3 Unbelievable Dividend Champions With Zero Debt And Promising Payout Growth

Investors should be careful while investing in stocks under different sectors. You might be tempted to invest in stocks that pay out high dividends, but what you also need to check is whether these companies have any debts or not.

If a company has huge debts, you must strictly stay away from it, however high its dividends are. Such companies cannot be trusted upon to pay out high dividends in the future as the cash flow that they generate would be used for settling debts.

A company that pays out a reasonable rate of dividend and has very little debts is still a better choice. However the best choice would be a company with absolutely no debt at all. Are there any companies like these? If yes, which ones are best in terms of growth?

Today I show you the fastest growing Dividend Champions with zero debt. Those stocks have a double-digit earnings growth forecast for the next five years as well as a low debt to equity ratio of less than 0.1.

Here are the results...

11 Dividend Achievers With Strong Buy Rating

Are you looking for stocks that are worth to buy? Sure, we all do! Today I like to show you some of the stocks with the highest buy rating within the Dividend Growth space.

I've compiled all Dividend Achievers, stocks that have raised dividends over a period of at least 10 years without a break, and selected them by the highest analyst rating.

Currently, 167 companies (nearly half of the results) have a buy or better rating. Finally, eleven stocks got a strong buy rating. These are my 4 favorite results:

9 Dividend Achievers With A Strong Buy Rating

Analysts often have a good sense about the development of stocks due to their intensive research related to the company.

Not all analysts predict the correct economic development but they do a very good basic desk research and they have conversations with the management teams of the company, so not many people a as good informed as analysts.

Today I've listed all stocks with more than 10 years of consecutive dividend growth (Dividend Achievers) and a strong buy rating. Only nine companies have received the highest buy rating by analysts. Six of them are listed on the technology stock exchange NASDAQ.

Only four firms have a market capitalization over one billion US-Dollar. Keep in mind that those stocks also contain a higher risk for invvestors.

The only 9 Dividend Achievers with a strong buy rating are....

4 Dividend Achievers With The Strongest Recommendation At The Market

Dividend Achievers With Strong Buy Rating Researched By “long-term-investments.blogspot.com”. Dividend Achievers stocks are very interesting in terms of wealth construction due to a continuous dividend growth. Such stocks raised dividends over a period of more than 10 consecutive years. At the markets are 187 companies available for trade that fulfilled these dividend growth criteria but not all have a good rating.

I screened the investment category by the highest recommendation rating, a strong buy. Only four companies have such a great recommendation of which one has a yield over three percent. But growth is more important than yield.

14 Stocks And 6 Funds Hiked Dividends Last Week

Stocks with dividend hikes from last week originally published at “long-term-investments.blogspot.com”. 

Last week was an additional week where 20 stocks announced to raise dividends. MFA Financial, is on the list with a 10 percent hike. Other big companies are Cisco, the company which handles traffic on the internet. Cisco raised its dividends by 21.4 percent and is definitely my top pick from the results. Five stocks are debt-free and additional five have a low debt ratio.

In total, 20 funds and stocks increased its dividend payments last week of which five are high-yields and 10 are recommended to buy. The average dividend growth amounts to 71.91 percent.

15 Best Performing Dividend Growth Stocks

3 Market-Leading Dividend Growth Stocks By Scott's Investments. Equity markets have felt like a roller coaster this spring and summer, with major US indices bouncing between technical highs and lows. While we continue to trade in a broad range, I thought it would be helpful to identify dividend stocks that have bucked the trend and have show relative strength over the past three, six, and 12 months. Below are the top 15 stocks based on the average of their three-, six-, and 12-month returns.

