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.

Best Dividend Paying Ex-Dividend Shares On December 10, 2012

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 ex-dividend date can be found here: Ex-Dividend Stocks on December 10, 2012. In total, 26 stocks and preferred shares go ex dividend - of which 10 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 3.61%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
Triangle Capital Corporation	TCAP	701.03M	11.56	1.67	8.37	8.26%
Ameren Corporation	AEE	7.23B	35.48	0.92	1.05	5.37%
Hewlett-Packard Company	HPQ	27.19B	-	1.21	0.23	3.82%
Parkway Properties Inc.	PKY	543.71M	-	1.25	2.53	3.41%
Public Storage	PSA	24.32B	39.79	2.91	13.46	3.11%
Guess' Inc.	GES	2.22B	11.54	2.02	0.85	3.07%
Broadridge Financial Solutions	BR	2.90B	23.96	3.67	1.25	3.04%
State Auto Financial Corp.	STFC	576.01M	15.48	0.78	0.42	2.81%
Village Super Market Inc.	VLGEA	734.14M	17.12	2.18	0.52	2.74%
PS Business Parks Inc.	PSB	1.58B	83.26	1.09	4.74	2.71%
John Wiley & Sons Inc.	JW-A	2.57B	13.18	2.54	1.46	2.24%
Texas Roadhouse Inc.	TXRH	1.14B	16.46	2.07	0.93	2.23%
Stewart Enterprises Inc.	STEI	624.16M	17.41	1.46	1.21	2.19%
Copa Holdings SA	CPA	4.27B	12.54	2.79	1.98	2.16%
Legg Mason Inc.	LM	3.41B	20.21	0.62	1.34	1.70%
SPX Corporation	SPW	3.47B	22.15	1.51	0.70	1.47%
PolyOne Corporation	POL	1.80B	22.66	2.86	0.61	0.99%
KBR, Inc.	KBR	4.17B	20.79	1.61	0.51	0.71%
Amphenol Corporation	APH	9.80B	19.04	4.08	2.39	0.69%
Anadarko Petroleum Corporation	APC	37.16B	20.54	1.82	2.68	0.48%