Tag Archives: Consolidated Communications

The 25 Highest-Yielding Dividend Stocks in March

By Dan Dzombak, The Motley Fool

Filed under:

Dividend investing is popular again. Investors have taken to heart Jeremy Siegel’s studies, which show that higher-yielding stocks tend to offer greater returns over time than low- or no-yield stocks.

The highest dividend yields can be very tantalizing. As long as a stock yielding 15% doesn’t lose value, you’ll make 15% in one year! In more cases than not, however, an astronomical yield is a bad sign for a stock. Since dividend yields and stock prices move in opposite directions, a high yield usually means that investors have begun to worry about the business and driven down its stock price.

However, certain types of companies such as REITs have to pay out most of their income as dividends, so their yields will be higher than “normal.” Dividends are not guaranteed; you need to make sure that a business is generating enough cash to pay its dividend, or your investment could be disastrous.

I ran a screen for the highest-yielding stocks, the only limitation I’ve set this time is that the dividend stocks must have a market cap greater than $500 million and must be a corporation, so no REITs or MLPs.

Here are the top 25 highest-yielding stocks the screen produced:

 

Company Name

Market Cap (millions)

Dividend Yield

1

Boise

$860.3

13.80%

2

SeaDrill

$17,629.6

12.00%

3

Windstream

$5,125.4

11.50%

4

Pitney Bowes

$2,750.4

11.10%

5

Great Lakes Dredge & Dock

$580.3

10.40%

6

R.R. Donnelley & Sons

$1,900.8

10.10%

7

Vector Group

$1,442.9

10.10%

8

Wynn Resorts

$11,700.5

9.87%

9

Ship Finance International

$1,410.9

9.53%

10

Frontier Communications

$4,092.9

9.52%

11

Consolidated Communications

$664.2

9.39%

12

National Presto Industries

$521.8

8.65%

13

PDL BioPharma

$977.1

8.60%

14

SouFun Holdings

$1,992.7

8.51%

15

First Financial Bancorp

$896.4

7.90%

16

New York Community Bancorp

$5,909.6

7.41%

17

Werner Enterprises

$1,704.1

7.40%

18

Linn

$1,349.4

7.37%

19

Costamare

$1,214.0

7.05%

20

Capitol Federal Financial

$1,813.3

6.89%

21

HCA

$16,386.9

6.82%

22

VimpelCom

$19,611.6

6.77%

23

United Online

$549.6

6.77%

24

Exelon

$26,881.8

6.70%

25

Giant Interactive

$1,550.4

6.69%

Source: S&P Capital IQ.

These stocks are a good place to start your research, but they’re not formal recommendations.

Let’s take a look at the top 3:

Boise is first with a trailing yield of 13.8%. Boise does not pay a regular dividend; 2012 was the third year in a …read more
Source: FULL ARTICLE at DailyFinance

Consolidated Comms Declares Quarterly Dividend

By Eric Volkman, The Motley Fool

Filed under:

Consolidated Communications has kept its payout steady in the announcement of its latest quarterly dividend. The telecom and broadband provider is to pay $0.38738 per share of its common stock on May 1 to shareholders of record as of April 15. That matches the company’s previous payout, which it has distributed every quarter since January 2006. Before that, it paid $0.4089 per share.

The new dividend annualizes to $1.54952 per share. That yields 9.5% at Consolidated Communications‘ current stock price of $16.37.

In its most recent quarter, Q3 2012, the company’s revenue came in at $157 million, while attributable net loss was $311,000 ($0.01 per share).

Consolidated Communications is to release its Q4 2012 results in a conference call on the morning of March 7.

The article Consolidated Comms Declares Quarterly Dividend originally appeared on Fool.com.

Fool contributor Eric Volkman and The Motley Fool have no position in Consolidated Communications. Try any of our Foolish newsletter services free for 30 days. We Fools don’t all hold the same opinions, but we all believe that considering a diverse range of insights makes us better investors. The Motley Fool has a disclosure policy.

Copyright © 1995 – 2013 The Motley Fool, LLC. All rights reserved. The Motley Fool has a disclosure policy.

(function(c,a){window.mixpanel=a;var b,d,h,e;b=c.createElement(“script”);
b.type=”text/javascript”;b.async=!0;b.src=(“https:”===c.location.protocol?”https:”:”http:”)+
‘//cdn.mxpnl.com/libs/mixpanel-2.2.min.js’;d=c.getElementsByTagName(“script”)[0];
d.parentNode.insertBefore(b,d);a._i=[];a.init=function(b,c,f){function d(a,b){
var c=b.split(“.”);2==c.length&&(a=a[c[0]],b=c[1]);a[b]=function(){a.push([b].concat(
Array.prototype.slice.call(arguments,0)))}}var g=a;”undefined”!==typeof f?g=a[f]=[]:
f=”mixpanel”;g.people=g.people||[];h=[‘disable’,’track’,’track_pageview’,’track_links’,
‘track_forms’,’register’,’register_once’,’unregister’,’identify’,’alias’,’name_tag’,
‘set_config’,’people.set’,’people.increment’];for(e=0;e<h.length;e++)d(g,h[e]);
a._i.push([b,c,f])};a.__SV=1.2;})(document,window.mixpanel||[]);
mixpanel.init("9659875b92ba8fa639ba476aedbb73b9");

function addEvent(obj, evType, fn, useCapture){
if (obj.addEventListener){
obj.addEventListener(evType, fn, useCapture);
return true;
} else if (obj.attachEvent){
var r = obj.attachEvent("on"+evType, fn);
return r;
}
}

addEvent(window, "load", function(){new FoolVisualSciences();})
addEvent(window, "load", function(){new PickAd();})

var themeName = 'dailyfinance.com';
var _gaq = _gaq || [];
_gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-24928199-1']);
_gaq.push(['_trackPageview']);

(function () {

var ga = document.createElement('script');
ga.type = 'text/javascript';
ga.async = true;
ga.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 'https://ssl' : 'http://www') + '.google-analytics.com/ga.js';

var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0];
s.parentNode.insertBefore(ga, s);
})();

Read | Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | Comments

…read more
Source: FULL ARTICLE at DailyFinance