Here are the shares:

Company	Ticker	Average 3,6,12 Mo Return	Yield	Payout
Polaris Industries	PII	55.76%	1.52%	31.97%
CARBO Ceramics	CRR	41.95%	0.62%	0.00%
VF Corp.	VFC	36.21%	2.16%	24.74%
Royal Gold Inc.	RGLD	33.44%	0.67%	35.50%
Helmerich & Payne Inc.	HP	30.38%	0.41%	7.29%
Flowers Foods	FLO	27.38%	2.73%	53.04%
Bank of the Ozarks Inc.	OZRK	26.30%	1.44%	12.79%
Hingham Institution for Savings	HIFS	24.03%	1.82%	23.62%
Nu Skin Enterprises Inc.	NUS	23.63%	1.71%	26.42%
Gorman-Rupp Company	GRC	23.42%	1.09%	24.59%
Raven Industries	RAVN	22.93%	1.37%	27.51%
Ross Stores Inc.	ROST	22.86%	1.15%	14.21%
W.P. Carey & Co. LLC	WPC	22.77%	5.71%	92.01%
1st Source Corp.	SRCE	21.91%	2.76%	37.35%
Albemarle Corp.	ALB	21.73%	0.99%	13.99%

Related Stock Ticker:
PII, CRR, VFC, RGLD, HP, FLO, OZRK, HIFS, NUS, GRC, RAVN, ROST, WPC, SRCE, ALB

Source: Seeking Alpha

Best Yielding Dividend Achievers List August 2011

Best Yielding Dividend Achievers List by Dividend Yield - Stock, Capital, Investment. Here is a current sheet of stocks to be announced Dividend Achievers. A Dividend Achiever is a stock that has increased the annual dividend (regular dividend without special payments) every year for at least 10 years or more. Dividend Achievers are therefore stocks that summarize Dividend Champions / Dividend Aristocrats (+25 years) and Dividend Contenders (10-24 years). Dividend Challengers (5-9 years) are out of competition. The list is sorted alphabetically.

Here is the table with dividend, yield and growth figures:

