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These 29 Stocks Hiked Their Dividend Payments Last Week

Stocks with dividend hikes from last week originally published at long-term-investments.blogspot.com. I strongly believe that dividend growth investing will deliver good returns. As of now, I quadrupled my net worth by trading dividend growth stocks and boosted my passive income to a five-figure annual salary.

It’s great to see how everybody can build a portfolio of stocks that is growing and becomes better over the time. It feels like you are a real investor. Not playing with money or spending it. You invest it. You watch your assets and observe how your portfolio companies develop over the time. Some stocks will disappoint you and fail for sure. But if you have a good diversification of at least 50 shares or more, your average return will be great.

However, back to the current dividend growth stocks from last week. On my blog long-term-investments.blogspot.com, I publish on a regular basis lists of the latest dividend growers.

Last week, 29 companies announced a higher dividend. I’ve published all stocks with dividend growth from the recent week in the attached dividend list for you. You can also find a compilation of price and yield ratios there. In average, stocks from the list of the latest dividend growth stocks have increased their dividend payments by 17.03 percent.

Four of the results have a high yield of more than five percent and three yielding over 10%. Analysts and brokerage firms recommend 14 of the latest dividend growth stocks.

Here are my favorite dividend growth stocks:
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Williams Companies (NYSE:WMB) has a market capitalization of $24.81 billion. The company employs 4,639 people, generates revenue of $7,486.00 million and has a net income of $929.00 million. Williams Companies’s earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) amounts to $2,368.00 million. The EBITDA margin is 31.63 percent (the operating margin is 21.53 percent and the net profit margin 12.41 percent).

Financial Analysis: The total debt represents 44.13 percent of Williams Companies’s assets and the total debt in relation to the equity amounts to 225.93 percent. Due to the financial situation, a return on equity of 23.91 percent was realized by Williams Companies. Twelve trailing months earnings per share reached a value of $0.93. Last fiscal year, Williams Companies paid $1.20 in the form of dividends to shareholders. WMB announced to raise dividends by 3.9 percent.

Market Valuation: Here are the price ratios of the company: The P/E ratio is 39.06, the P/S ratio is 3.31 and the P/B ratio is finally 5.20. The dividend yield amounts to 4.03 percent and the beta ratio has a value of 1.39.

Long-Term Stock Price Chart Of Williams Companies (WMB)
Long-Term Dividend Payment History of Williams Companies (WMB)
Long-Term Dividend Yield History of Williams Companies (WMB)

Gap (NYSE:GPS) has a market capitalization of $19.56 billion. The company employs 136,000 people, generates revenue of $15,651.00 million and has a net income of $1,135.00 million. Gap’s earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) amounts to $2,509.00 million. The EBITDA margin is 16.03 percent (the operating margin is 12.41 percent and the net profit margin 7.25 percent).

Financial Analysis: The total debt represents 16.68 percent of Gap’s assets and the total debt in relation to the equity amounts to 43.05 percent. Due to the financial situation, a return on equity of 40.18 percent was realized by Gap. Twelve trailing months earnings per share reached a value of $2.71. Last fiscal year, Gap paid $0.49 in the form of dividends to shareholders. GPS announced to raise dividends by 33.3 percent.

Market Valuation: Here are the price ratios of the company: The P/E ratio is 15.48, the P/S ratio is 1.25 and the P/B ratio is finally 6.71. The dividend yield amounts to 1.91 percent and the beta ratio has a value of 1.34.

Long-Term Stock Price Chart Of Gap (GPS)
Long-Term Dividend Payment History of Gap (GPS)
Long-Term Dividend Yield History of Gap (GPS)

Flowers Foods (NYSE:FLO) has a market capitalization of $4.59 billion. The company employs 9,800 people, generates revenue of $3,046.49 million and has a net income of $136.12 million. Flowers Foods’s earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) amounts to $328.30 million. The EBITDA margin is 10.78 percent (the operating margin is 7.17 percent and the net profit margin 4.47 percent).

