26 Stocks Raised Dividends Over The Past Week

Stocks with dividend hikes from last week originally published at long-term-investments.blogspot.com. Dividend growth matters and has significant influence to your asset strategy. A higher dividend in the future also lifts your passive income from stock investing. It’s a good method to boost your total return.

Out there are many studies, telling you that nearly half of the average return on the stock market is responsible to dividend payments. That’s a huge number in my view but what if we are trying to find the best dividend stocks, stocks that are better than the average? I think about companies that pay in ten years more dividends to you than you have ever paid for the whole investment.

I strongly believe that this strategy will deliver good returns. The only problem is to discover these growth stocks that are willing to give you huge amounts of money back.

However, one way to get some ideas of the greatest dividend growth stocks is to look at the current lists of dividend growers. On my blog I publish on a regular basis these lists.

Last week, 26 companies announced a higher dividend. I’ve published all stocks with dividend growth from the recent week in the attached dividend list for you. In average, stocks from the list of the latest dividend growth stocks have increased their dividend payments by 25.49 percent.

Five of the results have a high yield of more than five percent. Analysts and brokerage firms recommend 16 of the latest dividend growth stocks.

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%

Best Dividend Paying Ex-Dividend Stocks On November 30, 2012

The Best Yielding And Biggest Ex-Dividend Stocks Researched By Dividend Yield - Stock, Capital, Investment. 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 ex-dividend date can be found here: Ex-Dividend Stocks on November 30, 2012. In total, 13 stocks and preferred shares go ex dividend - of which 3 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 2.52%. If you like to receive the next dividend you need to buy the dividend stocks now.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
Old Republic International Corp.	ORI	2.72B	350.00	0.74	0.55	6.76%
Euroseas, Ltd.	ESEA	46.37M	-	0.22	0.80	5.83%
NV Energy, Inc.	NVE	4.33B	15.68	1.20	1.45	3.71%
Tidewater Inc.	TDW	2.21B	15.77	0.88	1.89	2.26%
ManpowerGroup	MAN	3.01B	14.86	1.18	0.14	2.24%
Interval Leisure Group, Inc.	IILG	1.06B	31.08	3.99	2.29	2.14%
Spartan Stores Inc.	SPTN	327.56M	10.53	1.00	0.12	2.12%
Bolt Technology Corp.	BOLT	124.27M	41.29	1.72	2.17	1.94%
Stage Stores Inc.	SSI	795.62M	22.18	1.88	0.50	1.58%
Joy Global, Inc.	JOY	5.96B	8.02	2.39	1.10	1.24%
Mainsource Financial Group	MSFG	241.16M	10.24	0.79	2.17	1.01%
W.R. Berkley Corporation	WRB	5.38B	12.22	1.25	0.96	0.91%
Cott Corporation	COT	818.72M	24.57	1.32	0.36	-

43 Stocks With The Highest Dividend Growth In August 2012

Shares With Highest Dividend Growth by Dividend Yield – Stock, Capital, Investment. Here is a current sheet of companies with fastest dividend growth compared to the previous dividend declaration. The dividend growth is often a good indicator for the financial health of a stock. Companies with a strong increase in dividends judge the future of their company rosy and they want to give money back to shareholders that they don’t need for their business.

In total, the 43 fastest dividend growth companies realized an average dividend growth of 20.62 percent. The average dividend yield of the stocks amounts to 3.37. The P/E ratio is 16.55, P/B 2.53 and P/S finally 3.16.

The Best Stocks With Dividend Growth From Last Week (August 20 – August 26, 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, 25 stocks and funds raised dividends of which 12 have a dividend growth of more than 10 percent. The average dividend growth amounts to 16.17 percent. Exactly 10 stocks have a yield over three percent and 10 are currently recommended to buy.