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My Top Dividend Growth Stocks From Last Week

Stocks With Biggest Dividend Hikes From Last Week by Dividend Yield – Stock, Capital, Investment. Here is a current sheet of companies that have announced a dividend increase within the recent week. In total, 41 stocks and funds raised dividends of which 18 have a dividend growth of more than 10 percent. The average dividend growth amounts to 39.01 percent. Exactly 9 stocks/funds have a yield over five percent (High-Yield), 19 yield above three percent. 18 companies are currently recommended to buy.

Here are the stocks with fast dividend growth:
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SYSCO Corporation (NYSE:SYY) has a market capitalization of $17.65 billion. The company employs 47,800 people, generates revenue of $42.380 billion and has a net income of $1.121 billion. The firm’s earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) amounts to $2.332 billion. The EBITDA margin is 5.50 percent (the operating margin is 4.46 percent and the net profit margin 2.65 percent).

Financial Analysis: The total debt represents 24.96 percent of the company’s assets and the total debt in relation to the equity amounts to 64.43 percent. Due to the financial situation, a return on equity of 23.89 percent was realized. Twelve trailing months earnings per share reached a value of $1.88. Last fiscal year, the company paid $1.07 in the form of dividends to shareholders. The company announced to raise dividends by 3.7 percent.

Market Valuation: Here are the price ratios of the company: The P/E ratio is 15.98, the P/S ratio is 0.42 and the P/B ratio is finally 3.76. The dividend yield amounts to 3.73 percent and the beta ratio has a value of 0.71.


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Long-Term Stock History Chart Of SYSCO Corporation (Click to enlarge)
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Long-Term Dividends History of SYSCO Corporation (SYY) (Click to enlarge)
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Long-Term Dividend Yield History of SYSCO Corporation (NYSE: SYY) (Click to enlarge)

Automatic Data Processing (NASDAQ:ADP) has a market capitalization of $26.57 billion. The company employs 57,000 people, generates revenue of $10.665 billion and has a net income of $1.388 billion. The firm’s earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) amounts to $2.343 billion. The EBITDA margin is 21.97 percent (the operating margin is 19.90 percent and the net profit margin 13.02 percent).

Financial Analysis: The total debt represents 0.05 percent of the company’s assets and the total debt in relation to the equity amounts to 0.27 percent. Due to the financial situation, a return on equity of 22.90 percent was realized. Twelve trailing months earnings per share reached a value of $2.82. Last fiscal year, the company paid $1.55 in the form of dividends to shareholders. The company announced to raise dividends by 10.1 percent.

Market Valuation: Here are the price ratios of the company: The P/E ratio is 19.38, the P/S ratio is 2.49 and the P/B ratio is finally 4.34. The dividend yield amounts to 3.18 percent and the beta ratio has a value of 0.69.


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Long-Term Stock History Chart Of Automatic Data Processing (Click to enlarge)
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Long-Term Dividends History of Automatic Data Processing (ADP) (Click to enlarge)
”Long-Term
Long-Term Dividend Yield History of Automatic Data Processing (NASDAQ: ADP) (Click to enlarge)

Union Pacific (NYSE:UNP) has a market capitalization of $55.30B billion. The company employs 46,205 people, generates revenue of $19.557 billion and has a net income of $3.292 billion. The firm’s earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) amounts to $7.336 billion. The EBITDA margin is 37.51 percent (the operating margin is 29.24 percent and the net profit margin 16.83 percent).

Financial Analysis: The total debt represents 19.75 percent of the company’s assets and the total debt in relation to the equity amounts to 47.94 percent. Due to the financial situation, a return on equity of 18.12 percent was realized. Twelve trailing months earnings per share reached a value of $8.07. Last fiscal year, the company paid $1.93 in the form of dividends to shareholders. The company announced to raise dividends by 15.0 percent.

Market Valuation: Here are the price ratios of the company: The P/E ratio is 14.56, the P/S ratio is 2.83 and the P/B ratio is finally 3.04. The dividend yield amounts to 2.35 percent and the beta ratio has a value of 1.16.


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Long-Term Stock History Chart Of Union Pacific (Click to enlarge)
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Long-Term Dividends History of Union Pacific (UNP) (Click to enlarge)
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Long-Term Dividend Yield History of Union Pacific (NYSE: UNP) (Click to enlarge)

Brown-Forman (NYSE:BF.A) has a market capitalization of $13.68 billion. The company employs 3,800 people, generates revenue of $3.614 billion and has a net income of $513 million. The firm’s earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) amounts to $837 million. The EBITDA margin is 23.16 percent (the operating margin is 21.80 percent and the net profit margin 14.19 percent).

Financial Analysis: The total debt represents 14.67 percent of the company’s assets and the total debt in relation to the equity amounts to 24.65 percent. Due to the financial situation, a return on equity of 24.85 percent was realized. Twelve trailing months earnings per share reached a value of $2.52. Last fiscal year, the company paid $0.89 in the form of dividends to shareholders. The company announced to raise dividends by 9.3 percent.

