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The 25 Highest-Yielding Dividend Stocks in March

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By Dan Dzombak, The Motley Fool

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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
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Some Numbers at Werner Enterprises that Make Your Stock Look Good

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By Seth Jayson, The Motley Fool

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There’s no foolproof way to know the future for Werner Enterprises (NAS: WERN) or any other company. However, certain clues may help you see potential stumbles before they happen — and before your stock craters as a result.

A cloudy crystal ball
 In this series, we use accounts receivable and days sales outstanding to judge a company’s current health and future prospects. It’s an important step in separating the pretenders from the market’s best stocks. Alone, AR — the amount of money owed the company — and DSO — the number of days’ worth of sales owed to the company — don’t tell you much. However, by considering the trends in AR and DSO, you can sometimes get a window onto the future.

Sometimes, problems with AR or DSO simply indicate a change in the business (like an acquisition), or lax collections. However, AR that grows more quickly than revenue, or ballooning DSO, can, at times, suggest a desperate company that’s trying to boost sales by giving its customers overly generous payment terms. Alternately, it can indicate that the company sprinted to book a load of sales at the end of the quarter, like used-car dealers on the 29th of the month. (Sometimes, companies do both.)

Why might an upstanding firm like Werner Enterprises do this? For the same reason any other company might: to make the numbers. Investors don’t like revenue shortfalls, and employees don’t like reporting them to their superiors.

Is Werner Enterprises sending any potential warning signs? Take a look at the chart below, which plots revenue growth against AR growth, and DSO:

Source: S&P Capital IQ. Data is current as of last fully reported fiscal quarter. FQ = fiscal quarter.

The standard way to calculate DSO uses average accounts receivable. I prefer to look at end-of-quarter receivables, but I’ve plotted both above.

Watching the trends
 When that red line (AR growth) crosses above the green line (revenue growth), I know I need to consult the filings. Similarly, a spike in the blue bars indicates a trend worth worrying about. Werner Enterprises‘s latest average DSO stands at 38.7 days, and the end-of-quarter figure is 38.1 days. Differences in business models can generate variations in DSO, and business needs can require occasional fluctuations, but all things being equal, I like to see this figure stay steady. So, let’s get back to our original question: Based on DSO and sales, does Werner Enterprises look like it might miss its numbers in the next quarter or two?

I don’t think so. AR and DSO look healthy. For the last fully reported fiscal quarter, Werner Enterprises‘s year-over-year revenue …read more
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