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51 Shares With A Rising Dividend, Announced Last Week

Stocks with dividend hikes from last week originally published at “long-term-investments.blogspot.com”. I’ve created a screen for my dividend yield hunters about the stocks with a dividend hike from last week. The list shows a full compilation of all dividend growers of the recent week. 51 companies are on the list and eleven of them have a high yield; 35 are currently recommended to buy.

The average growth slows a bit and hits some of the lowest levels this year. The average dividend growth last week was at 16.65 percent.

Here are my favorite dividend growth stocks:
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Reynolds American (NYSE:RAI) has a market capitalization of $26.14 billion. The company employs 5,000 people, generates revenue of $8.304 billion and has a net income of $1.272 billion. The firm’s earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) amounts to $2.686 billion. The EBITDA margin is 32.35 percent (the operating margin is 26.66 percent and the net profit margin 15.32 percent).

Financial Analysis: The total debt represents 30.77 percent of the company’s assets and the total debt in relation to the equity amounts to 96.92 percent. Due to the financial situation, a return on equity of 22.11 percent was realized. Twelve trailing months earnings per share reached a value of $2.69. Last fiscal year, the company paid $2.33 in the form of dividends to shareholders. RAI announced a dividend hike of 6.8 percent.

Market Valuation: Here are the price ratios of the company: The P/E ratio is 17.78, the P/S ratio is 3.15 and the P/B ratio is finally 5.03. The dividend yield amounts to 4.94 percent and the beta ratio has a value of 0.61.


Long-Term Stock Price Chart Of Reynolds American (RAI)
Long-Term Dividend Payment History of Reynolds American (RAI)
Long-Term Dividend Yield History of Reynolds American (RAI)

Baxter International (NYSE:BAX) has a market capitalization of $38.63 billion. The company employs 51,000 people, generates revenue of $14.190 billion and has a net income of $2.326 billion. The firm’s earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) amounts to $4.052 billion. The EBITDA margin is 28.56 percent (the operating margin is 20.36 percent and the net profit margin 16.39 percent).

Financial Analysis: The total debt represents 29.08 percent of the company’s assets and the total debt in relation to the equity amounts to 85.47 percent. Due to the financial situation, a return on equity of 34.40 percent was realized. Twelve trailing months earnings per share reached a value of $4.14. Last fiscal year, the company paid $1.57 in the form of dividends to shareholders. BAX announced a dividend hike of 8.9 percent.

Market Valuation: Here are the price ratios of the company: The P/E ratio is 17.10, the P/S ratio is 2.70 and the P/B ratio is finally 5.57. The dividend yield amounts to 2.77 percent and the beta ratio has a value of 0.51.


Long-Term Stock Price Chart Of Baxter International (BAX)
Long-Term Dividend Payment History of Baxter International (BAX)
Long-Term Dividend Yield History of Baxter International (BAX)

American Water Works (NYSE:AWK) has a market capitalization of $7.47 billion. The company employs 6,700 people, generates revenue of $2.876 billion and has a net income of $374.25 million. The firm’s earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) amounts to $1.238 billion. The EBITDA margin is 43.06 percent (the operating margin is 32.15 percent and the net profit margin 13.01 percent).

Financial Analysis: The total debt represents 38.01 percent of the company’s assets and the total debt in relation to the equity amounts to 125.88 percent. Due to the financial situation, a return on equity of 8.62 percent was realized. Twelve trailing months earnings per share reached a value of $2.15. Last fiscal year, the company paid $0.98 in the form of dividends to shareholders. AWK announced a dividend hike of 12.0 percent.

Market Valuation: Here are the price ratios of the company: The P/E ratio is 19.54, the P/S ratio is 2.60 and the P/B ratio is finally 1.67. The dividend yield amounts to 2.66 percent and the beta ratio has a value of 0.32.


Long-Term Stock Price Chart Of American Water Works (AWK)
Long-Term Dividend Payment History of American Water Works (AWK)
Long-Term Dividend Yield History of American Water Works (AWK)

Take a closer look at the full table of stocks with recent dividend hikes. The average dividend growth amounts to 16.65 percent and the average dividend yield amounts to 3.21 percent. Stocks from the sheet are valuated with a P/E ratio of 30.61.The average P/S ratio is 3.23 and P/B 3.30.

