Button up your winter jackets, investors, because November is quickly fading away. But as you gear up for the impending holiday shopping season, keep in mind the stock market always has bargains for investors who know where to look. In the case of steady dividend-paying businesses, these stocks offer patient shareholders the opportunity to continue reaping the rewards of their initial purchase for years to come.

With that in mind, we asked five of our contributors to pick one dividend stock ripe for the picking this month. They returned with everything from a well-positioned toy maker to an attractive pharmaceutical giant. Read on to see which stocks they chose, and why they believe each is poised to beat the market going forward:

Brian Feroldi (Brookfield Infrastructure Partners): Investors who are on the hunt for a great dividend paying stocks should probably be looking for a  company with a high yield, stable business model, and strong future growth prospects. If that sounds like an ideal investment to you, then I suggest that you give Brookfield Infrastructure Partners L.P. (BIP 1.86%) a hard look.
 

Credit: Brookfield Infrastructure Partners

Brookfield Infrastructure Partners owns and operates a variety of infrastructure assets around the world, including railroad tracks in Australia and Brazil, toll roads in India, telecom infrastructure in France, electrical transmission lines in Chile, and more. While those assets may sound incredibly boring to own, they provide Brookfield with very stable cash flows, which the company then generously passes along to its unit holders.
 
Brookfield cash flow it highly stable because roughly 90% of its assets are under contract or regulated, which keeps money flowing regardless of economic conditions. Better yet, about 70% of its cash flow is indexed to inflation, which further protects its business from economic chaos.
 
Over time, Brookfield's management team believes that its assets will provide "funds from operations" growth of roughly 10%, and the it plans to grow its distribution by 5% to 9% annually. The company has a history of slamming past those targets too, as over the past 6 years it grew its funds from operations by 23% and its distribution by 12% annually.
 
Brookfield Infrastructure Partners is most certainly a boring company to own, but it operates mission critical infrastructure assets and offers investors a juicy 5.2% dividend yield at the moment, so I think its a prime choice for dividend focused investors.
 

Steve Symington (Hasbro): I think now is the perfect time for long-term investors to pick up shares of Hasbro (HAS -0.09%), which has at its disposal an enviable portfolio of market leading toy brands including (but not limited to) Nerf, Play-Doh, Playskool, Marvel, Transformers, Monopoly, Littlest Pet Shop, and My Little Pony. Perhaps most pertinent to our "November" theme, however, is that Hasbro also has the rights to build Star Wars toys ahead of the crucial holiday season -- and next month's debut of Star Wars: Episode VII The Force Awakens. 

Credit: Hasbro

In fact, only a few days ago Hasbro CEO Brian Goldner confirmed consumers' appetite for Star Wars toys was so strong after the so-called "Force Friday" event in early September, Hasbro found itself struggling to keep up with demand. At the same time, however, he also insisted, "In the next week or two we'll be caught up, and by the time the movie comes out on December 18th, we'll be in great position."

Nonetheless, shares of the toy maker have barely budged over the past six months, as the negative effects of foreign currency exchange have held back Hasbro's top line. Revenue last quarter, for example, was relatively flat over the same year-ago period on a reported basis, but would have climbed 9% had it not been for the impact of foreign exchange. Meanwhile Hasbro's adjusted earnings per share still rose 7.5%, thanks to a combination of share repurchases and Hasbro's focus on achieving strong sales execution and increased operating efficiencies. When foreign headwinds abate, this should mean Hasbro emerges stronger and more profitable than ever.

In the meantime, patient investors who buy now can sit back and collect Hasbro's $0.46 per-share quarterly dividend -- which has nearly doubled from its level five years ago -- which equates to an annual yield of roughly 2.4% as of this writing.

Jason Hall (National Oilwell Varco): Oilfield services and equipment manufacturer National Oilwell Varco (NOV 0.54%) is an absolute great stock to buy now.

