Date updated:03-17-2007
From Barron's 3-19-07
SMALL-CAPS HAVE BEEN PERFORMING WELL. What's more, they're increasingly rewarding their investors with dividends. And Standard & Poor's has noticed.
S&P recently surveyed its SmallCap 600 group for dividend-paying stocks that carry a STARS ranking of four or five. These rankings indicate that S&P analysts expect them to generate superior returns over the next 12 months, as measured by the firm's Stock Appreciation Ranking System. (Four stars mean a stock is a Buy; five, a Strong Buy.)
Here are some of the companies included in the survey.

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LSTR
Landstar System - $37.49
- -1.76%
- $37.96
From Barron's 3-19-07 One of the only two companies in the survey to achieve 5 stars.

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MOV
Movado Group Inc - $10.50
- -3.23%
- $10.69
From Barron's 3-19-07 One of the only two companies in the survey to achieve 5 stars.

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ABFS
Arkansas Best Cor - $24.56
- -4.70%
- $25.51
From Barron's 3-19-07 One of North America's largest truckers, Arkansas Best (ABFS) "is expanding into faster-growing segments of the market." S&P expects the company, which has negligible long-term debt and over $5 a share in cash, to earn $4.27 this year and $4.50 next, versus 2006's $3.30.

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MPW
Medicl Prop Trst - $9.47
- -1.04%
- $9.50
From Barron's 3-19-07 The health-care facilities owned by Medical Properties Trust (MPW) focus on acute-care and in-patient rehabilitation hospitals. S&P thinks "strong rent coverage and a valuation discount to peers more than offset" the Alabama real-estate investment trust's exposure to changes in government reimbursement policies. In 2006, Medical Properties delivered 80% revenue growth and a 30% gain in funds from operations (FFO), an important metric for REITs. The trust's dividend yield is 7.3%; health-care REITs' average is 5.5%.

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HMA
Hlth Mgmt Assoc A - $6.30
- -2.33%
- $6.38
From Barron's 3-19-07 Back in January, Health Management Associates (HMA) voted a $10-a-share bonus, worth $2.4 billion, which was paid March 1. Willens describes this as a "self-LBO" (leveraged buyout), with the company recapitalizing its balance sheet via the issuance of $3.25 billion of new senior secured credit facilities.

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GMR
General Maritime - $7.57
- -1.56%
- $7.69
From Barron's 3-19-07 In February, General Maritime (GMR), a leading owner and operator of midsize crude-oil tankers, declared a $15 extra, valued at $491 million. According to Willens, that represents more than one-third of the company's market capitalization. It's payable March 23, the record date was March 9 and the ex-date is March 26.

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DF
Dean Foods Co - $15.94
- -0.13%
- $15.97
From Barron's 3-19-07 Then, on March 2, dairy giant Dean Foods (DF) also announced a $15 special payout, which will return some $2 billion to its shareholders. The distribution and record dates are April 2 and March 27, and the stock goes ex-dividend April 3. The bonus will be financed by a recapitalization, through $4.8 billion in new senior secured credit facilities.
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