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34 Stocks With A Growing Dividend From Last Week | 24 Shares Have A Buy Rating

Stocks with dividend hikes from last week originally published at long-term-investments.blogspot.com. 34 stocks announced a dividend hike last week. That’s a pretty increase compared to the recent weeks with only around 10 dividend hikers. We come back to old strength.

The biggest names on the list are the Brazil bank Itau Unibanco Holding, the oil and gas pipeline operator Kinder Morgan as well as the healthcare medical equipment stock Covidien.

24 of the dividend growth stocks from last week have a current buy or better rating and 10 are valuated with a P/E below 15.

Here are my favorite dividend growth stocks:
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Covidien (NYSE:COV) has a market capitalization of $29.14 billion. The company employs 43,400 people, generates revenue of $11.852 billion and has a net income of $1.902 billion. The firm’s earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) amounts to $3.289 billion. The EBITDA margin is 27.75 percent (the operating margin is 20.34 percent and the net profit margin 16.05 percent).

Financial Analysis: The total debt represents 22.64 percent of the company’s assets and the total debt in relation to the equity amounts to 47.70 percent. Due to the financial situation, a return on equity of 18.66 percent was realized. Twelve trailing months earnings per share reached a value of $3.85. Last fiscal year, the company paid $0.94 in the form of dividends to shareholders. COV announced to raise dividends by 9.9 percent.

Market Valuation: Here are the price ratios of the company: The P/E ratio is 16.07, the P/S ratio is 2.46 and the P/B ratio is finally 2.77. The dividend yield amounts to 1.68 percent and the beta ratio has a value of 0.90.

Long-Term Stock Price Chart Of Covidien (COV)
Long-Term Dividend Payment History of Covidien (COV)
Long-Term Dividend Yield History of Covidien (COV)

The J.M. Smucker (NYSE:SJM) has a market capitalization of $11.52 billion. The company employs 4,875 people, generates revenue of $5.897 billion and has a net income of $544.20 million. The firm’s earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) amounts to $1.449 billion. The EBITDA margin is 24.57 percent (the operating margin is 15.44 percent and the net profit margin 9.23 percent).

Financial Analysis: The total debt represents 22.34 percent of the company’s assets and the total debt in relation to the equity amounts to 39.19 percent. Due to the financial situation, a return on equity of 10.46 percent was realized. Twelve trailing months earnings per share reached a value of $4.98. Last fiscal year, the company paid $2.08 in the form of dividends to shareholders. SJM announced to raise dividends by 11.5 percent.

Market Valuation: Here are the price ratios of the company: The P/E ratio is 21.71, the P/S ratio is 1.94 and the P/B ratio is finally 2.24. The dividend yield amounts to 2.14 percent and the beta ratio has a value of 0.57.

Long-Term Stock Price Chart Of The J.M. Smucker (SJM)
Long-Term Dividend Payment History of The J.M. Smucker (SJM)
Long-Term Dividend Yield History of The J.M. Smucker (SJM)

Kinder Morgan Energy Partners (NYSE:KMP) has a market capitalization of $32.87 billion. The company employs 10,685 people, generates revenue of $8.642 billion and has a net income of $2.025 billion. The firm’s earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) amounts to $3.533 billion. The EBITDA margin is 40.88 percent (the operating margin is 27.08 percent and the net profit margin 23.43 percent).

Financial Analysis: The total debt represents 54.13 percent of the company’s assets and the total debt in relation to the equity amounts to 153.43 percent. Due to the financial situation, a return on equity of 7.34 percent was realized. Twelve trailing months earnings per share reached a value of $2.14. Last fiscal year, the company paid $4.98 in the form of dividends to shareholders. KMP announced to raise dividends by 1.5 percent.

Market Valuation: Here are the price ratios of the company: The P/E ratio is 40.27, the P/S ratio is 3.80 and the P/B ratio is finally 3.81. The dividend yield amounts to 6.12 percent and the beta ratio has a value of 0.38.

