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Looking for the best stocks to buy for dividends in 2012? We’re following up last week’s article, Top 5 U.S. dividend stocks for 2012, with the top five foreign dividend stocks for 2012 – those most likely to make the biggest total cash payouts in 2012. This group includes two oil majors, a mobile phone firm, a bank and a major commodities producer, two of which are listed in our High Dividend Stocks By Sectors Tables:

Dividend Growth Rate: Except for HSBC, a financial stock, all of these firms have a strong five-year dividend growth rate. They all increased their 2011 dividends per share, excepting Shell, which just announced plans to increase its dividend in 2012:

Projected 2012 Dividends: For the table below, we projected the same payouts/share as in 2011. However, given the strong earnings, low debt loads and past dividend growth rates, it’s likely that they’ll continue to

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To find out which will be the top dividend stocks in 2012 for cash payouts, we looked back to see which dividend paying stocks paid out the most cash in dividends in 2011. This year’s group are all large cap Dow dividend stocks, which is logical, since market cap is an important part of this equation.

These 5 stocks paid out from over billion to billion-plus in 2011, and appear likely to increase those amounts in 2012, given their historic and recent dividend growth rates. (Even though GE lowered its dividends in 2009, it began increasing them again in 2010):

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Upcoming Dividends: All of these stocks pay quarterly dividends, and 3 of them are listed in our High Dividend Stocks By Sectors Tables. The projected dividends listed below are based upon the most recent quarterly payout:

Except for GE, these stocks were rewarded by investors

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TV, movies, and theme parks – we humans love to be entertained, and we greatly reward those who entertain us. We found 3 dividend stocks who capitalize on this endless fascination, which may be some of the best stocks to buy in 2012 for undervalued growth and income within the Cable/Film/Broadcasting Industry:

Valuations: Compiling Industry Averages is a bit messy for these firms – although they all operate within the Cable TV industry, and Disney (DIS) and Viacom (VIA.B) also are active in the film industry. Viacom and Time Warner Cable (TWC) currently look quite undervalued on a PEG basis, while Disney is very near the 1.00 undervalued PEG threshold. TWC also looks undervalued on a cash basis – its Price/Free Cash/Share is only 3.15 vs. the 10.05 industry average .

Covered Calls: Even though Disney’s next annual ex-dividend date isn’t until December, you can create your own much higher

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If you’re looking for dividend paying stocks with growth at reasonable values, the Tech sector may offer some of the best stocks to buy in 2012. The Tech sector rose just 1.03% in 2011, in spite of increasing earnings by over 18%. However, Standard & Poor’s currently projects the Tech sector to have the biggest EPS increase in 2012, and this sector’s P/E is also now lower than its 4-year average:

Tech Sector Dividend Paying Stocks - Although Tech isn’t a bastion of high dividend stocks, you can find some dependable dividend stocks in this sector, most notably a few giants in their respective industries:

Covered Calls: By selling covered call options, you can greatly improve upon the dividend yields of these stocks. The call options pay from 3 to 11 times what the dividends pay in these approximately 3-month trades. (All of the options in this article expire in

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With the market alternating between up months and down months since July, many income investors are seeking stocks with less correlation – i.e., dividend stocks which are defensive during pullbacks but still share in rallies. It has become more challenging to find such an animal, but they do exist. However, defensive equities aren’t always the best stocks for growth. These big pharma dividend stocks, Lilly (LLY) and Pfizer (PFE), have both performed well in 2011 vs. the S&P, in up and down markets:

LLY and PFE flip-flopped during the September and November pullbacks and the October rally, performance-wise. LLY got a boost recently, when an analyst suggested that their anti-Alzheimer drug could double the share price, if proven to be effective, which he thought it had a 10-20% chance of.

Dividends:

Financials: Lilly has much stronger metrics than Pfizer, and vs. its big pharma peers.

Options: The call and put

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We noted in last week’s article that the industrial sector has one of the lowest sector PEGs for the next fiscal year, trailing only tech and the dreaded financials sector. We went looking for some more attractive dividend paying stocks in this sector, with a focus on finding the best stocks for growth, valuation, financial metrics and high options yields:

Covered Calls: Although these aren’t high dividend stocks, you can earn a much higher income from them, by combining their dividend yields with high call options yields.

Note how these call options pay up to 11 times more than the dividends during these 4-5 month trades.

The static yield is the combination of the dividend and call option yield, and represents your income if the underlying stock doesn’t rise above the call strike price. The total potential yield includes the potential price

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Even though the sector is down approximately -4% year-to-date, Industrials may hold some of the best stocks to buy moving forward. Standard & Poor’s puts this sector as #2 in projected earnings growth for 2012, right behind Tech, which gives it one of the lowest PEG ratios for 2012:

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(Data source: Standard & Poor’s)

86% of S&P 500 Industrials stocks have also beaten or met their Q3 2011 earnings estimates, second only to the Tech sector.

(Data source: Standard & Poor’s)

On the whole, this all sounds pretty good, but finding undervalued high dividend stocks with solid metrics in this sector is still challenging. One alternative is to trade off on a high dividend yield for better growth and financial strength, and use options to pump up the dividend yields on attractive dividend stocks. Both Caterpillar (CAT) and Cummins (CMI) have below-average dividend yields, but you can

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Woe to the unfortunate souls still exposed to European debt. The smart money (read: people like Warren Buffett and the world’s more successful hedge funders) got out of it a year and a half ago. It almost doesn’t matter whether EU leaders will be able to create a much larger bailout fund cobbled together from [...]
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Fear is back big time in the market this month, with investors running for cover from the ravages of the 3-headed worry monster: Eurozone debt problems, a mixed US economic recovery and the continuing DC stalemate on economic issues, plus slowing growth in China. What to do? Play defense or sit out the quarter?

For those of you who are looking for income, there are some Dow dividend stocks which have been the best stocks to buy in recent months for income and defense, as they’ve, for the most part, beaten the S&P 500 in the most recent pullbacks, and have also participated in the most recent rallies. Click on all charts to enlarge:

With the exception of Home Depot’s (HD) performance in the big July pullback, these dividend stocks have all sold off less during these 2011 pullbacks, and have also participated nicely in the rallies.

Valuations: HD looks

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