Good Stocks To Invest In 2012

With the recent turmoil in the economy south of the border and the sell out on the North American stock markets, I thought I’d highlight the Top 20 Dividend Stocks as per my tracking list. My May 2012 Edition generated some good conversation and I am actually quite interested to see how different the list is. I don’t always look at the top 20 to make purchases since I need to ensure I have proper diversification of my portfolio.

The Top 20 Dividend Stocks are based on my technical screening and the dividend yield. I watch about 100 stocks between the Canada and the US and I update my list as I find others that I believe worthy of being on my watch list. I have about 7 sectors on my watch list and I usually keep 6 to 12 stocks in each. The list is quite varied as it is composed of REITs, Income Trust and Companies with either small, medium or large caps.

Good Stocks To Invest In 2012:United Parcel Service Inc. (UPS)

 United Parcel Service, Inc., a package delivery company, provides transportation, logistics, and financial services in the United States and internationally. It operates in three segments: U.S. Domestic Package, International Package, and Supply Chain & Freight. The U.S. Domestic Package segment engages in the time-definite delivery of letters, documents, and packages in the United States. The International Package segment offers air and ground delivery of small packages and letters to approximately 220 countries and territories, including shipments outside the United States, as well as shipments with either origin or distribution outside the United States; export services; and domestic services move shipments within a country?s borders. The Supply Chain & Freight segment provides forwarding and logistics services, such as supply chain design and management, freight distribution, customs brokerage, mail, and consulting services in approximately 195 countries and territories; and less-than-truckload and truckload services to customers in North America. In addition, the company offers various technology solutions for automated shipping, visibility, and billing; information technology systems and distribution facilities to various industries comprising healthcare, technology, and consumer/retail; and a portfolio of financial services that provides customers with short-term working capital, government guaranteed lending, global trade financing, credit cards, and export financing. It operates a fleet of approximately 99,800 package cars, vans, tractors, and motorcycles; an air fleet of 527 aircraft; and 33,800 containers used to transport cargo in its aircraft. The company was founded in 1907 and is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia.

Advisors' Opinion:

• By Mark At 2011-10-6

  UPS is a package delivery company. Cramer holds 600 shares of UPS stocks. UPS has a dividend yield of 3.20% and returned -6.68% since the beginning of this year. It has a market cap of $63! .89B and a P/E ratio of 16.08. Jason Capello invested $253 million in UPS.

Good Stocks To Invest In 2012:Newcastle Investment Corporation (NCT)

 Newcastle Investment Corp. operates as a real estate investment and finance company that invests in and manages a portfolio consisting primarily of real estate securities. The company?s portfolio of real estate securities includes commercial mortgage backed securities, senior unsecured debt issued by property REITs, real estate related asset backed securities, and agency residential mortgage backed securities. Newcastle also owns interest in loans and pools of loans, including real estate related loans, commercial mortgage loans, residential mortgage loans, and manufactured housing loans. In addition, it owns interests in operating real estate. The company is organized to qualify as a real estate investment trust for U.S. federal income tax purposes. Newcastle was founded in 1998 and is based in New York City.

Good Stocks To Invest In 2012:G. Willi-Food International Ltd. (WILC)

 G. Willi-Food International Ltd., together with its subsidiaries, engages in the development, manufacture, marketing, import, export, and distribution of various food products worldwide. The company offers canned vegetables and pickles, including okra, mushrooms and terfess, artichoke, beans, asparagus, capers, corn kernels, baby corn, palm hearts, bamboo shoots, vine leaves, sour pickles, mixed pickled vegetables, pickled peppers, sun dried tomatoes, and edamame soybeans; and canned fish comprising tuna, sardines, anchovies, smoked and pressed cod liver, herring, fish paste, and salmon. It also provides canned fruits that include pineapple, peaches, apricot, pears, cherries, mangos, litchis, and fruit cocktail; edible oils comprising olive oil, sunflower oil, soybean oil, and corn rapeseed oil; dairy and dairy substitute products consisting of cheeses, feta, Bulgarian cheese, butter and spreads, margarine, melted cheese, cheese alternatives, and condensed milk; and dried fruit, nuts, and bean products, such as figs, apricots, prunes, papaya, pineapple, sunflower seeds, walnuts, pine nuts, cashew nuts, and peanuts. In addition, the company offers noodle soups, coffee creamers, lemon juice, halva, Turkish delight, cookies, vinegar, sweet pastry and crackers, sauces, corn flour, pastes, rice, rice sticks, pasta, spaghetti and noodles, breakfast cereals, corn flakes, instant coffee, rusks, coconut milk, and ouzo; and Mediterranean style chilled salads. It markets its products primarily under the brand names of Willi-Food, Shamir Salads, and Gold Frost. G. Willi-Food International offers its products to supermarket chains, mini-markets, wholesalers, manufacturers, and institutional consumers. The company was formerly known as G. Willi-Food Ltd. and changed its name to G. Willi-Food International Ltd. in June 1996. The company was founded in 1994 and is headquartered in Yavne, Israel. G. Willi-Food International Ltd. is a subsidiary of Willi-Food Investments Ltd.