Long-Term Stock Price Chart Of Kinder Morgan Energy Partners (KMP)
Long-Term Dividend Payment History of Kinder Morgan Energy Partners (KMP)
Long-Term Dividend Yield History of Kinder Morgan Energy Partners (KMP)

Take a closer look at the full table of stocks with recent dividend hikes. The average dividend growth amounts to 28.71 percent and the average dividend yield amounts to 2.70 percent. Stocks from the sheet are valuated with a P/E ratio of 26.51. The average P/S ratio is 4.11 and P/B 3.51.

Here is the list of the latest dividend growth stocks:

Latest Dividend Growth Stocks (Click to enlarge)

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Here are the market price ratios:

Ticker
Company
P/E
P/S
P/B
Dividend Yield
KMP
Kinder Morgan Energy Partners LP
40.33
3.43
3.64
6.02%
TLP
Transmontaigne Partners L.P.
18.05
3.93
2.13
5.91%
EPB
El Paso Pipeline Partners, L.P.
19.65
6.15
4.64
5.76%
OHI
Omega Healthcare Investors Inc.
28.17
10.45
3.48
5.40%
NGLS
Targa Resources Partners LP
71.29
0.94
3.11
5.36%
NNN
National Retail Properties, Inc.
35.28
12.12
1.95
4.27%
KMI
Kinder Morgan, Inc.
50.71
3.67
3.00
3.84%
EDR
Education Realty Trust Inc.
N/A
7.59
1.57
3.82%
TLLP
Tesoro Logistics LP
31.42
13.10
6.23
3.65%
WES
Western Gas Partners LP
89.03
7.53
3.86
3.47%
EQM
EQT Midstream Partners, LP
29.55
10.64
3.41
3.21%
WEC
Wisconsin Energy Corp.
18.26
2.29
2.36
3.14%
LHO
LaSalle Hotel Properties
42.73
2.89
1.32
2.97%
TRGP
Targa Resources Corp.
68.14
0.50
19.47
2.91%
HCSG
Healthcare Services Group Inc.
33.96
1.56
7.06
2.70%
POPE
Pope Resources LP
N/A
5.00
4.76
2.54%
MBWM
Mercantile Bank Corp.
13.38
3.02
1.18
2.16%
R
Ryder System, Inc.
15.59
0.51
2.14
1.98%
SJM
The J. M. Smucker Company
21.72
1.95
2.23
1.92%
PAG
Penske Automotive Group, Inc.
14.95
0.22
2.30
1.82%
FCCO
First Community Corporation
13.80
2.61
1.06
1.81%
MSB
Mesabi Trust
8.05
7.82
N/A
1.77%
BPFH
Boston Private Financial Holdings Inc.
20.60
3.96
1.56
1.77%
ASX
Advanced Semiconductor Engineering Inc.
13.79
0.91
1.63
1.75%
WGP
Western Gas Equity Partners, LP
N/A
10.55
13.21
1.75%
WNR
Western Refining Inc.
5.10
0.26
2.60
1.74%
COV
Covidien plc
16.09
2.40
2.66
1.68%
UNM
Unum Group
9.74
0.80
0.99
1.65%
BSRR
Sierra Bancorp
26.23
4.19
1.29
1.50%
RGA
Reinsurance Group of America Inc.
7.27
0.49
0.73
1.41%
CRR
CARBO Ceramics Inc.
19.24
2.84
2.50
1.39%
BSET
Bassett Furniture Industries Inc.
8.14
0.59
1.11
1.21%
ITUB
Itau Unibanco Holding S.A.
9.90
2.15
1.67
0.64%
APH
Amphenol Corporation
21.57
2.79
4.90
0.55%






Average

26.51
4.11
3.51
2.75%

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ASX, APH, ITUB, BSET, BPFH, CRR, COV, EDR, EPB, EQM, FCCO, HCSG, SJM, KMI, KMP, LHO, MBWM, MSB, NNN, OHI, PAG, POPE, RGA, R, BSRR, GJT, TRGP, NGLS, TLLP, TLP, UNM, WGP, WES, WNR, WEC