17 Dividend Challengers With A Strong Buy Rating

Today I would like to take a look at the recommendations from brokerage firms or analysts. 

I analyzed the Dividend Challengers group (stocks with more than 5 years of consecutive dividend growth) by the current recommendations.

Seventeen of the stocks have a current strong buy rating. Attached you will find a full list with some fundamentals.

It's a little bit easier to join the club of Dividend Challengers than to be a Dividend King, Champion, Aristocrat or Contender.

Here are my favorites from the screen...

Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On September 05, 2013

The best yielding and biggest ex-dividend stocks researched by ”long-term-investments.blogspot.com”. Dividend Investors should have a quiet overview of stocks with upcoming ex dividend dates.

The ex dividend date is the final date on which the new stock buyer couldn’t receive the next dividend. If you like to receive the dividend, you need to buy the stock before the ex dividend date. I made a little screen of the best yielding stocks with a higher capitalization that have their ex date on the next trading day.

In total, 25 stocks go ex dividend - of which 11 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 3.42%. Here is a full list of all stocks with ex-dividend date within the current week.

Here is the sheet of the best yielding, higher capitalized ex-dividend stocks:

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
Frontier Communications	FTR	4.34B	43.75	1.10	0.89	9.14%
SeaDrill Limited	SDRL	22.05B	9.92	2.97	4.56	7.49%
Tower Group Inc.	TWGP	643.23M	-	0.54	0.33	5.35%
REGAL ENTERTAINMENT GROUP	RGC	2.79B	23.42	-	0.96	4.66%
Landauer Inc.	LDR	452.13M	-	7.44	3.06	4.59%
Westar Energy, Inc.	WR	3.88B	12.82	1.32	1.66	4.46%
Quad/Graphics, Inc.	QUAD	1.48B	90.29	1.29	0.34	3.80%
Ensco plc	ESV	12.57B	9.92	1.02	2.73	3.67%
SY Bancorp Inc.	SYBT	377.23M	14.13	1.71	4.39	3.01%
Kaydon Corporation	KDN	908.72M	-	2.68	1.97	2.80%
Coach, Inc.	COH	14.97B	14.73	6.21	2.95	2.54%
Lancaster Colony Corporation	LANC	1.94B	17.86	3.88	1.67	2.25%
First American Financial	FAF	2.34B	8.86	1.00	0.48	2.22%
Becton, Dickinson and Company	BDX	18.96B	17.47	4.02	2.39	2.03%
Albany International Corp.	AIN	1.02B	47.50	2.13	1.32	1.86%
Canadian National Railway	CNI	40.03B	16.83	3.64	4.15	1.72%
Kansas City Southern	KSU	11.66B	38.82	3.67	5.12	0.81%
State Bank Financial Corporation	STBZ	496.98M	91.59	1.17	3.05	0.77%
Fair Isaac Corp.	FICO	1.75B	21.54	3.40	2.37	0.16%

A full list of all stocks from September 05, 2013 can be found here: 5 Top Yielding Ex-Dividend Stocks On September 05, 2013.

Industrial Dividend Stocks With Highest Performance And Still Cheap Price Ratios

Industrial dividend stocks with highest performance year-to-date originally published at long-term-investments.blogspot.com. Warren Buffett likes industrials, not as much as consumer or healthcare stocks, but he owns a few players from the sector. I personally own some good names from the Dividend Champions list and be happy that I have purchased them a few years before.

Today I would like to screen the investment sector by the best performing dividend stocks since the beginning of the year. Below is a detailed view on cheapest results.

The 20 industrial dividend stocks with highest year-to-date performance generated a return between 37.67 percent and 129.11. Small and mid-cap stocks are the performance driver of the year. 13 of the results have a market capitalization below USD 2 billion.

The whole sector is up 13.8 percent over the recent six month, the third best value on the capital market. I believe that stocks with a good stock performance are healthy. Capital investors are confident about the future prospects of the company and they like to pay a higher price to participate on the future of the business.

Not all of the best performing stocks are now expensive. 13 of the results have a low forward P/E and 10 are currently recommended to buy.

Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On March 05, 2013

The best yielding and biggest ex-dividend stocks researched by ”long-term-investments.blogspot.com”. Dividend Investors should have a quiet overview of stocks with upcoming ex dividend dates.

The ex dividend date is the final date on which the new stock buyer couldn’t receive the next dividend. If you like to receive the dividend, you need to buy the stock before the ex dividend date. I made a little screen of the best yielding stocks with a higher capitalization that have their ex date on the next trading day.

A full list of all stocks with payment dates can be found here: Ex-Dividend Stocks March 05, 2013. In total, 14 stocks and preferred shares go ex dividend - of which 5 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 3.08%.

Here is the sheet of the best yielding ex-dividend stocks:

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
TAL International Group, Inc.	TAL	1.46B	11.15	2.36	2.48	5.93%
National CineMedia, Inc.	NCMI	882.67M	41.22	-	1.97	5.77%
Weingarten Realty Investors	WRI	3.75B	128.46	2.38	7.44	3.96%
Harris Corp.	HRS	5.38B	9.72	2.94	1.01	3.10%
Destination Maternity	DEST	306.36M	14.43	2.85	0.57	3.09%
BlackRock, Inc.	BLK	40.15B	17.21	1.63	4.30	2.84%
Praxair Inc.	PX	33.62B	20.23	5.56	3.00	2.11%
Albany International Corp.	AIN	902.12M	-	1.83	1.19	1.95%
Bolt Technology Corp.	BOLT	134.30M	48.69	2.01	2.35	1.80%
Canadian National Railway	CNI	43.32B	16.97	4.02	4.48	1.66%
Lender Processing Services, Inc.	LPS	2.08B	26.03	3.83	1.04	1.63%
Omnicare Inc.	OCR	3.91B	24.44	1.11	0.63	1.50%
Baltic Trading Limited	BALT	85.84M	-	0.32	2.58	1.06%
Southwest Airlines Co.	LUV	8.61B	21.49	1.25	0.50	0.34%

The Best Stocks With Dividend Growth From Last Week (May 28 – June 03, 2012)

Stocks With Biggest Dividend Hikes From Last Week by Dividend Yield – Stock, Capital, Investment. Here is a current sheet of companies that have announced a dividend increase within the recent week. In total, 9 stocks and funds raised dividends of which 4 have a dividend growth of more than 10 percent. The average dividend growth amounts to 12.56 percent. Exactly four stocks have a yield over five percent and seven are currently recommended to buy.