Don't get me wrong -- there is still risk. The company's biggest business is making and selling drilling equipment, and there are less than half as many drilling rigs operating today (both onshore and offshore) than there were one year ago. NOV, as the company is commonly known, has seen its backlog shrink by 40%, and now rests at about $10 billion in this segment, and is likely to fall more before the trend reverses. 

But those drilling systems must be maintained, and NOV is the key supplier to the industry for those items. Plus the very nature of the North American oil and gas boom is that new wells must be continually drilled simply to maintain current levels of production, much less grow.

In other words, NOV can expect, once the industry works way through its inventory of spare parts and cannibalizing idled equipment over the next couple of quarters, this part of its business to produce steady and reliable cash flows, and potentially rebound sharply once the market recovers. 

It's not clear how long it will take for NOV's equipment business to fully recover, and that could weigh on the stock price for some time to come. However, this is one of the highest-quality businesses in the industry, with a strong balance sheet and solid base of business to support the nearly 5% dividend yield while weathering the downturn. 

Daniel Miller (Procter & Gamble): Those of you investors hoping to avoid holiday madness, but still want to shop, should consider looking at shares of Procter & Gamble (PG -1.75%) which have tumbled about 17% year-to-date. The recent price decline could offer investors a nice discount on a proven dividend juggernaut.

PG Dividend Chart

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The stock hasn't been hit unfairly as P&G hasn't produced top-line revenue growth that investors expect, but the downside is limited. No matter what the global economic situation is people are going to need P&G's necessity products – think toothpaste, NyQuil, diapers, soap, laundry detergent, toilet paper, among many more.

And, despite lackluster top-line growth recently, the company has excelled at producing strong adjusted cash flow around 90%.


Source: Procter & Gamble Morgan Stanley Global Consumer & Retail Conference Presentation

The upside, after this year's sell-off, is that PG has significantly reduced its non-manufacturing headcount since 2012 and worked stringently to cut costs from its operations – PG has even shed roughly 100 brands in an attempt to clean up its core portfolio of businesses. This narrowed focus will improve profitable growth and in the most recent quarter its 250 basis point increase in adjusted gross margins to more than 50% was a positive sign.

Looking more specifically at P&G's effort to cut costs, it has made significant progress in its cost of goods savings. P&G recorded a cost of goods savings of $1.2 billion in FY 2012, with savings over each of the next three fiscal years reaching a respective $1.3 billion, $1.6 billion, and $1.5 billion. P&G estimates it will save $1.4 billion on the cost of goods for its fiscal year 2016 which will bring the five year total to roughly $7 billion.

Despite P&G's stock price decline and struggle to generate top-line revenue growth, the company will emerge from this turnaround a stronger company and will continue to be a key partner for retailers. As it continues to cut costs and increase its margins, long-term investors should be rewarded and will receive a healthy 3.5% dividend yield while they wait for the company's actions to bear fruit. 

George Budwell (Bristol-Myers Squibb): Bristol-Myers Squibb (BMY 0.19%) is my pick to buy in November because the stock appears to have a reasonable amount of upside, combined with limited downside risk, heading into the New Year. 
 

Credit: Bristol-Myers Squibb

At present, the average 12-month price target among analysts covering this Big Pharma stock stands at $71.61 or 6% higher than its current price, according to S&P Capital IQ. To reach this price target, Bristol is expected to grow its top-line by around 5% next year, powered mainly by its immuno-oncology platform that's headed up by the PD-1 inhibitor Opdivo and its growing cardiovascular franchise led by the blood thinner Eliquis.
 
While that's not exactly eye-popping levels of growth, I think it's a fairly safe bet given that both of these products are in the early stages of their commercial launches. Perhaps even more importantly, though, these two products have shown a tremendous amount of momentum in terms of the volume of their sales since hitting the market.
 
Bristol's top-line is therefore growing as the result of organic increases in volume, and not massive price hikes that may end up drawing the ire of payers moving forward. Put simply, Bristol looks primed to provide investors with steady, albeit, modest growth going forward, without running the serious risk of smashing headlong into the powder keg that is the ongoing drug pricing debate.