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Dividend Growers of the Week

I'm a dividend growth investor and watch daily what companies have raised their dividends. During the past week, seven stocks with a market capitalization of more than 1 billion increased dividends. Five of them have a current yield of more than 4 percent.

I've compiled all stocks with dividend growth in one sheet. Attached, you can find the list. The biggest names are U.S. Bancorp which Warren Buffett also owns. He recently added the company to his portfolio. 

Agilent, Morgan Stanley and the monthly dividend payer Realty Income increased dividends. 

Others are the fast growing semiconductor company Skyworks Solutions (SWKS) who has an unbelievable momentum as well as the Retail REIT W.P. Carey.

Agilent is also a stock that Warren Buffett should love while Morgan Stanley announced a huge dividend hike in April this year. Realty Income is still one of the most favored High-Yield stocks that pay monthly dividends.

Many banks and REITs are on the list. It should be a sign that those stocks benefit from low interest rates and quantitative easing.

Banks benefit not as much as REITs due to the low interest rates, but banks start to hike because their regulation allows it after the shocking financial crises in 2008.

Remember that those two industries are not in my dividend growth focus because they are cyclic and offer a kind of black-box for investors which I don't like. I like to see what I get.

Here are the dividend growers of the week:

Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On July 11, 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 July 11, 2013. In total, 27 stocks and preferred shares go ex dividend - of which 17 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 5.78%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
ARMOUR Residential REIT, Inc.	ARR	1.48B	5.53	0.54	4.01	19.22%
Fifth Street Finance Corp.	FSC	1.14B	10.13	1.08	5.99	10.71%
Consolidated Communications	CNSL	723.46M	60.66	5.72	1.28	8.52%
Associated Estates Realty Corp.	AEC	818.46M	126.85	2.03	4.50	4.61%
Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold	FCX	26.26B	9.00	1.46	1.46	4.52%
Mid-America Apartment Comm.	MAA	2.87B	42.41	3.08	5.59	4.10%
Shaw Communications, Inc.	SJR	10.86B	15.21	2.95	2.25	4.01%
AbbVie Inc.	ABBV	68.79B	12.78	23.29	3.71	3.69%
AuRico Gold Inc.	AUQ	1.18B	-	0.59	6.06	3.51%
City Holding Co.	CHCO	655.59M	17.36	1.79	5.57	3.49%
SAIC, Inc.	SAI	4.74B	9.94	2.06	0.43	3.40%
Harsco Corporation	HSC	1.99B	-	2.42	0.66	3.32%
Rouse Properties, Inc.	RSE	999.96M	-	2.01	4.21	2.57%
Chesapeake Energy Corporation	CHK	13.76B	-	1.09	1.03	1.66%
Abbott Laboratories	ABT	54.50B	70.90	2.41	2.52	1.61%
Buckle Inc.	BKE	2.60B	15.91	8.12	2.30	1.47%
Trinity Industries Inc.	TRN	2.82B	10.78	1.32	0.73	1.42%
Ryland Group Inc.	RYL	1.78B	30.31	3.29	1.21	0.31%

Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On May 13, 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 13, 2013. In total, 61 stocks and preferred shares go ex dividend - of which 26 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 4.70%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
ARMOUR Residential REIT, Inc.	ARR	2.39B	8.08	0.88	6.48	13.17%
Shaw Communications, Inc.	SJR	10.35B	13.80	2.60	2.06	4.34%
Consolidated Edison Inc.	ED	18.24B	17.40	1.53	1.48	3.95%
Vectren Corporation	VVC	3.03B	19.15	1.95	1.30	3.86%
ALLETE, Inc.	ALE	2.06B	20.12	1.70	2.15	3.68%
Exelon Corporation	EXC	30.55B	31.88	1.43	1.23	3.47%
E. I. du Pont de Nemours	DD	50.35B	21.88	4.11	1.46	3.29%
Xilinx Inc.	XLNX	10.09B	21.67	3.41	4.65	2.59%
Enbridge Inc.	ENB	39.08B	61.68	3.71	1.56	2.59%
Southwest Gas Corporation	SWX	2.37B	18.02	1.80	1.23	2.58%
Talisman Energy Inc.	TLM	11.95B	-	1.22	1.63	2.34%
Target Corp.	TGT	44.78B	15.41	2.72	0.61	2.06%
IAC/InterActiveCorp.	IACI	4.35B	26.89	2.50	1.55	1.95%
TIM Participacoes S.A.	TSU	9.91B	13.75	1.44	1.06	1.85%
The Kroger Co.	KR	18.09B	12.54	4.25	0.19	1.73%
Teleflex Incorporated	TFX	3.26B	25.66	1.93	2.06	1.72%
Jabil Circuit Inc.	JBL	3.92B	10.69	1.80	0.22	1.65%
Delphi Automotive PLC	DLPH	14.41B	14.63	6.01	0.93	1.48%
TCF Financial Corporation	TCB	2.46B	26.82	1.31	2.82	1.33%
Pool Corp.	POOL	2.40B	30.46	8.37	1.22	1.24%