Best Dividend Paying Stocks Lists By Dividend Yield – Stock, Capital, Investment. It is important for investors to select stocks with more than one interesting buy criteria. Interesting stocks must have good operational and profitability ratios, strong growth figures. Finally, they must be attractively valued. I’ve tried to summarize these criteria and screened a dividend list (from low-yield to high-yield paying stocks) of 30 stocks with interesting performance and valuation figures. Stocks from the sheet are mid- and large-caps (market capitalization of more than USD $1 billion) with double digit long-term earnings growth rates (8 percent minimum for revenue growth and more than 10 percent earnings per share growth). Additional criteria are the return on investment for the capital efficiency and operating margin in order to indicate the profitability of the company. As pricing criteria, I decided to choose the P/E ratio, dividend yield and P/B ratio. Here are details of my criteria:

Market capitalization: > $1 billion

Price/Earnings Ratio:> 0< 100

Dividend Yield: > 2< 20

Return on investment: > 10< 100

Operating Margin: > 10< 100

10 Year Revenue Growth: > 8< 200

10 Year EPS Growth: > 10< 100

Here are my most promising stocks from the list:
Best Dividend Paying Stock List As Of August 2011...


1. Alliance Resource Partners (ARLP) is acting within the industrial metals and minerals industry. The company has a market capitalization of USD $2.8 billion, generates revenues in an amount of USD $1.7 billion and a net income of USD $261.3 million. It follows Price/Earnings ratio is 10.4, Price/Sales 1.65 and Price/Book ratio 3.79. Here is additional dividend information: Dividend Yield: 4.8 percent | Years of Consecutive Dividend Increasing: 8 Years | 5-Year Dividend Growth: 14.3 percent | Dividends Since 1999 |

2. Amgen (AMGN) is acting within the healthcare/biotech industry. The company has a market capitalization of USD 50.9 billion, generates revenues in an amount of USD $15.2 billion and a net income of USD $4.6 billion. It follows Price/Earnings ratio is 11.4, Price/Sales 3.3 and Price/Book ratio 2.1. Here are additional dividend information: Dividend Yield: 2.1 percent | Years of Consecutive Dividend Increasing: 0 Years | 5-Year Dividend Growth: 0 percent | Dividends Since 1997

3. BHP Billiton (BBL) is acting within the industrial metals and minerals industry. The company has a market capitalization of USD $200.1 billion, generates revenues in an amount of USD $62.4 billion and a net income of USD $17.1 Billion. It follows Price/Earnings ratio is 12.3, Price/Sales 3.6 and Price/Book ratio 4.3. Here are additional dividend information: Dividend Yield: 2.4 percent | Years of Consecutive Dividend Increasing: 8 Years | 5-Year Dividend Growth: 24.76 percent | Dividends Since 2002 |

Take a closer look at the full list. The average dividend yield amounts to 3.48 percent while the average price to earnings ratio is 14.49. Stocks grew with 17.35 percent in revenues and 18.23 percent in earnings per share over the past decade. The average operating margin is 28.11 percent and the return on investment finally 18.52 (five-year average).

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