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The Best Stocks With Dividend Growth From Last Week (April 30 – May 06, 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, 62 stocks and funds raised dividends of which 39 have a dividend growth of more than 10 percent. The average dividend growth amounts to 36.44 percent. Exactly 23 stocks have a yield over five percent and 42 are currently recommended to buy.

Here are the stocks with fast dividend growth:
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PepsiCo (NYSE:PEP) has a market capitalization of $103.07 billion. The company employs 297,000 people, generates revenues of $66,504.00 million and has a net income of $6,462.00 million. The firm’s earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) amounts to $12,242.00 million. Because of these figures, the EBITDA margin is 18.41 percent (operating margin 14.48 percent and the net profit margin finally 9.72 percent). 


Financial Analysis: The total debt representing 36.73 percent of the company’s assets and the total debt in relation to the equity amounts to 130.04 percent. Due to the financial situation, a return on equity of 30.66 percent was realized. Twelve trailing months earnings per share reached a value of $4.03. Last fiscal year, the company paid $2.02 in form of dividends to shareholders. 


Market Valuation: Here are the price ratios of the company: The P/E ratio is 16.35, P/S ratio 1.57 and P/B ratio 5.05. Dividend Yield: 3.21 percent. The beta ratio is 0.49.


Long-Term Stock History Chart Of PepsiCo, Inc. (Click to enlarge)
Long-Term Dividends History of PepsiCo, Inc. (PEP) (Click to enlarge)
Long-Term Dividend Yield History of PepsiCo, Inc. (NYSE: PEP) (Click to enlarge)


Barrick Gold (NYSE:ABX) has a market capitalization of $37.91 billion. The company employs 20,034 people, generates revenues of $14,312.00 million and has a net income of $4,537.00 million. The firm’s earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) amounts to $8,089.00 million. Because of these figures, the EBITDA margin is 56.52 percent (operating margin 46.63 percent and the net profit margin finally 31.70 percent). 


Financial Analysis: The total debt representing 27.35 percent of the company’s assets and the total debt in relation to the equity amounts to 57.22 percent. Due to the financial situation, a return on equity of 20.94 percent was realized. Twelve trailing months earnings per share reached a value of $4.51. Last fiscal year, the company paid $0.51 in form of dividends to shareholders. 


Market Valuation: Here are the price ratios of the company: The P/E ratio is 8.41, P/S ratio 2.65 and P/B ratio 1.63. Dividend Yield: 2.11 percent. The beta ratio is 0.42.


Long-Term Stock History Chart Of Barrick Gold Corp. (USA) (Click to enlarge)
Long-Term Dividends History of Barrick Gold Corp. (USA) (ABX) (Click to enlarge)
Long-Term Dividend Yield History of Barrick Gold Corp. (USA) (NYSE: ABX) (Click to enlarge)


Cardinal Health (NYSE:CAH) has a market capitalization of $14.76 billion. The company employs 31,900 people, generates revenues of $102,644.20 million and has a net income of $966.20 million. The firm’s earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) amounts to $1,825.40 million. Because of these figures, the EBITDA margin is 1.78 percent (operating margin 1.48 percent and the net profit margin finally 0.94 percent). 


Financial Analysis: The total debt representing 10.95 percent of the company’s assets and the total debt in relation to the equity amounts to 42.78 percent. Due to the financial situation, a return on equity of 17.37 percent was realized. Twelve trailing months earnings per share reached a value of $2.97. Last fiscal year, the company paid $0.78 in form of dividends to shareholders. 


Market Valuation: Here are the price ratios of the company: The P/E ratio is 14.36, P/S ratio 0.15 and P/B ratio 2.60. Dividend Yield: 2.19 percent. The beta ratio is 0.80.


Long-Term Stock History Chart Of Cardinal Health, Inc. (Click to enlarge)
Long-Term Dividends History of Cardinal Health, Inc. (CAH) (Click to enlarge)
Long-Term Dividend Yield History of Cardinal Health, Inc. (NYSE: CAH) (Click to enlarge)


Tractor Supply Company (NASDAQ:TSCO) has a market capitalization of $6.95 billion. The company employs 8,700 people, generates revenues of $4,232.74 million and has a net income of $222.74 million. The firm’s earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) amounts to $433.05 million. Because of these figures, the EBITDA margin is 10.23 percent (operating margin 8.33 percent and the net profit margin finally 5.26 percent).


Financial Analysis: The total debt representing 0.08 percent of the company’s assets and the total debt in relation to the equity amounts to 0.13 percent. Due to the financial situation, a return on equity of 22.94 percent was realized. Twelve trailing months earnings per share reached a value of $3.32. Last fiscal year, the company paid $0.43 in form of dividends to shareholders. 


