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  • The Top 5 Dividend Companies of Jean-Marie Eveillard

    By Karin Hernandez - May 16, 2013 | Tickers: CINF, INTC, MSFT, SYY

    I’ve been writing about dividend stocks for nearly a year, and have written close to a hundred articles. I have devised my own ratings system and put together my top ten companies into what I call my Perfect Dividend Portfolio.

    My ratings criteria include factors such as yield, number of years paying and raising dividends, five-year Dividend Growth Rate (DGR), five-year projected Earnings Growth Rate (EGR), total return for more »

  • These Stocks Don't Pass The Dividend Growth Test

    By Robert Ciura - April 8, 2013 | Tickers: CINF, NUE, PBI

    It’s safe to say investors have gone head over heels for dividends. The financial media is filled with interviews from financial advisers and professionals who preach the merits of receiving income from equity investments. Particularly for those individuals in or approaching retirement, dividends provide solid income that traditional fixed income products do not.

    However, despite the mass popularity of dividend stocks, it’s important to keep focus on properly more »

  • These Stocks Don't Pass The Dividend Growth Test

    By Robert Ciura - April 8, 2013 | Tickers: CINF, NUE, PBI

    It’s safe to say investors have gone head over heels for dividends. The financial media is filled with interviews from financial advisers and professionals who preach the merits of receiving income from equity investments. Particularly for those individuals in or approaching retirement, dividends provide solid income that traditional fixed income products do not.

    However, despite the mass popularity of dividend stocks, it’s important to keep focus on properly more »

  • Proceed with Caution with these Dividend Stocks

    By Robert Ciura - January 30, 2013 | Tickers: CINF, NUE, PBI

    Companies with long track records of paying and raising their dividends are some of my favorite investments.  I’m a firm believer that a dividend is one of the best ways a company can simultaneously prove its own health as well as provide investors with a real return on their investment.  Many companies with the longest dividend histories will be fantastic investments for decades to come.  For me, however, the more »

  • 5 Ways to Make Bank in the Insurance Industry

    By Meena Krishnamsetty - October 31, 2012 | Tickers: AJG, CINF, PRE, PUK, WSH

    Dividends can be very attractive in a low rate environment, such as the one we currently find ourselves in; the Fed has vowed to keep target rates low through mid-2015. Worth noting is that dividend stocks are not without risks, however we look to limit risk by ensuring the companies can afford to pay dividends throughout an extended economic contraction.

    Most of the money insurance companies make does not come more »

  • Can You Limit Your Risk With These Stocks?

    By Chad Henage - October 2, 2012 | Tickers: ACE, CINF, MFC

    I've found some of my best investment ideas by using a stock screener in the past. The advantage of a screener is it allows the investor to weed through thousands of companies and spits out just the ones that meet your criteria. A common screen I run from time to time, is one looking for highly rated dividend paying stocks. The Motley Fool CAPS Screener is perfect for this as the CAPS community rates companies on a 1 – 5 star scale. Five star stocks represent companies that The Motley Fool CAPS community are the most bullish on. When you combine this grass roots bullishness with a good yield, I think in many cases you are headed in the right direction. I recently ran a screen in the insurance sector of the market for companies rated 4 – 5 stars, with a 3% dividend.

  • This Company Insider Put $1 Million on the Table

    By Meena Krishnamsetty - September 7, 2012 | Tickers: ACE, AXS, CINF, TRV, XL

    John Nichols, who became CEO of Axis Capital Holdings Limited (NYSE: AXS)’s reinsurance division earlier this year, purchased 30,000 shares of the company on August 30th at an average price of $33.60. Axis is an insurer providing products such as property insurance, professional liability insurance, and reinsurance. These 30,000 shares were a substantial increase in Nichols’s holdings: he had previously owned 50,000 shares more »

  • The Next Dividend Cut?

    By Chad Henage - June 20, 2012 | Tickers: AFG, CINF, PGR

    I've studied a lot of companies over the years, and there are certain criteria I look for in a stable dividend growth company. Generally speaking, I think companies like Cincinnati Financial (NASDAQ: CINF) are undervalued. Many insurance companies sell for a significant discount to their growth rate. In addition, several of these companies have strong dividend growth records. Here is the problem, Cincinnati Financial is not one of these undervalued companies. There are two potential problems, the stock appears overvalued, and the dividend could be in trouble.

  • Cincinnati Financial Value Propped Up By Generous Dividend

    By Maxwell Fisher - February 24, 2012 | Tickers: CINF, SIGI, CB, TRV | Editor's Choice

    Over the last seven months – through the end of February – shareholders in Cincinnati Financial (NASDAQ: CINF) have experienced the pleasant result of an almost linear 40% share price gain. Other insurance companies with similar product lines, such as Selective Insurance Group (NASDAQ: SIGI), The Travelers Companies (NYSE: TRV) and Chubb Corporation (NYSE: CB) all gained value during the period, but the share gains of these stocks were in a range more »

  • Cincinnati Financial: A Dividend King in 2012

    By Christopher French - February 9, 2012 | Tickers: AIG, CINF, PGR, ALL

    The Cincinnati Financial Corp. (NASDAQ: CINF) is one of the 25 largest property and casualty insurers in the United States and is able to operate against mainstream competitors such as Progressive (NYSE: PGR), Allstate (NYSE: ALL) and American International Group (NYSE: AIG) through a business model that employs direct sales through agents that work with the members of their immediate community.

    Cincinnati Financial was formed in 1968 and currently owns more »

  • 5 Dividend Stocks Yielding 5% or More to Beat Inflation

    By Robert Fisher - January 25, 2012 | Tickers: CINF, FDX, PBI, UPS, WRE

    Holding a stock that pays out dividends isn’t always enough. If that dividend doesn’t beat inflation, or the rate you could have earned investing elsewhere, you are actually losing money in real terms. It also has to keep growing every year to keep on beating it.  In this article I analyze five stocks that produce dividend yields greater than 5%.  In my opinion, this dividend yield should outpace more »

  • Good Yields With Ex-Dividend Date Monday 2011-12-19

    By DividendYields - December 16, 2011 | Tickers: AEO, ARKR, BKCC, CINF, GOOD, GAIN, PVX.DL, UVE

    Here is a current overview of the best yielding stocks (stocks with a dividend yield of more than 3 percent) that have their ex-dividend date on next Monday. If your broker settles your trade today, you will receive the next dividend. The ex-dividend date is a major date related to the payment of dividends. If you purchase a stock on its ex-dividend date or later, you will not receive the more »