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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.

Here are my favorite dividend growth stocks:
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JPMorgan Chase (NYSE:JPM) has a market capitalization of $202.87 billion. The company employs 255,898 people, generates revenue of $56.063 billion and has a net income of $21.284 billion. The firm’s earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) amounts to $46.462 billion. The EBITDA margin is 82.87 percent (the operating margin is 29.80 percent and the net profit margin 21.94 percent).

Financial Analysis: The total debt represents 29.88 percent of the company’s assets and the total debt in relation to the equity amounts to 345.46 percent. Due to the financial situation, a return on equity of 10.72 percent was realized. Twelve trailing months earnings per share reached a value of $5.60. Last fiscal year, the company paid $1.20 in the form of dividends to shareholders. JPM hiked its dividends last week by 26.7 percent.


Market Valuation: Here are the price ratios of the company: The P/E ratio is 9.58, the P/S ratio is 2.09 and the P/B ratio is finally 1.05. The dividend yield amounts to 2.83 percent and the beta ratio has a value of 1.36.



Long-Term Stock Price Chart Of JPMorgan Chase (JPM)
Long-Term Dividend Payment History of JPMorgan Chase (JPM)
Long-Term Dividend Yield History of JPMorgan Chase (JPM)

Lancaster Colony (NASDAQ:LANC) has a market capitalization of $2.27 billion. The company employs 3,100 people, generates revenue of $1.131 billion and has a net income of $95.81 million. The firm’s earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) amounts to $162.14 million. The EBITDA margin is 14.33 percent (the operating margin is 12.67 percent and the net profit margin 8.47 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 17.68 percent was realized. Twelve trailing months earnings per share reached a value of $4.01. Last fiscal year, the company paid $1.41 in the form of dividends to shareholders. 
LANC hiked its dividends last week by 5.3 percent.

Market Valuation: Here are the price ratios of the company: The P/E ratio is 20.74, the P/S ratio is 2.01 and the P/B ratio is finally 4.02. The dividend yield amounts to 1.92 percent and the beta ratio has a value of 0.37.



Long-Term Stock Price Chart Of Lancaster Colony (LANC)
Long-Term Dividend Payment History of Lancaster Colony (LANC)
Long-Term Dividend Yield History of Lancaster Colony (LANC)

Viacom (NASDAQ:VIA) has a market capitalization of $33.49 billion. The company employs 9,880 people, generates revenue of $13.887 billion and has a net income of $2.385 billion. The firm’s earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) amounts to $4.135 billion. The EBITDA margin is 29.78 percent (the operating margin is 27.94 percent and the net profit margin 17.17 percent).


Financial Analysis: The total debt represents 36.62 percent of the company’s assets and the total debt in relation to the equity amounts to 109.41 percent. Due to the financial situation, a return on equity of 29.14 percent was realized. Twelve trailing months earnings per share reached a value of $4.12. Last fiscal year, the company paid $1.05 in the form of dividends to shareholders. 
VIA hiked its dividends last week by 9.1 percent.

Market Valuation: Here are the price ratios of the company: The P/E ratio is 17.00, the P/S ratio is 2.41 and the P/B ratio is finally 4.69. The dividend yield amounts to 1.74 percent and the beta ratio has a value of 1.29.



Long-Term Stock Price Chart Of Viacom (VIA)
Long-Term Dividend Payment History of Viacom (VIA)
Long-Term Dividend Yield History of Viacom (VIA)


Take a closer look at the full table of stocks with recent dividend hikes. The average dividend growth amounts to 34.59 percent and the average dividend yield amounts to 2.45 percent. Stocks from the sheet are valuated with a P/E ratio of 21.05. The average P/S ratio is 4.31 and P/B 5.63.



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These are the market price ratios:

Ticker
Company
P/E
P/S
P/B
Dividend Yield
HGT
Hugoton Royalty Trust
18.06
16.56
3.57
8.05%
MARPS
Marine Petroleum Trust
11.05
10.12
28.29
8.03%
CRT
Cross Timbers Royalty Trust
12.09
11.77
14.55
5.41%
PBT
Permian Basin Royalty Trust
12.16
11.93
N/A
5.17%
TIS
Orchids Paper Products Company
19.07
1.83
2.32
4.19%
HT
Hersha Hospitality Trust
N/A
3.26
1.47
4.03%
XEL
Xcel Energy Inc.
15.09
1.42
1.60
3.65%
POR
Portland General Electric Company
16.70
1.31
1.34
3.48%
UMPQ
Umpqua Holdings Corporation
15.45
3.42
0.88
2.94%
JPM
JPMorgan Chase & Co.
9.58
3.70
0.98
2.83%
AWR
American States Water Company
18.23
2.23
2.27
2.61%
AIRT
Air T Inc.
19.15
0.26
0.90
2.46%
CNBC
Center Bancorp Inc.
11.37
3.65
1.24
2.40%
EXR
Extra Space Storage Inc.
36.50
11.01
3.22
2.30%
HPQ
Hewlett-Packard Company
N/A
0.40
2.07
2.19%
SJT
San Juan Basin Royalty Trust
22.21
21.26
61.50
2.00%
PPS
Post Properties Inc.
34.53
7.99
2.42
2.00%
BAH
Booz Allen Hamilton Inc.
12.95
0.44
14.80
1.93%
MSL
Midsouth Bancorp Inc.
18.86
2.58
0.89
1.86%
LANC
Lancaster Colony Corporation
20.74
1.94
4.71
1.83%
SPTN
Spartan Stores Inc.
12.99
0.15
1.18
1.80%
AIN
Albany International Corp.
N/A
1.32
2.05
1.75%
SSI
Stage Stores Inc.
20.05
0.46
1.60
1.72%
VIAB
Viacom, Inc.
16.74
2.56
4.87
1.60%
BG
Bunge Limited
23.80
0.17
0.94
1.53%
AMT
American Tower Corporation
55.59
10.84
8.81
1.27%
BRS
Bristow Group, Inc.
22.93
1.60
1.47
1.22%
DCI
Donaldson Company, Inc.
23.17
2.21
5.49
1.07%
SEIC
SEI Investments Co.
23.37
5.10
4.76
1.05%
WRB
W.R. Berkley Corporation
11.83
0.94
1.28
0.88%
FFCO
FedFirst Financial Corp.
23.42
3.33
0.84
0.86%
MNRO
Monro Muffler Brake Inc.
34.53
2.10
4.18
0.84%
NOV
National Oilwell Varco, Inc.
12.54
1.42
1.46
0.74%
LWAY
Lifeway Foods Inc.
50.59
3.46
7.14
0.41%






BGC
General Cable Corp.
N/A
0.28
1.31
2.09%






Average

21.05
4.31
5.63
2.45%

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