Good Stocks To Invest In 2012:Hershey Company (The) (HSY)

 The Hershey Company, together with its subsidiaries, engages in manufacturing, marketing, selling, and distributing various chocolate and confectionery products, pantry items, and gum and mint refreshment products worldwide. It offers chocolate and sugar confectionery products, including milk chocolate bars, chocolates, candies, candy bars, wafer bars, nougat bars, peanut butter cups, boxed chocolates, peppermint pattie, and toffee bars. The company also provides high-cacao dark chocolate products, such as chocolate bars, tasting squares, home baking products, and professional chocolate and cocoa items; and natural and organic chocolate products consisting of chocolate bars, drinking chocolate, and baking products. In addition, it offers snack products comprising snack bars and macadamia snack nuts; and a line of refreshment products, such as mints, chewing gum, and bubble gum, as well as pantry items consisting of baking products, toppings, sundae syrups, and hot cocoa mix. Further, the company provides chocolate-covered raisins, peanuts, and almonds; malted milk balls; beverage products; and cooking oil products. It sells its products through sales representatives and food brokers, primarily to wholesale distributors, chain grocery stores, mass merchandisers, chain drug stores, vending companies, wholesale clubs, convenience stores, dollar stores, concessionaires, department stores, and natural food stores. The company was founded in 1893 and is based in Hershey, Pennsylvania.

Good Stocks To Invest In 2012:CoStar Group Inc. (CSGP)

 CoStar Group, Inc. provides information/marketing services to the commercial real estate industry in the United States, the United Kingdom, and France. Its Property Professional service provides inventory of office, industrial, retail, and multi-family properties and land; and Property Express service offers base-building information, photos, floor plans, maps, and reports. The company?s COMPS Professional service provides coverage of comparable sales information to commercial real estate industry; CoStar Tenant offers commercial real estate professionals with commercial real estate-related U.S. tenant information available; CoStar Showcase provides commercial real estate professionals a way to get their for-sale and for-lease listings in front of an Internet audience who search on Google, Yahoo, Bing, Showcase.com, and Costar.com to find commercial properties; CoStar Property Express provides access, via an annual subscription, to a version of CoStar Property; and CoStar Listings Express offers access via an annual subscription to a listings only version of CoStar Property Express. The company?s other products include CoStar COMPS Express, CoStar Connect, CoStar Commercial MLS, CoStar Advertising, CoStar Professional Directory, CoStar Market Report, Metropolis, Resolve Portfolio Maximizer, Request, FOCUS, SPN, Propex, Shopproperty.co.uk, and Grecam. CoStar Group serves commercial real estate brokers, as well as owners, landlords, financial institutions, retailers, vendors, appraisers, investment banks, and other parties involved in commercial real estate. The company was founded in 1987 and is headquartered in Bethesda, Maryland.

Good Stocks To Invest In 2012:EarthLink Inc. (ELNK)

 EarthLink, Inc. provides communications services to individual and business customers in the United States. It operates in two segments, Consumer Services and Business Services. The Consumer Services segment offers Internet access and related value-added services. It provides dial-up Internet and narrowband access, broadband access, and voice-over-Internet-protocol services, as well as value-added services that include products for protection, communication, and performance, such as security products, premium email only, home networking, email storage, and Internet call waiting. This segment offer its products and services primarily through its call centers, search engine marketing, affinity marketing partners, resellers, and marketing alliances. The Business Services segment offers integrated communications services, such as secure IP-based networks, virtual private networks, Internet access, local telephone and long distance services, enhanced services, access trunks, private line services, asynchronous transfer mode/frame relay services, and mobile data and voice services, as well as installation, managed network, remote access, and disaster recovery services. It also provides wholesale services comprising broadband transport services, including private line, Ethernet private line, and wavelength services; local communications and local dial tone communications services; live and automated operator, and directory assistance services; and dedicated Internet access services and direct connectivity. In addition, this segment leases server space and provides Web hosting services that enable customers to build and maintain an online presence, including domain names, storage, mailboxes, software tools to build Web sites, e-commerce applications, and 24/7 customer support. This segment offers its services through direct sales, and independent dealers and sales agents. The company was founded in 1994 and is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia.

Advisors' Opinion:

• By Vatalyst At 2! 011-10-2 2

  Shares are trading at $6.50 at the time of writing, as against their 52-week trading range of $6.04 to $9.29. Earnings per share for the last year were $0.45, and it paid a dividend of $0.20, yielding 3.10%.