Market Valuation: Here are the price ratios of the company: The P/E ratio is 29.04, P/S ratio 1.68 and P/B ratio 7.00. Dividend Yield: 0.81 percent. The beta ratio is 0.82.


Long-Term Stock History Chart Of Tractor Supply Company (Click to enlarge)
Long-Term Dividends History of Tractor Supply Company (TSCO) (Click to enlarge)
Long-Term Dividend Yield History of Tractor Supply Company (NASDAQ: TSCO) (Click to enlarge)
Take a closer look at the full table of the stocks with recent dividend hikes. The average dividend growth amounts to 36.44 percent and the average dividend yield amounts to 3.04 percent. Stocks from the sheet are valuated with a P/E ratio of 22.62. The average P/S ratio is 3.23 and P/B 2.96.

Here is the full table of stocks with recent dividend growth:




Here are the market price ratios:

Ticker
Company
P/E
P/S
P/B
Dividend Yield
FDUS
Fidus Investment Corporation
8.29
5.45
0.91
10.06%
TCRD
THL Credit, Inc.
10.37
6.73
0.94
9.32%
PVR
Penn Virginia Resource Partners LP
17.42
1.66
3.31
8.36%
DCIX
Diana Containerships Inc.
48.13
6.17
0.81
8.31%
NRGM
Inergy Midstream LLC
34.46
14.03
2.52
6.82%
ARLP
Alliance Resource Partners LP
7.58
1.23
3.63
6.43%
CHKM
Chesapeake Midstream Partners, L.P.
19.31
6.92
1.61
5.90%
DPM
DCP Midstream Partners LP
26.77
1.15
3.21
5.78%
AHGP
Alliance Holdings GP, L.P.
12.45
1.45
6.73
5.72%
MWE
MarkWest Energy Partners LP
71.06
2.77
4.68
5.42%
OZM
Och-Ziff Capital Management Group LLC
N/A
4.94
5.48
4.80%
ROIC
Retail Opportunity Investments Corp.
54.35
12.00
1.37
3.84%
CPK
Chesapeake Utilities Corporation
14.39
0.95
1.64
3.34%
NU
Northeast Utilities
16.24
1.42
1.55
3.26%
JCOM
j2 Global, Inc.
10.85
3.69
2.21
3.20%
PEP
Pepsico, Inc.
16.35
1.56
4.56
3.13%
SPG
Simon Property Group Inc.
30.53
10.61
7.69
2.46%
GORO
Gold Resource Corp
23.13
12.45
15.09
2.42%
APOG
Apogee Enterprises, Inc.
88.71
0.64
1.32
2.16%
CAH
Cardinal Health, Inc.
15.64
0.14
2.49
2.01%
MAN
ManpowerGroup
12.83
0.15
1.25
2.00%
HFWA
Heritage Financial Corp.
30.21
2.65
0.97
1.89%
JMP
JMP Group Inc.
N/A
1.14
1.21
1.74%
UFS
Domtar Corporation
9.37
0.64
1.05
1.66%
MNRK
Monarch Financial Holdings, Inc.
10.15
1.42
0.76
1.61%
ABX
Barrick Gold Corporation
8.46
2.65
1.62
1.58%
ARG
Airgas Inc.
25.40
1.52
4.24
1.40%
AFSI
AmTrust Financial Services, Inc.
9.97
1.22
1.86
1.30%
TRN
Trinity Industries Inc.
13.00
0.67
1.11
1.29%
EXPD
Expeditors International of Washington Inc.
22.07
1.36
4.18
1.27%
HUM
Humana Inc.
9.49
0.36
1.63
1.25%
CNBC
Center Bancorp Inc.
12.79
3.22
1.34
1.17%
RBC
Regal Beloit Corporation
16.33
0.92
1.68
1.16%
RGR
Sturm, Ruger & Co. Inc.
25.48
3.10
7.41
1.11%
CGNX
Cognex Corporation
22.75
4.92
2.83
1.08%
EBIX
Ebix Inc.
10.69
4.01
2.12
0.86%
PLT
Plantronics, Inc.
13.36
1.94
2.67
0.62%
TSCO
Tractor Supply Company
29.06
1.57
6.59
0.50%
AME
Ametek Inc.
20.14
2.60
3.68
0.48%
MRTN
Marten Transport Ltd.
17.72
0.73
1.40
0.39%
JLL
Jones Lang Lasalle Inc.
21.69
0.97
2.06
0.37%
FRME
First Merchants Corp.
37.79
1.99
0.84
0.32%






Average

22.62
3.23
2.96
3.04%


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