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Ticker	Company	Dividend (Yield)
MMM	3M Co	$2.20 (2.80%)
ABT	Abbott Laboratories	$1.92 (3.80%)
ABM	ABM Industries, Inc.	$0.56 (2.90%)
AFL	AFLAC Inc.	$1.20 (3.40%)
APD	Air Products & Chemicals, Inc.	$2.32 (3.00%)
ALB	Albemarle Corp.	$0.66 (1.40%)
MO	Altria Group Inc	$1.52 (5.80%)
AWR	American States Water Co.	$1.12 (3.30%)
ATR	AptarGroup Inc.	$0.88 (1.90%)
WTR	Aqua America Inc	$0.66 (3.10%)
ADM	Archer Daniels Midland Co.	$0.64 (2.30%)
T	AT&T Inc	$1.72 (5.90%)
ATNI	Atlantic Tele-Network, Inc.	$0.88 (2.80%)
ATO	Atmos Energy Corp.	$1.36 (4.20%)
ADP	Automatic Data Processing Inc.	$1.44 (3.00%)
AVP	Avon Products, Inc.	$0.92 (4.30%)
BMI	Badger Meter, Inc.	$0.64 (2.00%)
BANF	BancFirst Corp. (Oklahoma City, Okla)	$1.00 (2.90%)
OZRK	Bank of the Ozarks, Inc.	$0.38 (1.80%)
BCR	Bard (C.R.), Inc.	$0.76 (0.80%)
BDX	Becton, Dickinson and Co.	$1.64 (2.10%)
BMS	Bemis Co Inc	$0.96 (3.30%)
BKH	Black Hills Corporation	$1.46 (5.00%)
BRC	Brady Corp.	$0.72 (2.80%)
BRO	Brown & Brown, Inc.	$0.32 (1.60%)
BF-B	Brown-Forman Corp.	$1.28 (1.80%)
BPL	Buckeye Partners, L.P.	$4.05 (6.70%)
CWT	California Water Service Group (DE)	$0.62 (3.40%)
CRR	Carbo Ceramics Inc.	$0.96 (0.70%)
CAH	Cardinal Health, Inc.	$0.86 (2.10%)
CSL	Carlisle Companies Inc.	$0.72 (2.00%)
CASY	Casey's General Stores, Inc.	$0.60 (1.40%)
CAT	Caterpillar Inc.	$1.84 (2.20%)
CTL	CenturyLink, Inc.	$2.90 (8.40%)
CVX	Chevron Corporation	$3.12 (3.30%)
CB	Chubb Corp.	$1.56 (2.70%)
CHD	Church & Dwight Co., Inc.	$0.68 (1.60%)
CINF	Cincinnati Financial Corp.	$1.61 (6.10%)
CTAS	Cintas Corporation	$0.49 (1.60%)
CLC	Clarcor Inc.	$0.42 (1.00%)
CLX	Clorox Co.	$2.40 (3.60%)
KO	Coca-Cola Co (The)	$1.88 (2.80%)
CL	Colgate-Palmolive Co.	$2.32 (2.70%)
CBSH	Commerce Bancshares, Inc.	$0.92 (2.50%)
CBU	Community Bank System, Inc.	$1.04 (4.40%)
CTBI	Community Trust Bancorp, Inc.	$1.24 (5.00%)
COP	ConocoPhillips	$2.64 (4.10%)
ED	Consolidated Edison, Inc.	$2.40 (4.30%)
OFC	Corporate Office Properties Trust	$1.65 (6.60%)
CFR	Cullen/Frost Bankers, Inc.	$1.84 (3.80%)
DBD	Diebold, Inc.	$1.12 (4.30%)
DCI	Donaldson Co. Inc.	$0.60 (1.20%)
DOV	Dover Corp	$1.26 (2.40%)
EV	Eaton Vance Corp	$0.72 (3.20%)
ECL	Ecolab, Inc.	$0.70 (1.40%)
EMR	Emerson Electric Co.	$1.38 (3.10%)
EGN	Energen Corp.	$0.54 (1.20%)
EPD	Enterprise Products Partners L.P.	$2.42 (6.00%)
EOG	EOG Resources, Inc.	$0.64 (0.70%)
ERIE	Erie Indemnity Co.	$2.06 (2.90%)
ESS	Essex Property Trust, Inc.	$4.16 (3.10%)
EXPD	Expeditors International of Washington, Inc.	$0.50 (1.20%)
XOM	Exxon Mobil Corp.	$1.88 (2.60%)
FDS	FactSet Research Systems Inc.	$1.08 (1.30%)
FDO	Family Dollar Stores, Inc.	$0.72 (1.50%)
FAST	Fastenal Co.	$0.52 (1.70%)
FRT	Federal Realty Investment Trust (MD)	$2.76 (3.20%)
THFF	First Financial Corp. (IN)	$0.94 (3.20%)
FELE	Franklin Electric Co., Inc.	$0.54 (1.40%)
BEN	Franklin Resources, Inc.	$1.00 (0.90%)
FUL	Fuller (H.B.) Company	$0.30 (1.50%)
GD	General Dynamics Corp.	$1.88 (3.10%)
GPC	Genuine Parts Co.	$1.80 (3.50%)
GTY	Getty Realty Corp.	$1.92 (10.80%)
GRC	Gorman-Rupp Co.	$0.36 (1.30%)
GGG	Graco Inc.	$0.84 (2.30%)
GWW	Grainger (W.W.) Inc.	$2.64 (1.90%)
HGIC	Harleysville Group, Inc. (PA)	$1.52 (5.60%)
HSC	Harsco Corp.	$0.82 (3.90%)
HCC	HCC Insurance Holdings, Inc.	$0.58 (2.10%)
HCP	HCP, Inc.	$1.92 (5.50%)
HP	Helmerich & Payne, Inc.	$0.28 (0.50%)
HRL	Hormel Foods Corp.	$0.51 (1.90%)
HCBK	Hudson City Bancorp, Inc.	$0.32 (5.50%)
ITW	Illinois Tool Works, Inc.	$1.44 (3.30%)
IBM	International Business Machines Corp.	$3.00 (1.80%)
IRET	Investors Real Estate Trust	$0.69 (9.20%)
JKHY	Jack Henry & Associates, Inc.	$0.42 (1.50%)
JNJ	Johnson & Johnson	$2.28 (3.50%)
KMB	Kimberly-Clark Corp.	$2.80 (4.20%)
KMP	Kinder Morgan Energy Partners, L.P.	$4.60 (6.80%)
LANC	Lancaster Colony Corp.	$1.32 (2.30%)
LEG	Leggett & Platt, Inc.	$1.12 (5.50%)
