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38 Dividend Growth Utilities With A Solid Finance Basis Or Earnings Growth

If there is one thing every investor can appreciate, it is a growing stream of reliable dividends. With the Federal Reserve aiming to raise rates in December, the rate sensitive stocks have seen some price declines.

One of those rate sensitive sectors is the utility sector. To help investors find some of the best companies in the sector, I began researching those utility stocks with at least 5 straight years of dividend increases. 54 companies are part of the results. That's a huge number which I want to reduce by implementing higher restrictions. More about this method can be read below.

Some investors like to build their dividend growth portfolio with very different strategies. One trick that I have found can help investors stay on track is to mentally consider the costs they will need to pay each month of their life and to set a goal for covering those costs with dividend income.

There is a beautiful irony in being able to cover the costs an investor faces in their life with a dividend check from the same company that is selling them a product. When it comes to the utility companies, it makes sense to have a more diversified portfolio rather than simply owning the utility that covers the investor's primary residence. 

The simple geographic risk of a natural disaster impacting the company and the investor's life at the same time makes it ideal to use a portfolio with at least a few different utility companies, even when the investor wants to use a utility dividend check to pay for their cost.

Utilities are mostly not diversified but you can do it on your own by investing smaller amounts into several sub-industries.

I've created two charts from my dividend growth utility database. The first table lists all utilities with a debt-to-equity ratio below one. I think its also important to have a look at financial ratios, especially when rates go up in the near future.

The second chart gives an overview of dividend growth utilities with a predicted 5% earnings growth for the next five years. It's a more bullish view on future earnings.

Here are the results…

20 Good Looking Dividend Stocks With A Broken Payment Stream

Every investor is looking for the perfect stock. A company with an impressive past performance and track record as well. When the financials looking good and valuation ratios looking attractive, that’s mostly the time to catch the investment.

The truth is that it is not the normal case to find the perfect stock that could promise you a solid and stable return with a high probability.

In the past, I've focused many of the articles on perfect dividend growth stocks that might look attractive. Today I like to show you some stocks that were perfect Dividend Champions, Contenders or Challengers but then they must cut dividends or run them flat due to a specific reason.

My main criteria are a low forward P/E, a debt-to-equity under 1 and a moderate earnings growth of 5% yearly. Attached you can find the 20 top yielding results.

Here are the 5 highest yielding results in detail...


Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On August 13, 2013

The best yielding and biggest ex-dividend stocks researched by ”long-term-investments.blogspot.com”. Dividend Investors should have a quiet overview of stocks with upcoming ex dividend dates.

The ex dividend date is the final date on which the new stock buyer couldn’t receive the next dividend. If you like to receive the dividend, you need to buy the stock before the ex dividend date. I made a little screen of the best yielding stocks with a higher capitalization that have their ex date on the next trading day.

A full list of all stocks with payment dates can be found here: Ex-Dividend Stocks August 13, 2013. In total, 76 stocks go ex dividend - of which 29 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 4.75%.

Here is the sheet of the best yielding, higher capitalized ex-dividend stocks:

Company
Ticker
Mcap
P/E
P/B
P/S
Yield
R.R. Donnelley & Sons Company
3.49B
-
87.23
0.34
5.42%
Healthcare Realty Trust Inc.
2.20B
-
1.87
6.68
4.87%
Duke Realty Corp.
5.17B
-
2.02
4.59
4.24%
Exelon Corporation
26.76B
23.16
1.27
1.07
3.97%
Shaw Communications
11.26B
15.38
2.99
2.27
3.95%
Vectren Corporation
2.96B
23.53
1.95
1.24
3.94%
American Campus Communities
3.89B
80.76
1.49
6.46
3.88%
ALLETE, Inc.
2.04B
19.06
1.63
2.03
3.68%
Eli Lilly & Co.
58.53B
12.15
3.84
2.55
3.62%
Cablevision Systems Corporation
5.11B
-
-
0.79
3.06%
E. I. du Pont de Nemours
55.12B
23.52
4.22
1.56
3.01%
Helmerich & Payne Inc.
7.23B
10.34
1.68
2.16
2.95%
Enbridge Inc.
34.71B
55.92
4.43
1.24
2.88%
Microsoft Corporation
272.88B
12.63
3.46
3.51
2.81%
Southwest Gas Corporation
2.29B
17.28
1.66
1.22
2.66%
International Paper Co.
21.54B
21.93
3.21
0.75
2.50%
Cliffs Natural Resources Inc.
3.73B
-
0.76
0.65
2.46%
LPL Investment Holdings Inc.
4.19B
24.91
3.53
1.09
1.93%
IAC/InterActiveCorp.
4.21B
22.01
2.58
1.39
1.90%
Applied Industrial Technologies
2.17B
18.59
2.94
0.89
1.79%

Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On May 13, 2013

The best yielding and biggest ex-dividend stocks researched by ”long-term-investments.blogspot.com”. Dividend Investors should have a quiet overview of stocks with upcoming ex dividend dates.

The ex dividend date is the final date on which the new stock buyer couldn’t receive the next dividend. If you like to receive the dividend, you need to buy the stock before the ex dividend date. I made a little screen of the best yielding stocks with a higher capitalization that have their ex date on the next trading day.

A full list of all stocks with payment dates can be found here: Ex-Dividend Stocks May 13, 2013. In total, 61 stocks and preferred shares go ex dividend - of which 26 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 4.70%.

Here is the sheet of the best yielding, higher capitalized ex-dividend stocks:

Company
Ticker
Mcap
P/E
P/B
P/S
Yield
ARMOUR Residential REIT, Inc.
2.39B
8.08
0.88
6.48
13.17%
Shaw Communications, Inc.
10.35B
13.80
2.60
2.06
4.34%
Consolidated Edison Inc.
18.24B
17.40
1.53
1.48
3.95%
Vectren Corporation
3.03B
19.15
1.95
1.30
3.86%
ALLETE, Inc.
2.06B
20.12
1.70
2.15
3.68%
Exelon Corporation
30.55B
31.88
1.43
1.23
3.47%
E. I. du Pont de Nemours
50.35B
21.88
4.11
1.46
3.29%
Xilinx Inc.
10.09B
21.67
3.41
4.65
2.59%
Enbridge Inc.
39.08B
61.68
3.71
1.56
2.59%
Southwest Gas Corporation
2.37B
18.02
1.80
1.23
2.58%
Talisman Energy Inc.
11.95B
-
1.22
1.63
2.34%
Target Corp.
44.78B
15.41
2.72
0.61
2.06%
IAC/InterActiveCorp.
4.35B
26.89
2.50
1.55
1.95%
TIM Participacoes S.A.
9.91B
13.75
1.44
1.06
1.85%
The Kroger Co.
18.09B
12.54
4.25
0.19
1.73%
Teleflex Incorporated
3.26B
25.66
1.93
2.06
1.72%
Jabil Circuit Inc.
3.92B
10.69
1.80
0.22
1.65%
Delphi Automotive PLC
14.41B
14.63
6.01
0.93
1.48%
TCF Financial Corporation
2.46B
26.82
1.31
2.82
1.33%
Pool Corp.
2.40B
30.46
8.37
1.22
1.24%