The Best Stocks With Dividend Growth From Last Week

I love dividends and dividend growth stocks. That’s the main reason why I make a regular screen of the latest stocks with dividend growth on my blog “long-term-investments.blogspot.com”. I believe that those companies could have a well running business and could have a better performance in the long-run. Below is a current list of companies that have announced a dividend increase within the recent week. In total, 22 stocks and funds raised dividends of which 15 have a dividend growth of more than 10 percent. The average dividend growth amounts to 110.63 percent.

Twelve of the dividend growth stocks/funds from last week are currently recommended to buy; fifteen yielding over three percent.

The Biggest Ex-Dividend Stocks On October 22, 2012

The Best And Biggest Ex-Dividend Stocks Researched By Dividend Yield - Stock, Capital, Investment. 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-dividend date on the next trading day.

A full list of all stocks with ex-dividend date can be found here: Ex-Dividend Stocks on October 22, 2012. In total, 13 stocks and preferred shares go ex-dividend - of which 8 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 4.37%.

Here is the sheet of the best yielding Ex-Dividend stocks:

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
Compass Diversified Holdings	CODI	749.13M	-	1.67	0.84	9.28%
Administradora de Fondos de Pensiones Provida SA	PVD	2.45B	13.13	3.96	7.32	7.48%
Teekay Offshore Partners LP	TOO	2.22B	-	4.84	2.28	7.26%
Teekay LNG Partners LP.	TGP	2.66B	22.17	2.32	6.83	7.04%
Eaton Vance Tax-Advantaged Global Dividend Opportunities Fund	ETO	293.74M	-	-	-	6.92%
Bowl America Inc.	BWL-A	84.74M	45.71	1.96	3.43	5.16%
New Hampshire Thrift Bancshares Inc.	NHTB	76.83M	11.11	0.70	2.10	4.00%
The Clorox Company	CLX	9.83B	18.40	-	1.80	3.38%
Lowe's Companies Inc.	LOW	37.15B	21.57	2.53	0.73	1.96%
Arcos Dorados Holdings Inc. Cla	ARCO	3.30B	32.10	5.01	0.87	1.52%
West Pharmaceutical Services, Inc.	WST	1.83B	23.43	2.68	1.48	1.42%
Embotelladora Andina S.A.	AKO-A	4.05B	21.19	4.62	1.83	1.38%
Embotelladora Andina S.A.	AKO-B	4.94B	26.00	5.67	2.25	1.25%