20 Dividend Challengers With Fastest Growing Dividends

Dividend Challengers with fastest growing dividend payments originally published at "long-term-investments.blogspot.com". Recently I screened Dividend Champs with the fastest rate of dividend growth. Mc Donald’s was my best yielding pick. I noticed that the top 20 stocks had a 10 year dividend growth performance of remarkable 10 to 30 percent yearly but for most of them, the performance slowed within the recent years.

It’s not possible of any company to raise dividends at a very high rate over a longer period. It’s also not possible to raise dividend payments with a gaining momentum. Every company that does this must reduce its growth speed over the time.

Today, I like to introduce some of the fastest growing dividend payers that have raised their distributions at least for five consecutive years but less than ten years. Here, the best results have grown their dividend payments over the recent five years with a rate of 90 to 30 percent. That’s definitely a higher growth figure but as I told, very growth rate will come down.

Below the top results of my screen are eleven stocks with a buy or better rating. Three of them are High-Yields.

20 Safest Dividend Income Growth Stocks From The Early Stage

Dividend Challengers with low beta ratios originally published at "long-term-investments.blogspot.com". Some investors are greedy and tend to overlook risks. Others are too anxious and avoid to buy stocks in a larger amount. They could “lose money” or they “can get quick rich” are two psychological factors that investors prevent to make real money with investing. Both are not true and only an illusion.

If you invest money into the stock market and you do it wisely and diversified, you should only count with a return close to the performance of the broad market. I believe that a return of 8 percent is realistic and good enough to beat inflation and grow wealth.

Today I like to screen a category of stocks with a longer dividend growth history, the Dividend Challengers. Those stocks have achieved to raise dividends over a period of more than five years in a row but less than 10 years. 167 companies have fulfilled these dividend growth criteria. 

Below is a list of the safest stocks from the investment category "Challengers". They have a beta ratio of less than 0.5 as well as a market capitalization over USD 2.0 billion.

20 Dividend Challengers are on the list of the safest dividend income growth stocks and six of them have a high yield; Nine are recommended to buy.

Best Dividend Paying Ex-Dividend Shares On February 06, 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 February 06, 2013. In total, 39 stocks and preferred shares go ex dividend - of which 15 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 3.33%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
Navios Maritime Partners L.P.	NMM	880.23M	8.97	1.39	4.28	12.33%
Capital Product Partners L.P.	CPLP	603.11M	74.36	0.92	3.78	11.37%
First Potomac Realty Trust	FPO	689.45M	-	1.03	3.66	4.44%
American Electric Power	AEP	21.83B	15.10	1.43	1.48	4.18%
Federated Investors, Inc.	FII	2.45B	12.86	4.86	2.59	4.08%
CMS Energy Corp.	CMS	6.83B	19.82	2.13	1.10	3.96%
Oritani Financial Corp.	ORIT	688.41M	18.73	1.36	5.50	3.96%
Belo Corp.	BLC	801.73M	9.48	2.87	1.16	3.75%
Sunoco Logistics Partners L.P.	SXL	6.32B	16.35	4.94	0.47	3.57%
Cedar Realty Trust, Inc.	CDR	402.02M	-	0.64	2.88	3.57%
Unilever plc	UL	120.50B	19.14	5.58	1.72	3.21%
First Community Bancshares	FCBC	317.02M	11.86	0.90	2.89	3.04%
BB&T Corporation	BBT	21.36B	11.30	1.01	3.09	3.01%
Unilever NV	UN	119.33B	18.95	5.46	1.70	2.76%
RPC Inc.	RES	3.35B	12.01	3.73	1.72	2.62%
East West Bancorp, Inc.	EWBC	3.31B	12.55	1.39	3.15	2.54%
Sensient Technologies	SXT	1.89B	15.16	37.66	1.31	2.31%
Cousins Properties Inc.	CUZ	932.92M	-	1.57	5.86	2.01%
Parker Hannifin Corporation	PH	13.80B	13.75	2.59	1.05	1.86%
Pall Corp.	PLL	7.54B	25.71	4.28	2.85	1.47%

52 Top Stocks Raised Dividends Last Week | A Full Compilation

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, 52 stocks and funds raised dividends of which 22 have a dividend growth of more than 10 percent. The average dividend growth amounts to 22.59 percent.

Below the dividend growth stocks/funds are 12 with a high yield. 37 of the results are currently recommended to buy or even have a strong buy rating.

Next Weeks Best Yielding Ex-Dividend Stocks

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 Between February 04 - 10, 2013. In total, 94 stocks and preferred shares go ex dividend - of which 38 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 3.55 %.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
Linn Energy, LLC	LINE	7.82B	-	2.19	5.91	7.41%
AmeriGas Partners LP	APU	4.10B	58.93	2.87	1.40	7.24%
Atlas Pipeline Partners LP	APL	2.17B	33.66	1.46	1.79	6.71%
MarkWest Energy Partners LP	MWE	6.98B	120.41	3.05	4.94	5.85%
Inergy, L.P.	NRGY	2.66B	4.82	2.55	1.33	5.73%
FirstEnergy Corp.	FE	16.93B	16.00	1.26	1.05	5.43%
Access Midstream Partners, L.P.	ACMP	6.18B	25.45	2.30	9.83	4.68%
Intel Corporation	INTC	106.26B	10.03	0.60	1.99	4.21%
American Electric Power	AEP	21.94B	15.18	1.43	1.48	4.16%
Federated Investors, Inc.	FII	2.46B	12.95	4.72	2.60	4.05%
Magellan Midstream Partners LP	MMP	11.61B	29.67	7.90	6.61	3.78%
CMS Energy Corp.	CMS	6.85B	19.87	2.13	1.10	3.72%
Sunoco Logistics Partners L.P.	SXL	6.33B	16.40	4.96	0.48	3.38%
IdaCorp, Inc.	IDA	2.34B	14.52	1.33	2.21	3.25%
Unilever plc	UL	122.78B	19.78	5.75	1.78	3.08%
Unilever NV	UN	122.12B	19.68	5.72	1.77	2.63%
BB&T Corporation	BBT	21.78B	11.53	1.03	3.15	2.57%
Xilinx Inc.	XLNX	9.70B	21.11	3.44	4.42	2.37%
Apple Inc.	AAPL	425.98B	10.29	3.60	2.59	2.34%
RPC Inc.	RES	3.34B	11.97	3.72	1.72	2.11%