Top Yielding Permian Basin Oil and Gas Stocks

Ticker	Company	Market Cap	P/E	P/S	P/B	Dividend	Get the PDF…
PER	SandRidge Permian Trust	146.94M	6.36	5.16	1.23	17.24%	Security Analysis of PER
XOM	Exxon Mobil Corporation	347.30B	23.83	1.44	1.82	4.08%	Security Analysis of XOM
OXY	Occidental Petroleum Corporation	63.94B	33.62	4.74	3.05	3.73%	Security Analysis of OXY
CVX	Chevron Corporation	237.58B	29.37	1.7	1.58	3.57%	Security Analysis of CVX
APA	Apache Corporation	17.44B	12.76	2.91	2.29	2.23%	Security Analysis of APA
COP	ConocoPhillips	84.09B	-	2.73	2.77	1.59%	Security Analysis of COP
NBL	Noble Energy, Inc.	17.20B	-	3.82	1.65	1.25%	Security Analysis of NBL
DVN	Devon Energy Corporation	23.12B	110.89	1.63	2.54	0.74%	Security Analysis of DVN
XEC	Cimarex Energy Co.	9.14B	18.83	4.49	3.28	0.66%	Security Analysis of XEC
EOG	EOG Resources, Inc.	72.25B	73.3	5.84	4.29	0.59%	Security Analysis of EOG
ECA	Encana Corporation	13.62B	15.61	3.05	2.01	0.43%	Security Analysis of ECA
FANG	Diamondback Energy, Inc.	13.34B	22.83	9.2	2.42	0.38%	Security Analysis of FANG
SM	SM Energy Company	3.12B	207.31	2.38	1.11	0.37%	Security Analysis of SM
PXD	Pioneer Natural Resources Company	32.44B	75.98	5.12	2.8	0.17%	Security Analysis of PXD

30 High-Margin Stocks With Strong Competitive Advantages

Investing into high margin companies could end in a better return. The underlying thought is simple: A companies that works on higher margin can survive a market correction more likely and become stronger after a recession.

Attached, you can find a list of companies with high profit margins. Those could be a first step to start a further research. 

In general, the margin tells us something about the competition as well as the business model. 

High margins mean that the corporate make many business processing steps by it. The competition is less hard. Products are unique and could have a market barrier.

Here is the selection of high-margin stocks...

89 Stocks Boosted Their Dividends To New Levels

Stocks with dividend hikes from last week originally published at “long-term-investments.blogspot.com”. The overall dividend growth continued and ended in an old strength last week.

In total 89 stocks increased their dividend payments of which 30 are High-Yields and 54 are currently recommended to buy. The average dividend growth amounts to 21.05 percent.

Yields come down as a result of the strong stock price gains. The current hikes don’t change the situation because they grow much lower compared to the valuation. Quality dividend stocks getting rare and better priced. That’s my main recognition over the recent months.

The Biggest Ex-Dividend Stocks On November 01, 2012

The Best And Biggest Ex-Dividend Stocks Researched By Dividend Yield - Stock, Capital, Investment. Dividend Investors should have a quiet overview of stocks with upcoming ex-dividend dates. The ex-dividend date is the final date on which the new stock buyer couldn’t receive the next dividend. If you like to receive the dividend, you need to buy the stock before the ex-dividend date. I made a little screen of the best yielding stocks with a higher capitalization that have their ex-dividend date on the next trading day.

A full list of all stocks with ex-dividend date can be found here: Ex-Dividend Stocks on November 01, 2012. In total, 26 stocks and preferred shares go ex-dividend - of which 11 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 3.45%.

Here is the sheet of the best yielding, higher capitalized Ex-Dividend stocks:

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
Natural Resource Partners LP	NRP	2.31B	41.15	3.72	6.02	10.09%
PetroLogistics LP	PDH	1.81B	-	6.28	2.45	6.47%
Rose Rock Midstream, L.P.	RRMS	541.99M	-	0.87	0.94	4.86%
EQT Midstream Partners, LP	EQM	1.08B	13.36	4.30	8.63	4.58%
ONEOK Partners, L.P.	OKS	13.28B	16.33	2.97	1.23	4.54%
Southern Company	SO	40.25B	18.68	2.11	2.38	4.23%
Tompkins Financial Corporation.	TMP	505.79M	16.36	1.35	3.52	3.67%
IdaCorp, Inc.	IDA	2.23B	12.57	1.32	2.15	3.42%
First Commonwealth Financial	FCF	678.40M	25.12	0.88	3.06	3.06%
SJW Corp.	SJW	448.29M	19.71	1.65	1.71	2.92%
ONEOK Inc.	OKE	9.67B	29.10	4.63	0.71	2.80%
Lazard Ltd.	LAZ	3.55B	44.97	4.97	1.88	2.78%
Noranda Aluminum Holding	NOR	425.83M	4.46	2.68	0.29	2.54%
Ameriprise Financial Inc.	AMP	12.50B	15.86	1.34	1.23	2.36%
Webster Financial Corp.	WBS	1.94B	12.40	0.98	2.80	1.81%
Fomento Econ	FMX	163.79B	228.88	30.93	12.66	1.53%
Waste Connections Inc.	WCN	4.01B	24.16	2.17	2.51	1.23%
Noble Energy, Inc.	NBL	16.80B	44.14	2.10	4.15	1.06%
Itau Unibanco Holding S.A.	ITUB	66.92B	10.03	1.73	2.34	0.61%
EverBank Financial Corp.	EVER	1.72B	49.17	1.45	2.90	0.54%

50 Top Stocks With The Highest Dividend Growth In October 2012

Shares With Highest Dividend Growth by Dividend Yield – Stock, Capital, Investment. Here is a current sheet of companies with fastest dividend growth compared to the previous dividend declaration. The dividend growth is often a good indicator for the financial health of a stock. Companies with a strong increase in dividends judge the future of their company rosy and they want to give money back to shareholders that they don’t need for their business.

In total, the 50 fastest dividend growth companies realized an average dividend growth of 73.09 percent. The average dividend yield of the stocks amounts to 3.29. The P/E ratio is 22.05, P/B 3.41 and P/S finally 4.51.

Five companies had a triple digit-growth and 48 announced a double-digit dividend increase.  90 percent of the ten highest dividend growth stocks came from the financial or services sector.

The Best Stocks With Dividend Growth From Last Week (October 22 – 28, 2012)

Stocks With Biggest Dividend Hikes From Last Week by Dividend Yield – Stock, Capital, Investment. Here is a current sheet of companies that have announced a dividend increase within the recent week. In total, 74 stocks and funds raised dividends of which 31 have a dividend growth of more than 10 percent. The average dividend growth amounts to 49.89 percent. Exactly 25 stocks/funds have a yield over five percent (high yield); 39 above three percent. 38 are currently recommended to buy.

Visa (V) is the Large Cap stock with the highest dividend hike. The company announced to increase dividends by 50 percent, from 22 to 33 cents per share. The business service company is on a very good growth path. The company grew yearly by 25.53 percent over the recent five years in sales and 44.62 percent in earnings per share. At the current EPS-level, the payout ratio is expected at 18.4 percent. In addition, there is no long-term debt.

Another good Large Cap company with recent dividend growth is AFLAC (AFL). The company is also low leveraged and has a good long-term business growth. The recent dividend hike of 6.1 percent was not as high as it should be but still high enough to compensate inflation costs. The payout ratio at the new level amounts to 25.64 percent. Regard the low geographically diversification. The company is a big insurer in Japan. 77.46 percent of sales are generated in Asia/Pacific and 25.54 percent in Americas.