Financial Analysis: The total debt represents 31.26 percent of Flowers Foods’s assets and the total debt in relation to the equity amounts to 72.66 percent. Due to the financial situation, a return on equity of 16.83 percent was realized by Flowers Foods. Twelve trailing months earnings per share reached a value of $1.09. Last fiscal year, Flowers Foods paid $0.42 in the form of dividends to shareholders. FLO announced to raise dividends by 50 percent.

Market Valuation: Here are the price ratios of the company: The P/E ratio is 20.20, the P/S ratio is 1.51 and the P/B ratio is finally 5.32. The dividend yield amounts to 2.04 percent and the beta ratio has a value of 0.23.

Long-Term Stock Price Chart Of Flowers Foods (FLO)
Long-Term Dividend Payment History of Flowers Foods (FLO)
Long-Term Dividend Yield History of Flowers Foods (FLO)

Take a closer look at the full table of stocks with recent dividend hikes. The average dividend growth amounts to 17.03 percent and the average dividend yield amounts to 3.74 percent. Stocks from the sheet are valuated with a P/E ratio of 18.23. The average P/S ratio is 4.27 and P/B 3.84.

Here is the list of stocks with latest dividend growth

Stocks With Latest Dividend Growth (Click to enlarge)

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These are the market price ratios


Ticker
Company
P/E
P/S
P/B
Dividend Yield
PSEC
Prospect Capital Corporation
11.27
5.03
1.01
11.60%
NDRO
Enduro Royalty Trust
10.39
10.24
0.85
10.40%
DOM
Dominion Resources Black Warrior Trust
11.29
8.86
4.48
10.05%
VNR
Vanguard Natural Resources, LLC
N/A
5.10
1.54
8.95%
CRT
Cross Timbers Royalty Trust
13.11
12.75
14.06
8.35%
PBT
Permian Basin Royalty Trust
17.92
17.30
N/A
6.31%
MTR
Mesa Royalty Trust
12.76
12.03
8.18
5.51%
WMB
Williams Companies, Inc.
39.04
3.44
5.29
3.88%
FISI
Financial Institutions Inc.
12.28
2.73
1.11
3.64%
DGAS
Delta Natural Gas Co. Inc.
19.04
1.86
2.00
3.47%
CINF
Cincinnati Financial Corp.
13.73
1.80
1.36
3.44%
CBU
Community Bank System Inc.
17.80
5.03
1.63
3.11%
CHFC
Chemical Financial Corp.
14.98
3.70
1.28
2.97%
MGEE
MGE Energy Inc.
18.14
2.24
2.14
2.86%
WSBC
WesBanco Inc.
14.53
4.10
1.21
2.53%
NRIM
Northrim Bancorp Inc.
11.82
3.47
1.12
2.50%
BOBE
Bob Evans Farms Inc.
N/A
0.89
2.46
2.14%
CZZ
Cosan Ltd.
43.56
0.28
1.34
2.08%
EAT
Brinker International Inc.
18.64
1.01
19.24
1.93%
GSM
Globe Specialty Metals, Inc.
N/A
1.30
2.19
1.89%
IGT
International Game Technology
17.27
2.15
3.91
1.86%
OPOF
Old Point Financial Corporation
16.17
2.04
0.74
1.53%
HCC
HCC Insurance Holdings Inc.
10.82
1.70
1.23
1.51%
GPS
Gap Inc.
16.33
1.23
6.16
1.43%
FLO
Flowers Foods, Inc.
20.19
1.31
4.64
1.36%
INTU
Intuit Inc.
24.13
4.29
5.34
1.06%
SLH
Solera Holdings Inc.
38.82
4.48
5.05
0.94%
NDSN
Nordson Corporation
19.59
2.90
6.10
0.86%
DDS
Dillard's Inc.
10.37
0.54
1.85
0.26%






Average

18.23
4.27
3.84
3.74%

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