Market Valuation: Here are the price ratios of the company: The P/E ratio is 24.72, the P/S ratio is 3.79 and the P/B ratio is finally 6.73. The dividend yield amounts to 1.56 percent and the beta ratio has a value of 0.68.


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Long-Term Stock History Chart Of Brown-Forman (Click to enlarge)
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Long-Term Dividends History of Brown-Forman (BF.A) (Click to enlarge)

Take a closer look at the full table of stocks with recent dividend hikes. The average dividend growth amounts to 39.01 percent and the average dividend yield amounts to 2.85 percent. Stocks from the sheet are valuated with a P/E ratio of 20.84. The average P/S ratio is 4.57 and P/B 1.89.

Here is the full table:

Top Dividend Growth Stocks From Last Week

These are the market ratios:

Ticker
Company
P/E
P/S
P/B
Dividend Yield
EFR
Eaton Vance Senior Floating Rate Trust
15.42
12.32
1.05
6.89%
LGI
Lazard Global Total Return and Income Fund, Inc.
N/A
20.25
0.88
6.82%
EFT
Eaton Vance Floating-Rate Income Trust
7.71
12.15
1.05
6.53%
TYN
Tortoise North American Energy Corporation
18.41
N/A
1.02
6.42%
TYY
Tortoise Energy Capital Corp.
33.49
N/A
1.10
6.12%
CFNB
California First National Bancorp
23.95
8.30
0.96
6.04%
LBF
DWS Global High Income Fund, Inc.
N/A
N/A
N/A
5.98%
TYG
Tortoise Energy Infrastructure Corp.
6.91
N/A
1.05
5.59%
RPT
Ramco-Gershenson Properties Trust
N/A
4.76
1.13
5.23%
AMSWA
American Software, Inc.
18.45
2.01
2.51
4.65%
LG
Laclede Group Inc.
14.35
0.71
1.43
4.28%
WMB
Williams Companies, Inc.
29.89
2.57
6.43
3.95%
TIS
Orchids Paper Products Company
16.78
1.55
2.09
3.81%
SYY
Sysco Corp.
15.97
0.41
3.61
3.60%
NKSH
National Bankshares Inc.
11.43
4.19
1.36
3.59%
SYBT
SY Bancorp Inc.
11.64
3.44
1.51
3.55%
FF
FutureFuel Corp.
12.54
1.31
1.63
3.43%
MDU
MDU Resources Group Inc.
29.34
0.93
1.37
3.36%
WDR
Waddell & Reed Financial Inc.
15.35
2.41
4.86
3.10%
ADP
Automatic Data Processing, Inc.
19.41
2.47
4.21
2.89%
JCI
Johnson Controls Inc.
14.18
0.41
1.49
2.87%
SFG
StanCorp Financial Group Inc.
10.53
0.50
0.67
2.70%
CG
The Carlyle Group LP
9.88
3.64
0.84
2.51%
TCK
Teck Resources Limited
14.48
1.77
1.04
2.44%
UNP
Union Pacific Corporation
14.57
2.66
2.83
2.04%
NP
Neenah Paper, Inc.
10.46
0.49
1.89
1.97%
PEO
Petroleum & Resources Corp.
N/A
37.40
0.84
1.67%
GRIF
Griffin Land & Nurseries Inc.
135.00
3.06
1.19
1.65%
ASBC
Associated Banc-Corp
12.98
3.01
0.74
1.59%
HTSI
Harris Teeter Supermarkets, Inc.
17.72
0.39
1.72
1.55%
AEL
American Equity Investment Life Holding Co.
9.66
0.39
0.45
1.11%
ARTW
Art's-Way Manufacturing Co. Inc.
9.17
0.65
1.36
1.05%
PRI
Primerica, Inc.
10.48
1.37
1.24
1.01%
GFF
Griffon Corporation
29.07
0.27
0.79
0.95%
RGLD
Royal Gold, Inc.
49.97
18.82
2.59
0.74%
NOV
National Oilwell Varco, Inc.
12.56
1.62
1.54
0.68%
ITIC
Investors Title Co.
12.81
1.22
1.07
0.47%
FNV
Franco-Nevada Corporation
N/A
19.54
2.79
1.01%
BKMU
Bank Mutual Corporation
32.54
2.34
0.72
0.95%
MLI
Mueller Industries Inc.
21.57
0.57
2.51
0.90%
TMO
Thermo Fisher Scientific, Inc.
19.39
1.79
1.45
0.86%
WFM
Whole Foods Market, Inc.
39.13
1.52
4.64
0.61%
DK
Delek US Holdings Inc.
7.33
0.17
1.93
0.60%
PRGO
Perrigo Co.
25.26
3.12
5.33
0.30%
AAN
Aaron's, Inc.
13.71
1.04
2.06
0.20%






Average

20.84
4.57
1.89
2.85%

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