Here is the list:




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Here are the market price ratios:

Ticker
Company
P/E
P/S
P/B
Dividend Yield
CHKR
Chesapeake Granite Wash Trust
6.84
6.25
1.89
15.74%
PSEC
Prospect Capital Corporation
7.78
5.00
1.00
12.21%
TCRD
THL Credit, Inc.
12.13
7.57
1.16
8.64%
OAK
Oaktree Capital Group, LLC
79.52
71.63
5.56
7.44%
TNH
Terra Nitrogen Company, L.P.
13.04
5.28
15.30
6.53%
STWD
Starwood Property Trust, Inc.
15.30
14.63
1.38
6.36%
BPL
Buckeye Partners LP
28.93
1.63
2.78
6.18%
APTS
Preferred Apartment Communities, Inc.
N/A
4.09
1.02
6.01%
ARCP
American Realty Capital Properties, Inc.
N/A
N/A
2.36
5.20%
TYN
Tortoise North American Energy Corporation
13.43
N/A
1.21
5.14%
CTCM
CTC Media, Inc
19.90
2.31
2.45
5.11%
RAI
Reynolds American Inc.
17.76
3.17
5.11
4.94%
MT
Arcelor Mittal
N/A
0.26
0.39
4.87%
TYY
Tortoise Energy Capital Corp.
10.40
N/A
N/A
4.87%
TYG
Tortoise Energy Infrastructure Corp.
9.96
N/A
1.11
4.84%
TGH
Textainer Group Holdings Limited
9.66
4.42
2.12
4.70%
SBSI
Southside Bancshares Inc.
11.80
3.49
1.50
3.52%
TU
TELUS Corporation
9.52
1.12
1.51
3.34%
PCL
Plum Creek Timber Co. Inc.
41.77
6.34
6.92
3.22%
TACT
TransAct Technologies Incorporated
32.71
1.09
2.05
3.06%
EE
El Paso Electric Co.
15.86
1.88
1.83
2.66%
BAX
Baxter International Inc.
17.09
2.69
5.57
2.54%
NHC
National Healthcare Corp.
13.65
0.87
1.02
2.53%
AVX
AVX Corp.
N/A
1.42
1.02
2.51%
HWCC
Houston Wire & Cable Company
15.11
0.66
2.38
2.48%
TRNO
Terreno Realty Corp.
N/A
12.14
1.04
2.44%
RRST
RRSat Global Communications Network Ltd.
19.44
1.29
1.86
2.39%
AWK
American Water Works Company, Inc.
19.92
2.59
1.67
2.38%
JCOM
j2 Global, Inc.
15.18
4.91
3.01
2.35%
WTI
W&T Offshore Inc.
14.55
1.20
1.94
2.29%
MSA
Mine Safety Appliances Co.
21.80
1.59
3.92
2.24%
WTR
Aqua America Inc.
22.59
5.77
3.15
2.20%
IILG
Interval Leisure Group, Inc.
30.69
2.63
4.56
1.84%
PAG
Penske Automotive Group, Inc.
14.52
0.22
2.22
1.75%
HWBK
Hawthorn Bancshares, Inc.
N/A
1.14
0.77
1.69%
CCOI
Cogent Communications Group Inc.
N/A
4.33
8.60
1.65%
RELV
Reliv International, Inc.
11.77
0.24
1.05
1.54%
KWR
Quaker Chemical Corporation
17.21
1.19
2.87
1.53%
SCI
Service Corp. International
22.60
1.46
2.59
1.42%
BBOX
Black Box Corp.
12.83
0.40
0.83
1.30%
IBN
ICICI Bank Ltd.
23.74
4.85
2.09
1.21%
EXXI
Energy XXI (Bermuda) Limited
9.87
1.53
1.36
1.15%
DK
Delek US Holdings Inc.
7.70
0.24
2.35
1.13%
JKHY
Jack Henry & Associates Inc.
23.83
3.72
4.15
1.10%
TRN
Trinity Industries Inc.
12.35
0.86
1.56
1.05%
VSEC
VSE Corp.
6.05
0.30
1.00
1.03%
ALJ
Alon USA Energy, Inc.
16.70
0.14
1.86
0.90%
FELE
Franklin Electric Co. Inc.
21.14
1.70
2.93
0.88%
CNO
CNO Financial Group, Inc.
17.07
0.61
0.53
0.67%
HDB
HDFC Bank Ltd.
28.35
1.06
5.15
0.49%
CCIX
Coleman Cable, Inc.
13.06
0.34
5.81
0.46%






Average

18.30
4.30
2.75
3.41%

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