products through sales force; food brokers; distributors, including industrial, auto parts, safety, sanitary supply, chemical, and paper distributors; and catalogs. The company was founded in 1941 and is based in Chicago, Illinois.
Advisors' Opinion:- [By Seth Jayson]
Calling all cash flows
When you are trying to buy the market's best stocks, it's worth checking up on your companies' free cash flow once a quarter or so, to see whether it bears any relationship to the net income in the headlines. That's what we do with this series. Today, we're checking in on Oil-Dri Corp. of America (NYSE: ODC ) , whose recent revenue and earnings are plotted below.
Top High Dividend Stocks To Invest In 2015: FedEx Corporation(FDX)
FedEx Corporation provides transportation, e-commerce, and business services in the United States and internationally. It operates in four segments: FedEx Express, FedEx Ground, FedEx Freight, and FedEx Services. The FedEx Express segment offers various shipping services for the delivery of packages and freight. This segment also provides international trade services specializing in customs brokerage, and ocean and air freight forwarding services; customs clearance services, as well as global trade data, an information tool that allows customers to track and manage imports; and international trade advisory services, including assistance with the customs-trade partnership against terrorism program, as well as publishes customs duty and tax information in various customs areas. In addition, it offers supply chain solutions, including critical inventory logistics, transportation management, fulfillment, and fleet services. The FedEx Ground segment provides business and reside ntial ground package delivery services. It primarily serves customers in the small-package market in North America. The FedEx Freight segment offers less-than-truckload freight services, as well as freight-shipping services. As of May 31, 2010, this segment operated approximately 60,000 vehicles and trailers from a network of 492 service centers. The FedEx Services segment provides sales, marketing, information technology support, and customer service support services; and access to copying and digital printing through retail and Web-based platforms, signs and graphics, professional finishing, computer rentals, and a range of ground shipping and time-definite express shipping services. The company was founded in 1971 and is headquartered in Memphis, Tennessee.
Advisors' Opinion:- [By Arjun Sreekumar]
Another major freight services company, FedEx (NYSE: FDX ) , is also investigating the benefits of natural gas. The company is currently running tests ��using two LNG-powered and two CNG-powered trucks ��to determine whether or not to convert more of its 90,000 motorized vehicles to run on the cleaner-burning fuel. The company's chairman and CEO, Frederick W. Smith, said he expects 5%-30% of long-distance trucks to run on CNG or LNG over the next decade, as costs fall and the number of fueling stations rises. �
Top High Dividend Stocks To Invest In 2015: Neoprobe Corporation(NEOP)
Neoprobe Corporation, a biomedical company, engages in the development and commercialization of precision diagnostics that enhance patient care and improve patient benefit. The company is developing and commercializing targeted agents aimed at the identification of occult (undetected) disease. Neoprobe?s two lead radiopharmaceutical agent platforms, Lymphoseek and RIGScan are intended to help surgeons better identify and treat certain types of cancer. Lymphoseek is a diagnostic imaging agent intended for radiolabeling and administration in radiodetection and visualization of the lymphatic system draining the region of injection for delineation of the lymphatic tissue; and RIGScan is an intraoperative biologic targeting agent consisting of a radiolabeled murine monoclonal antibody. The company has a biopharmaceutical development and supply agreement with Laureate Biopharmaceutical Services, Inc. to support the initial evaluation of the viability of the CC49 master working c ell bank, as well as the initial steps in re-validating the commercial production process for the biologic agent used in RIGScan CR. The company was founded in 1983 and is based in Dublin, Ohio.
Top High Dividend Stocks To Invest In 2015: Orrstown Financial Services Inc(ORRF)
Orrstown Financial Services, Inc. operates as the bank holding company for Orrstown Bank that provides various commercial banking and trust services in Pennsylvania and Maryland. The company offers various deposit products, including demand, time, savings, checking, and money market deposits. It also provides various loan products comprising commercial loans, such as commercial real estate, equipment, working capital, and other commercial purpose loans; consumer loans consisting of home equity loans, home equity lines of credit, and other consumer loans; construction, land development, and mortgage loans; and financial and agricultural loans. In addition, the company renders services as trustee, executor, administrator, guardian, managing agent, custodian, and investment advisor, as well as provides other fiduciary and retail brokerage services. Further, it offers a line of financial services, including brokerage, mutual funds, estate planning, investments, and life insura nce products. As of June 23, 2011, the company operated 21 banking offices and 2 remote service facilities located in Cumberland, Franklin, and Perry Counties, Pennsylvania; and Washington County, Maryland. The company was founded in 1919 and is headquartered in Shippensburg, Pennsylvania.
