16 Stocks With Potential To Double Dividends Soon

Dividend stocks can be the foundation of a great retirement portfolio. Dividend payments not only put money in your pocket, which can help hedge against any downward moves in the stock market, but they're usually a sign of a financially sound company. 

Dividends also give investors a painless opportunity to reinvest in a stock, thus boosting future payouts and compounding gains over time. Yet not all income stocks live up to their full potential. 

Utilizing the payout ratio, or the percentage of profits a company returns in the form of a dividend to its shareholders, we can get a good bead on whether a company has room to increase its dividend. Ideally, we like to see healthy payout ratios between 50% and 75%. 

Here are three income stocks with payout ratios currently below 50% that could potentially double their dividends within the following years.

Each of the results has fulfilled the following criteria:

- Double Digit EPS Growth For The Next Five Years
- Sales Growth Over 5% Over The Recent Half Decade
- Positive Dividend Payments
- Payout Ratio Below 30%
- Debt/Equity Under 0.2


These are the results...

Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On October 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.

In total, 33 stocks go ex dividend - of which 10 yield more than 3 percent. Here is a full list of all stocks with ex-dividend date within the current week.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
MFA Financial, Inc.	MFA	2.72B	9.52	0.86	5.51	11.70%
Linn Energy, LLC	LINE	6.23B	-	1.47	3.41	11.54%
Sasol Ltd.	SSL	29.88B	11.40	1.98	1.64	4.61%
Kraft Foods Group, Inc.	KRFT	31.99B	17.37	7.44	1.74	3.90%
Sovran Self Storage Inc.	SSS	2.35B	38.31	2.94	9.18	2.82%
General Dynamics Corp.	GD	30.26B	-	2.57	0.97	2.60%
Accenture plc	ACN	46.47B	14.86	9.37	1.53	2.57%
Aviva plc	AV	20.04B	-	1.29	0.36	2.57%
Marsh & McLennan Companies	MMC	23.68B	18.44	3.49	1.96	2.33%
Waddell & Reed Financial Inc.	WDR	4.51B	21.44	8.01	3.62	2.13%
Yum! Brands, Inc.	YUM	32.43B	23.42	14.58	2.46	2.07%
Smith & Nephew plc	SNN	11.11B	20.25	2.85	2.66	1.69%
WPP plc	WPPGY	25.41B	20.36	2.04	1.48	1.64%
Patterson Companies Inc.	PDCO	4.03B	19.66	2.89	1.11	1.60%
Masco Corporation	MAS	7.15B	93.09	20.08	0.91	1.46%
Kyocera Corp.	KYO	36.17B	42.68	1.00	2.68	1.36%
Coty Inc.	COTY	6.13B	38.10	4.10	1.32	1.25%
CLARCOR Inc.	CLC	2.76B	28.39	2.83	2.45	1.23%
Morningstar Inc.	MORN	3.56B	31.42	4.97	5.26	0.65%
Roper Industries Inc.	ROP	12.88B	26.16	3.31	4.18	0.51%