My 20 Favorite S&P 500 Stocks

Dividend Growth Stock Compilation Of The Past Week

All Dividend Growers From The Past Week And My Favorites

Have you ever noticed those that most vehemently attack a buy-and-hold strategy really don't understand how the strategy works? 

They confuse a buy-and-hold strategy with day trading with a longer duration. A true implementation of buy-and-hold includes a focus on blue-chip stocks with a sustainable advantage, along with a reasonable asset allocation framework. 

One sign of a blue-chip stock is a long string of dividend increases. Below all companies that have recently raised the bar by increasing their cash dividends

In total, 71 stocks announced a higher dividend of which 14 have a high yield (over 5%) and 40 a cheap forward P/E (less than 15).

Attached you will also find my 19 favorite stocks from the list. Each stock has solid fundamentals and earnings growth potenital while the debt situation is acceptable.

Here are the stocks:

Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On September 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.

In total, 258 stocks go ex dividend - of which 80 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 5.49%. Here is a full list of all stocks with ex-dividend date within the current week.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
Valley National Bancorp	VLY	2.04B	14.45	1.34	3.22	6.34%
Digital Realty Trust Inc.	DLR	6.76B	36.58	2.37	4.78	5.92%
Golar LNG Ltd.	GLNG	3.06B	3.25	1.59	10.81	4.73%
Leggett & Platt	LEG	4.41B	17.58	3.09	1.18	3.97%
Validus Holdings, Ltd.	VR	3.65B	10.53	1.01	1.73	3.39%
Domtar Corporation	UFS	2.20B	28.60	0.83	0.41	3.34%
BRE Properties Inc.	BRE	3.88B	43.05	2.28	9.67	3.14%
Packaging Corp. of America	PKG	5.24B	23.44	4.99	1.74	2.94%
GATX Corp.	GMT	2.19B	15.33	1.80	1.72	2.63%
The Hanover Insurance Group	THG	2.23B	21.95	0.89	0.47	2.60%
XL Group plc	XL	8.75B	10.35	0.88	1.17	1.85%
Airgas Inc.	ARG	7.72B	24.30	4.78	1.55	1.82%
Worthington Industries, Inc.	WOR	2.36B	17.60	2.84	0.90	1.79%
First Horizon National	FHN	2.71B	18.54	1.26	3.53	1.77%
Nasdaq OMX Group Inc.	NDAQ	5.10B	17.13	0.87	1.67	1.70%
URS Corporation	URS	3.74B	11.92	1.04	0.32	1.66%
Comerica Incorporated	CMA	7.55B	15.01	1.09	4.18	1.65%
Albemarle Corp.	ALB	5.23B	17.52	3.86	1.99	1.54%
Service Corp. International	SCI	3.87B	25.03	2.76	1.56	1.53%
Alcoa, Inc.	AA	8.64B	80.80	0.68	0.37	1.49%

50 Top Stocks With The Highest Dividend Growth In January 2013

Shares with highest dividend growth from last month by Dividend Yield – Stock, Capital, Investment. Dividend growth is one of the biggest wealth drivers. If you buy a stock with a 2 percent yield you might know that this can’t help you. You are right especially when you have invested only $1,000, your dividend income would only $20. That's not much when you consider that you have around $10 trading costs.

Dividend growth helps you to grow your passive income. Normally, a solid stock should double its dividend payments over ten years. This means that your yield on cost would rise to 4 percent.

I often had stocks in my portfolio that beat this growth rates. Sure they were more risky than stocks like Procter & Gamble or Coca Cola but they all had a margin of safety for me. My yield on cost was after 5 years over 10 percent.

Today I like to show you the 50 fastest dividend growth stocks from the last 30 days. There are some pretty good stocks with very good growth rates which indicate a strong business health. The average dividend growth of the 50 best stocks amounts to 68.40 percent. Remember, if you have such stocks, your yield on cost goes up over 10 percent in less than two years!

I personally have no stocks from the list. I don’t know why. Maybe there are too many financial and oil stocks on the list. More than half of the results have a current buy or better rating.

62 Stocks With Dividend Growth From Last Week

Stocks with dividend hikes from last week originally published at “long-term-investments.blogspot.com”. Stocks with dividend growth often indicate that they have too much cash and a well-running business which produces more and more cash. They like to share their success with shareholders.

I believe that those companies have a well running business and could have a better performance in the long-run. Below is a current list of companies that have announced a dividend increase within the recent week. In total, 62 stocks and funds raised dividends of which 32 have a dividend growth of more than 10 percent. The average dividend growth amounts to 25.73 percent.

Below the best dividend hike stocks/funds are 20 companies with a high yield. 40 of the results are currently recommended to buy or even have a strong buy rating. Basic material and financial stocks are still the dominant sectors.

Stocks With Fastest Dividend Growth In April 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, 49 companies announced a dividend growth of more than 10 percent within the recent month. The average dividend yield of the fastest dividend growth stocks from last month amounts to 3.37 percent and the dividend growth is 70.76 percent.

The Best Stocks With Dividend Growth From Last Week (April 23 – April 29, 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, 74 stocks and funds raised dividends of which 39 have a dividend growth of more than 10 percent. The average dividend growth amounts to 45.79 percent. Exactly 19 stocks have a yield over five percent and 37 are currently recommended to buy.