LLTC	Linear Technology Corp.	$0.96 (3.60%)
LOW	Lowe's Companies Inc	$0.56 (2.80%)
MATW	Matthews International Corp	$0.32 (1.10%)
MKC	McCormick & Co., Inc.	$1.12 (2.50%)
MCD	McDonald's Corp	$2.44 (2.80%)
MGRC	McGrath RentCorp	$0.92 (3.90%)
MHP	McGraw-Hill Cos., Inc. (The)	$1.00 (2.50%)
MDU	MDU Resources Group Inc.	$0.65 (3.20%)
MDT	Medtronic, Inc.	$0.97 (2.90%)
MCY	Mercury General Corp.	$2.40 (6.50%)
MDP	Meredith Corp.	$1.02 (4.30%)
VIVO	Meridian Bioscience Inc.	$0.76 (4.30%)
MGEE	MGE Energy Inc	$1.53 (3.70%)
MSEX	Middlesex Water Co.	$0.73 (4.20%)
MSA	Mine Safety Appliances Co	$1.04 (3.80%)
MUR	Murphy Oil Corp	$1.10 (2.30%)
NC	NACCO Industries Inc.	$2.13 (3.00%)
NFG	National Fuel Gas Co. (NJ)	$1.42 (2.50%)
NNN	National Retail Properties Inc	$1.54 (6.10%)
NJR	New Jersey Resources Corp	$1.44 (3.20%)
NEE	NextEra Energy, Inc.	$2.20 (4.00%)
NDSN	Nordson Corp.	$0.50 (1.30%)
NU	Northeast Utilities	$1.10 (3.20%)
NWN	Northwest Natural Gas Co.	$1.74 (3.90%)
NST	NSTAR	$1.70 (3.80%)
NUE	Nucor Corp.	$1.45 (4.40%)
ORI	Old Republic International Corp.	$0.70 (7.70%)
OMI	Owens & Minor, Inc.	$0.80 (2.90%)
PH	Parker Hannifin Corp.	$1.48 (2.20%)
PNR	Pentair, Inc.	$0.80 (2.50%)
PBCT	People's United Financial, Inc.	$0.63 (5.80%)
PEP	PepsiCo Inc.	$2.06 (3.30%)
PNY	Piedmont Natural Gas Co., Inc.	$1.16 (3.90%)
PBI	Pitney Bowes Inc	$1.48 (7.80%)
PAA	Plains All American Pipeline, L.P.	$3.93 (6.70%)
PII	Polaris Industries Inc.	$1.80 (1.80%)
PPG	PPG Industries, Inc.	$2.28 (3.20%)
PPL	PPL Corp	$1.40 (5.00%)
PX	Praxair, Inc.	$2.00 (2.20%)
PG	Procter & Gamble Co.	$2.10 (3.40%)
PRSP	Prosperity Bancshares Inc.	$0.70 (2.00%)
STR	Questar Corp.	$0.61 (3.40%)
RAVN	Raven Industries, Inc.	$0.72 (1.40%)
O	Realty Income Corp.	$1.74 (5.20%)
RLI	RLI Corp.	$1.20 (2.00%)
CHRW	Robinson (C.H.) Worldwide, Inc.	$1.16 (1.70%)
ROP	Roper Industries, Inc	$0.44 (0.60%)
ROST	Ross Stores, Inc.	$0.88 (1.20%)
RPM	RPM International Inc (DE)	$0.84 (4.40%)
SCG	SCANA Corp.	$1.94 (5.00%)
SEIC	SEI Investments Co.	$0.24 (1.50%)
SHEN	Shenandoah Telecommunications Co.	$0.33 (2.50%)
SHW	Sherwin-Williams Co.	$1.46 (2.00%)
SIAL	Sigma-Aldrich Corp.	$0.72 (1.20%)
SJW	SJW Corp.	$0.69 (3.10%)
AOS	Smith (A.O.) Corp	$0.64 (1.80%)
SJM	Smucker (J.M.) Co.	$1.92 (2.80%)
SON	Sonoco Products Co.	$1.16 (4.00%)
SJI	South Jersey Industries, Inc.	$1.46 (3.00%)
SBSI	Southside Bancshares, Inc.	$0.72 (3.60%)
SFG	Stancorp Financial Group Inc	$0.86 (3.00%)
SWK	Stanley Black & Decker	$1.64 (2.80%)
SCL	Stepan Co.	$1.04 (1.40%)
SYK	Stryker Corp.	$0.72 (1.60%)
SPH	Suburban Propane Partners L.P.	$3.41 (7.30%)
SYY	Sysco Corp.	$1.04 (3.90%)
TROW	T Rowe Price Group Inc.	$1.24 (2.50%)
SKT	Tanger Factory Outlet Centers, Inc.	$0.80 (3.00%)
TGT	Target Corp	$1.20 (2.40%)
TCLP	TC PipeLines, LP	$3.08 (7.50%)
TDS	Telephone & Data Systems	$0.47 (2.00%)
TNC	Tennant Co.	$0.68 (1.70%)
TJX	TJX Companies, Inc.	$0.76 (1.40%)
TR	Tootsie Roll Industries Inc	$0.32 (1.30%)
TRH	Transatlantic Holdings, Inc.	$0.88 (1.80%)
UGI	UGI Corp.	$1.04 (3.70%)
UMBF	UMB Financial Corp	$0.78 (2.10%)
UNS	UniSource Energy Corp.	$1.68 (4.60%)
UBSI	United Bankshares, Inc.	$1.20 (5.70%)
UTX	United Technologies Corp.	$1.92 (2.70%)
UVV	Universal Corp.	$1.92 (5.10%)
UFPI	Universal Forest Products Inc.	$0.40 (1.40%)
UHT	Universal Health Realty Income Trust	$2.42 (6.80%)
UBA	Urstadt Biddle Properties Inc	$0.98 (6.10%)
VAL	Valspar Corp.	$0.72 (2.40%)
VGR	Vector Group Ltd	$1.60 (8.80%)
VVC	Vectren Corp	$1.38 (5.20%)
VFC	VF Corp.	$2.52 (2.30%)
WPC	W.P. Carey & Co. LLC	$2.20 (5.60%)
WAG	Walgreen Co.	$0.90 (2.60%)
WMT	Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.	$1.46 (2.80%)
WRE	Washington Real Estate Investment Trust	$1.74 (5.90%)
WST	West Pharmaceutical Services, Inc.	$0.68 (1.70%)
WABC	WestAmerica Bancorporation	$1.44 (3.60%)
WGL	WGL Holdings, Inc.	$1.55 (3.90%)
JW-A	Wiley (John) & Sons Inc.	$0.80 (1.80%)
Updated:
29-Aug-11

