7 Top Dividend Growth And Share Buyback Stocks Of The Week

As you might have noticed, my blog covers dividend growth stocks and companies with fresh stock buyback announcements.

It's not a real investment strategy but both are activities for investors.

You can find each week a list of all dividend growth stocks and share buyback companies on this site. It's the only source who compiles this on the internet.

Within the past week, only eight companies raised their dividend payments and additional nine stocks announced a stock buyback program.

Both are shareholder-friendly activities which could be helpful for normal investors like me and you.

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Back to dividend growth: No large-cap stock was in the list of the latest dividend grower. The biggest fish in the pool was the insurer American Financial Group who raised dividends by 13.64 percent.

7 of my favorite dividend growth stocks and share buyback announcements of the past week are...

Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On July 10, 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 09, 2013. In total, 15 stocks and preferred shares go ex dividend - of which 5 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 4.05%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
MFA Financial, Inc.	MFA	2.93B	10.10	0.90	5.88	10.76%
RAIT Financial Trust	RAS	449.70M	-	0.59	1.83	6.98%
Kayne Anderson Energy Development	KED	271.27M	11.04	1.10	25.12	6.81%
Ennis Inc.	EBF	478.06M	16.25	1.29	0.90	3.81%
Potash Corp. of Saskatchewan, Inc.	POT	33.34B	15.73	3.19	4.03	3.63%
Bank of Kentucky Financial Corp.	BKYF	216.44M	12.37	1.25	3.69	2.35%
Center Bancorp Inc.	CNBC	222.33M	12.36	1.45	3.97	2.21%
Northeast Community Bancorp, Inc.	NECB	77.44M	-	0.74	3.93	1.91%
Yum! Brands, Inc.	YUM	32.98B	23.01	14.38	2.46	1.85%
AZZ Incorporated	AZZ	910.08M	15.47	2.63	1.45	1.57%
Methode Electronics Inc.	MEI	676.32M	16.90	2.34	1.30	1.55%
Oracle Corporation	ORCL	148.16B	14.00	3.32	3.98	1.52%
Morningstar Inc.	MORN	3.69B	34.13	5.00	5.54	0.63%
Roper Industries Inc.	ROP	12.55B	25.33	3.32	4.16	0.52%
Advent Software, Inc.	ADVS	1.81B	53.40	5.55	4.96	-

Best Dividend Paying Ex-Dividend Shares On January 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.

A full list of all stocks with payment dates can be found here: Ex-Dividend Stocks January 30, 2013. In total, 31 stocks and preferred shares go ex dividend - of which 12 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 3.95%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
Hi-Crush Partners LP	HCLP	500.32M	6.22	5.43	6.94	10.36%
PAA Natural Gas Storage	PNG	1.20B	20.40	1.38	2.76	7.08%
Teekay Offshore Partners LP	TOO	2.32B	-	3.65	2.41	7.04%
Teekay LNG Partners LP.	TGP	2.91B	24.96	2.36	7.44	6.44%
Unitil Corp.	UTL	369.59M	15.43	1.46	1.06	5.14%
People's United Financial	PBCT	4.35B	18.95	0.85	4.11	5.12%
Genesis Energy LP	GEL	3.26B	39.77	3.52	0.90	4.83%
Bank of Montreal	BMO	41.81B	10.48	1.44	3.08	4.49%
Plains All American Pipeline	PAA	17.54B	21.88	2.71	0.47	4.28%
Pinnacle West Capital	PNW	5.83B	15.80	1.44	1.78	4.09%
Pfizer Inc.	PFE	197.61B	21.47	2.42	3.26	3.58%
Donegal Group Inc.	DGICB	466.31M	12.10	1.57	1.43	2.35%
Coca-Cola Bottling Co.	COKE	604.10M	27.38	3.95	0.38	1.53%
Brookfield Asset Management	BAM	21.72B	18.04	1.17	1.29	1.49%
The AES Corporation	AES	8.07B	-	1.98	0.46	1.47%
Brinks Co.	BCO	1.46B	18.82	2.98	0.37	1.31%
AZZ Incorporated	AZZ	1.09B	18.55	3.32	1.96	1.31%
Wausau Paper Corp.	WPP	480.38M	-	2.35	0.54	1.23%
Aon Corporation	AON	18.31B	19.95	2.21	1.61	1.10%
Fastenal Company	FAST	14.57B	34.58	9.34	4.65	0.81%

Best Industrial Goods Stock Picks For 2013 | High Growth at Top Margins

The best industrial growth picks for 2013 originally published at "long-term-investments.blogspot.com" Everybody likes to invest in well growing companies with strong brands and big cash flows, free for distributing to shareholders via share buybacks or dividend payments. The best stocks to buy are not only the cheapest shares with a low P/E or a high dividend yield. Good stocks are also those with a great track record in terms of industry growth and future growth prospects. Now, we are close to year-end and I like to discover some growth stock picks for next year 2013. Today, I focus on stocks from the industrial goods sector (354 shares available). These are my criteria:

- Forward P/E under 15

- Past 5Y Sales growth over 10 percent

- Earnings per share growth for the next five years over 10 percent

- Operating Margin over 10 percent

Sixteen companies fulfilled the above mentioned criteria. Eight of them pay dividends and fourteen have a current buy or better recommendation. The two best represented industries within the screening results are aerospace/defense and industrial equipments.

The Best Stocks With Dividend Growth From Last Week (September 24 – September 30, 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, 12 stocks and funds raised dividends of which 7 have a dividend growth of more than 10 percent. The average dividend growth amounts to 10.47 percent. Exactly 6 stocks have a yield over three percent and 7 are currently recommended to buy.