41 Stocks And Funds Hiked Dividends Last Week

Stocks with dividend hikes from last week originally published at “long-term-investments.blogspot.com”. Last week, additional 41 stocks and funds announced to raise dividends. The average dividend growth amounts to 34.59 percent. On the list are some big Players from the financial sector like JP Morgan Chase or W.R. Berkley. Also the tech giant Hewlett-Packard raised its dividend by 10 percent despite the operational problems. Twelve companies announced to pay a first dividend ever and ten stocks reduced its payments last week.

The good thing is that dividend growth is definitely stronger established than dividend cuts.

Best Dividend Paying Ex-Dividend Shares On December 28, 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 payment dates can be found here: Ex-Dividend Stocks December 28, 2012. In total, 22 stocks and preferred shares go ex dividend - of which 9 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 3.85%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
Liberty Property Trust	LRY	4.26B	34.63	2.03	6.27	5.27%
Kimco Realty Corporation	KIM	7.93B	64.87	1.56	8.56	4.32%
The Bank Of Nova Scotia	BNS	69.31B	11.12	1.73	4.01	3.94%
Raytheon Co.	RTN	18.90B	9.83	2.09	0.77	3.49%
Republic Services, Inc.	RSG	10.78B	17.19	1.39	1.33	3.18%
Dell Inc.	DELL	17.86B	6.99	1.75	0.30	3.11%
Essex Property Trust Inc.	ESS	5.36B	66.13	3.14	10.24	3.00%
Air Products & Chemicals	APD	17.90B	18.44	2.81	1.86	2.99%
Federal Realty Investment	FRT	6.75B	50.71	5.24	11.38	2.80%
Cardinal Health, Inc.	CAH	14.16B	13.10	2.28	0.13	2.64%
State Street Corp.	STT	21.60B	11.79	1.05	7.09	2.07%
Post Properties Inc.	PPS	2.70B	40.98	2.42	8.26	2.02%
HCC Insurance Holdings Inc.	HCC	3.75B	10.58	1.07	1.51	1.78%
Comcast Corporation	CMCSA	99.12B	17.03	2.03	1.61	1.74%
SL Green Realty Corp.	SLG	6.88B	52.16	1.07	4.99	1.73%
Gap Inc.	GPS	14.57B	14.90	4.62	0.96	1.64%
Raymond James Financial Inc.	RJF	5.32B	17.31	1.62	1.36	1.46%

The Best Stocks With Dividend Growth From Last Week (May 28 – June 03, 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, 9 stocks and funds raised dividends of which 4 have a dividend growth of more than 10 percent. The average dividend growth amounts to 12.56 percent. Exactly four stocks have a yield over five percent and seven are currently recommended to buy.