The best equity investment is a stock with good fundamentals and a convincing equity story. If this stock is also attractive valuated it could promise good returns. I’ve tried to summarize some significant fundamentals in order to screen the whole capital markets by interesting dividend stocks. Every month, I create a quick dividend list (from low-yield to high-yield paying stocks) of stocks with interesting performance and valuation figures. Stocks from that list are mid- and large caps (market capitalization of more than USD 1 billion) with double-digit long-term earnings growth rates. The companies are traded at AMEX, NYSE, NASDAQ and part of the Dow Jones, S&P 500 or Nasdaq Composite. The list is selected by the following criteria and sorted by dividend yield.

Novartis AG (ADR) (NYSE:NVS) provides healthcare solutions. The Company's portfolio includes medicines, preventive vaccines and diagnostic tools, generic pharmaceuticals and consumer health products. Novartis AG witnessed volume of 7.46 million shares during last trade however it holds an average trading capacity of 2.41 million shares.

Par Pharmaceuticals is one of the smaller soldiers in the highly competitive generic drugs industry. Despite an excellent industry outlook, it will be an uphill battle for Par to generate outsized economic returns.

The Forbes Top 150 Companies list ranked by Magic Formula Statistics. Which large global companies are both cheap and highly efficient with capital?