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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.

Here are my favorite dividend growth stocks:
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The Female Health Company (NASDAQ:FHCO) has a market capitalization of $207.57 million. The company employs 144 people, generates revenue of $35.03 million and has a net income of $15.30 million. The firm’s earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) amounts to $11.40 million. The EBITDA margin is 32.54 percent (the operating margin is 31.23 percent and the net profit margin 43.67 percent).

Financial Analysis: The total debt represents 0.00 percent of the company’s assets and the total debt in relation to the equity amounts to 0.00 percent. Due to the financial situation, a return on equity of 74.68 percent was realized. Twelve trailing months earnings per share reached a value of $0.56. Last fiscal year, the company paid $0.22 in the form of dividends to shareholders.

Market Valuation: Here are the price ratios of the company: The P/E ratio is 12.89, the P/S ratio is 5.92 and the P/B ratio is finally 8.55. The dividend yield amounts to 3.87 percent and the beta ratio has a value of 0.74.



Cisco Systems (NASDAQ:CSCO) has a market capitalization of $111.41 billion. The company employs 66,639 people, generates revenue of $46.061 billion and has a net income of $8.041 billion. The firm’s earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) amounts to $12.667 billion. The EBITDA margin is 27.50 percent (the operating margin is 21.85 percent and the net profit margin 17.46 percent).

Financial Analysis: The total debt represents 17.79 percent of the company’s assets and the total debt in relation to the equity amounts to 31.84 percent. Due to the financial situation, a return on equity of 16.32 percent was realized. Twelve trailing months earnings per share reached a value of $1.74. Last fiscal year, the company paid $0.28 in the form of dividends to shareholders.

Market Valuation: Here are the price ratios of the company: The P/E ratio is 12.03, the P/S ratio is 2.42 and the P/B ratio is finally 2.16. The dividend yield amounts to 3.25 percent and the beta ratio has a value of 1.23.



Raven Industries (NASDAQ:RAVN) has a market capitalization of $1.22 billion. The company employs 1,405 people, generates revenue of $381.51 million and has a net income of $50.64 million. The firm’s earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) amounts to $84.91 million. The EBITDA margin is 22.26 percent (the operating margin is 19.83 percent and the net profit margin 13.27 percent).

Financial Analysis: The total debt represents 0.00 percent of the company’s assets and the total debt in relation to the equity amounts to 0.00 percent. Due to the financial situation, a return on equity of 31.44 percent was realized. Twelve trailing months earnings per share reached a value of $1.44. Last fiscal year, the company paid $0.36 in the form of dividends to shareholders.

Market Valuation: Here are the price ratios of the company: The P/E ratio is 23.41, the P/S ratio is 3.20 and the P/B ratio is finally 6.75. The dividend yield amounts to 1.43 percent and the beta ratio has a value of 1.13.



Take a closer look at the full table of stocks with recent dividend hikes. The average dividend growth amounts to 71.91 percent and the average dividend yield amounts to 3.68 percent. Stocks from the sheet are valuated with a P/E ratio of 15.44. The average P/S ratio is 6.06 and P/B 2.30.

Stocks And Funds With Recent Dividend Growth (Click to enlarge)

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Ticker
Company
P/E
P/S
P/B
Dividend Yield
OFS
Orchard First Source Capital, Inc.
N/A
N/A
N/A
9.71%
MFA
MFA Financial, Inc.
11.23
6.70
1.01
8.58%
KED
Kayne Anderson Energy Development Company
11.20
25.24
1.10
6.56%
XAA
American Municipal Income Portfolio Inc.
6.29
13.28
0.99
5.94%
ACMP
Access Midstream Partners, L.P.
35.41
11.04
1.61
4.46%
CHCO
City Holding Co.
15.25
5.55
1.77
3.52%
FHCO
The Female Health Company
12.93
5.72
8.52
3.31%
CAC
Camden National Corp.
10.85
2.78
1.08
3.02%
CSCO
Cisco Systems, Inc.
12.01
2.36
2.01
2.68%
SCS
Steelcase Inc.
23.38
0.65
2.60
2.44%
WAFD
Washington Federal Inc.
13.36
3.25
0.96
1.83%
RAVN
Raven Industries Inc.
23.34
2.96
5.52
1.25%
SCVL
Shoe Carnival Inc.
14.19
0.50
1.34
0.98%
SIG
Signet Jewelers Limited
16.63
1.43
2.52
0.72%
BANR
Banner Corporation
10.10
3.31
1.22
0.13%






Average

15.44
6.06
2.30
3.68%

Related Stock Ticker:
ACMP, XAA, BANR, CAC, CSCO, CHCO, FHCO, KED, KMF, MFA, NXE, NFZ, NKR, NVJ, NBJ, OFS, RAVN, SCVL, SIG, SCS, WAFD