82 Shareholder Friendly Stocks of the Week

Below are the top dividend growth stocks and share buyback companies of the week. On the list are some pretty good yielding stocks. Big names like Starbucks, Emerson Electric or Honeywell.

AIG, Motorola and Royal Caribbean Cruises are the biggest stocks with a fresh buyback announcement during the past week.

Cheap is a question of growth. A faster growing company can be higher valuated. Only 17 of the stocks have a forward P/E of less than 15.

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16 Incredible Stocks Converting Growth In Pure Return

Growth is wonderful but makes only sense when the company has a high return on assets. 

It's a massive money creating strategy to take cash and upscale a high returning business.

Today I've discovered some growth stock ideas with double digit returns on assets and operating margins with low price and debt ratios.

These are my criteria in detail:

- Large Cap

- Positive Dividend Yield

- Debt to Equity under 1

- Expected 5-Year EPS Growth over 5 percent

- Past 5-Year Sales Growth over 5 percent

- Forward P/E under 15

- 10 Percent ROA and Operating Margin

There were exactly 16 stocks that met my tight criteria. I'm also impressed by the sector diversification. A broad range of stocks from completely different industries stopped with these restrictions but technology stocks still dominating my results.

Technology is not the same. There are old-techs and new-tech companies. The first category delivers "commodities" for the following, new companies. Oracle, Microsoft and AT&T are such investments.

Below are my five favorites from the results, you can also find a table with the full results attached. I hope you enjoy my work and get more stock trading ideas. My focus is dividend, value and growth driven.

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7 Good Stocks With Return Promise

Buying big companies with strong cash flows and competitive advantages is one of my key philosophies when I think about investments. 

I also like such companies that grow and give more and more money back to shareholders.

I believe that each company should work for its owners and give them a good and solid return. 

That's one of the reasons why I'm scouting each week for the latest stocks with dividend growth and share buyback announcements.

Below are seven large caps with shareholder-friendly activities. I've tried to select a good mix from several sectors and industries but you can also find more by looking at the full list of dividend growers at the end of this article. I hope you get some inspirations.

7 good stocks with dividend growth or share buyback announcement are....

8 Stocks to Beat Warren Buffett's Portfolio Return Easily

Warren Buffett is one of the most trusted investors in the world. When he put money on the table, many institutional investors follow his moves and discover if they could make any money with the stocks he has chosen.

When I look at the recent earnings figures of some of his investments, I saw that many stocks reported results not in-line with investor’s expectations. As a result, they got sold massively out.

IBM, Coca Cola, Tesco, Exxon and now diabetes drug maker Sanofi who lost yesterday nine percent. Are these long-term opportunities or will they run flat in the future? I don't know but what I know is that some of the past results of those companies are not comparable to the current economic environment.

I personally checked some of his new investments and came to the result that Warren is building a new investment company, based on energy and capital intensive stocks. 

I'm a fundamental driven growth investors who love to see that the company is paying a good part of its free cash flow to shareholders.

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The market has many great companies to offer which have doubled sales in the past decade and paid 40 percent of the current stock price in dividends over the recent ten years. That's a good number in my view.

Today, when the markets have recovered, I start a new screen of high-quality dividend stocks with attractive fundamentals. I know that it is hard to find cheap companies in highly valuated markets but sometimes we must be creative to calculate the real values.

Below are five ideas with double digit-expected earnings per share growth figures for the next five years. They have also a lower beta than the overall market and acceptable debt-to-equity ratios.

I've compiled many stocks from different sectors and industries in order to create a good diversification. What do you think about my new ideas? Are they good enough to buy or do you still have some of them? Please let me know and thank you for reading and commenting.

These are my results:

My 5 Favorite Stocks With Dividend Growth Of The Week

During the past Week, 64 companies increased their dividend payments. The biggest stocks are AbbVie, Visa, Halliburton, Energy Transfer Equity and the apparel company V.F. Corporation.

Four stocks from the dividend growers list have a forward P/E of less than 10 and eleven have a dividend yield over 5 percent. Below are my five favorites. You might agree or not.

Most of them are different and they don’t look like real Dividend Aristocrats or Dividend Champions as in the past articles.

My focus for this selection was mainly on Large Cap. I personally have no shares of them and don’t like to buy some in the near future but it’s always good to know what companies have hiked dividends because in five years or so, they could become to a new Dividend Challenger.

Big names on the Buyback side were Pfizer, AbbVie, Canadian National Railway, Parker-Hannfin, Nielsen and CarMax.

In total, 27 stocks announced a new, additional or increased share buyback program. The total buyback volume for the future is over USD 25 billion.