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The Best Stocks With Dividend Growth From Last Week (June 18 – June 24, 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, 23 stocks and funds raised dividends of which 10 have a dividend growth of more than 10 percent. The average dividend growth amounts to 25.23 percent. Exactly nine stocks/funds have a yield over five percent and seven are currently recommended to buy.


Here are the stocks with fast dividend growth:
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Walgreen Company (NYSE:WAG) has a market capitalization of $25.51 billion. The company employs 176,000 people, generates revenues of $72,184.00 million and has a net income of $2,714.00 million. The firm’s earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) amounts to $5,393.00 million. Because of these figures, the EBITDA margin is 7.47 percent (operating margin 6.05 percent and the net profit margin finally 3.76 percent).


Financial Analysis: The total debt representing 8.77 percent of the company’s assets and the total debt in relation to the equity amounts to 16.23 percent. Due to the financial situation, a return on equity of 18.56 percent was realized. Twelve trailing months earnings per share reached a value of $2.90. Last fiscal year, the company paid $0.75 in form of dividends to shareholders. The company announced to raise dividends by 22.2 percent.


Market Valuation: Here are the price ratios of the company: The P/E ratio is 10.21, P/S ratio 0.35 and P/B ratio 1.75. Dividend Yield: 3.77 percent. The beta ratio is 0.99.


Long-Term Stock History Chart Of Walgreen Company (Click to enlarge)
Long-Term Dividends History of Walgreen Company (WAG) (Click to enlarge)
Long-Term Dividend Yield History of Walgreen Company (NYSE: WAG) (Click to enlarge)


Best Buy Co. (NYSE:BBY) has a market capitalization of $6.52Billion. The company employs 167,000 people, generates revenues of $50,705.00 million and has a net income of $334.00 million. The firm’s earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) amounts to $2,043.00 million. Because of these figures, the EBITDA margin is 4.03 percent (operating margin 2.14 percent and the net profit margin finally 0.66 percent).


Financial Analysis: The total debt representing 13.80 percent of the company’s assets and the total debt in relation to the equity amounts to 58.96 percent. Due to the financial situation, a return on equity of -20.43 percent was realized. Twelve trailing months earnings per share reached a value of $-3.08. Last fiscal year, the company paid $0.62 in form of dividends to shareholders. The company announced to raise dividends by 6.3 percent.


Market Valuation: Here are the price ratios of the company: The P/E ratio is not calculable, P/S ratio 0.13 and P/B ratio 1.78. Dividend Yield: 3.49 percent. The beta ratio is 1.29.


Long-Term Stock History Chart Of Best Buy Co., Inc. (Click to enlarge)
Long-Term Dividends History of Best Buy Co., Inc. (BBY) (Click to enlarge)
Long-Term Dividend Yield History of Best Buy Co., Inc. (NYSE: BBY) (Click to enlarge)


Medtronic (NYSE:MDT) has a market capitalization of $39.58 billion. The company employs 45,000 people, generates revenues of $16,184.00 million and has a net income of $3,415.00 million. The firm’s earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) amounts to $5,156.00 million. Because of these figures, the EBITDA margin is 31.86 percent (operating margin 25.61 percent and the net profit margin finally 21.10 percent).


Financial Analysis: The total debt representing 32.14 percent of the company’s assets and the total debt in relation to the equity amounts to 62.13 percent. Due to the financial situation, a return on equity of 20.65 percent was realized. Twelve trailing months earnings per share reached a value of $3.22. Last fiscal year, the company paid $0.97 in form of dividends to shareholders. The company announced to raise dividends by 7.2 percent.


Market Valuation: Here are the price ratios of the company: The P/E ratio is 11.86, P/S ratio 2.42 and P/B ratio 2.29. Dividend Yield: 2.57 percent. The beta ratio is 0.84.


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


PetSmart (NASDAQ:PETM) has a market capitalization of $7.19 billion. The company employs 23,000 people, generates revenues of $6,113.30 million and has a net income of $279.32 million. The firm’s earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) amounts to $740.09 million. Because of these figures, the EBITDA margin is 12.11 percent (operating margin 8.23 percent and the net profit margin finally 4.57 percent).


Financial Analysis: The total debt representing 21.99 percent of the company’s assets and the total debt in relation to the equity amounts to 48.49 percent. Due to the financial situation, a return on equity of 24.97 percent was realized. Twelve trailing months earnings per share reached a value of $2.79. Last fiscal year, the company paid $0.54 in form of dividends to shareholders. The company announced to raise dividends by 17.9 percent.


Market Valuation: Here are the price ratios of the company: The P/E ratio is 23.72, P/S ratio 1.18 and P/B ratio 6.38. Dividend Yield: 0.99 percent. The beta ratio is 0.70.
Long-Term Stock History Chart Of PetSmart, Inc. (Click to enlarge)
Long-Term Dividends History of PetSmart, Inc. (PETM) (Click to enlarge)
Long-Term Dividend Yield History of PetSmart, Inc. (NASDAQ: PETM) (Click to enlarge)


Take a closer look at the full table of the stocks with recent dividend hikes. The average dividend growth amounts to 25.23 percent and the average dividend yield amounts to 5.81 percent. Stocks from the sheet are valuated with a P/E ratio of 18.79. The average P/S ratio is 5.36 and P/B 6.35.

Here is the full list of dividend growth stocks:

Best Stocks With Dividend Growth From Last Week (Click to enlarge)

Here are the market ratios:

Ticker
Company
P/E
P/S
P/B
Dividend Yield
NYMT
New York Mortgage Trust Inc.
9.91
1.63
1.05
14.62%
DX
Dynex Capital Inc.
9.47
5.92
1.04
11.16%
KCAP
Kohlberg Capital Corporation
N/A
8.16
0.88
10.59%
SJT
San Juan Basin Royalty Trust
9.82
9.62
52.37
9.72%
MTR
Mesa Royalty Trust
10.69
8.73
9.55
9.33%
CRT
Cross Timbers Royalty Trust
11.25
11.00
15.41
8.90%
TLI
LMP Corporate Loan Fund Inc.
N/A
N/A
N/A
7.04%
FCT
First Trust Senior Floating Rat
N/A
N/A
N/A
6.65%
TAI
Transamerica Income Shares Inc.
18.60
15.16
1.05
5.89%
O
Realty Income Corp.
42.66
12.20
2.17
4.36%
ODC
Oil-Dri Corp. of America
16.46
0.63
1.55
3.42%
BBY
Best Buy Co. Inc.
N/A
0.13
1.79
3.34%
MIL
MFC Industrial Ltd
17.89
0.80
0.76
3.24%
WAG
Walgreen Co.
10.09
0.35
1.72
3.04%
DSWL
Deswell Industries Inc.
N/A
0.65
0.41
2.91%
MDT
Medtronic, Inc.
11.85
2.45
2.31
2.54%
HST
Host Hotels & Resorts Inc.
N/A
2.18
1.62
1.56%
AMT
American Tower Corporation
51.80
10.39
7.70
1.24%
PETM
PetSmart, Inc.
23.76
1.15
6.54
0.84%






Average

18.79
5.36
6.35
5.81%




Related Stock Ticker:
AMT, FCT, BBY, CRT, DSWL, DX, GJI, HST, JW.A, JW.B, KCAP, MDT, TLI, MTR, MIL, NYMT, ODC, PETM, PTGI, O, SJT, TAI, WAG