Top High Dividend Stocks To Invest In 2015: QUALCOMM Incorporated(QCOM)
QUALCOMM Incorporated engages in the development, design, manufacture, and marketing of digital wireless telecommunications products and services. The company operates in four segments: Qualcomm CDMA Technologies (QCT), Qualcomm Technology Licensing (QTL), Qualcomm Wireless and Internet (QWI), and Qualcomm Strategic Initiatives (QSI). The QCT segment develops and supplies code division multiple access (CDMA)-based integrated circuits and system software for wireless voice and data communications, multimedia functions and global positioning system products. The QTL segment grants licenses to use portions of its intellectual property portfolio comprising patent rights useful in the manufacture and sale of wireless products, such as products implementing cdmaOne, CDMA2000, WCDMA, CDMA TDD, GSM/GPRS/EDGE, and/or OFDMA standards and their derivatives The QWI segment consists of Qualcomm Internet Services that provides content enablement services for the wireless industry and pu sh-to-talk and other products and services for wireless network operators; Qualcomm Government Technologies, which offers development, hardware, and analytical services to the United States government agencies involving wireless communications technologies; Qualcomm Enterprise Services that provides satellite and terrestrial-based two-way data messaging, position reporting, wireless application services, and managed data services to transportation and logistics companies and other enterprise companies; and Firethorn, which builds and manages software applications that enable mobile commerce services. The QSI segment makes strategic investments to support the worldwide adoption of CDMA- and OFDMA-based technologies and services. QUALCOMM Incorporated primarily operates in China, South Korea, Taiwan, Japan, and the United States. The company was founded in 1985 and is based in San Diego, California.
Advisors' Opinion:- [By Chris Neiger]
8. Patents don't just protect technology -- they can bring in big revenue. Qualcomm (NASDAQ: QCOM ) makes 3% to 5% on every CDMA-enabled mobile device. Maybe that's why the company literally has a wall of patents at its headquarters.
- [By Paul Ausick]
Big Earnings Movers: SolarCity Corp. (NASDAQ: SCTY) is down 16.7% at $49.71 after providing weak guidance with earnings last night. Qualcomm Inc. (NASDAQ: QCOM) is down 3.7% at $67.15 after a mixed earnings report last night. Whole Foods Market Inc. (NASDAQ: WFM) is down 11.2% at $57.27 as the store tries to shed its luxury image. Himax Technologies Inc. (NASDAQ: HIMX) is down 10.2% at $8.50 on weak guidance.
Top High Dividend Stocks To Invest In 2015: Boeing(BOE.L)
The Boeing Company, together with its subsidiaries, engages in the design, development, manufacture, sale, and support of commercial jetliners, military aircraft, satellites, missile defense, human space flight, and launch systems and services worldwide. The company operates through five segments: Commercial Airplanes, Boeing Military Aircraft (BMA), Network and Space Systems (N&SS), Global Services and Support (GS&S), and Boeing Capital Corporation (BCC). The Commercial Airplanes segment develops, produces, and markets commercial jet aircraft for various passenger and cargo requirements, as well as provides related support services to the commercial airline industry. It also offers aviation services support, aircraft modifications, spares, training, maintenance documents, and technical advice to commercial and government customers. The BMA segment engages in the research, development, production, and modification of manned and unmanned military weapons systems for the glo bal strike, mobility and surveillance, and engagement markets, as well as provides related services. The N&SS segment is involved in the research, development, production, and modification of products and services to assist its customers in transforming their operations through its network integration, information and cyber applications, command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance space exploration and satellites. The GS&S segment offers operations, maintenance, training, upgrades, and logistics support services for military platforms and operations. The BCC segment facilitates, arranges, structures, and provides financing solutions for its commercial airplanes customers and government customers. Its financing portfolio consists of equipment under operating leases, finance leases, notes and other receivables, assets held for sale or re-lease, and investments. The Boeing Company was founded in 1916 and is based in Chicago, Illin ois.
