6 Low Debt, High Yielding Dividend Stocks Rated Buy Or Better

Do you like to be able to rely on a stock's dividend income as a source of return? Do you prefer stocks that analysts rate as "Buy," or better? In search of companies that can manage their debt well? Interested in companies with minimal long term debt? For ideas on where to look, we ran a screen you may be interested in.The Debt/Equity Ratio illustrates how aggressively a company is financing its growth via debt. The more debt financing that is used in a capital structure, the more volatile earnings can become due to the additional interest expense. Should a company's potentially enhanced earnings fail to exceed the cost associated with debt financing over time, this can lead the company toward substantial trouble.The Long Term Debt/Equity Ratio is a variation of the traditional debt-to-equity ratio; this value computes the proportion of a company's long-term debt compared to its
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