20 Highly Recommended Dividend Challengers

Dividend Challengers are stocks with a history of consecutive rising dividends of more than 5 years but less than 10 years. If you believe this is a criterion only fulfilled by a few companies, you are right. There are only 113 stocks with such a dividend growth history.

Dividend growth is very important for your retirement funds. If you buy several of the best dividend growth shares, you could double your passive income from dividend in ten years easily. Over twenty years, your dividends should quadruple.

Smart investors like you are always looking for simple stock trade ideas of highly recommended stocks. I like to combine both criteria. I screened all Dividend Challengers by the best rating notes from brokerage firms. In order to eliminate the risks of lower capitalized stocks, the market capitalization should be over $2 billion.

The Biggest Ex-Dividend Stocks On November 05, 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 November 05, 2012. In total, 41 stocks and preferred shares go ex-dividend - of which 23 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 4.17%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
Penn Virginia Resource Partners LP	PVR	2.26B	-	2.64	2.20	8.43%
CVR Partners, LP	UAN	2.02B	14.17	4.23	6.22	8.26%
Inergy, L.P.	NRGY	2.64B	-	2.42	1.23	7.50%
New York Community Bancorp	NYB	6.19B	12.48	1.10	3.42	7.09%
Alliance Resource Partners LP	ARLP	2.44B	11.94	2.55	1.67	6.43%
MarkWest Energy Partners LP	MWE	6.45B	21.96	3.13	3.94	5.83%
FirstEnergy Corp.	FE	18.78B	16.45	1.39	1.13	4.90%
Access Midstream Partners, L.P.	ACMP	2.83B	24.27	2.21	4.62	4.68%
EV Energy Partners LP	EVEP	2.79B	17.81	2.37	10.23	4.65%
Intel Corporation	INTC	111.37B	9.72	2.26	2.07	4.04%
Cablevision Systems Corporation	CVC	4.73B	21.82	-	0.71	3.44%
Cleco Corporation	CNL	2.63B	15.18	1.79	2.49	3.12%
Xilinx Inc.	XLNX	8.77B	18.09	3.19	3.99	2.63%
City National Corp.	CYN	2.77B	13.65	1.19	3.14	1.93%
AptarGroup, Inc.	ATR	3.54B	21.00	2.63	1.53	1.66%
MSC Industrial Direct Co. Inc.	MSM	4.62B	18.73	4.10	2.05	1.63%
Wynn Resorts Ltd.	WYNN	12.35B	23.50	35.94	2.37	1.63%
Beam, Inc.	BEAM	8.80B	48.33	2.03	3.75	1.48%
Brown & Brown Inc.	BRO	3.70B	20.90	2.09	3.24	1.40%
Banco Bradesco S.A.	BBDO	51.15B	9.43	1.63	2.35	0.83%

The Best Stocks With Dividend Growth From Last Week (October 22 – 28, 2012)

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, 74 stocks and funds raised dividends of which 31 have a dividend growth of more than 10 percent. The average dividend growth amounts to 49.89 percent. Exactly 25 stocks/funds have a yield over five percent (high yield); 39 above three percent. 38 are currently recommended to buy.

Visa (V) is the Large Cap stock with the highest dividend hike. The company announced to increase dividends by 50 percent, from 22 to 33 cents per share. The business service company is on a very good growth path. The company grew yearly by 25.53 percent over the recent five years in sales and 44.62 percent in earnings per share. At the current EPS-level, the payout ratio is expected at 18.4 percent. In addition, there is no long-term debt.

Another good Large Cap company with recent dividend growth is AFLAC (AFL). The company is also low leveraged and has a good long-term business growth. The recent dividend hike of 6.1 percent was not as high as it should be but still high enough to compensate inflation costs. The payout ratio at the new level amounts to 25.64 percent. Regard the low geographically diversification. The company is a big insurer in Japan. 77.46 percent of sales are generated in Asia/Pacific and 25.54 percent in Americas.

18 High Yield Stocks At New 52-Week Lows

New Breakout Stocks By Dividend Yield – Stock, Capital, Investment. Sometimes it makes sense to observe stocks with an ongoing sell-offs. The background is to find stocks with a possible turnaround story. Stocks which are oversold and pushed to new lows could recover in a fast way. If the company pays stable dividends, it should increase the expected total return. However, here is a current screen of high yield stocks that have marked new 52-Week Lows within the recent days. All stocks have a yield of more than 5 percent. As a result, 18 high yield stocks are near to their new 52-week low of which 11 have a double-digit dividend yield.

12 Dividend Challengers With Highest Recent Growth

Dividend Challenger Stocks With Accelerated Growth Researched By Dividend Yield - Stock, Capital, Investment. Dividend Challengers are companies with rising dividends of at least five consecutive years but less than ten years in a row. 190 dividend stocks achieved this goal. Not all of them can follow its dividend growth policy due to a negative business performance. Let’s figure out the good stocks.

I screened all Challengers with the highest increase in sales and earnings over the recent quarter compared to the same quarter last year. I observed only those stocks with a quarter over quarter sales and earnings per share growth of more than twenty-five percent. Twelve stocks fulfilled these criteria of which four are high yields; eight stocks are recommended to buy. 83 percent of the results are from the basic material and services sector. Especially stocks from the oil and gas pipeline industry are dominant.