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Ticker	Company	Market Cap	P/E	P/S	P/B	Dividend
ACGLP	Arch Capital Group Ltd.	9.65B	21.62	1.73	1.17	5.73%
ACGLO	Arch Capital Group Ltd.	9.90B	22.18	1.77	1.2	5.54%
CRD-A	Crawford & Company	255.32M	16.53	0.23	2.42	3.35%
ERIE	Erie Indemnity Company	6.62B	30.4	3.25	7.51	2.66%
CRD-B	Crawford & Company	466.63M	14.61	0.4	2.45	2.39%
FANH	Fanhua Inc.	1.79B	24.09	3.54	3.12	2.35%
AJG	Arthur J. Gallagher & Co.	13.02B	20.28	1.95	2.94	2.29%
MMC	Marsh & McLennan Companies, Inc.	42.39B	20.4	2.87	5.49	1.80%
WLTW	Willis Towers Watson Public Limited Company	21.06B	39.08	2.58	1.86	1.61%
AON	Aon plc	34.96B	30.55	3.21	7.78	1.11%
BRO	Brown & Brown, Inc.	8.05B	19.12	4.18	2.87	1.02%

12 Dividend Stocks To Buy And Hold For The Next 20 Years

According to legendary investor Warren Buffett, the best holding period is forever. While most investors may not have quite that long of a time horizon, the key to successful investing is buying high-quality stocks at reasonable prices and holding them for a very long time. With that in mind, I come up with some ideas for stocks that can be safely held for the next 20 years.

You might agree with me or not but growth is more important for this issue. Only a stocks with solid growth perspectives could give you a price appreciation.

That's also the reason why I'm looking for stocks with growth. My second criteria are profitability. Only a company that scales it's money making machine could create values, not a stock that wides losses. That's easily to understand.

Attached you find my 12 favorite dividend paying growth stocks. Which do you like from the list?

Here are the results...

12 Stocks That Are No Dividend Champs Due To Flat Payments But Great Dividend Investments

Dividends are nice, to be sure … particularly to long-term investors who specifically need reliable income.

But not all dividend stocks are created equally. To remain a viable long-term holding to income seekers, these cash-producing stocks also need to offer reliable dividend growth over time to fight off the effects of inflation.

What good is a stagnant dividend, after all — as the payout stays the same, its purchasing power slowly erodes. And it’s surprising how many dividend paying companies don’t up their payouts to even keep pace with inflation.

It's not a shame when a company runs his dividend flat for a few years but the strengh dividend growth criteria don't add them up into the Dividend Champions league.

Here is a list of stocks that can be classified the the non-consistent dividend growers. You can also check out the Dividend Aristocrats list from 1989 to 2014. There is a great overview about how the index has changed his members.

These are some of the results:

5 Best Stocks For Retirement Investors (Yield And Value)

If you are in retirement, it’s important to have multiple income streams, such as Social Security and savings and investments you built up on your own. For the lucky, there are pensions, but those are fast disappearing. Investing in stocks that pay a dividend is another way to generate income while you're in retirement.

Dividend stocks offer investors an attractive alternative to traditional fixed-income investments. Dividend-paying stocks have the potential to generate income in two ways: first, through the regular dividend payment, and second, through potential appreciation of the stock price itself. Investors can expect to receive an annual dividend ranging from 2.5 percent to 3 percent of the stock’s value.

Below is a selection of stocks with solid yields that could be interesting for traders and investors.

Here are the detailed results...

Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On August 30, 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, 18 stocks go ex dividend - of which 4 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 2.21%. Here is a full list of all stocks with ex-dividend date within the upcoming week.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
Six Flags Entertainment	SIX	3.23B	10.16	8.01	2.99	5.33%
Orchids Paper Products Company	TIS	216.68M	20.58	2.68	2.05	5.04%
Greenhill & Co., Inc.	GHL	1.46B	27.97	5.71	4.55	3.68%
Arthur J Gallagher & Co.	AJG	5.31B	23.19	3.12	1.91	3.35%
Avery Dennison Corporation	AVY	4.30B	21.00	2.84	0.71	2.68%
Suncor Energy Inc.	SU	52.39B	20.23	1.34	1.41	2.24%
QUALCOMM Incorporated	QCOM	114.95B	17.70	3.06	4.94	2.10%
Interval Leisure Group, Inc.	IILG	1.25B	20.56	4.01	2.56	2.02%
Xylem Inc.	XYL	4.54B	19.61	2.21	1.22	1.92%
Forrester Research Inc.	FORR	720.58M	33.90	3.31	2.46	1.77%
Computer Sciences Corporation	CSC	7.49B	12.53	2.42	0.51	1.60%
Schlumberger Limited	SLB	109.72B	17.70	2.97	2.45	1.51%
Joy Global, Inc.	JOY	5.20B	7.17	1.81	0.95	1.43%
HSN, Inc.	HSNI	2.94B	20.74	6.30	0.88	1.31%
Imperial Oil Ltd.	IMO	36.23B	11.77	2.17	1.18	1.10%
Alliant Techsystems Inc.	ATK	3.13B	11.66	2.01	0.72	1.06%
Halliburton Company	HAL	45.23B	24.95	2.95	1.58	1.02%
Itau Unibanco Holding S.A.	ITUB	59.99B	9.08	1.57	2.03	0.66%

Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On May 31, 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 May 31, 2013. In total, 14 stocks and preferred shares go ex dividend - of which 6 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 2.85%.

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	1.50B	11.08	2.37	2.47	5.96%
Old Republic International Corp.	ORI	3.60B	-	0.97	0.71	5.19%
REGAL ENTERTAINMENT GROUP	RGC	2.89B	23.81	-	1.04	4.52%
NV Energy, Inc.	NVE	4.54B	13.87	1.28	1.54	3.94%
China Mobile Limited	CHL	213.07B	10.23	1.81	2.33	3.89%
Arthur J Gallagher & Co.	AJG	5.64B	26.62	3.39	2.13	3.15%
Suncor Energy Inc.	SU	47.38B	20.81	1.23	1.26	2.51%
China Telecom Corp. Ltd.	CHA	39.36B	16.16	0.91	0.85	2.04%
Interval Leisure Group, Inc.	IILG	1.25B	24.76	4.22	2.59	2.02%
Tidewater Inc.	TDW	2.78B	20.43	1.09	2.31	1.78%
Mainsource Financial Group	MSFG	281.86M	11.82	0.91	2.65	1.74%
Steris Corp.	STE	2.67B	16.81	2.82	1.78	1.66%
Cass Information Systems Inc.	CASS	516.25M	22.02	2.93	11.42	1.60%
Westlake Chemical Corp.	WLK	6.21B	14.81	3.13	1.83	0.81%