  Earthlink has shown tremendous growth in its internet and telephonic connectivity markets lately. But is this growth soon to blow out? In a market that is dominated by the larger companies, At&T (T), Verizon (VZ), and even AOL (AOL), it is hard to see that these three will allow too much trampling on their markets by the far smaller Earthlink. Gross margins at At&T, Verizon, and Earthlink are similar at around 58%, and there is not much difference in the resultant operating margins, either (15.5%, 17.5%, and 18.5%, respectively). Dividends are twice covered by earnings at AT& T and Earthlink, and marginally covered by earnings at Verizon. If the sector develops into a price war, AT&T’s dividend of yield of 6%, and undemanding price to earnings ratio of 8.39 will be more attractive to investors, and easier to achieve. Switch from Earthlink into AT&T.

Good Stocks To Invest In 2012:Pericom Semiconductor Corporation (PSEM)

 Pericom Semiconductor Corporation designs, develops, manufactures, and markets high performance digital, analog, and mixed-signal integrated circuits (ICs) and frequency control products (FCPs) used in electronic systems worldwide. The company?s products are used for the transfer, routing, and timing of digital and analog signals within and between computer, networking, data communications, and telecommunication systems. It offers SiliconConnect family products, including PCI and PCI-X bridges, PCI Express Bridges and packet switches, drivers, receivers, and transceivers, as well as low-voltage differential signaling products; SiliconSwitch family products comprising application-specific standard product switches, analog switches, and digital switches; SiliconInterface family products consisting of redrivers/signal conditioners, universal level shifters, lower balanced drives, application specific logic functions, 3.3-volt interface logic products, 5-volt FCT logic products, and gates; and SiliconClock family products, such as clock buffers and zero-delay clock drivers, voltage controlled crystal oscillators, clock frequency synthesizers, and programmable clocks. The company?s FCPs include crystals that resonate at a frequency; and crystal oscillators used in various electronic devices. Its ICs and FCPs are used in various applications, such as notebook computers, servers, network switches and routers, storage area networks, digital TVs, cell phones, GPS, and digital media players. The company markets and distributes its products through a network of independent sales representatives and distributors to original equipment manufacturers and contract manufacturers in the computer, peripherals, networking, and telecommunications markets, as well as to end-user customers. Pericom Semiconductor Corporation was founded in 1990 and is headquartered in San Jose, California.

Good Stocks To Invest In 2012:Windstream Corporation (WIN)

 Windstream Corporation provides communications and technology solutions in the United States. The company offers various solutions, including IP-based voice and data services, multiprotocol label switching (MPLS) networking, data center and managed services, hosting services, and communications systems to businesses and government agencies. It also provides high-speed Internet, voice, and digital television services to residential customers primarily located in rural areas. The company?s data services include data center and managed hosting, MPLS networking, and dedicated access, as well as high-speed Internet to business customers; integrated solutions consist of multiple voice and data services delivered over an IP connection; voice services comprise local and long distance, call waiting, caller identification, and voicemail; and special access services include point-to-point switching arrangements for voice and data traffic. In addition, it provides wholesale services, which primarily include voice and data services on a wholesale basis to other carriers; usage sensitive services to long distance companies; and other local exchange carriers for access to the network in connection with the completion of long-distance calls, as well as reciprocal compensation received from wireless and other local connecting carriers for the use of its facilities. As of June 30, 2011, the company served approximately 3.3 million access lines, 1.3 million high-speed Internet customers, and operated approximately 60,000 fiber route miles. Windstream Corporation is based in Little Rock, Arkansas.

Advisors' Opinion:

• By Harding At 2011-10-6

  Windstream Corporation (WIN), together with its subsidiaries, provides various telecommunications services primarily in rural areas in the United States. Since 2006 the company has paid 25 cents/share every quarter. Windstream has been unable to cover its dividends from earnings in every year since 2008. One the bright s! ide cash flow from operations has been relatively stable, although the company has ramped up capex spending in recent years. Yield: 7.90%.

Good Stocks To Invest In 2012:Wisconsin Energy Corporation (WEC)

 Wisconsin Energy Corporation engages in the generation, distribution, and sale of electric energy and steam. The company also involves in the purchase, distribution, and sale of natural gas to retail customers, as well as in the transportation of customer-owned natural gas in Wisconsin. It generates electricity from coal, natural gas, wind, and hydro sources. The company offers its services under ?We Energies? name. It serves approximately 1,120,200 electric customers in Wisconsin and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan; approximately 1,064,500 gas customers in Wisconsin; and approximately 460 steam customers in metropolitan Milwaukee, Wisconsin. In addition, the company invests and develops in real estate properties, including business parks and other commercial real estate projects primarily in southeastern Wisconsin. It provides electric utility service to industries, such as mining, paper, foundry, food products, and machinery production, as well as to retail chains. The company was founded in 1981 and is based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

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