Top High Dividend Stocks To Invest In 2015: Agria Corporation (GRO)
Agria Corporation, through its subsidiaries, operates as an agriculture company in China and internationally. Its China Seeds segment primarily engages in the research and development, production, and sale of seed products, including field corn seeds, edible corn seeds, and vegetable seeds. This segment markets its seed products to distributors, farmers, and other customers. The company�s International Seeds segment supplies commodity and proprietary forage seed products, such as grass seeds, seed treatment products, forage legumes, forage brassicas, herb seeds, pea seeds, and turf seeds; imports and wholesales liquid animal feeds based on sugar cane molasses; manufactures and supplies products for treating facial eczema in livestock; and supplies cereal seeds comprising feed wheat, milling wheat, malting barley, feed barley, maize, and proprietary cereals. Its AgriServices segment supplies agricultural products and services, including agri-chemicals, stockfeed, fencing p roducts, chemicals, fertilizers, pollination products, and frost protection products; and provides advice in relation to livestock genetics, stocking and animal evaluation, valuation, and selling and buying strategies, as well as offers insurance products consisting of farm, domestic, livestock, crop, and business insurance. This segment also operates a national rural real estate business; and engages in the design and installation of turnkey irrigation and pumping projects for arable, pastoral, and dairy platforms. Agria Corporation was incorporated in 2000 and is based in Beijing, the People�s Republic of China.
Top High Dividend Stocks To Invest In 2015: Southern Arc Minerals Inc (SA.V)
Southern Arc Minerals Inc., a natural resource company, engages in the acquisition, exploration, and development of resource properties in Indonesia. It primarily explores for copper, gold, silver, precious metal, and base metal ores. The company holds interests in properties located on Lombok and Sumbawa Islands. Its principal project includes the West Lombok project covering an area of 24,928 acres situated in Lombok Island. The company was incorporated in 2004 and is headquartered in Vancouver, Canada.
Top High Dividend Stocks To Invest In 2015: Ima(IMAI.MI)
I.M.A. Industria Macchine Automatiche S.p.A., together with its subsidiaries, engages in the design, manufacture, and sale of automatic machines for the processing and packaging of pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, tea, and coffee. The company operates in three segments: Tea, Herbal Tea, and Coffee Packaging; Pharmaceutical Packaging; and Pharmaceutical Processing. The Tea, Herbal Tea, and Coffee Packaging segment offers machines for the packaging of tea and herbal teas in filter bags and coffee in pods; and related services. The Pharmaceutical Packaging segment provides machines for the packaging of pharmaceutical capsules and tablets in blisters and bottles; machines for filling bottles and vials with liquid and powdered products in sterile and non-sterile environments; machines for freeze-drying; machines for cartoning and end-of-line equipment; tube-filling machines for the pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, chemicals, and food industries; and related services. The Pharmaceutical P rocessing segment offers machines for the production of tablets and capsules; machines for coating and fluid bed granulators; and related services. The company also operates in the food and beverage, and personal care packaging activities. I.M.A. Industria Macchine Automatiche S.p.A. sells its products primarily in Italy, European Union, other European countries, North America, Asia, and the Middle East. The company was founded in 1961 and is headquartered in Ozzano dell?Emilia, Italy. I.M.A. Industria Macchine Automatiche S.p.A. is a subsidiary of SO.FI.M.A. Societa Finanziaria Macchine Automatiche S.p.A.
Top High Dividend Stocks To Invest In 2015: LPL Investment Holdings Inc.(LPLA)
LPL Investment Holdings Inc. provides an integrated platform of brokerage and investment advisory services to independent financial advisors and financial advisors at financial institutions in the United States. The company?s brokerage offerings include variable and fixed annuities, mutual funds, general securities, alternative investments, retirement and 529 education savings plans, and fixed income; and insurance offerings comprise personalized advance case design, point-of-sale service, and product support for a range of life, disability, and long-term care products. Its fee-based advisory platforms and support solutions offer access to no-load/load-waived mutual funds, exchange-traded funds, stocks, bonds, conservative option strategies, unit investment trusts and no-load, institutional money managers, and multi-manager variable annuities through five platforms, as well as third-party equity research and asset-management services, and fee-based advisory and consulting services to retirement plans. The company?s cash sweep programs consist of money market sweep vehicles and an insured bank deposit sweep vehicles. Its services also include tools and services that enable advisors to maintain their practice; and trust, investment management oversight, and custodial services for estates and families, as well as technology and open architecture investment management solutions to trust departments of financial institutions. LPL Investment Holdings Inc. provides its services to approximately 12,800 independent financial advisors from a range of firms, including wirehouses, regional and insurance broker dealers, banks, and other independent firms; and registered investment advisors, and advisors at small and mid-sized financial institutions. The company was founded in 1968 and is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.