Dividend Achievers with 4 Percent Yield and Double Digit EPS Growth (Click to enlarge)

Related stock ticker symbols:

MMM, ABT, ABM, AFL, APD, ALB, MO, AWR, ATR, WTR, ADM, T, ATNI, ATO, ADP, AVP, BMI, BANF, OZRK, BCR, BEC, BDX, BMS, BKH, BRC, BRO, BF-B, BPL, CWT, CRR, CAH, CSL, CASY, CAT, CTL, CVX, CB, CHD, CINF, CTAS, CLC, CLX, KO, CL, CBSH, CBU, CTBI, COP, ED, OFC, CFR, DBD, DCI, DOV, EV, ECL, EMR, EGN, EPD, EOG, ERIE, ESS, EXPD, XOM, FDS, FDO, FAST, FRT, THFF, FELE, BEN, FUL, GD, GPC, GTY, GRC, GGG, GWW, HGIC, HSC, HCC, HCP, HP, HRL, HCBK, ITW, IBM, IRET, JKHY, JNJ, KMB, KMP, LANC, LEG, LLTC, LOW,  MATW, MKC, MCD, MGRC, MHP, MDU, MDT, MCY, MDP, VIVO, MGEE, MSEX, MSA, MUR, NC, NFG, NNN, NJR, NEE, NDSN, NU, NWN, NST, NUE, ORI, OMI, PH, PNR, PBCT, PEP, PNY, PBI, PAA, PII, PPG,  PPL, PX, PG, PRSP, STR, RAVN, O, RLI, CHRW, ROP, ROST, RPM, SCG, SEIC, SHEN, SHW, SIAL, SJW, AOS, SJM, SON, SJI, SBSI, SFG, SWK, SCL, SYK, SPH, SYY, TROW, SKT, TGT, TCLP, TDS, TNC, TJX, TR, TRH, UGI, UMBF, UNS, UBSI, UTX, UVV, UFPI, UHT, UBA, VAL, VGR, VVC, VFC, WPC, WAG, WMT, WRE, WSC, WST, WABC, WGL, JW-A

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