Dividend Growth Stocks Of The Past Week

8 Reliable Dividend Payers To Watch

A stock's dividend yield equals the dollar value of the dividend it pays, divided into the dollar value of the stock that pays it. When the price on that equation gets smaller, the number on the other side of the equation gets bigger -- and the dividend yield increases.

For dividend hunters like me, falling stock prices are good. I will only receive a higher dividend when the company pays the same dividend in the future. Reliability is a key issue when you put money into stocks. 

The most important figure to evaluate business stability is to look at the 10 year fundamentals of the company. If you see earnings changes only at a small level, you might have found a non cyclic business model with a solid dominated market position.

Most of our long-term dividend growth stocks have such a not accounted asset. The price we pay for this invisible value is a premium on the book value on the company accounted assets.

Today I like to show you some interesting Dividend Achievers, stocks with more than 10 years of consecutive dividend growth, with attractive fundamentals.

Here are my screening criteria:

- Beta under 0.5

- 5 Year EPS growth predictions over 5%

- Sales of the past 5 years grown over 5%

- Debt to equity under 0.5

Here are the results in detail...

Top Dividend Grower Of The Week

Today I like to highlight those stocks with dividend growth in the past week. In total, 12 companies raised dividends of which four have a yield of more than 3 percent.

The biggest stocks on the attached list were Caterpillar, Target, FedEx and CR Bard, each with a market capitalization over 10 billion.

Here are the top results:

Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On July 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 July 30, 2013. In total, 42 stocks go ex dividend - of which 17 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 4.13%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
Realty Income Corp.	O	8.66B	62.39	1.94	14.31	4.92%
Bank of Montreal	BMO	41.57B	11.01	1.60	3.18	4.45%
People's United Financial Inc.	PBCT	4.77B	20.86	1.02	4.72	4.27%
Genesis Energy LP	GEL	4.18B	41.85	4.65	0.98	3.96%
Pinnacle West Capital	PNW	6.55B	15.74	1.63	1.95	3.65%
Paychex, Inc.	PAYX	14.32B	25.17	8.08	6.16	3.57%
Hasbro Inc.	HAS	6.14B	19.30	4.21	1.51	3.40%
MeadWestvaco Corporation	MWV	6.41B	37.09	1.91	1.17	2.75%
The Mosaic Company	MOS	22.41B	11.90	1.67	2.25	1.90%
NRG Energy, Inc.	NRG	8.94B	13.11	0.93	1.03	1.73%
Advanced Semiconductor	ASX	6.16B	14.03	1.64	0.92	1.72%
Brookfield Asset Management	BAM	23.29B	20.13	1.35	1.19	1.59%
CARBO Ceramics Inc.	CRR	2.02B	26.21	2.77	3.34	1.36%
The AES Corporation	AES	9.30B	-	2.01	0.52	1.28%
First Republic Bank	FRC	5.59B	13.75	1.80	4.26	1.13%
Casey's General Stores Inc.	CASY	2.57B	23.47	4.27	0.35	1.07%
Aon Corporation	AON	21.41B	21.64	2.83	1.84	1.04%
Zoetis Inc.	ZTS	15.22B	32.72	21.43	3.47	0.85%

11 Stocks With A Growing Dividend From Last Week

Stocks with dividend hikes from last week originally published at “long-term-investments.blogspot.com”. Summer days are coming and the financial market goes to hibernation.

Last week was the weakest week in terms of dividend growth. Only 11 companies announced a dividend hike within the recent week and additional three funds followed to hike dividends. Five of them are yielding over three percent and eight have a current buy or better rating.

The biggest stocks with recent dividend growth are Caterpillar, the retail discounter Target as well as the medical instruments and supplies company CR Bard.

Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On April 29, 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 April 29, 2013. In total, 38 stocks and preferred shares go ex dividend - of which 17 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 4.31%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
Cheniere Energy Partners LP.	CQP	5.44B	-	6.18	20.57	6.22%
People's United Financial Inc.	PBCT	4.46B	18.26	0.86	4.36	4.87%
Bank of Montreal	BMO	40.42B	10.52	1.43	3.07	4.64%
Realty Income Corp.	O	8.86B	65.14	2.74	18.63	4.38%
Genesis Energy LP	GEL	3.97B	40.13	4.34	0.98	4.06%
Pinnacle West Capital	PNW	6.68B	17.36	1.68	2.02	3.59%
Hasbro Inc.	HAS	6.18B	18.88	4.09	1.51	3.35%
TD Ameritrade Holding	AMTD	10.79B	18.54	2.45	4.07	1.83%
City National Corp.	CYN	3.07B	14.79	1.20	3.45	1.75%
Brookfield Asset Management	BAM	21.63B	19.15	1.10	1.16	1.60%
Burger King Worldwide, Inc.	BKW	6.33B	54.73	5.39	3.22	1.33%
NRG Energy, Inc.	NRG	9.04B	12.60	0.88	1.07	1.29%
First Republic Bank	FRC	4.89B	12.85	1.41	3.76	1.27%
The AES Corporation	AES	10.04B	-	2.20	0.55	1.19%
Brown & Brown Inc.	BRO	4.41B	22.88	2.37	3.58	1.17%
Casey's General Stores Inc.	CASY	2.26B	20.59	3.87	0.31	1.12%
Aon Corporation	AON	18.95B	20.50	2.46	1.65	1.03%
Zoetis Inc.	ZTS	15.77B	36.26	3.92	3.64	0.82%