Advisors' Opinion:- [By Ben Levisohn]
Discount brokers had a great 2013, in large part because of the perceived boost they would get from rising interest rates and rising stock prices. Charles Schwab returned 83%, E*Trade Financial (ETFC) surged 119%, TD Ameritrade (AMTD) rose 88%, and LPL Financial (LPLA) finished the year up 69%.
Top High Dividend Stocks To Invest In 2015: Obagi Medical Products Inc.(OMPI)
Obagi Medical Products, Inc., a specialty pharmaceutical company, develops, markets, and sells topical aesthetic and therapeutic prescription skin care systems. It offers Obagi Nu-Derm System, including prescription and OTC drugs that are used for the treatment of fine lines, wrinkles, acne, photo damage, hyperpigmentation, melasma, laxity, and skin sallowness; Obagi Condition and Enhance Systems that are used before and after surgical and non-surgical cosmetic procedures; Obagi-C Rx System comprises Vitamin C with 4% hydroquinone system to treat skin conditions resulting from sun damage and the oxidative damage of free radicals; and Professional-C products consisting of Vitamin C serums for the treatment of antioxidant protection, fine lines, wrinkles, and hyperpigmentation. The company also provides ELASTIderm Eye and D�olletage, which increases the elasticity and skin tone of eyes, face, neckline, and chest; ELASTILash Eyelash Solution that enhances the appearance of thickness and fullness of eyelashes; CLENZIderm M.D. Systems and Tretinoin for treating acne; and Obagi Rosaclear System used for the treatment of rosacea. In addition, it offers Refissa and Blue Peel RADIANCE used for the treatment of fine facial lines, hyperpigmentation, and tactile roughness; Metronidazole used for the treatment of rosacea; Obagi Blue Peel Essential Kit used for the treatment of fine lines, wrinkles, and hyperpigmentation. Further, the company licenses non-prescription product concepts under the Obagi trademark to a Japanese-based pharmaceutical company for sale through consumer distribution channels in Japan. Obagi Medical Products, Inc. sells its products through sales force and distribution partners in the United States, North and Central America, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia to dermatologists, plastic surgeons, and other physicians that are focused on aesthetic and therapeutic skin care. The company was founded in 1988 and is headquartered in Lon g Beach, California.
Advisors' Opinion:- [By Keith Speights]
"Bidness" is good
Last week, Obagi Medical Products (NASDAQ: OMPI ) made our list of humongous performers after Valeant Pharmaceuticals� (NYSE: VRX ) announced a $344 million bid for the company. This week saw a bidding frenzy, with Obagi shares jumping another 29%. - [By David Williamson]
Though many excited traders had hoped to see the bidding war continue between Valeant Pharmaceuticals (NYSE: VRX ) and Merz over Obagi Medical Products (NASDAQ: OMPI ) and a subsequent run-up in the stock price of the smaller dermatological products maker, Merz has now walked away from the table, leaving the highly acquisitive Valeant the victor. In this video, Motley Fool health care analyst David Williamson gives us some background on these companies and tells us how Valeant plans to profit from the deal, and describes for investors why this is a win both for Obagi and for Valeant.
Top High Dividend Stocks To Invest In 2015: Argosy Energy Inc He Co. (GSY.TO)
Argosy Energy Inc., a junior energy company, engages in the acquisition, exploration, exploitation, development, and production of crude oil and natural gas in Alberta, Canada. Its principal properties include the Claresholm property located in the south of Calgary; the Ante Creek property situated in the northwest of Edmonton; and the Pouce Coupe property. Argosy Energy Inc. is headquartered in Calgary, Canada.
Top High Dividend Stocks To Invest In 2015: Huntsworth(HNT.L)
Huntsworth plc engages in the provision of public relations and healthcare communications consultancy services in the United Kingdom and internationally. It offers public relations services in the healthcare, financial, technology, public affairs, consumer, and corporate sectors. The company operates under various brands, including Citigate, Grayling, Huntsworth Health, and Red. Huntsworth plc is headquartered in London, the United Kingdom.
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