These 6 Reliable Dividend Growers Doing Better Than The Economy

Earnings for Standard & Poor’s 500 companies appear to have fallen for a fifth consecutive quarter in the three months through June, but earnings grew in half of the sectors, including industrials, health care, technology, and consumer discretionary, and would have grown overall without the downward pull of the energy sector.

The six companies that follow have steadily grown their earnings in recent years and are expected to do so in coming ones. They pay dividends and trade at discounts to the market. They don’t sell packaged food, tobacco, booze, or power, but their statistical profiles resemble companies that do.

These are the results....

Is Traditional Apparel Retailing A Buying Opportunity?

Given the recent negative performance of many apparel retailers and some calls that traditional apparel retailing is dead, we are addressing our thoughts on these issues and discussing which subsectors and companies we see as positioned best for long-term success. 

In our opinion, there has been a secular shift in apparel retailing that is a persistent force. 

We believe the current trend toward value over brand is here to stay. Unless a product can perform notably better than the competition (keep you warmer, keep you drier, perform better in athletic situations), consumers appear unwilling to pay a premium simply to own a brand. 

We also think that shifts in wallet share are here to stay, with experience (travel, restaurants) valued over apparel, and other costs--including healthcare, education, and housing--rising in share. 

Finally, we think the shift in distribution channel toward digital will persist. 

As a result, we agree that apparel retail growth is not likely to return to historical levels. Having acknowledged that, we do believe that we are at a low point in the apparel retail cycle and there is future upside.

We do not believe brick-and-mortar apparel retailing is dead; however, it will look much different in the future. We think there is a place for stores where consumers can touch fabrics, try sizes, and see fit. 

However, the apparel industry has experienced much self-inflicted near-term malaise. Many management teams have been overly optimistic regarding inventory levels and have not converted to more modern, responsive supply chains. 

This has resulted in a highly promotional retail environment that has forced even well-run companies to discount to remain competitive. Also, we think we are nearing the end of the athleisure fashion trend. 

With consumers having enough skinny and yoga pants to clothe themselves for a while and no new fashion must-haves, nothing is driving discretionary purchases.

Check out a summary of the big fishes in traditional retailing:

16 Large Caps With Skyrocket Dividends

Dividend growth is important, no discussion about that. Many analysts and investors say that a fast growing dividend is a result of a rosy business which runs very well.

Others research studies say that high dividend raiser perform better than the market.

However, I like to show you which large capitalized stocks increased their dividends over the past year at the highest rate, more than 50 percent.

Purchasing high growth is better than buying high yielding stocks. A list Dividend Aristocrats with the fastest dividend growth rates can be found here: 10 Dividend Aristocrats With The Highest Possibility To Grow Dividends At The Fastest Pace...

You can find the full list at the end of this post. I hope you get some new inspirations which help you to structure your investments. Thank you for reading and commenting.

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Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On August 09, 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 09, 2013. In total, 2 stocks go ex dividend - of which none yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 1.75%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
Enterprise Bancorp Inc.	EBTC	198.27M	15.40	1.38	2.87	2.28%
Hanesbrands Inc.	HBI	6.18B	17.28	5.91	1.37	1.29%

Consumer Goods Stocks With Highest YTD Performance And Cheap Price Ratios

Consumer goods dividend stocks with highest year-to-date performance originally published at long-term-investments.blogspot.com. Consumer dividend stocks are my favorite investments when I think about how to make money on the stock market. I prefer those stocks because of the low cyclic they have. Most of them generate stable cash flows and pay good dividends as well as buy own shares back. Not to forget: They still have possibilities to grow in a developed market.

Today I would close my monthly screening serial of the best performing dividend stocks from several sectors with the consumer goods sector. These are the latest articles of the serial:

· Basic Material Dividend Stocks With Highest YTD Performance

· Industrial Dividend Stocks With Highest Performance

· 20 Financials With The Highest YTD-Performance

· Services Dividend Stocks With Highest YTD-Performance And Cheap Price Ratios

· The Best Performing Utilities And Which Of Them Are Still Cheap

· The Best Performing Technology Dividend Stocks And Which Of Them Are Still Cheap

· The Best Healthcare Dividend Stocks And Which Of Them Are The Cheapest

The 20 best performing dividend stocks from the consumer sector with a market capitalization over USD 200 million gained from 44.89 percent to 112.16 percent this year. The best performing non dividend paying stock is more an industrial stock than a consumer company. It’s the electric vehicle producer Tesla. The company’s stock price quadrupled since the start of the year. The top dividend payer is the multi-marketing level company Nu Skin Enterprises.

Despite the strong stock price increase, 16 of the top 20 performing sector dividend stocks still have a buy or better rating.

Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On May 16, 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 16, 2013. In total, 22 stocks and preferred shares go ex dividend - of which 9 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 4.43%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
Seaspan Corp.	SSW	1.45B	28.52	1.15	2.19	5.48%
Giant Interactive Group	GA	1.92B	11.96	3.73	5.47	5.24%
Select Medical Holdings	SEM	1.15B	8.22	1.55	0.39	4.87%
Atmos Energy Corporation	ATO	4.02B	17.22	1.58	1.17	3.15%
PartnerRe Ltd.	PRE	5.32B	6.15	0.78	0.96	2.75%
Teva Pharmaceutical Industries	TEVA	37.56B	17.77	1.49	1.85	2.74%
Deluxe Corp.	DLX	1.99B	11.62	4.27	1.30	2.56%
Honeywell International Inc.	HON	62.28B	20.45	4.63	1.65	2.07%
Ryder System, Inc.	R	3.20B	15.31	2.14	0.51	2.01%
Snap-on Inc.	SNA	5.33B	16.91	2.91	1.81	1.66%
Hanesbrands Inc.	HBI	5.01B	16.61	5.28	1.11	1.57%
Bunge Limited	BG	10.61B	28.75	0.93	0.17	1.50%
FLIR Systems, Inc.	FLIR	3.50B	16.34	2.35	2.49	1.46%
Moody's Corp.	MCO	14.86B	21.44	32.53	5.28	1.20%
Watts Water Technologies	WTS	1.66B	23.55	1.77	1.15	1.11%
Woodward, Inc.	WWD	2.54B	17.91	2.38	1.35	0.87%
Tractor Supply Company	TSCO	8.00B	29.63	7.74	1.69	0.70%