Dividend Stocks Trailing The Bull Market

By Kevin Quon:For an aircraft leasing company, having a sturdy capital structure remains one of the most important aspects of the business. The average cost of a commercial airplane ranges from $100 million to $300 million. Such heavy investments often require leasing companies to take on a significant amount of debt. As such, when a leasing company is able to improve upon its the balance sheet and cash liquidity, investors should take note of this situation.

It's a curious thing when the world's biggest growth market, Asia, has dramatically underperformed American and European stock markets, this year and over the past 12 months. Particularly as it should be a key beneficiary of any green shoots of global economic recovery. More curious still is that Asia's most cyclical markets - China, South Korea, Taiwan and Malaysia - which should be the largest winners from any economic pick-up, have been among the worst performers in Asia.

Aircastle Limited (AYR) Citi 2011 North American Credit Conference Call November 15, 2011 10:45 AM EST Executives Michael Inglese – CFO Presentation Unidentified Company Participant

By Double Dividend Stocks: Verizon, (VZ), is one of only 2 Dow 30 high dividend stocks with a dividend yield over 4%, but the market has been hanging up on VZ in August, sending its shares down over 5%. VZ also trails the S&P year-to-date:

Scott's Investments submits:This is my third article this week focusing on the US Dividend Champions, a list compiled and tracked at DRIP Investing. The list is comprised of stocks which have increased their dividend payout for at least 25 consecutive years.

By Double Dividend Stocks: Even though the market has had a big run over the past few months, the Dow 30 is trailing the Nasdaq significantly in 2012, (the Dow is up 6.78% YTD vs.

By Simon Moore: Fortress (FIG) is selling down its stake in Aircastle (AYR) by 5 million shares, or approximately 7% of AYR's shares outstanding. This is a secondary offering, so Aircastle is not raising any cash.

Kapitall submits:One consideration to keep in mind when choosing sources of dividend income is whether a company is generating enough cash flow to cover dividends – after all, companies usually pay their dividends from their cash flows. We ran a screen on dividend stocks paying yields above 2% and sustainable payout ratios below 35%. We searched this universe for those seeing at least 20% growth in free operating cash flow/revenue, comparing the trailing-12-month ratio to the five-year average.