Great dividend paying stocks with low debt ratios originally published atlong-term-investments.blogspot.com. Dividend growth is wonderful but it does not mean a good return in the end. Out there are also stocks that hiked dividends over 10 years or more but they delivered only a 3 percent annual return of which 2 percent are explainable to cash dividend payments.

A good dividend growth stocks is a pick that delivers adequate returns far above the expected inflation rate. Nobody knows which stock can give you this but one critical factor is the amount of debt. A low leveraged stock has more possibilities to grow in an easy way.

Today I would like to share some great dividend stocks with low debt ratios. Great dividend stocks are those stocks that have delivered good growth and high returns combined in the past.

I used a restriction of a debt to equity ratio of 0.5 percent. Eleven stocks fulfilled my criteria of which six are recommended to buy.

Here is the full table with some fundamentals:

Eleven Amazing Income Groth Stocks With Little Debt...

Take a closer look at the full list. The average P/E ratio amounts to 18.52 and forward P/E ratio is 16.73. The dividend yield has a value of 2.39 percent. Price to book ratio is 3.35 and price to sales ratio 2.34. The operating margin amounts to 24.81 percent and the beta ratio is 0.69. Stocks from the list have an average debt to equity ratio of 0.11.

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